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- 4161: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and ...
- 4162: Henry VIII's Divorce From Catherine of Aragon
- ... Catherine's relationship was good at first. Catherine loved Henry more than anything in the world. After twenty-two years their marriage was undergoing a change. It was a change that neither of them could control. During their marriage, Catherine conceived six times. Only one child survived. Her name was Mary. The problem was that there was no male heir to succeed the throne after Henry. The two were growing apart ...
- 4163: Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
- ... to an advocate of interracial and international brotherhood. Malcolm X significantly elevated black consciousness in the United States. He asserted in the most forceful terms that "black is beautiful," and that African Americans must take control of their own destiny. Always charismatic and witty, his words and speeches provided quotes for people with many different social and political goals. His most enduring message remains one of black self-respect and self ...
- 4164: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... before his silence was lifted, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to form the Muslim Mosque, Inc. on March 1964. He began to advocate a more pragmatic black nationalism and said that blacks should control the politics within their own community and, through his speeches, encouraged his followers to make changes by voting. At the height of his power Malcolm X was one of black America's most powerful voices ...
- 4165: Approach To Edgar Allen Poes Writings
- ... writing. The most prominent feature in Edgar Allen Poes writing is his obsession with death. He is afraid to die, but he doesnt think much of his life. Poe was always under the control of his step-father, and when he was independent, he did not know what to do, there fore he did thing like drinking and doing drugs. He needed structure in his life and did not ...
- 4166: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his attacker(Moldavia). By the end of the year Poe had started to develop gambling debts. Poe blamed his gambling debts on John Allen saying that he did not provide enough for him ...
- 4167: Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell
- ... against imperial power. The Whites, or Cerchi, were not of noble lineage, but had made a vast fortune trading and wished to become a part of the aristocracy, they wished to remain independent of all control, papal or imperial. After a particularly violent skirmish the leaders of both parties were exiled in order to provide peace, however, Pope Boniface VIII helped the leaders of the Black return. These Blacks seized power ...
- 4168: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... city, his colony and his people. In 1751, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly. This was during the time that the Penn Family controlled most of what happened in Pennsylvania. He fought against that control and for self-government, just like he would sixteen years later when he supported the Declaration of Independence. In the beginning Benjamin Franklin believed Britain had the best government in the world and he didn ...
- 4169: Millennium Bug
- ... simply don't want to cough up money to fix something that hasn't happened yet. Another major issue is the disasters the bug may cause. Catastrophes could occur in the air if air traffic control systems fail. KLM Royal Dutch airlines has said it will not fly to certain destinations during the change over period. Both QANTAS and Ansett have established teams to look at all programs operated by their ...
- 4170: Bill Clinton and His Many Problems
- ... during Clintons presidential period. This is especially a problem for the blacks that live in the high-unemployment-ghettos. This brings us to another big problem in the American society; the violence. In US the control with weapons is very loose, and everybody can walk into a gunshop and buy their own weapon. Because of that there are a lot of guns, and the criminals are defiantly not afraid of using ...
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