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- 3171: Thomas Paine: Propaganda and Persuasion
- ... troops had a profound effect upon their morale which lead to a victory at Trenton. George Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware River ultimately became a turning point in the war. As noted by John Keane in his book, Tom Paine: a Political Life, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world. Thomas Paine used propaganda methods to induce a desire for freedom in the ...
- 3172: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- The Life and Works of Samual Clemens I. Biography Samual Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835, and died in 1910. Twain's father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left school to find work ...
- 3173: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- ... closest, and it was from them that he invited scholars to aid him in his work of education. A scholar named Grimbald came from St. Omer to preside over his new abbey at Winchester; and John the Old Saxon, was brought from the abbey of Corbey to rule a monastery and school that Alfred's gratitude for his deliverance from the wars with the Danes raised in the marshes of Athelney ...
- 3174: Risen From The Ashes Of Earthl
- ... Dante seeks to create a palinode, that is, he wishes to give his past work a new meaning by brining it into his present work. The Divine Comedy serves as the vessel for this palinode. John Freccero's ideas are along much the same lines: When Dante quotes his earlier poetry in the Commedia, we are meant to perceive a distance, perhaps even an ironic distance, between a former poetic self ...
- 3175: Herman Melville
- ... publishes battle pieces. Gets job in customs. 1867 Malcom melville dies from a suicidal gunshot to the head. 1876 publishes clarel. 1885 retires from customs. 1886 stanwix melville dies after a long illness. 1888 publishes john marr and other sailors in a private edition of 25 copies. 1891 completes draft of billy budd which was not published until 1924. Sepember 28: dies. 1924 Billy Budd is Published. Accomplishments 1) Wrote the ...
- 3176: Cuba
- ... all of these drivers of change rapidly shaping our relationship with Cuba, it seems to be only a matter of time before Americans will be allowed to enter Cuba and enjoy it's beauty again. John Quincy Adams may have been correct in 1823 when he predicted that Cuba would gravitate naturally towards the U.S.--But, he certainly didn't know that it would be such a bumpy ride. Word ...
- 3177: The Killer Angels
- ... forth from the North and South perspective. Shaara portrays the terrible butchery of the three days' fighting through the vividly ren-dered thoughts and emotions of men such as General Robert E. Lee, Major General John Buford from the South and from the North, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead, and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain. This is a tremendously moving novel, guaranteed unforget-table. The book instills in one's mind what a battle ...
- 3178: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... more like the proud-soldier than like the financier. Nietzsche believed that some people were inherently more important than others; their happiness or unhappiness counted for more than the happiness of average people. He dismissed John Stuart Mill as a "blockhead" for the presupposition that everyone was equal. He wrote about Mill: "I abhor the man's vulgarity when he says "what is right for one man is right for another ...
- 3179: Christopher Marlowe
- ... of these earlier plays and far surpasses them in dramatic poetry. Faustus tells of a man who sells his soul to Satan in return for twenty- four years of knowledge and power. The protagonist, Dr. John Faustus, instead of sharing his gift with others, fritters his years away until the in last scene he realises the grave mistakes he has made. The scenes where Faustus uses his power for practical jokes ...
- 3180: Polonius Is Folish
- ... G.K. Hall and Co, 1995. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New York: Washington Square Press published by Pocket Books, 1992. States, Bert O. Hamlet and the Concept of Character. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1992.
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