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- 3321: Francios Rabelias
- In Italy, early 1300s, a cultural movement began. This period of time is known as the Renaissance, an age of reborn interest in the arts. During this time artist emerged with paintings that recognized daily life, in contrast with paintings of holy and importain people just a few years earlier. Artist began to paint in three dimensions ...
- 3322: Fidal Castro
- ... opposed, Washington recognized his government. Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster ...
- 3323: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... he also had begun to dislike war stories and was turned off by it. This was due to the fact no one even listened to him even when he lied. Even his lies didn't interest people; they already had heard these stories before. Soon Krebs' lies and exaggeration resulted in acquiring the feeling of "nausea". He would sometimes talk to other soldiers and Krebs would "fall into the easy pose ...
- 3324: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and, above all, U.S. imperialism. Although his parents, most notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he did not take participate in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine. He focused on understanding his own disease, and later became more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys ...
- 3325: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... factory in upstate New York. She became further politically active and participated in several womens organizations that were involved in social legislation. The plan had been for her involvement to reawaken her husbands interest in the outside after he was crippled by polio. Once this was accomplished though, Eleanor had no intentions to just go back into the shadows. While first lady of New York State, she was the ...
- 3326: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- ... of the 1920s. During the last two decades of her life, millay was almost ignored critically, although her Collected Sonnets appeared in 1941. Since the late 1960s, however, there has been a renewed interest in Millays works. On July 18,1923, she married Eugen Jan Boissevain. She then spent much of the next few years in reading engagements throughout the United States, and with her husband she toured ...
- 3327: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... won the poetry prize except that the judges decided not to award both prizes to the same contestant. The prize money was not important, but one of the judges, novelist John P. Kennedy, took an interest in Poe and befriended him by helping him sell a story to the new Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond. Poe joined the editorial staff of the magazine and soon became its editor. A number of ...
- 3328: E.E. Cummings
- ... moving, one's motion causes the other to seem still (106). The 'd,' at the end of the poem is showing that after the poet has finally named the object he saw, he immediately loses interest and stops, as writing more to further organize his thoughts would be superfluous (106). The contrasting words in this poem are very important. 'against' contrasts with 'across', and signifies a halt. It seems that the ...
- 3329: E. M. Forster
- ... and the details he gave were exquisite. I could almost picture myself there. Above all I thought he was an average writer. Once the reader gets to the main plot of Forster's novels, their interest is held. Forster's characters are introduced and used superbly but his introduction to the plot is boring and time consuming. I feel he needs to jump straight into the book and then introduce his ...
- 3330: Dylan Thomas
- ... in London. Line sixteen of Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, "And you, my father, there on that sad height," gives us the mysteriously mournful phrase, "sad height". This phrase is of particular interest. What does Thomas mean, "sad height"? Is he acknowledging that death is a sad time worthy of lament? No. The sad height is the metaphorical perch we find ourselves resting upon in the moments leading ...
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