|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 6241 - 6250 of 14167 matching essays
- 6241: Henry David Thoreau
- ... honor his brother. On January 11, 1842, Henry's brother, John Jr., died of lockjaw. It was his brother's death which prompted Henry to decide to go to Walden Pond. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great "Sage of Concord," owned land adjacent to Walden Pond and allowed Henry to live at Walden Pond. Henry went to Walden Pond to work on a book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ... a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them....Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already." "Civil Disobedience" and Henry David Thoreau have had great impacts one the lives of some of America's greatest leaders. President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglass were all influence by Henry David Thoreau's thoughts ...
- 6242: Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
- ... few seconds after they go out of the room. He sometimes pauses an exterior shot, he does not hurry to go to the next scene. In Tokyo story we also understand that he is a great screenwriter, the relations between the children and their parents are so well desined, when parents come to Tokyo to visit their children they see that things are working different in a big city, their children ... a bit strange in that way, sometimes it's hard to understand where he is showing and why or why the objects change their places in the same scene. I accept that he is a great director but i personaly couldn't like his style much. FILMOGRAPHY Sword of Penitence(1927) Dreams of Youth(1928) Wife Lost Pumpkin A Couple on the Move Body Beautiful Treasure Mountain(1929) Days of Youth ...
- 6243: The Life of Franz Liszt
- ... Insome ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star, such as Kurt Cobain. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811.Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age.Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the age of fourteen.Professionals of Liszt's time thought that he was only a genius with the piano, which was not enough to give his ideas the great recognition they deserved.Many people thought that Liszt was "a mover and a shaker, a rebel, chased women, and had much talent and personality."He had invented the solo recital.When Liszt had a concert ...
- 6244: Charles Manson
- ... was hard to prove and hard to believe. Manson had a plan in his head. When the Beatles first released "The White Album," it was a hit. Manson listened to it often. He had a great devotion to the Beatles, who he believed spoke to him across the oceans in their lyrics and songs. Manson saw the 4 Beatles as the 4 Angels that announced the ending of the world in ... evidence and got away with murder. All particpants in the murders, with the exception of Kasabian, were found guilty and were sentenced to death. This sentence was revoked and turned into life imprisionment. There was great concern for the possibility of the popular image of martyrdom being assigned to Manson and his "Family." Manson used suggestion and passive hypnotism to make his followers answer any command of his. People did unquestioning ...
- 6245: Oscar Wilde
- ... on October 16th, 1854 in Dublin. His father, William Robert Wilde, was an eminent eye doctor, with an interest in myths and folklore. He was the founder of the first eye and ear hospital in Great Britain, as well as the appointed Surgeon Occultist to the Queen, who knighted him. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde, was a poet who wrote patriotic Irish verse under the pen name Speranza, and had ... The tour was an unmitigated smash and Wilde returned to London in 1883 in triumph and richer by several thousand pounds. By the time he returned from America he had already tired of being the Great Aesthete and began dressing more conventionally. He did a successful tour of the U.K. He also wrote his second unsuccessful play, The Duchess Of Padua. In 1884, he married Constance Lloyd, the daughter of ...
- 6246: Stephen King
- Stephen King Stephen King is a well-known and talented horror/fiction author who has published over eleven books in the last two decades. His great stories of horror and fantasy have been enjoyed by kids and adults starting from his first best-seller, Carrie. King's wit and style of writing has made him one of the most popular horror ... in English teaching(Bleiler, 1038), King published many best sellers that won these awards: The British Fantasy Award(1982), The World Fantasy Award(1982), and the Hugo Award(1985)(Beacham, 748). Stephen King written many great books throughout his writing career. Carrie, King's first best seller, is about a teenager who is ridiculed and harassed throughout high school(Bleiler, 1031). After she is finally pushed to the limit, her true ...
- 6247: Bill Gates
- ... was a destination in a Star Trek episode)"(Gates 16). It had a few switches and lights on the front that you could get to blink, but that was about all. This new chip had great potential, but there was no way to program it. After five weeks of not going to classes, not eating or sleeping regularly, their version of "BASIC was written- and the world's first microcomputer software ... licensing agreement between IBM and Microsoft, IBM had no control over Microsoft's distribution of its MS-DOS to other companies who wanted to clone the IBM machine. This decision by IBM is still under great debate. Many industry analysts argue that IBM should have waited for their own software developers to develop an operating system or that IBM should have purchased MS-DOS from Microsoft. However, from a more broad ...
- 6248: The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
- ... in to the basic culture. In 1882 their government limited the amount of Chinese immigrants. Then in 1907 Roosevelt came to an agreement with Japan to limit the amount o f immigrants. Unions where a great thing, making a minimum wage for woman, limiting the work day, and wiping out child labor, this was a great time in the US.
- 6249: Babe Ruth
- ... intent is to provide the most detailed, in depth Biography on Ruth ever. That he does, in masterful accounts of Babe's most heroic Games, and World series. Even his personal life is told in great detail and accuracy. Controversies such as Babe's actual date of birth are presented, debated, then concluded with the authors opinion. I choose this book because I am fascinated by Babe Ruth. I have read ... about this American icon. There are many books that would do this in far fewer pages, and most would probably consider this book boring with it's many little story's it delves into with great detail. However for the baseball enthusiast who has time on his hands, or for someone who just can't get enough of Babe Ruth; I strongly recommend this book as the most informative piece of ...
- 6250: Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
- ... Europe, shortly after U.S. forces recapture Iceland. The book ends with the war over but many loose ends are not covered. This provides Clancy with the opportunity to start World War IV. With every great literary work, there are critics looming around ready to tear the book apart for better or worse. There is no exception when it comes to Red Storm Rising. Most of the critics agreed that the ... a fan of war and technology since a child16, and has expanded his hobby to computers with the war games Harpoon and Convoy '84. In fact the designer of Harpoon, Larry Bond has become a great friend, and co-author in some of Tom's books. Now
Search results 6241 - 6250 of 14167 matching essays
|
