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- 5911: Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
- ... hundred years from now? It's hard to make money when your dead."8 Other then writing, Tom spends his time playing with the armed forces toys, speaking at the FBI, dinning at the White House, attending meetings at the CIA, and hosts fund-raisers for his friend Oliver North.9 The writing style of Tom Clancy should be studied and taught at all levels of school. If one would be ...
- 5912: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... biographer. She was awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize for best biography in 1964 for Victoria R.I. Longford claimed the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award twice with Wellington,1969, and The Royal House of Windsor, Winston Churchill in 1974. It is with this same thoroughness and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II. Though ...
- 5913: The Life of the Great William Shakespeare
- ... one man alone could not excel in writing as Shakespeare did" (Burgess 101). Toward the end of Shakespeare's career, he began to settle down. The family moved back to Stratford and 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 ...
- 5914: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... the world to come and visit him; but he never forgets the two-door burrow at his back. So Frost himself can reflect upon the triple bronze that guards him from infinity: his skin, his house, and his country. If he is greatly interested in the stars, and no poet is more so, the reason is that they are another world which he can see from this one, and accept or ...
- 5915: Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
- ... have seen things and asked why; My brother dreamed of things and asked why not?” SOURCES: The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - 1994 Edition Microsoft Encarta 1995 Edition on CD-ROM Several Periodicals from the White House, Office of the Press Secretary
- 5916: Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
- ... society where you and I reside. The present middle class citizens cannot really relate to true physical hunger. Hunger for most of us is when there is nothing that we desire to eat around the house and therefore skip one meal. This cannot even compare to the days that Richard endures without food. Physical hunger, however, is not the only hunger apparent in Richard's life. Richard suffers from emotional and ...
- 5917: The Work of John Collier
- ... relationship would most likely not be in jeopardy. In the story these two men approach the doctor one day to see if he would like to go fishing. When they find the doctor at his house they discover that he has been doing some concrete work in the basement, the men thinking that he was possibly burying his wife. From that this story has all the details to turn the relationship ...
- 5918: Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
- ... in 1841, John Thoreau, Henry's beloved older brother, became very ill, most likely with tuberculosis, and in early May a poor and distraught Henry David moved into the upstairs of Ralph Waldo Emerson's house (35). On March 11, 1842 John died, and Henry's life long friend and companion was gone (40). In early 1845 Thoreau decided to make a sojourn to nearby Walden Pond, where Emerson had recently ...
- 5919: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after three two-year terms as a Congressman, Kennedy became frustrated with House rules and customs and decided to run for Senate. In 1952, Kennedy ran for Senate against Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Fifteen years older than Kennedy, Lodge was the incumbent of two terms in the ...
- 5920: George Frideric Handel
- ... to play from an instrument called a clavichord. This was like a forerunner of the piano. With the help of one of Handel's friend, they smuggled the instrument up to his attic in his house. Every night he would sneak up to the attic after everyone was asleep and he'd play it until he finally mastered it. The instrument could not be heard through the closed doors. When he ...
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