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- 1791: Buddha
- ... reality so that he could follow in his father’s footsteps in becoming a well-respected leader. As Siddhartha grew, he became very curious about the world outside of the palace walls. He felt a great need to undergo new experiences and learn the truth of reality. Siddhartha was married to a woman named Yasodhara who gave birth to a boy, Rahul. Even after his marriage, Siddhartha was still not completely ... the necessities that people need daily which was in itself a large accomplishment. Unfortunately, the other men had realized that Siddhartha Gautama was giving up, so they left and saw him as a failure. With great disappointment on his mind, Siddhartha gathered all the rest of his strength to crawl to the bank of the river to bathe, but found that his energy had been used and he was just to ... At this point, Siddhartha is able to recall all of his previous lives and gains the knowledge of the cycle of birth and death. He now casts off the ignorance, which has led his to great passion for his self and bounded him to the suffering of Samsara. This marks the beginning of Buddhism, when Siddhartha becomes the Buddha and his suffering and desires come to an end; he can ...
- 1792: Of Mice And Men -
- ... However, Lennie's strength did not work with him and the result was fatal. Lennie is an extremely large man who had the strength of a bull. With the use of his strength, he was great worker but did not understand how strong he was. George explains Lennie's strength by "that big bastard can put up more grain alone than most pairs can". Through his size and his enormous amount of strength Lennie could out work the other men of the ranch by himself. Through the use of Lennie's strength he became a great worker who knew nothing more than to work. Lennie uses his abilities to work hard, but does not understand how strong he is. Without George, Lennie does not understand what to do. Lennie gets frightened ... once again just like just like a little child he held on. But he ended up breaking Curley's wife neck. As a result of his actions Lennie ended up dead. Lennie had an extremely great ability to use his strength and become a great worker. However his difficulty to understand his strength lead to his death. Unlike Lennie, Crooks potential is his knowledge, and Crooks has the ability to ...
- 1793: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... had been noted for his "docility and humanity of... disposition." His tenderness of heart made him "...the jest of [his] companions. [He] was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by [his] parents with a great variety of pets." He married at an early age, and like the narrator, his wife had a similar love for animals. They had "birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a ... not quite sure why he remembers it now. Out of all the pets, Pluto was his favorite. He "alone fed him, and he attended [him] wherever he went about the house. It was even with great difficulty that [he] could prevent [the cat] from following [him] through the streets." Their friendship lasted for several years until the man's temperament began to change. He grew, "day by day, more moody, more ... Terrible God." "On the night of the day on which this most cruel deed was done, [the narrator] was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire....The whole house was blazing. It was with great difficulty that [his] wife, a servant, and [himself], made [their] escape....[His] entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and [he] resigned himself thenceforward to despair." "On the day succeeding the fire, [he] visited the ...
- 1794: Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder Guilt
- ... but the bare reality of a necessity for the defense of slavery is perhaps the most obvious sign of a guilty slaveholding population. As Charles Sellers recognizes in his essay "The Travail of Slavery," the Great Reaction - as he calls it - was initiated to convince the slaveholders themselves that slavery was a good.4 Ever since cries of liberty and equality first struck the South, the institution's morality had been ... 6 However, the institution continued because the South relied economically on its slaves. Thus slaveholders were tied to slavery while feeling guilt about the system as a whole. This scene set the stage for the Great Reaction. After Nat Turner and the rising surge of northern abolitionism, the South turned inward to defend itself. Because its identity and success were so tied to slavery, it could not simply dissolve the system ... institution, he sees his neighbors and countrymen following the Southern dream to prosperity through slavery. It was easier to continue with the current situation than radically alter the slaveholding world, and so southerners supported the Great Reaction in an attempt mainly to alleviate their own guilt. Perhaps the best sign that the propaganda of the Great Reaction was really slaveholders convincing themselves is in the writings themselves. Any reasonable defense ...
- 1795: Macbeth The Witches Role
- ... to the atmosphere and dramatic impact of the play? I believe, that even though the witches only appear in the play a few times, they play a very important role in 'Macbeth' they have a great deal of influence on not just the major characters, but many of the others, and I feel that the witches contribute to the overall atmosphere of the play dramatically. It is at the beginning of ... though, was not so much a prophecy as it simply confirmed Macbeth's actual status. The second prophecy is "All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee Thane of Cawdor!" To us, the reader, this seems a great possibility, as we are aware that the current Thane of Cawdor was to be executed for being a traitor. The third prophecy declared "All hail Macbeth! that shalt be King hereafter!" this third prophecy seems ... not, he still asks of them to "Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate." This is important because the difference between Macbeth's reaction, and Banquo's is great. Banquo, we see, is not afraid of the witches, and doesn't beg of them to predict his future, however Macbeth is desperate for them to tell him more. Despite Banquo's nonchalant reaction, ...
