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- 6501: Langston Hughes
- ... he named this lovable character Jess B. Simple, and authored a series of books on him. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry ...
- 6502: Galileo
- ... to publish anything further by him or even to reprint his previous works. Outside Italy, however, his writings were translated into Latin and were read by scholars throughout Europe. Galileo remained under imprisonment until his death in 1642. However he never was a real prisoner for he never spent any time in a prison cell or being treated like a criminal. Instead he spent his time in fancy apartments. The rest ...
- 6503: Fredrerick Douglass
- ... right to have, "a city slave is almost a freeman" (79). Freedom looks more and more precious the closer they are to achieving it until it becomes an obsession and they will fight to the death to become freemen. The literary work the Narrative expresses two main views of women, neither of which are to be taken as positive values even in the 1800’s. In a very unfavorable light, Douglass ...
- 6504: Frank McCourt
- By: JOHN E-mail: johnrama@juno.net Informal Essay on Angela’s Ashes Angela’s Ashes is a moving book full of poverty, suffering, and death that shows that no matter how difficult things seem, the hard tines can always be overcome. Angela and Malachy McCourt, both Irish, were married in America after a passionate night together that ended up producing ...
- 6505: Emily Bronte
- ... Jane Eyre was published first in 1847. Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights appeared a little later that year. On their return from a publishing trip to London, they found Branwell near death. Emily caught cold at his funeral and died in 1848. A few months later, after the publication of her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne too died. Alone except for her father, Charlotte ...
- 6506: Deng Xiaopeng
- ... around. Deng also strengthened its political status up to that of a very powerful country. Though Deng did things bad his achievements rose above his failures. As newfound leader of communist China after Mao’s death Deng’s first goal was to raise the technological status of China to standards that could possibly rival those of the west. He did this quickly and efficiently by allowing an “open door policy” on ...
- 6507: Dante
- ... is an deals with the nature of sin and punishment in our life, our struggle to be ultimately good, and the necessity of analyzing the nature of ourselves. Hell is present in both life and death, the soul is equally tortured in both. Hell is also avoidable. Every person in Hell had a choice to make, and they chose Hell. Once in Hell, there is no redemption as stated in the ...
- 6508: Billy Graham
- ... Nagasaki. Not only that, but the Russians began a nuclear arms race with the United States. This had put pressure on the American public, and they lost all their sense of security. The thought of death, and war with all of its pain and suffering, creped into the nightmares of the American citizens and now they looked to religion for salvation. Graham introduced religion in a way that was friendly, and ...
- 6509: Ben Franklin
- ... given honorary degrees by Harvard, Yale and by William and Mary College” (Cousins 112). This same dangerous experiment was tried by many people. Some were successful and one person was not successful resulting in a death. After Franklin was able to get electricity, he just tried to figure out how it would be useful for the everyone. One of his inventions was the electrical battery. “He took eleven pairs of large ...
- 6510: Babe Ruth
- ... One night while Helen was sleeping in her home a serious problem occurred. There was an electrical failure which caused a large fire to burn down the house and it took Helen with it. The death of Helen would now allow Claire and George to get married. So they did so on April 17, 1929. Luckily Dorothy was not in the house at the time of the fire. Since Helen had ...
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