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- 9151: Anne Boleyn
- ... s life, and she would have done anything that she could for her daughter. For instance, she fought with Henry many times for the sake of Elizabeth, and the most important is that she chose death so that her daughter would have a better life. Anne was a very respectable character for the most part. She was unselfish in the end by choosing to die for the sake of her daughter ...
- 9152: Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin More than a century after his death, and four generations after the publication of his chief work, "The Origin of Species", Charles Darwin may still be considered the most controversial scientist in the world. His name is synonymous with the debate that ...
- 9153: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... I also made regular trips to Washington to speak on behalf of the federal suffrage amendment. I spent most of the 1880's working on my book, The History of Woman Suffrage. After Henry's death in 1887, I spent increasing amounts of time in England with my daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch. This, in turn, helped spark my interest in the International Council of Women that formed in 1888. My speech ...
- 9154: Charles Dickens
- ... After a slow start, The Pickwick Papers as the book was usually called gained a popularity seldom matched in the history of literature. 7 Then in 1837, Catherine's sister Mary, died. Because of her death Dickens' suffered a lot of grief. This led some scholars to believe that Dickens loved Mary more than Catherine. Catherine was a good woman but she lacked intelligence. Dickens and Catherine had 10 children. Then ...
- 9155: Carl Jung
- ... lonely and very irritable. When the child could not take his mother's depressions and his parents' fights, he sought refuge in the attic, where he played with a wooden mannikin. Carl was exposed to death early in life, since his father was a minister and attended many funerals, taking his son with him. Also, Jung saw many fishermen get killed in the waterfalls and also many pigs get slaughtered. When ...
- 9156: Buffalo Bill
- ... his father. In the two and a half months he attended, Bill learned to read and write which would help him in his future careers. In order to help his family after his father's death in 1857, William took his first job working for the firm, Russel Majors & Waddel, making wagon- train trips across the Plains. It was rough, but William enjoyed these frequent trips. Later, Will road for the ...
- 9157: The Writings of Cicero
- ... understand too well the powers at work. However Cicero did not see past the roman republic of the day. The aspect of stoicism that Cicero cannot accept, is religion. Perhaps because of his daughter's death, the inner pain he must have felt to believe she was too much to bear, as such, this influenced his position. This must have made him decide that the stoic belief in this instance to ...
- 9158: The Life of the Great William Shakespeare
- ... bought a summer house they called New Place and they became leading local citizens (Encarta 96). With no records that show why, William Shakespeare died in 1616 and is buried in Stratford church. After his death, Shakespeare's greatness began to flow to other European countries, and America. It was around this time that people beganto study his works. Universities were reading his plays, and more and more people were learning ...
- 9159: Andy Warhol
- ... his day to day accounts, but they are audio recordings of his phone conversations to Pat Hackett every Monday through Friday (from Wednesday, November 24, 1976 to Tuesday, February 17, 1987, just weeks before his death). Warhol originally intended these daily records to be documentation of his minor "business" expenses. He was just audited and felt the need to be extra careful. "In a word it was a diary. But whatever ...
- 9160: Biograhy of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- ... from other action stars (Stallone, Van Damme, Segal, etc.). "Even in his most brutal action films, it's his sense of humor that distinguishes him from Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris and other denizens of the death and destruction genre" (Shaw 146). The huge success of the comedy vehicles Twins, and Kindergarten Cop showed the world that Arnold was not a one- dimensional killer, but a misunderstood brute with a heart. In ...
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