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511: Martin Luther: ... before the shrine because God himself is present there, even though no one else is present besides you and this sacrament. Luther abolished this concept of presence. He denounced the character indelebilis as a human fiction" (Tillich 236-237). For Luther to take this position required considerable courage on his part due to the fact he was facing an ecclesiastical force of great strength and authority. Luther did what most kings ...

512: Paul Dunbar Research Paper: ... to Paul. Paul’s career started out strong right from the beginning when he was in high school. He acquired much praise and respect from his peers due to his experiments with both poetry, and fiction. This all took place in Dayton, Ohio, where Dunbar attended school with such people as the Wright Brothers. Dunbar began to build a reputation for himself, and at the tender age of twenty, wrote his ...

513: The Writings of David Foster Wallace: ... show off their style is through patterns. Wallace has no recognizable patterns in his work. He is all over the spectrum. He jumps around and never forms any known method to his works. Wallace’s fiction and use of the elements proves to be twisty. They catch you off guard and don’t contain any good ending/bad ending, as we are normally used to seeing. Others who have read his ...

514: Billy the Kid: The True Story: ... maybe, one of the meanest men that ever lived. But this is untrue, most of the stories you’ve probably heard are just that, stories. Because if the life of Billy the Kid fact and fiction ride side by side and it is difficult to tell between the two. But I am going to tell you the true story of Billy the Kid, to the best of the information that is ...

515: Twain: ... or traveling proved to be enjoyable to a global audience. Although Twain had at first been considered merely an amusing professional funny man, during his last years he was placed by many among the great fiction writers, (Wister xxvi). Yale and Oxford gave him honorary degrees and leading 3 critics, William Dean Howells for one, hailed him as a genius. Twain used to joke about his books being called classics by ...

516: The Life of Ernest Hemingway: ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...

517: Ernest Hemmingway: ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...

518: Sinclair Lewis: ... were never a target to heavy criticism. This was due mainly because the critics never thought much of them and thought they were either not considered as art, or he was considered a publicist in fiction. Many of Sinclair Lewis's characters make guest appearances in each other's novels. For example, Babbit and Arrowsmith have dinner together one night in Arrowsmith. Then in his last novel, World So Wide, Samuel ...

519: The Life of John F. Kennedy: ... an attempt to lessen senseless acts of violence. As you can see, the tragic death of Robert Kennedy was an act of violence that was spurred through hatred and jealousy. When you separate fact from fiction, you realize that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was simply a person who could not handle his feelings and chose a wrong course in handling them. Because of his actions, a country lost a great person who ...

520: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe: ... loved ones were not even notified until a couple of days later. After my death the stories of what really happened were changed drastically over the years, so that the thin line between fact and fiction soon disappeared completely. Even after I was dead those who had made my name a tainted one still made it displeasing. Ellet and a fellow editor from past years published a counterfeit book of memoirs ...

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