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- 4241: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... the same time period. Walt Whitman published practically all his poetry during his lifetime, but Emily Dickinson only published seven of her poems during her lifetime. Actually, her poetry wasn't published until after her death. Both Whitman and Dickinson were poetic pioneers because of the new ideas they used in their poetry. Emily Dickinson did not write for an audience, but Walt Whitman wrote for an audience about several national ... Whitman and Dickinson used in their poetry are very different. There is a big difference because the things that each poet was interested in. Whitman often wrote about the Civil War. Dickinson often wrote about death and nature. The punctuation is drastically different as well. Whitman used mostly traditional punctuation in his poetry, but in the poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" he used a big amount of dashes: "Beat! beat! drums!-blow ...
- 4242: Heart Of Darkness
- ... Kurtz, in the hope's of appreciating all that Kurtz finds endearing in the African jungle. Marlow does not get the opportunity to see Kurtz until he is so disease-stricken he looks more like death than a person. There are no good looks or health. In the story Marlow remarks that Kurtz resembles "an animated image of death carved out of old ivory." Like Marlow, Kurtz is seen as an honorable man to many admirers; but he is also a thief, murderer, raider, persecutor, and above all he allows himself to be worshipped ...
- 4243: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the short-story form, especially tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remained popular and many major American and European writers have professed their artistic debt to him. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Poe was orphaned in his early childhood and was raised by ... Pennsylvania, and in New York City. In 1847 Virginia died and Poe himself became ill; his disastrous addiction to liquor and his alleged use of drugs, recorded by contemporaries, may have contributed to his early death.
- 4244: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... sign his work as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss. While at Oxford he met his first wife Helen Palmer to whom he was married for 40 years until her death. They moved to New York. While in New York he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he who coined the phrase Quick Henry, the Flit which was to 1930s advertising ... They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own. About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died in 1991 in his sleep at the age of 87. He wrote 57 books spanning seven decadesfrom 1939's And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street to ...
- 4245: Charles Manson
- ... kill seven wealthy white people and to blame it on the blacks would start his plan of a black/white revolution which he called "Helter Skelter." He attempted to frame the black people by writing "Death to Pigs" in the victim's own blood and carving the word "war" in the stomach of his victims. Manson denied allegations that this was the motive behind the murders but many of Manson's ... Texas to be tried under Texan law. Linda Kasabian turned state's evidence and got away with murder. All particpants in the murders, with the exception of Kasabian, were found guilty and were sentenced to death. This sentence was revoked and turned into life imprisionment. There was great concern for the possibility of the popular image of martyrdom being assigned to Manson and his "Family." Manson used suggestion and passive hypnotism ...
- 4246: Charles Lindbergh
- ... in the skull and some of the body parts were missing. The body was identified and cremated at Trenton, New Jersey, on May 13, 1932. The baby had been dead for two months and the death was due to the blow to the head. Bruno Hauptmann a German born carpenter was convicted of the kidnapping. Hauptmann was later sentenced to death and died in the Electric Chair. After this incident Congress enacted "Lindbergh Law" which stated that kidnapping was now a federal crime. With all of the publicity that came with the trial the Lindbergh's ...
- 4247: Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darknes
- ... At last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men. (Conrad-28) The story is told one evening (Conrad-28) He then starts out by telling a story of his adventures in the ... the novel also proves to continue to contrast between light and dark, especially when speaking of the savages Marlow encounters when attempting to save Kurtz. The ultimate contrast of light and dark occurs with the death of Kurtz on the boat after he is saved and being brought back down, The brown current (that) ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness. (Conrad-109) This quote brings closure for the book ...
- 4248: Bruce Lee
- ... two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert. Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat. Upon the death of Mr. Lee's brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in his whole brother's Family and had to be the provider. This meant nearly 20 people lived in the flat. It ... Bruce worked himself back to normal very slowly. He died at the age of 32 of hypersensitivity to a combination of ingredients contained in a headache pill someone had given him. But Bruce Lee's death today is still a controversy, because different people think he died of different ways. Nobody has been proven right, yet no one has been proven wrong. Accomplishments Bruce Lee had finally found a way in ...
- 4249: Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man
- ... of these speeches, which led to many contributors such as Andrew Carnagie, John Rockefellar, and Collis Huntington. As for Tuskegee Institute, its success was beyond Washington's wildest dreams. At the time of Washington's death, 34 years after its founding, the school property included 2,345 acres and 107 buildings, with nearly 200 faculty members and more than 1,500 students. Tuskegee Institute had become the world's leader in agricultural and industrial education for the Negro. Booker's spirit and name live on long after his death. He is remembered and admired for his struggle for the black man. Tuskegee Institute still exists today and is quite well off, with over 3,250 students, about 5,000 acres, and an annual budget ...
- 4250: Oscar Wilde
- ... debts. An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, which were both running very successfully, were closed. In 1897, while in prison, Wilde wrote a 30,000 word letter to Douglas, published after his death with the title De Profundis, which was a moving description of his spiritual progress to religious insight. It is regarded as possibly being his most important and mature statement on life and art in general ... prison brutality based on his own harrowing experiences with a plea for prison reform. This came that same year with The Prisons Act, which was partly due to his writing. Also that year came the death of his wife. During these last years Wilde sank deeper into a despair from which none of his friends could extricate him. He was in poor health, living on borrowed money and the kindness of ...
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