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- 3551: Columbus
- ... returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (modern day Japan). When King John II declined Columbus’s “Enterprises to the Indies” he decided to go to the Spanish monarch. Columbus traveled to Cordoba, in 1488 he and his mistress had another son. Columbus presented his plan to King ...
- 3552: Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... reader must come to a conclusion about facts and issues raised in the poem by making use of material presented in the poem (Scott-Kilvert, 360). A final textbook definition of dramatic monologue is from John D. Cooke. He writes that a dramatic monologue ". . . condenses a complex psychological study and a tense situation of conflict into a single climactic speech" (157). In applying this concept to "Porphyria's Lover," the tense ...
- 3553: Catherine The Great
- ... rule. By the time of Catherine's death (Nov. 17, 1796), modern Russian society was organized and its culture had struck firm roots. Russia was also playing a determining role in world affairs. Bibliography: Alexander, John T., Catherine the Great: Life and Legend (1989); Cronin, Vincent, Catherine, Empress of All the Russians (1978); Grey, Ian, Catherine the Great (1961; repr. 1975); Maroger, Dominique, ed., Memoirs of Catherine the Great, trans. by ...
- 3554: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- ... Lost Content. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1970. Leggett, Bobby Joe. The Poetic Art of A. E. Housman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Ricks, Christopher ed.. A. E. Housman. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968.John S. Ward
- 3555: "Gunpowder Plot" By Vernon Scannell
- ... with people dying. Later in the poem we learn that the man's brother had dies in the war as the line reads : "I hear a corpse's sons -- 'Who's scared of bangers!' 'Uncle, John's afraid!' In the story the author uses a lot of comparisons, the first one we come across is between fireworks and "Curious cardboard buds" where he describes them as flowers that have yet to ...
- 3556: Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time
- Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time Clare Clifford and John Miller English 102 18 January, 2000 In poems like "The Wood Pile" Frost gives the impression that humanity is the source of order in the world. Ironically, however, for all its rage for order, humanity ...
- 3557: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Boston on January 19, 1809, his parents, regular members of Federal street theater, named him Edgar Poe. Shortly before his mother's death in Richmond, Virginia on December 8, 1811, his father abandoned the family. John Allen, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond, brought Poe into the family (at his wife's request), and gave him the middle name Allen as a baptismal name, though he never formally adopted him. Even ...
- 3558: ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed
- Few gunmen in history have been as notorious as the late John“Doc” Holliday. Part of the reason Doc has enjoyed such a famedhistory is because of the overall descent man he was, that is when hewasn’t gambling, drinking, and gunslinging. When Doc died he mighthave ...
- 3559: Woodstock 1969
- ... well known and symbolic as Woodstock. Its impact on America’s culture and society as well as its youth will not be forgotten for many years to come. Four men named Michael Lang, Artie Kornfield, John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman originally established Woodstock. The men’s initial idea for the festival was to promote the idea of a new recording studio in Bethel, New York, which is where the event actually ...
- 3560: Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
- ... Games, Clear and Present Danger, to list a few. According to Clancy "Rainbow Six, is one of my all time favourites." The book starts with a prologue that introduces us to the one main character, John Clark, an ex-Navy SEAL, and two other characters, Alistair Stanley the executive commander of Rainbow Six, and Domingo (Ding) Chavez, the Captain of Team 2. There are two other insignificant character introduced, Clark's ...
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