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- 1191: Beowulf
- ... in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tales of heroism and the fight between good and evil. Just as the heroism in these stories may take on different faces, so does ... have today. It is the embodiment of the struggle between good and evil. The poem begins with the funeral of Scyld, the mythical founder of the Danish Royal House. One of his descendants builds a great hall called Heorot, and it is here that the people gather to rejoice and sing the praises of G-d. This singing angers a vile fiend named Grendel, that inhabits the nearby bog. The poet ... when everyone had fallen asleep, and slaughter the men in protest to the music and song that filled his ears during the day. Grendel hated all of mankind and the sounds that resonated from the great hall fueled his hatred even more. Grendel held an inborn hatred for all of mankind. Nightly Grendel would make his trip into the hall and kill whomever was there. In speaking about the nightly ...
- 1192: Lincoln And His Generals
- ... His Generals Harry T. Williams was born on May 19, 1909. When in college, he was encouraged by a professor to study history. This professors main interest was the Civil War era and had a great effect on Williams. He attended Platteville State Teachers College (later Wisconsin State University at Platteville) where he received a B.Ed in 1931. Williams continued education into graduate school was mainly due to the lack of work during the Great Depression. He went on to earn a Ph.M. in 1932, and Ph.D. in 1937, from the University of Wisconsin (Dawson 431). Lincoln and His Generals was the breakthrough book for Williams who had ...
- 1193: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... the author should become suspect.16 Edgar Allan Poe may have very well suffered from disorders. His nervous system was weak, he had a dual nature that tormented him, he suffered form fits of black depression. He was drawn to the themes of death and disease for more than literary reasons. His own personal illnesses may have caused him to see his own death approaching, while his case of depression is certain to only worsen his attitude. 17 Poe s personal problems also led him to a neurotic compulsion toward drink and self-destruction that may have also led him to have been sexually abnormal ... have been so morbid of mind because he lived his life through eyes and a body that had already died. Poe is a man writhing in the mystery of his own undoing. He is a great dead soul progressing terribly down the long process of post-mortem activity in disintegration. This is how the dead bury their dead. 32 Of course, in life, one learns the works of others and ...
- 1194: Archibald Macleish
- ... Pound, and T.S. Eliot. MacLeish believed their poetry to be a revolt against the neurotic nineteenth-century idea of poetry. (MacLeish 165). MacLeish lived through two World Wars, serving in the first, and the Great Depression. The wars only effected his poetry a little while he wrote about the Depression quite a lot. The poem Panic expresses the many diverse problems that the Depression gave way to. This poem has a very pessimistic mood to it that was probably brought on by the immense ...
- 1195: Strengths And Weaknesses Of Lo
- Louis XIV and Peter the Great Both Louis XIV and Peter the Great were famous rulers of the late 17th- early 18th Centuries. Both took the throne at a young age and both had many strengths and weaknesses. Louis XIV had many strengths during his reign as ruler ... Huguenots. Instead of being imprisoned, more than 200,000 Huguenots fled from France. The country lost many of its skilled workers and business leaders. Louis XIV also fought many costly wars that caused his people great suffering. Many of the wars left France on the brink of bankruptcy. Peter the Great had many strengths, but his best was he modernized Russia. By seeing Europe, he changed many things. He changed ...
- 1196: Methamphetamine: Built for Speed?
- ... First popularized by pharmaceutical company Smith Kline & French as the nasal inhaler, Benzedrine, in 1932. (Amphetamine is widely known as a bronchio dialator, allowing asthmatics to breathe more freely.) A probable direct reaction to the Depression and Prohibition, the drug was used and abused by non-asthmatics looking for a buzz. Jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker would remove the inhaler's Benzedrine strip and soak it in his coffee. Methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was discovered in Japan in 1919. The crystalline powder was soluble in ... is social." The drug itself is not the problem, it's the setting involved. The availability and the motive to remain awake for long hours may compound the addiction of speed. Still others attribute a great deal of positive qualities to methamphetamine. "My brain was so clear when I used this, that I came up with answers to problems that had been bugging me for months," says an anonymous post ...
- 1197: Hamlet and Gertrude: Love or Hate
- ... away at college you receive word that your beloved father who had seemed in good health only a short while ago has died leaving your mother and yourself. This situation would be enough to bring great depression to even the strongest of souls but for Hamlet, the fictional prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's play of the same name, this is not his imagination but cruel reality. Not only has his father ... from his friend Horatio that the spirit of his father has returned and walks the night. During the Elizabethan period of English literature, man and nature were thought to be linked as part of a "great chain of being". To Hamlet, the fact that his father had returned showed that this chain had been disrupted by some evil in the world of man. That he had returned as a ghost ...
- 1198: Joan of Arc As A Leader
- ... peasant girl who lead her country out of English dominance and rule during the Hundred Years War. Joan was an excellent leader because her spirituality gave her the personality that she needed to be a great leader. She was also superb at combat and winning military battles which gradually weakened the English army, and led to their retreat back into England. Joan's greatest success for France is, through her actions ... far France's victory in the Hundred Years War. And indirectly responsible for the period of peace and stability that immediately followed. Joan's spirituality gave her the personality that she needed to be a great leader. A pious child, Joan of Arc grew up as a Devout Catholic under the strong influence of her deeply religious mother. (Rolka,1994,22) Joan was more devout than the children she played with ... priest would sometimes pretend to scold her. (Williams,1963,16) Joans life drastically changed at age twelve, she was in the garden of her parent's house and all of the sudden there was a great glare of light. It was on her right from the direction of the town church. The Archangel Michael appeared to her from this light, and spoke to her of important plans that God had ...
- 1199: The 1920s: An Era of Transition and Tension
- ... Lost Generation, Jazz Age, and the Roaring 20's." He also stated that this really wasn't the case. The false image that was represented was not quite what the people had in mind. The great majority was nervous about W.W.I, changes happening in their lives and just trying to hang on to the old conservative values. On the other side of the fence, there were social controls like ... was characterized by industrial growth and increased productivity. The "Welfare Capitalism", was initiated by corporate managers to improve the work environment. Therefore workers became even more productive, and new industries began emerging or expanding to great heights. Technology was increasing bringing the first radio commercial which was heard in 1920, and by 1929, 40% of the homes had radios. The Movie Industry boomed being able to build beautiful theatres. The love ... rich were getting richer much faster than the lower and middle classes they were all enjoying their improved standard of living. However, the farmers were not invited to the party! Farmers were in constant deep depression. During the 1920's, political developments were often obscured or painted by the economic trends. "The republican presidents of the decade were more often remembered by their inaction, and corruption rather than their leadership". ...
- 1200: Lbj
- ... Dallas* Love Field about 112 hours after Kennedy died. After he took the role of president, he promised he would keep the policies that Kennedy was promoting, and he made his own program called the "Great Society". During his inauguration, he said, "In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write." The Great Society became Johnson*s agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban ...
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