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- 1691: Lord of the Flies: An Analysis
- ... very sensible, and logical personality. At first, the boys create duties to follow, and they live amicably in peace. Soon however, differences arise as to their priorities. The smaller children (know as littl'uns) lose interest in their tasks; the older boys want to spend more time hunting than carrying out more routine duties, such as keeping the signal fire on the top of the mountain going, and building shelters. A ...
- 1692: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... R.I. Longford claimed the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award twice with Wellington,1969, and The Royal House of Windsor, Winston Churchill in 1974. It is with this same thoroughness and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II. Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of the English people ...
- 1693: The Style and Influences of Lewis Carroll
- ... in children such as Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Tennyson (Cohen 100-106). Although he was interested in the mentality and psychology of children, he was also intrigued by the physical form of the child. This interest had an impact on one of his favorite hobbies, photography. He very often would photograph his child friends when they came to visit him. In fact, Morton N. Cohen says, he was regarded as one ...
- 1694: Carl Gauss
- ... network of triangles. Gauss often doubted his work in the profession, but over the course of ten years, from 1820 to 1830, published over seventy papers. From the early 1800's Gauss had had an interest in the question of the possible existence of a non-Euclidean geometry. In a book review of 1816 Gauss discussed proofs which suggested and supported his belief in non-Euclidean geometry (which was later proved ...
- 1695: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture. She then returned to the United States and earned a degree in French literature from George Washington University and graduated in 1951. Jackie’s favorite interest as a child and young adult were reading, sketching, writing poems and short stories, riding horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23). Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for ...
- 1696: George Washington
- ... greatly in demand in a country where people were looking for new lands in the West. For the Virginians the West meant the upper Ohio River valley. Throughout his life, George Washington maintained a keen interest in the development of these western lands, and from time to time he got properties there. George grew up a tall, strong young man, who liked music and theatrical performances, and was awkward with girls ...
- 1697: Charles Dickens
- ... Bleak House with a much shorter novel called Hard Times (1854); this novel attacked the philosopher Jeremy Benthams doctrine of utilitarianism. Dickens believed that his philosophy reduced social relations to problems of cold, mechanical self-interest. In Little Dorritt (1855-1857) Dickens continued his dislike towards materialism and snobbery. He also ridiculed government inefficiency in the form of the “Circumlocution Office.” A Tale of Two Cities (1859) was the second of ...
- 1698: Theodore Roosevelt’s Domestic Accomplishments As President
- ... one of the most dynamic periods of history of the United States of America. Roosevelt had no trouble using his office to the fullest allowable power and beyond, but he never used it in self-interest. Roosevelt expanded presidential powers because he believed he best served his country with quick, vigorous decisions.
- 1699: Biography of John Dalton
- ... began a series of meteorological observations in 1787 and he continued them for 57 years. Dalton accumulated some 200,000 observations and measurements on the weather in the Manchester area. Dalton's had a big interest in meteorology which led him to study a variety of phenomena as well as the instruments used to measure them. He was the first to prove that rain is precipitated by a decrease in temperature ...
- 1700: Mark Twain: Racist or Realist?
- ... is in his own person the whole human race, with not a detail lacking. I am the whole human race with out a detail lacking; I have studied the human race with diligence and strong interest all these years in my own person ; in myself I find big or little proportion every quality and every defect that is findable in the mass of the human race (Simpson 16). Mark Twain had ...
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