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- 1211: SOLO Report
- ... powerful, influential man is killed by an assassin. The book, after the killing, follows the killer to an unusual place-a concert hall. There it is found that the killer is internationally famous concert pianist John Mikali. This man, Mikali, has been tormented by death and pain all of his life. His family has been based through a stout naval history, as his father, and relatives past have all been commanders and captains of great naval ships. The one break in the chain was his Grandfather and him, John, who is a concert pianist. John is clever but physcotic, because his hobby, as gruesome as it may seem, is killing. It began one day when his nanny was killed. It seemed she was killed by a hit and run ...
- 1212: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... and a review of it twenty-nine years later. The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877. THIS is an occasion peculiarly meet for the digging up of pleasant reminiscences concerning literary folk; therefore I will drop lightly into history myself. Standing ... Montana girl which came to me indirectly. She was in a room in which there was a large photograph of me. After gazing at it steadily for a time, she said: "We've got a John the Baptist like that." She also said: "Only ours has more trimmings." I suppose she meant the halo. Now here is a gold-miner's compliment. It is forty-two years old. It was my ... you will all tell your children about it when you get home. Well, when the great discoverer was once loafin' around down in Virginia, and a-puttin' in his time flirting with Pocahontas- oh! Captain John Smith, that was the man's name-and while he and Poca were sitting in Mr. Powhatan's garden, he accidentally put his arm around her and picked something- a simple weed, which proved ...
- 1213: The Moon is Down: The Effects of War
- ... triviality of things and he changed by dying for his people. Molly Morden loses control when she kills Lieutenant Tonder. War had a different affect on everyone. Works Cited Astro, Richard. "Intimations of a Wasteland." John Steinbeck. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 19-34. Clancy, Charles J. "Steinbeck's The Moon is Down (1942)." A Study Guide to Steinbeck (Part II). Ed. Tetsumaro Hayashi. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1979. 100-11. Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. New York: Gordin Press, 1981. Steinbeck, John. The Moon is Down. New York: Penguin Books, 1942. The Effects of War Thesis: The damaging effect of war on the conquered and the conquerors of The Moon is Down, by John Steinbeck. I. ...
- 1214: Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
- ... spoke of his slave ownership. The author spoke of the biracial relationships that he had with his slaves as well as his biracial children. The last essay dealt with the similarities in the essays of John Locke and the Declaration of Independence. After Wood summarizes these essays he tells it how it is. Jefferson was not perfect, but he wanted what is best for the common good for all and the ... novelist Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe only 37 years before he was born. Imaginative science fiction writers have not emerged yet to give a goal for the inventor. Therefore he turned to the pages of John Locke for the guidance to build a nation. Jefferson relied greatly on the writings of John Locke and the other great thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Even in the case of The Declaration of Independence he generally quotes John Locke. Locke said, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of personal ...
- 1215: Thomas Jefferson
- ... of state and returned to Monticello. Even in retirement he kept a close eye on political issues. He was particularly distressed with Jay's Treaty, negotiated with Great Britain in 1794 by Supreme Court Justice John Jay to resolve remaining differences with Britain. In 1796 Jefferson ran for president but was defeated by John Adams, a Federalist. Jefferson became vice president under the system prevailing at the time. Jefferson had little to do with the Adams administration. Friction between the Federalists and Republicans increased when news was released in ... the sale. Jefferson won the 1804 presidential election in a landslide. George Clinton was elected vice president. IV. Second Term as President During Jefferson's second term, opposition within his own party, led by Congressman John Randolph of Virginia, proved to be his major problem. Randolph gathered around him a group of Federalists and dissident Republicans who were able to prevent Jefferson from accomplishing much of his legislative program. As ...
