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- 9211: Hank Williams Jr.
- ... legendary Hank Williams, and mother, Audrey Sheppard, both played an intricate part in his early stardom. Hank had to overcome many obstacles in his life including escaping from his father's shadow and a near death experience in 1975. Hank's many triumphs, and his ability to overcome setbacks, have propelled him to a legendary status. Born May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Randall Hank Williams, Jr. was destined to become ...
- 9212: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... was put off by the poem and called it ''presumptuous juggelry.'' But Hopkins stood his ground, knowing he had something of worth. His poem brought together his own conversion and the chiefs nun's transfiguring death. God's wrath and God's love with the face of an epigram. Hopkins faith was a source of anguish. He said he never wavered in it, but that he never felt worthy of it ...
- 9213: Gandhi
- ... him. (He said) ‘you cannot fast against a tyrant for (he) is incapable of love therefore inaccessible to a weapon of love like fasting”(Pg. 23). Gandhi made up his mind to fast either until death or until reform. This was enough to bring instantaneous results and soon riots ceased and there were weeks without religiously motivated killings or demonstrations. Gandhi’s ploy had worked. People all over the world admired ...
- 9214: Frank Lincoln Wright
- ... time period. Fallingwater seems to sprout form its surroundings almost like a plant. The Guggenheim Museum has been considered as Wright's last great feats. Sadly but true, the museum was opened shortly after his death. The huge skylight provides light for the entire museum. The spiral/snail shell design seems to grow out of the ground. The design allows people to see the art in a continuous manner. The viewers ...
- 9215: The Crime at Compiegne
- ... time, it was commonly held that God spoke only to the Pope and to the king, and that it was only men of noble birth who could serve Him best. Twenty-five years after her death, the church pronounced her innocent of all charges, but it wasn't until 1920 that the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged her call from God.
- 9216: Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
- ... Scarlet Letter inheres in the letter itself. Invented by the community to serve as an unequivocal emblem of penance, the letter has frozen Hester into a posture of haughty agony, has brought Dimmesdale to a death of “triumphant ignominy” on the scaffold, has victimized the victimizer -- Chillingsworth. Hawthorne begins and ends with the letter, which encompasses and transcends all its individual meanings, which signifies, totally and finally, The Scarlet Letter itself ...
- 9217: Aristotle
- ... studied under another philopsopher Plato and later tutored Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court. In 335 B.C. he opened a school in the Athenian Lyceum. During the anti-macedonian agitation after Alexander's death Aristotle fled to Chalcis where he later died in 322 B.C. His extant writings, largely in the form of lecture notes made by his students, include the Organum (treatises of logic); Physics; Metaphysics; De ...
- 9218: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... He was formally inducted into the Gambino crime family. John was inducted into the family by Neil Dellacroce under the authorization of "Big" Paul Castellano. Castellano was the new head of the family after the death of Carlo Gambino. Gotti was appointed his own crew, the Bergin-Hunt crew. His crew soon became the highest earning crew in the family (Davis 161-162). Gotti began enforcing the ban on selling drugs ...
- 9219: 1984: Winston's Hatred of Big Brother
- ... people's fears or brainwashing their thoughts such as 2 + 2 = 5. Once this was accomplished, Winston was now harmless, useless, and wouldn't be able to help them gain power, this leading to his death. Winston was murdered not as Winston Smith but as an accomplishment of the Party. While Winston was alive he hated Big Brother, some may say Big Brother bet him and that is why he was ...
- 9220: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... God, just that belief in God can create sickness; and to convince that highest achievements in human life depend on elimination of God. Whether God existed had no relevance in his goal. Proclamation of the death of God was a fundamental ingredient in the revaluation of values Nietzsche advocated. "Nothing has done more than Christianity to entrench the morality of mediocrity in human consciousness." "Christian love extols qualities of weakness; it ...
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