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- 9051: Walt Disney
- ... in St. Joseph's hospital in Burbank, California, Walt Disney died. Many people were shocked as well as hurt by this. Disney was only sixty six years old but accomplished so many things before his death. By that time, 80,000,000 people had at one time purchased Disney licensed merchandise, 10,000,000 had watched a Disney television show, 240,000,000 people had seen a Disney movie, and 800 ...
- 9052: Herman Melville Defined
- ... wanted was to write about the things he loved most, stay true to himself, and provide for his family. His work was so far ahead of his generation; it took us until years after his death to really appreciate it. WORKS CITED Berthoff, Warner. The Example of Melille. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, 1972. Masur, Louis P. The Real War Will Never Get In the Books. New York: Oxford ...
- 9053: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... and was a teacher for three years in Boston. Then in 1825 he entered Harvard Divinity School and preached for three years. At the age of 29 he resigned for ministry, partly because of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and started to lecture. Then in 1836, he helped to start the Transcendental Club. The Transcendental Club was formed for ...
- 9054: Jean Jacque Piaget
- ... sociology and history to scientific thinking, he was on his way to making a difference in our world today. He continued to study genetic and experimental psychology. In 1955, he created and directed until his death the International Center for Genetic Epistemology. Today, Jean Piaget is very well known for his four stages of childrens mental growth, which is still being taught all over the world. In 1970, the Jean ...
- 9055: Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- ... a pessimistic tone of self pity and morbidity. He talks about his age weighing on his soul and never being what he wants to look like in the eyes of others and his eagerness in death by saying: We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. stanzas 129 - 131 That is a great ...
- 9056: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- ... little. He died on April 21, 1910. Twain was more than a humorist. Behind his mask of humor lay a serious view of life. Tragedy had entered his own life in the poverty and early death of his father, the loss of a daughter, and his bankruptcy. His short story, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg', published in 1900, which showed greed at work in a small town, is an indication of ...
- 9057: Charles Darwin
- ... to Issac Newton which is only fitting because Darwin has been called "The Newton of Biology." Darwin w as modest of his monumental achievements to the very end and said of himself shortly before his death,"With such moderate abilities as I possess, it is truly surprising that I should have influenced to a considerable extent the belief of scientific men on some important points."
- 9058: Donato di Niccolς di Betto Bardi
- ... or man-mounted-on-horse, statue to commemorate a non-ruler and the model for all subsequent equestrian monuments; and twin bronze pulpits for the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence, just before his death there on Dec. 13, 1466. In the late 1440s Donatello also executed a complex high altar for Padua's church of San Antonio containing seven life-size bronze statues, 21 bronze reliefs, and a large ...
- 9059: Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
- ... change. One of the converted men, Brother Johnson was in an altercation with the police. The police said he was not quick enough to get out of the way so they beat him almost to death because of his race. Malcolm was furious. He rushed to the police station to see Johnson, but the police denied Malcolm permission to see Johnson. Malcolm said that he would see Johnson and that he ...
- 9060: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... and was a teacher for three years in Boston. Then in 1825 he entered Harvard Divinity School and preached for three years. At the age of 29 he resigned for ministry, partly because of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and started to lecture. Then in 1836, he helped to start the Transcendental Club. The Transcendental Club was formed for ...
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