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- 4301: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... died in 1910. Twain's father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left school to find work, and boy did he find it. Before his father's death Clemens was apprenticed to his brother Orion, who ran the Missouri Courier, which was a country paper. In 1853 Clemens set out for the East as a journeyman printer. In 1857 he became an apprentice ...
- 4302: Herman Melville
- ... he wrote and one even saved his life! Also, the sailors told him tails of Mocha Dick that gave him the idea for Moby-Dick. Quotes "Your constant sailing and whaling will soon be the death of you!!!" his wife would always say. He was always sailing and managed to get himself in many danngerous situations. Thoughts I think he really was an important figure in history. He made legendary novels ... his work. If he was living, he would feel great about his writing because his writing was not really appreciated until the 1920's. Poem herman melville, a man unappreciated. yet years later after his death, his renassiance began. herman, a whaler, wrote some real classic novels. He had traveled all around the world just for hhis stories. His stories which is loved throughout the world.
- 4303: David Guterson and His Use of the Theme of Nature
- ... against the Susan Marie's port gunnel. His head craked open above the left ear and then he slid heavily beneath the waves(Snow Falling 458). The tidal wave was the cause of Carl's death; the water, this element of nature was truely responsible for the death of the fisherman. In that sense Gutersonn uses water metaphorically to represent the circle of life; the source of life, the maintenance of life, and the end of life. Guterson uses trees as a metaphorical ...
- 4304: Robert E. Lee
- ... returned on June 29, 1843. On September 1, 1852 he was appointed to superintenent of the military acadamy where he had graduated. In 1853, a distressing message reached Lee: Mrs. Curtis had died unexpectedly. The death made him do something he had never thought of doing. He wanted to be confined to the church. It was gunners at Charlestown Harbor who forced Robert E. Lee to make the tough decisions in ... ball through his body." Then Lee's face lost it's color. "Your son's mount was shot from under him. Major Lee escaped on Washington's horse, sir." Lee sighed in relief. Washington's death hit Lee. He was a good friend of the family. Lee had been involved in the war for the whole time that it was going on. He had many battles, and he was fighting very ...
- 4305: Marco Polo
- ... years old, had been only six or younger when his father left home:thus; Marco was reared primarily by his mother and the extended Polo family-and the streets of Venice. After his mother's death, Marco had probably begun to think of himself as something of a orphan(Rugoff 6). Then his father and uncle suddenly reappeared, as if from the dead, after nine years of traveling in far-off ... friends. According to Macro, because the khan held them in such high regard, he would not let them return home, but as the khan aged the Polos began to fear what would happen after his death(Hull 18). Finally an opportunity to leave presented itself when trusted emissaries were needed to accompany a Mongol princess on a wedding voyage by sea to Persia, where she was promised to the local khan ...
- 4306: The Tenth Man By Graham Greene
- ... prisoners were to be killed from each shed. To be fair the cell where the story starts the men drew marked paper from a shoe. Chavel drew the last marked slip which condemned him to death and went into histeria. In his histeria he offered to give every thing he owned to someone if they died for him. A man named Janvier, thinking of his sister and mother, spoke up and ... moral issue in this book was the willingness to give up your life for another and the motives for doing so. People sometimes sacrifice their life for another when that other person is faced with death. I think the author put this in the book because in today's society very little people are willing to give up their life to save another, and if they are willing they usually would ...
- 4307: Napolean
- ... French troops stopped the riots, but the nationalistic spirit was not lost. For the next five years there was warfare in Spain. British troops came to aid Spain. This led to the defeat of Joseph, death of thousands of French troops and it inspired patriots and nationalists of other lands to resist Napoleon. This war between 1808 and 1813 is called The Peninsular War. In Germany, anti-French feelings broke out ... crops which were valuable. When Napoleon reached Moscow, the Russians burned the city. Even worse the winter was in a few months. The Russians also destroyed the food supply to Napoleon. Many soldiers starved to death. Napoleon decided to retreat back to France. On the way back Russian Cossacks slaughtered the soldiers who fell behind. Napoleon abandoned his army and went back to France. In 1813 almost every nation in Europe ...
- 4308: Thoreau And Transcendentalism
- ... while his mother took in boarders. During the bleak winter of 1842, Henry lost his beloved brother John Thoreau, Jr. to a terrible case of lockjaw brought on by a slight, but unattended wound. His death profoundly affected Henry who then resolved to eulogize his brother's death in a book based on a vacation the two had taken on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By July 1845, Henry left civilization to live in a cabin he had built on the shore of ...
- 4309: How Does Macbeths Characterist
- ... England. As this play was seen by the masses in Shakespeare's Globe Theater, this was excellent "PR" for James. It was written for his new patron, James I (James VI of Scotland), following the death of Queen Elizabeth. James was interested in witchcraft and Scotland, and hence the themes in the play. Banquo is James's ancestor. The play itself tells the story of a man, urged by his wife ... a bell at the door of a prisoner scheduled for execution in the morning, and an owl does the same job in nature, because--according to folklore--the screech of a screech owl foretells the death of a person. Therefore, Lady Macbeth believes that because she has just heard the owl's screech, her husband must be "about it," that is, doing it (the murder) at this very moment. Characteristics shown ...
- 4310: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- ... the Carolingians. They crushed opposing Germanic tribes and covered others who lived east of the Rhine River. In 800, Charlemagne had united the west in to one empire, but was rather short-lived. After his death, new attacks by more tribes caused destruction; the Vikings virtually destroyed the Christian kingdoms of England. Since most of Europe was divided and in ruins as a result of the invasions by the new tribes ... sea also grew. With much more people to trade with and much more places to go to trade, the economy of Italy kept growing. One significant incident in the Renaissance was the spread of Black Death. This disease had left up to 2/3 of the population dead, creating an economic turmoil. Labor became scarce, industries became less, and the economy stagnated. However, with the lack of labor, those who were ...
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