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- 4621: Frank Lloyd Wright
- " The greatest artist this country has ever produced seems to at last be coming into his own. America’s other great artists—our painters, sculptors, composers—don’t really rank with the tops of all time. They’re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that standing." (Robert Campbell) One of America’s most ... lives that had marked the earlier destruction in 1914). Wright’s financial problems were so severe that his creditors foreclosed on Taliesin in 1926 and evicted him from his home in 1927. "Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation, to generation, from age, to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances they change. That is architecture." (Frank Lloyd Wright pg. 106) Despite ...
- 4622: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao’s letters helped establish in Magellan’s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination of his great voyage. Magellan returned to Portugal in1513. He then joined a military expedition to Morocco. On this expedition, Magellan would suffer a wound that would make him limp for the rest of his life. After returning ... three remaining ships sailed out of the strait and into the ocean. Magellan named the ocean the pacific, which means peaceful, because it appeared calm compared with the stormy Atlantic. Sailing across the Pacific involved great hardship for Magellan and his crew. They were the first Europeans ever to sail across the Pacific Ocean, and it was far larger than anyone had imagined. They sailed for 98 days without seeing any ...
- 4623: Ellen Foster
- At the age of ten, most children are dependent on their parents for everything in their lives needing a great deal of attention and care. However, Ellen, the main character and protagonist of the novel Ellen Foster, exemplifies a substantial amount of independence and mature, rational thought as a ten-year-old girl. The recent ... element shows her openness and willfulness to help others. Throughout Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons’ uses these stylistic elements to stress the power of independence and determination to the reader, because it is through these two great qualities that both Ellen, the main character, and Gibbons overcame the ties that bound them to their unhappiness and found the true meaning of love and family. Ellen Foster emerges as a heroine that has ...
- 4624: Eliot Ness
- ... the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great deal of individual attention from his parents who were well into middle age when he was born. Due to this Eliot was a remarkable well-behaved boy, full of integrity and enthusiasm. Eliot was an ... networking of police in a city. He also left an undeniable mark upon the city of Cleveland, virtually ridding it of corruption on all levels. The downfall of Capone was the most obvious of his great achievements. Yet Ness left behind one contribution which few men have managed to leave. A legend. Ness aspired to become a hero in the true sense of the word. Throughout history true tales of heroes ...
- 4625: E. M. Forster
- ... aspects of writing catch a reader's attention and keep one interested in a book. E. M. Forster put many of these aspects in his books making them well written and quite interesting. He combined great characters, a decent story line, and his prolific knowledge of writing to make his books readable and enjoyable. E. M. Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London, England. After an education at Tonbridge ... same and it was very difficult to distinguish who was who without reading the page three or four times. To me as a reader, that is very agitating and can become very confusing. He creates great story lines for his books but it takes a reader six or seven chapters to ever understand what is going on. He needs to focus less on the development of characters in the novel and ...
- 4626: Daniel Boone
- ... the edge of Kentucky and camped for the winter at Salt Spring near Prestonsburg. But the least explored parts were still farther west, beyond the Cumberlands, and John Finley persuaded him to go on a great adventure. On May 1, 1769, Boone, Finley, and four other men, started out. They passed Cumberland Gap and on the 7th of June, they set up camp at Station Camp creek. It was nearly two ... cabin at Harrodsburg. On this trip, Boone followed the Kentucky River to its mouth. Colonel Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company hired Boone as his agent, and in March, 1775, Boone came again to the "Great Meadow" with a party of thirty settlers. They began to clear the Wilderness Road and by April they were establishing their settlement at Boonesborough. Boone left the Bluegrass in 1788 and moved into what is ...
- 4627: Crazy Horse
- ... the American government was forced totake the land from these savage Indians. We should put the blamewhere it belongs, on the U.S. Government who lied, cheated, andstole from the Oglala forcing Crazy Horse, the great war chief,and many other leaders to surrender their nation in order to savethe lives of their people. In the nineteenth century the most dominant nation in thewestern plains was the Sioux Nation. This nation ... maintain the army's morale. After negotiations weremade Red Cloud lead one hundred-and twenty-five leaders of theSioux nations to sign the treaty of 1868. This treaty guaranteed "absolute and undisturbed use of the Great Sioux Reservation. Noperson shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, orreside in territory described in this article, or withoutconsent of the Indians pass through the same" (Matthiessen 7-8).This treaty also stated ...
- 4628: Colin Powell
- ... 161, 162). Powell's first official day as Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff was on October 1, 1989. He spent his longer days in the offices of the Chairman. People noticed Powell with the great success of the Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations in 1991. The Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff has not been the powerful position it has become (source 1, page 161, 165). America's top ... family's privacy and safety. "It wasn't all family. I didn't think it was the best thing for me to do at this time."Said Powell (source 3, page 56). Powell was a great inspiration for many people, from his life in the Bronx to the Chairman of joint Chief of Staff. At one point Powell's book was the nation's top seller. That shows you how much ...
- 4629: Chief Seattle
- ... the Indian religion everything is told through myths and legends. Because of this everything is passed down from chief to chief and person to person. By this exchange of information and story telling there is great room for individual interpretation. Every generation these tales will change and the myths will be told in a different tone, style or version. When white settlers came to the Northwest after the California Gold Rush ... Puget Sound. University of Washington Press: Seattle, 1985 (2) Jeffers, Susan. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky. Dial Books: New York, 1991 (3) Sturtevant, William. Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution: Washington, 1990 (4) Dockstader, Frederick. Great North American Indians. Litton Educational Publishing: New York, 1977 (5) Ruby, Robert. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1981 (6) Deloria, Vine. Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Double Day And Company ...
- 4630: Charles Shults
- ... sister, Lucy, and the unwanted attentions of Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally. He has a prospective of life while sucking his thumb, and knows the true meaning of Christmas while still believing in the Great Pumpkin. Charlie Brown was so proud of his newborn baby sister, Sally, that he passed out chocolate cigars, but ever since then he’s been trying to understand her. She always looks for the easy ... nothing to try to keep himself from being this way. The characters of this comic strip make the reader laugh as well as sympathize which helps create such a masterpiece. They are what make PEANUTS great. Just think without Charlie Brown’s glum little face, Snoopy’s bravery, Woodstock’s philosophies, Lucy’s bossiness, Peppermint Patty’s athletics, Marcie’s respect, Linus’s security blanket, Rerun’s stubbornness, Sally’s letter ...
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