- 1216: Benedict Arnold
- ... the defeat of the British army. If Arnold had had enough troops on September 19th, 1777 he could have led the Americans to a quick decisive victory (Randall 354). Arnold helped stop British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne and his Army from destroying the Americans with overwhelming artillery firepower. The British realized that once the battle of Saratoga became a British victory, Burgoyne could finish his voyage to Albany and destroy or ... requesting a pass to Philadelphia for himself and his aides with the hope that he could join General Washington (Nelson 125,126) (Martin 387). The next morning, Gates sent Arnold a letter to present to John Hancock that would introduce him to Congress. In the letter, Gates said, "His reasons for asking to leave the Army at this time shall with my answers be transmitted to your Excellency." Arnold immediately wrote ... he himself was not entitled to an answer, as well as why Gates had not "at least... condescended to acquaint me with the Reasons which you have sent me a Letter to the Hon'ble John Hancock, Esq. which I have returned. If you have any letters for that Gentleman which you think Proper to Send Sealed, I will take charge of them." Later on the same day Gates answered ...
- 1217: Isabella I
- ... town of Madrigal de las Altas Torres on 22 April, 1453; and died 26 November, 1504, in the castle of La Mota, which still stands at Medina del Campo (Valladolid). She was the daughter of John II, King of Castile, by his second wife, Isabella of Portugal. Isabella married an arranged suitor, Ferdinand, in the palace of Juan de Vivero, in 1469. On the death of Henry IV, Isabellawas proclaimed Queen ... which she possessed a great number. Her Castilian has been ranked as a standard of the language by the Spanish Royal Academy. She was extemely concerned about for the education of her five children (Isabella, John, Joan, Maria, and Catherine), and in order to educate Prince John with ten other boys, she formed a school in her palace. Her daughters, too, attained to a degree of education higher than was usual at that time. This example of the queen, a model ...
- 1218: Stephen Vicent Benet: An American Poet
- ... and vast knowledge of his homeland: Benét, Stephen Vincent, (b. July 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pa., U.S. - d. March 13, 1943, New York, NY), American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War (Fenton). Born into a military family, Stephen was raised on military posts by his father, Colonel James Benét. “His father read poetry aloud ... received his master of arts degree, submitting his third volume of poems instead of a thesis” (Fenton). A Guggenheim fellowship took him to France, with his wife, the former Rosemary Carr. While there he wrote John Brown's Body (1928), which won (1929) a Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Hart 198). “Over 300 pages, the poem covers the Civil War from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., to peace at Appomattox” (198). The second Pulitzer was given posthumously in 1944, for Western Star (1943) , an unfinished narrative poem about movement to the American ...
- 1219: Howard Stern: The King of Mass Media or the Anti Christ?
- ... next. Stern knows this and will give the audience what they want to hear. On The Howard Stern show there is a bit that Stern does where he sends out one of his radio cohorts John Melendez (other wise known as Stuttering John). Yet another example of how Stern takes peoples misfortunes such as John’s speech impediment and make a national affair of the situation. Armed with a list of insulting personal, racist, sexist, or just to personal question John goes out with a cameraman and Stern tells ...
- 1220: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... the purpose of carrying out the Protestant reformation, and to base the Church of England on the foundation of the scriptures. Aside from a literal belief in the Bible, Puritans wholly accepted the doctrines of John Calvin and his stern legalistic theology. The Puritans held that religion should permeate every phase of living. The purpose of life was to do God's will; everything else was subordinate to this basic doctrine ... priorities of the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In contrast to the Pilgrims, they were well-off and well-educated men, many of whom were professionals and university men as was their first governor John Winthrop(Blair 9-10). The Puritans held that man was wholly vile, corrupt and prone to evil and could do no good without God's assistance. However, Puritans did not believe in celibacy but were ... Bradstreet was well educated. At age 16 she married Simon Bradstreet, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and steward of the Countess of Warwick. Two years later, the Bradstreets and Dudleys came to Massachusetts with John Winthrop and other prominent settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne's husband became a magistrate, and later a Governor as did her father. Soon after arriving in Massachusetts, Anne wrote: "I changed my ...
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