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- 4121: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... modest yeoman farmers. His father died several months before he was born. Three years later his mother remarried and moved to a nearby village, leaving Isaac in the care of his maternal grandmother. Upon the death of his stepfather in 1656, Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham in hopes of training him to manage her now much enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more ... an extremely lucrative position. He oversaw the great English recoinage of the 1690s and pursued counterfeiters with ferocity. In 1703 he was elected president of the Royal Society and was reelected each year until his death. He was knighted (1708) by Queen Anne, the first scientist to be so honored for his work. Newton died in London on Mar. 31 (N.S.; Mar. 20, O.S.), 1727, having singlehandedly completed the ...
- 4122: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... a successful author, nor Mr. Hyman, a known critic, was named as a recipient of the Arents Pioneer Medal for outstanding achievement, the highest honor granted by the university. Not until the year of her death in 1965-twenty-five years later- was the medal finally awarded to her-in absentia, since she was unable to attend the ceremony."(Friedman, 26) In 1940, after their graduation Hyman and Jackson, who had ... slipped the bonds of reality" (Friedman, 44). Literary critic, Elizabeth Janeway wrote that, 'The Lottery' makes its effect without having to state a moral about humanity's need to deflect the knowledge of its own death on a victim. That uneasy consciousness is waked in the reader himself by the impact of the story. Miss Jackson's great gift is not to create a world of fantasy and terror, but rather ...
- 4123: Ordinary People Vs. The Catche
- ... normality no longer applies. A once-unified family splits into three guarded, isolated members who can no longer share anything with one another. Dr. Tyrone C. Berger helps Conrad by taking him back through the death of his brother and anguish of life without Buck, his older brother and idol. He teaches Conrad and his family that love, openly shared, is the only thing they can count on to give them ... the characters are teenagers and still full of youth. Conrad is on the swim team and participates in activities while Holden is great at English and is a keen observer of life. After their brothers death they realize that they are not the same people anymore and that they have to start all over. They are struggling just to make it through the day and to find motivation to keep going ...
- 4124: Cleopatra
- ... and sat on a golden throne in the Senate, intended to become the king of Rome. On March 15, 44 BC a crowd of conspirators surrounded Caesar at a Senate meeting and stabbed him to death. Cleopatra knew that she was also in danger so she quickly left Rome with her protectors. Before or immediately after their return to Egypt, Ptolemy XIV died. It is rumored that Cleopatra had him. Cleopatra ... his allies had gone over to Octavian, he left his solitary home and returned to Cleopatra to party away their final days. Cleopatra began experimenting with poisons to learn which would cause the most painless death. She also built a mausoleum to which she moved all of her gold, silver, emeralds, pearls, ebony, ivory, and other treasure. In 30 B.C. Octavian reached Alexandria. Mark Antony marched his army out of ...
- 4125: Cicero
- ... beneath his toga). Catiline lost and planned to carry out armed uprisings in Italy and arson in Rome. Evidence incriminating the conspirators was secured and they were executed on Cicero's responsibility. Cicero, announcing their death to the crowd with the single word vixerunt ("they are dead"), received a tremendous ovation from all classes. He was hailed by Catulus as pater patriae, "father of his country". This was the climax of ... or other of some 94 different friends, acquaintances, and relatives. The number constitutes only a small portion of the letters that Cicero wrote and received. Many letters were suppressed for political reasons after Cicero's death. Cicero made his reputation as an orator in politics and in the law courts, where he preferred appearing for the defense and generally spoke last because of his emotive powers. Trained by Molon of Rhodes ...
- 4126: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- ... knew the needs of the army. Garfield returned to his family in the autumn of 1863 just before the birth of his second child, Harry Augustus. A few months later he was saddened by the death of little Trot. In December he took his seat in the House to begin his real lifework. He was then 32 years old. After the war ended, Garfield began to study finance and became an ... to Elberon, near Long Branch, N.J. He died there on September 19. Vice-President Arthur took the oath of office the next day. Garfield was buried in Cleveland. Guiteau was tried and sentenced to death; on June 30, 1882, he was hanged. Garfield's eldest son, Harry Augustus Garfield, became president of Williams College. His second son, James Rudolph Garfield, was secretary of the interior in Theodore Roosevelt's Cabinet ...
- 4127: John F.Kennedy: Biography
- ... a treaty saying atomic testing can only be done underground. This treaty was signed in July of 1963. John F. Kennedy was assassinated by an unknown person on November 22, 1963. He was shot to death while driving through the streets of Dallas. John F. Kennedy was later found that he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, but some people think this isn't true. Some people think Oswald didn't act alone and many other theories. While Lee Harvey Oswald was being transferred to the county jail a nightclub owner named Jack Rubenstein shot him to death. People all over the United States witnessed the shooting. John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The whole world attended the funeral, over 90 representatives from different countries attended the funeral on November ...
- 4128: Buddhism And The Six Point Att
- ... Eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. ( The Bible, KJV, 1 Cor 11:24.) The ritual of communion brings us into a personal relationship with the death and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Traditions of men maybe something that hold little value, but traditions of truth can be mileposts and landmarks for a person on a journey for salvation. The Christian knows that ... he is supernatural. To trust that in our weakest moments we could reach out to a supernatural hand gives the Christian peace and assurance that though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I should fear no evil. Such confidence can only be achieved by something other than our own abilities. Down through history man has proved time and time again his own frailty while man is capable ...
- 4129: Buddhism 3
- ... their good or evil actions, according to their self-created Karma--the consequences of good or evil acts. Even though there are several different forms of Buddhism that have come into existence since Buddha's death, there is still a basic essence that all Buddhists agree with. All Buddhists recognize four basic noble truths. The first noble truth of the world is dhukka, or suffering. The second truth is tanha, or ... this can be accomplished through the eight-fold path. The eight-fold path is the means to achieve liberation from suffering. It helps one weed out cravings and ignorance, to overcome rebirth, old age, disease, death, sorrows, lamentation, grief, and despair. It helps to end mass misery and aids people in attaining Nirvana, or salvation. Specifically, this path includes: 1. Right View 2. Right Thought 3. Right Speech 4. Right Action ...
- 4130: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds with a level of craft and emotional genius that was his own. Bach remained at his post in Leipzig until his death in 1750. He was creatively active until the very end, even after cataract problems virtually blinded him. His last musical composition, a chorale prelude entitle Before They Throne, My God, I Stand, was dictated to his son-in-law only days before his death. Bach was that rare composer whose genius cannot be summed up in a research paper. He was the supreme master of counterpoint, fugue, vocal writing, melody, chamber composition, solo instrument repertoire
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