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- 4021: Washington Irving
- ... this time period were Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe with various poems and selections, such as The Raven, The TellTale Heart, and The Pit and The Pendulum. One person who had a great effect on the Romantic era was Washington Irving. Some called Irving the first real American writer. Washington Irving was born April 3, 1783, in New York City. He was the eleventh child of Sarah William Irving ...
- 4022: Walt Whitman 2
- ... his writing. In the North, the economy was blooming, and growing, and industry was getting better and better each day. While in the South, the price, and the labor of the war was taking its effect upon society. The economy was getting worse, and worse as time went on. The problems in the South grew more troublesome to the inhabitants as the battles in the South became more frequent. One poem ...
- 4023: William Penn And The Quakers
- ... some of these. In December 1699, the Proprietor again visited Pennsylvania and, just before his return to England in 1701, agreed with the Assembly on a revised constitution, the Charter of Privileges, which remained in effect until 1776. This gave the Assembly full legislative powers and permitted the three Delaware counties to have a separate legislature. Deputy or lieutenant governors (addressed as "governor") resided in Pennsylvania and represented the Penn family ...
- 4024: Richard Iii
- ... the study of his rise and fall will be taken in the perspective of his royal acts and administration of England. Public sentiment over such things as the scandal surrounding the princes did have an effect over the rule of Richard, but there are many other underlying aspects that could have extended Richards rule, and changed the way history looks back on him. Many historian look upon Richard as a villain ...
- 4025: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 2
- ... world was indirect through the revolution. Since Lenin was the leader of the revolution and the revolution had profound effects on many societies across the world, Lenin must have had at least a small influential effect on these societies. For example, in Germany there was an attempted revolution in 1918. The revolution failed because they were unable to form an organization independent from the government and the leaders capitulated to their ...
- 4026: Violence In The Media
- ... as fake as a Hollywood film? But because violence and bloodshed are constantly openly displayed on the TV, they have been deprived of their meaning. While it is indisputable that media violence has a profound effect on children and the emotionally vulnerable, media images alone do not create murderers. The fingers on the triggers in Jonesboro may have belonged to 11-and-13-year-olds, but the real criminals of this ...
- 4027: Robert Capa
- ... hardships that soldiers have to endure and the suffering of people whose homes and cities were destroyed as a result of war. His photos are divided into three categories: images of battle, images of the effect of war on individual soldiers and civilians, and the images of peace. As the photographer, he did more than just sit back and take the pictures, he also participated, getting as close as he could ...
- 4028: Richard The Iii
- ... deceit. Richard makes her believe that the reason why he murdered her husband and father was over her beauty. That he was committing the acts for her sake, Your beauty was the cause of that effect;/Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep/To undertake the death of all the world,/So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom. , that it was her love that he was ...
- 4029: Ray Bradbury
- ... The Martian Chronicles in 1950 which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, the constant thwarting of their efforts by the gentle, telepathic Martians, the eventual colonization, and finally the effect on the Martian settlers of a massive nuclear war on Earth. "Of twenty-two stories here collected, at most eight can be called 'science fiction" (Holmes 12). As much a work of social criticism as ...
- 4030: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." He believes that if you can see the intricacies and complexities of everyday life then you are very wise. " prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not a unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then ...
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