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- 6181: Jim Henson, a Gentle Genius
- ... s father telling us right from wrong. Henson helped sustain the qualities of fancifulness, warmth and consideration that have been so threatened by our coarse, cynical age. Henson created the muppets which led to his great success with children. Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high school when his family first moved to Washington ... television shows, such as Fragle Rock and the Muppet Babies. In 1979 he made his first big screen Muppet movie titled the Muppet Movie. The musical comedy inspired a series of Muppet movies including The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), which has continued into the present. The show produced immediate success upon its premiere in 1976 and was still popular when Henson decided to cease production ...
- 6182: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Piero da Vinci, a public notary for the city of Florence, Italy. For the first four years of his life he lived with his mother in the small village of Vinci, directly outside of the great center of the Renaissance, Florence. Catherina was a poor woman, with possible artistic talent, the genetic basis of Leonardo’s talents. Upon the realization of Leonardo’s potential, his father took the boy to live ... he was a member of a commission of artists to decide on the proper location for the David by Michelangelo (Encarta). Towards the end of the year Leonardo began to design a decoration for the Great Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio. Leonardo chose the Battle of Anghiari as the subject of the mural, a victory for Florence in a war against Pisa. He made many drawings and sketches of a cavalry ...
- 6183: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... short time. Although he was dismissed by his leader Muhammad, his popularity did not diminish. When he was assassinated by Black Muslims in 1965, newspapers all over the world paid tribute to him as a great Negro leader. The world-wide support for Malcolm X increased enormously again when Spike Lee’s movie was shown in the cinemas about a quarter of a century after his death. Thousands of black people ... and then he stops and reflects about his life, the black people’s suffering or the Islam’s help for the Afro-Americans. While reading the book, people do not only get to know a great leader’s life, but also his thoughts and opinions about historical events or people. Haley always tried to find the appropriate style and tone for each of Malcolm X’ part of life. So while he ...
- 6184: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson “…was truly one of our great geniuses” even though he may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself, “Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” Emerson was also a major leader of “the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism”. (Encarta 1) Transcendentalism was belief in a higher reality than that found everyday life that a human can ...
- 6185: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... He later made a successful escape in 1838. His fleeing brought him to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Douglass's abolitionist career began at an antislavery convention at Nantucket, Massachusetts. Here, he showed himself to be a great speaker. Douglass became involved with many important abolitionist causes, both through his literary works, and also through activities such as the Underground Railroad, and also his role in organizing a regiment of former slaves to ... politician. These works do not stand alone, though. Frederick Douglass also was famous for his abolitionist speeches. Douglass also successfully published an abolitionist newsletter, The North Star. All of Douglass's achievements combined with his great literature combined to redefine the writing of the time. After reading any of his works, one might realize just how important Frederick Douglass was to the abolitionist movement. Douglass changed many people's lives, and ...
- 6186: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... his childhood and was the first of his novels to be written entirely from the first person (Huffam). In Dickens' “late period”, he wrote four more books. They were Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), Great Expectations (1861), and his last novel to be completely finished, Our Mutual Friend (1865) (Huffam). His last works, were A Tale of Two Cities (1859), The Uncommercial Traveler (1861), and No Thoroughfare (1867). In 1858 ... and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.” (Huffam) Works Cited Huffam, John. “Dickens, Charles” MS Encarta, 3.0a. Gale Research Inc., 1993. Kyle, Elisabeth. Great Ambitions, a Story of the Early Years of Charles Dickens, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966. pp. 1 - 13. Mankowitz, Wolf. Dickens of London, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. pp. 7 - 25 ...
- 6187: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... descendent of a very old French family. As a boy, Maupassant went to school at Yvetot in Normandy, and then attended Lycee at Rouen. During his childhood and youth in Normandy, he picked up a great deal of experiences that he later put to use in many of his writings. When Maupassant was eleven years old, his parents got separated. This was probably the most significant events in his life in ... others by far. This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a child in Normandy. During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness, probably the results of venereal disease ...
- 6188: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... inspiration for a poem on the subject by Bradstreet. Her first book of poem, The Tenth Muse, was the only book printed during her lifetime. A second edition of her poetry, "Several Poems compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight" edited by one of her sons was printed six years after her death in 1678. Many of her best poems, which her son did not publish as ... poems expressing domestic matters and affections. For the pioneer Colonists, home was a refuge from the often harsh, new environment. For Anne Bradstreet, the burning of her home and belongings in July, 1866 was a great loss fro someone so devoted to her family and domestic pleasures. The poem, however, contains no self-pitying elements. Instead, Bradstreet uses the personal loss to reconcile it with her belief in the wisdom of ...
- 6189: W.E.B Du Bois
- ... the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was its spokesman in the first decades of its existence. William Edward Bughardt Du Bois was born three years following the Civil War, on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His paternal side was French, settling in America in 1674 and, the Burghardts', his maternal side, were descendants of slaves who fought in the Civil War. William' father died when he was a ... prize in 1952 and the Soviet Lenin Peace prize in 1958. Du Bois joined the Communist party of the United States in 1961 and emigrated to Ghana, where he became a citizen, in 1963. "My great-grandfather was carried away in chains from the Gulf of Guinea," he said, "I have returned that my dust shall mingle with the dust of my forefathers." Du Bois died in Ghana on Aug. 27 ...
- 6190: Robert Edward Lee
- ... became commander and chief of the military forces in Virgnia, just three days after he resigned from the U.S. Army. In February 1865 Lee was made commander and chief of all confederate forces. His great battles of the Civil wars include Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. He won many, many battles in the Civil war. Finally on April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Uylesses S. Grant ... University in the fall of 1865. He died there on October 12, 1870. Lee is arguably the greatest General in American Warfare history. He has been called a hero by many Americans. He was a great soldier and commander on the battlefield. The Robert Lee memorial is now a national memorial.
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