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- 6261: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... the war (if they come home at all) as different people. These people have seen things that most men will never see. Things that would change someone's lives for the worst, things such as death and destruction. Not only were the soldiers affected psychologically but also physically. As shown in "Soldier's Home", the character Krebs will never again be the same person he was before World War I. It ...
- 6262: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... of return. Che's unwillingness to compromise towards both capitalist and communist establishment forced Castro to drop him in 1965, not officially, but in practice. For some months his whereabouts were a secret and his death was widely rumored. He was in various African countries, notably the Congo surveying the possibilities of turning the Kinshasa rebellion into a Communist revolution, by Cuban-style guerrilla tactics. He returned to Cuba to train ...
- 6263: Emperor Constantine I
- ... sometime in the 270s CE. His mother was a woman of humble background named Helena who would later become a Christian. Because of her good works, she was made a Christian saint after her death. Constantines father was a career military officer named Constantius. Constantine was married at least twice and had four sons: Crispus, Constantine II, Constantius, and Constans. Constantius, his father, was in charge of the Roman ...
- 6264: Ellen Foster
- ... deal of attention and care. However, Ellen, the main character and protagonist of the novel Ellen Foster, exemplifies a substantial amount of independence and mature, rational thought as a ten-year-old girl. The recent death of her mother sends her on a quest for the ideal family, or anywhere her father, who had shown apathy to both she and her fragile mother, was not. Kaye Gibbons use of simple diction ...
- 6265: Elizabeth Bishop Roosters
- ... the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bishop died from a cerebral aneurysm in Boston on October 6, 1979. Due to Bishop's magnificent following of readers, her poems have survived over twenty years after her death. There are many poems that carry an underlying meaning, and one of Bishop's in particular is Roosters. Roosters, is a poem of uncertainty and power. The poem addresses the Bible story of Peter's ...
- 6266: Eli Whitney
- ... in the last two years. In 1811, Whitney took another order, this time for fifteen thousand. These were all produced in only two years. Whitney continued on with his development of the factory until his death on January 8, 1825. Unfortunately, Whitney has been all but forgotten. He is mostly remembered as "the cotton man," and nothing else. However, without the ingenuity and dedication of this individual, who knows where the ...
- 6267: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... will always be a better nation-stronger, safer,more conscious of its heritage, more certain of its destiny-because Ike waswith us when America needed him," this is what President Lyndon Johnsonsaid after Eisenhower's death (Hargrove 89).
- 6268: Dorothy Parker
- ... wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied to the ...
- 6269: Doc Holliday
- ... deck, this would explain why Doc might have won everytime he used it. The deck of cards might also have been in Docs pocket because it is said that at the time of his death, Doc had just finished playing a game of poker with his only friend Wyatt Earp. This tale is backed up most openly by Hollywood, where movies such as Tombstone show Docs final day as ...
- 6270: David Belasco
- ... genre's best practitioner, and heappeared at the tail end of the melodrama tradition, as though it were his destiny to see the style out, and to bring Sensation Melodrama to its perfection and its death by overwhelming excess. Belasco became the epitome of the old-fashioned,bombastic,insensitive, commercial "Old Style" which young American experimentalists were determined to replace.
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