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- 4181: Madonna
- ... of her movie career. Her latest movie, Evita, in which she stars, was given some praise in the box office, and is probably considered her best work yet. Madonna is currently trying to gain more control of what is being produced about her. She has entered the management areas of film, record, and publishing by creating her own company. At present, she is still working on numerous projects. One of these ...
- 4182: Billy The Kid
- ... a fight with a blacksmith in a saloon where the blacksmith slapped him and threw his to the floor. Knowing that he was no match for the much bigger and older blacksmith he drew his gun and shot the blacksmith who died the next day. He was arrested but the escaped and began running from the law, something he did all of his life. Billy the Kid eventually moved to Lincoln ...
- 4183: Susan Smith
- ... passenger seat." She described the man "as a black male in his late 20s to early 30s, wearing a plaid shirt, jeans and a toboggan-type hat." She said that the abductor held her at gun point and told her to drive. She drove northeast of Union for about 4 miles. Then the man suddenly told her to stop the car. Mrs. Smith said she asked if she should pull over ...
- 4184: The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic?
- ... Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic? In Nathaniel Hawthorne's torrid tale of The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character, is confronted with a number of circumstances, both in and out of his control, that lead to his ultimate demise. While it can be argued that Arthur is a tragic hero, he lacks the underlying goodness and strength essential for him to fulfill this role. Otherwise, it may be ...
- 4185: Alexander III
- ... then crucified the doctor, Glaucus. Alexander III had another party in Susa. Susa was the adminsrative capital of the Persian empire. Alexander first went to Susa shortly after the Battle of Gaugamela. There he took control of the money, totalling 50,000 talents($60 million) as well as the rest of the royal property. Alexander was again in Susa in 324 B.C. There he performed a mass marriage. Between eighty ...
- 4186: Cyrano De Bergerac
- ... Cyrano's most obvious flaw is his grotesque nose, but this would not be so awful if the people around him didn't care. Knowing that he is the victim of a problem beyond his control, the reader can do nothing but sympathize with him. The epitome of this is his death. His only wish in life was to dye noble . . . by the sword, but he again he is hurt by ...
- 4187: Julius Caesar: Military and Political Strength
- ... year of governorship he marched into Celtic Gaul with six legions, defeated the Helvetii, and forced them to return to their home. Next, he crushed Germanic forces under Ariovistus. By 57 BC Rome was in control of northern Gaul, while Caesar was in Gaul, his agents attempted to dominate politics in Rome. It was decided that Caesar would continue in Gaul for another five years, while Pompey and Crassus would both ...
- 4188: Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
- ... linked with the demand for prohibition. (24, Benham) One of the reasons why prohibition was linked to the struggle for women's rights in the early 1900s was that a wife had almost no legal control then over how a husband spent his pay. Tragically, some husbands spent it on liquor rather than on food and clothing for their family. Nellie later joined the W.C.T.U. (Women's Christian ...
- 4189: Adam Smith
- ... is, the less does it bind him to strict conclusions; and a many-sided mind like Adam Smith's, seeing all the many different ways in which the problem can be put, but lacking the control which the possession of a distinct theory gives, could scarcely fail to fall into all sorts of wavering and contradictory expressions. Thus we have the peculiar phenomenon that, while Adam Smith has not laid down ...
- 4190: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... the new park would be just like the old one, but with more water."20 On the other hand, he was obsessed with EPCOT. Many people thought it was because he loved to be in control. With this new city he could make a city exactly how he wanted it.21 Walt Disney's health deteriorated. Disney had been looking pale and sickly. His wife made him go to a doctor ...
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