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- 1801: A Separate Peace
- A Separate Peace: by John Knowles During World War II in the struggle for peace among nations comes a smaller, but still significant struggle, in a prep school boy becoming a man and waking up to reality. In the book A Separate Peace, the author John Knowles, creates the image of two sixteen-year old boys struggling to keep what little sense of peace they know, even though there is a war going on all around them. Gene Forrester, the narrator ...
- 1802: Byron's Don Juan
- ... for being able to arouse the desires of women and to love every one he meets. This Don Juan can be viewed, however, as a loosely disguised biography of Byron. Lord Byron's father, Captain John, has ancestors that go back as far as the Buruns in the time of William the Conqueror. Back in this time it was very common for people to marry their own cousins. Captain John was married three times and was considered to be very smooth with the ladies. Byron was born on January 22, 1788 in London, and the following year he and his mother moved to Aberdeen, Scotland ...
- 1803: Port Phillip Prison
- ... self harm and/or suicide since the prison opened. The Port Phillip Prison has been built with intergral hanging points in 580 of their cells. Five people have died because of it. Correctional Services Commissioner, John van Gronigan has stated, after the fifth death in custody at Port Phillip, that he is "satisfied with the prison's management". The Government is claiming that because Muirhead Cells (strip cells) have no obvious ... what the prisoners did was stupid but the prisoners had no other way of showing their anger and frustration of the bad conditions they had to face. Group 4 have even contracted a private detective, John Barclay, Cobra Executive Protection, to undertake an "independent" investigation into the deaths of the first four men to die in custody at Port Phillip. But this is all pointless if they don’t change the ...
- 1804: Great Expectations And Oliver Twist
- ... to the poor. In order to conquer these evils, they must first be understood, and explaining the severity of these experiences seems to be a job which Charles Dickens is very good at. Bibliography Carey, John. Here Comes Dickens - The Imagination of a Novelist. New York: Schocken Books, 1974. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: The Heritage Club, 1939. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1949. Johnson ... York: Simon and Schuster, 1952) 273. 9 Dickens, Expectations 62. 10 Garrett Stewart, Dickens and the Trials of Imagination (Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1974) 187. 11 Marcus 74. 12 Marcus 80. 13 Marcus 83. 14 John Carey, Here Comes Dickens - The Imagination of a Novelist (New York: Schocken Books, 1974) 149. 15 Dickens, Expectations 71-72. 16 Alexander Welsh, The City of Dickens (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1971) 107-108. 17 Marcus ...
- 1805: Ben Franklin
- ... generally the main representative of the new United States in Europe. Though nearly 80 years old, he oversaw the dispatch of French armies and navies to North America, supplied American armies with French munitions, outfitted John Paul Jones and secured a succession of loans from the nearly bankrupt French treasury (#1). Though in his 80th year and suffering from painful bladder stones, he nonetheless accepted election for three years as president ... generally the main representative of the new United States in Europe. Though nearly 80 years old, he oversaw the dispatch of French armies and navies to North America, supplied American armies with French munitions, outfitted John Paul Jones and secured a succession of loans from the nearly bankrupt French treasury (#1). Though in his 80th year and suffering from painful bladder stones, he nonetheless accepted election for three years as president ...
- 1806: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Fall From Innocence
- ... not startling to the reader because of the authors use of foreshadowing and therefore it is effective. This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former Beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon ... Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have been any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and as a result of the fact that it was The Catcher in the Rye, a book describing a nervous breakdown, media speculated widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more ...
- 1807: Argumentative Environment
- ... 123) is destroying these ancestors' attempt to preserve nature, not allow "the green world" (Kunitz 123) to be turned into a "death-foxed page" (Kunitz 123) of barrenness. Some pro-environmentalists, like Sioux medicine man John (Fire) Lame Deer, claim that the damage industrialized society has done to nature is both immense and nearly criminal , the result of greed. Lame Deer complains that the white men "have not only despoiled the ... Boedecker. New York: Canfield Press, 1971. 122-123. This poem criticized the modern technological society for its insensitivity to the needs of others and to the survival of life as we know it. Lame Deer, John (Fire) and Richard Erdoes. "Talking to the Owls and Butterflies." Aims of Argument, 2nd Ed. Eds. Timothy Crusius and Carolyn Channell. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1998. 209-214. This essay is a critique of European ...
- 1808: Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review
- Famous Mathematicians: A Book Review Famous Mathematicians told the stories of several outstanding men and how they arrived at their theories. Euclid, Archimedes, Aryabhatta, Joseph Louis LaGrange, Carl Friederich Gauss, Evariste Galois, John von Neuman, and Norbert Wiener defined the creators of our complicated mathematical systems still used today. These impressive men were the patriarchs throughout the history of mathematics. Euclid was believed to be born, in Tyre ... aided with his study in the theory of groups. Galois' mathematical knowledge was not truly respected until 1870 when another mathematician, Jordan, republished his theories. This acknowledgement finally earned Galois' ideas the credit they deserved. John von Neumann was born on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary. He was one of the greatest mathematicians, however his findings were also important in other fields. His studies of poker and other games of ...
- 1809: Catch-22 & One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Black Humor; A Satirical View of the Institution
- ... and 64. NJ: Salem Press, 1991. 171-181, 206-215. Merrill, Robert. Joseph Heller. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987. Mish, Frederick. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Tenth edition. Springfield Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1995. Muste, John. “Joseph Heller.” In Contemporary Pratt, John. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Text and Criticism. New York, New York: Penguin Books, 1986.
- 1810: American Dream Of African Amer
- ... thing. They were both part of a group that formed the lost generation . Bibliography Jackson, Andrew. The Downfall of Society. New Jersey: Harper, 1990 Klock, Brian. On the Lost Generation. New Hampshire: Lancelot, 1992 Watson, John. Lost Generation New Hamisphire: Lancelot, 1980 Zigger, John A. World War I. Jul 6, 1995. www.historychannel.com
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