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- 4651: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... American writer, with whom she published one of the first African American magazines, named Fire. Unfortunately, for both Zora and Langston Mrs. Osgood's "gifts" (Lyons 51) resulted in high prices which in affect left great conflicts between Langston and Zora, and so broke up what could have been an awesome African American duo (Lyons 51-7). Despite such a set back Zora's career continued with many popular novels and ... background wasn't her down fault. Zora took pride in what she was and once said, "I have no separate feelings about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the great soul that surges within my country" (Gates 37). Therefore, cultural awareness of the African American society was severely increased worldwide due to her impact upon literature. Even today, as I write this piece, I remember ...
- 4652: Virginia Woolf
- ... has had for two hundred years, a dog s chance a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom which great writers are born (740)." So if it is so hard for women to write why should they write? Well, Woolf wants them to write for her selfish reasons. She says like most women she grows tired of histories and biographies about great men. Woolf says there should be more books by women because, "Men that is to say, are now writing only with the male side of brains. It is a mistake for women to read them ...
- 4653: Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
- ... strives on. Of course, it is very had for people to get themselves out of this phase of conformity, but as Emerson says, "whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." For years only great men have been able to break away from society's grasp to form their own ideas and live their own lives. These few examples are the ones people need to follow (149). Much of the ... experiences. One who is wise uses more then a memory to continue with life. A memory can be used to broaden horizons, to teach a person more about themselves, and to lead them into another great part of the world. Therefore, a memory should not be an intimidation keeping one from a life of self-reliance (153). The ideal way to practice self-reliance is to be self-reliant while still ...
- 4654: Robert Hunter
- ... traditional themes Hunter uses is that of travel. "Jack Straw" is a good example of this that also demonstrates the use of the railroad as a symbol: Catch the Detroit Lightning Out of Santa Fe Great Northern out of Cheyenne Sea to shining sea. Gotta get to Tulsa First train we can ride... The chorus is a good model of the travel motif in the poem: Keep a rollin' Just a ... dog has not been fed in years It's even worse than it appears But it's all right. I will get by I will survive. This poem stresses faith even in the face of great adversity and the idea that somehow, life will go on. The most prevalent of Hunter's themes that cannot be classified as modern or folkloric is the light/dark or "opposite" theme. This is a ...
- 4655: Richard The Lion Hearted
- ... She was instrumental in turning the court of Poitiers, then frequented by the most famous troubadours of the time, into a centre of poetry and a model of courtly life and manners. She was the great patron of the two dominant poetic movements of the time. The courtly love tradition, conveyed in the romantic songs of the troubadours, and the historical matiθre de Bretagne, or "legends of Britanny," which originated in ... troubles. The cost of the Crusade and his large ransom had tapped out the finances of the land. This monetary trouble was to destroy him for his remaining five-year reign. He created a new great seal as a means to raise funds and made void all documents signed with the old. Death of A King For such a brave and noble King Richard's death came about in a rather ...
- 4656: Ray Bradbury
- ... publishing his adult novel Fahrenheit 451, it was soon considered one of his best works. There is a question to be asked, Where does he get his inspiration and imagination to write wild stories of great fantasy? He stated that "When people ask me where I get my imagination, I simply lament, God, here and there, makes madness a calling" (Bradbury I). American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and ... in May 1927. By 1931 he began writing his own stories on butcher paper. His childhood was very important to him because it was a constant source of intense sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father ...
- 4657: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... government becomes an extension of the person in charge. His or her own ideas become, in one way or another, the way of government. "Don't trust children with edge tools, don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has, until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell should we make of the world if we could do what we would! Put a button ... man was really close with God he would pray for, and put all others before himself. Technology, Emerson believes, should be carefully used because misuse, and overuse can lead to laziness. i.e. Calculators are great and timesaving, but you still need to know how to do math without them. "The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost he use of his feet." Here Emerson is saying that as ...
- 4658: On J.j. Thomson
- ... a sheath of copper, for example). Thomson suspected that the traces of gas remaining in the tube were being turned into an electrical conductor by the cathode rays themselves. To test this idea, he took great pains to extract nearly all of the gas from a tube, and found that now the cathode rays did bend in an electric field after all. Thomson concluded from these two experiments that he could ... Encyclopedia. 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. 2) "Thomson, Joseph (1856-1940)". Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia. 1993, 1994 Compton's NewMedia, Inc. 3) Brazil, Georgia L, and Moore, Dan. "History in Chemistry". Volume Library, Volume 1. Southwestern/ Great American Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 1998. p. 472-473.
- 4659: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
- ... would be a key asset. While working for a small firm, he took classes at University of South Africa and eventually Wits University. Here is where his mind and social life flourished. He interacted with great minds and influential political individuals. He talked to many Africans without proper education, who contained more knowledge and better social skills than many Africans with education. But, he still persisted in acquiring his B.A ... had to cause some resentment against his oppressors. But if anyone would not be bias in his writing, I would say it would be Nelson Mandela. He has showed in his book that he is great individual and that he will not let his past feeling cloud his writing. You can see his feelings in his book and that is what makes it so good, but I believe he does not ...
- 4660: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... months, Hawthorne worked day and night to finish, The Scarlet Letter. In 1850, he published The Scarlet Letter which sold well. However, it was pirated by two London publishers, and the financial rewards were not great for Hawthorne and his family. Hawthorne had to take the wrath from several citizens of Salem, for some of the passages from the "Custom House" section of this novel. The Scarlet Letter was the first ... Hawthorne family moved to Lennox, Massachusetts, where they lived for the following year. It was here that Hawthorne made the acquaintance of Herman Melville, who was writing his first novel, Moby Dick. Hawthorne made a great impact on the writings of Melville, and the dedication of the novel (Moby Dick), to Hawthorne is evidence of the magnitude of this impact. During this time, Nathaniel published The Blithedale Romance, based on his ...
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