- 1796: J.P. Morgan
- ... company asking for a position for his son and advertising the fact that his son had "many admirable qualities for a worker" To the company, J.P brought an energetic and enterprising spirit, mathematical wisdom, great confidence and a useful tie with the English banking world. In less than three years Morgan went from clerk to cashier in the company. Although, he was denied a promotion when his father requested one ... to the Pennsylvania owners. The two parties agreed and Morgan was again hailed as an industrial wizard. Mr. Morgan developed into the nation's railroad reorganizer. In 1886, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was in great difficulty with a deficit of six million dollars a year. Morgan was brought in to slash the value of the watered stock, reduce interest rates on the bonds, and assess the shareholders for more money ... and stable rates. The act served to at least establish some community of interest among railroads that, at the time, were engaged in ruthless and wasteful competition. Their alliance paved the way for the future great consolidations of the railroads. After the Panic of 1893, the government called on Morgan once more to reorganize a large number of leading railroad systems of the country. The major lines J. P. dealt ...
- 1797: The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
- ... the beginnings of a national literary movement. Before Lampman and the other Confederation poets there seemed to be a mere repetition of European ideas in literature in Canada. Even though Lampman was influenced by the great Romanticists in Britain, such as Keats and Wordsworth, he is still one of the most integral writers in Canadian poetry and literature in general. Lampman signaled the move from the ‘Immigrant' authors like Moodie and ... Lampman uses to ‘Landscape' the nation. Lampman is a pictorial artist. He uses images to allow the reader to see what he sees. Connor describes this first volume of poetry as the "exponent of a great soul, a gentle heart, a refined taste, and a pure life"(97). Among the Millet is a delicate record of the surface of nature. To Lampman nature was the surest of subjects. He once said ... his own time as "dreary and monotonous realism and [a] morbid unhealthiness of [the] soul"(Early 142). This admiration of Nature and its relationship with man was as much moral as it was aesthetic. Truly great poetry strengthens the understanding and the spirit. The poetry of the English Romanticist movement served to remove the ‘gloom' of human existence. Lampman had many qualities within himself that attracted him to the English ...
- 1798: J.p. Morgan
- ... company asking for a position for his son and advertising the fact that his son had "many admirable qualities for a worker" To the company, J.P brought an energetic and enterprising spirit, mathematical wisdom, great confidence and a useful tie with the English banking world. In less than three years Morgan went from clerk to cashier in the company. Although, he was denied a promotion when his father requested one ... to the Pennsylvania owners. The two parties agreed and Morgan was again hailed as an industrial wizard. Mr. Morgan developed into the nation's railroad reorganizer. In 1886, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was in great difficulty with a deficit of six million dollars a year. Morgan was brought in to slash the value of the watered stock, reduce interest rates on the bonds, and assess the shareholders for more money ... and stable rates. The act served to at least establish some community of interest among railroads that, at the time, were engaged in ruthless and wasteful competition. Their alliance paved the way for the future great consolidations of the railroads. After the Panic of 1893, the government called on Morgan once more to reorganize a large number of leading railroad systems of the country. The major lines J. P. dealt ...
- 1799: Charles Lindbergh
- One of the greatest heroes the world has ever known Charles Augustus Lindbergh. He is most famous for his transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Lindbergh acquired great fame for doing "good will" tours in Latin America. Other than politicians and war heroes no one has yet quite matched his fame. He was a genus when it came to aviation and mechanics. He ... was a lawyer and a congressman for the state of Minnesota between the years of 1907 and 1917. His mother’s name was Evangeling Land Lodge. As a child Lindbergh showed that he had a great deal of mechanical ability. When he was eighteen years old he began attending the University of Wisconsin. While at Wisconsin he majored in mechanical engineering. During his time at the university he paid more attention ... used to mail a ransom letter. In June 1936 Charles Lindbergh was invited to see the Germans air force establishment and give his opinion about it. While he was visiting he was treated with a great deal of respect and admiration. Upon leaving the establishment he said that Germany had the finest air force in all of Europe and that it could defeat Russian, British and French air forces combined. ...
- 1800: Japanese Arts
- ... parking garages that are based on module sizes of vehicles. The recent industrial period and the Western influence has produced many Japanese architects who excel in contemporary design such as Kenzo Tange who at the Great Buildings web site is credited with having designed the Olympic Arena in Tokyo and the Hiroshima Peace Center in Hiroshima (http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Kenzo_Tange.html). Garden design became an art form in ... are representative of large landscape features. These rock gardens were often made on level ground raked with precision to create an illusion of rivers or oceans. Such a garden transforms the tiny yard into a great vista of imagination (Tansey, Kleiner 546). The sculpture of Japan can be traced to pottery vessels and figurines from the Jomon period, 3000-2000 B.C. Haniwa figures, tubular sculpture made of fired clay, are ... an important element in Japanese scroll art (Tansey, Kleiner 536). Landscape scroll painting flourished in the Kamakura period of the thirteenth century and expressed a taste for strong action and precise description of detail. A great Yamato-e from this period is The Burning of the Sanjo Palace. This horizontal scroll done in a dramatic style, begins with a mass of soldiers and horses heading to a burning building and ...
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