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- 4311: Thomas Jefferson
- ... who was doing what was morally right, not for the fame that would eventually accompany it. In fact, he didnt want to write the Declaration to begin with. In 1776, the song "Not Me, John" shows how Jefferson was pushed into doing it, despite the fact that he would have actually rather gone home to see his wife. When nobody else would do it, he acquiesced and agreed to write ...
- 4312: Stephen King
- ... own vision and imagination. Kings writings are so widely appealing that over 42 of his works have been based upon or turned into Hollywood movies which have included stars like Jack Nicholson (The Shining), John Travolta (Carrie), and Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption). Works Cited Beaham , George . Stephen King Companion , The . Kansas City : Universal Press Syndicate Company , 1995 . Beaham , George . Stephen King Story, The : A Literary Profile . Kansas City : Universal ...
- 4313: Spirit Of The Game
- ... team, Charlie Conacher, Murray Armstrong, Buzz Bowl, and Busher Jackson of the Toronto Maple Leafs who brang home 3 Stanley cups together.In the 1940s the hockey world was mesmerized be the presence of Ted Kennedy.The 1950-1960s were dominated by the Red Wings Team.The 1960s in the NHL were full of thrills with the help of Gordie Howe.The 1970s were Bobby Hulls years.The 1980s were ...
- 4314: Thomas Hobbes
- ... and without government, we would be living in this state of nature. Hobbes ideas that people should decide how they should be ruled set the stage for the "social contract" proposed some years later by John Locke. Society makes a kind of contract with itself to give power to a ruling body. In "Leviathan" Hobbes also said that nations are like people in that they are selfishly motivated, and that every ...
- 4315: Sacred Hoops
- ... However important or powerful we may think this role is, it is not the individual role, which has the power. It is suggested that the power emulates from this countries citizens. Furthermore, Jackson's friend John Paxson, found a Chinese fable in a Harvard Business Review, which described that inherent power and strength is found in the "spokes of the wheel and not necessarily the wheel itself". The fable goes on ...
- 4316: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- ... and TJ Avery are fairly minor people in the book, their characters are used to inforce and strengthen the themes of the novel. We first meet TJ Avery when Cassie, Stacey, Little Man and Christopher-John are walking to school. Right from the very start we find out that none of them actually likes TJ, except for Stacey. The reader sees that he is a liar, a cheat and a coward ...
- 4317: Robert Frost - Use Of Everyday Items In His Poetry
- ... times." (Bloom p.14) "Later in life Frost toured Europe, the Middle East, and South America as a cultural emissary and a personage." (Myers p.24) Frost was chosen in 1961 to read at President Kennedy's inauguration, he read "The Gift Outright". Frost died on January 29,1963, just 2 years after reading at the president's inauguration. He was said to be the most famous American poet and also ...
- 4318: The Boston Tea Party
- ... tomahawk or an ax, headed for the Dartmouth in the Boston Harbor. Before midnight they had split open and dumped 342 chests of teaworthl8,000poundsintotheBostonHarbor. Noothercargowasdamaged (The Coming of the Revolution). On December 17, 1773, John Adams wrote in his diary: "Last Night 3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into the Sea... This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity in this ...
- 4319: Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
- ... which expresses how the realization of divine love within oneself has the power to heal pain and suffering. Works Cited Gardner, Martlin. The annotated Ancient Mariner. New York: 1965, 1-33,169-190. Harding, Anthony John. Coleridge and the Inspired Word. Mcgill-Queens University Press: 1985. 48, 146. Piper, H.W. The singing of Mount Abora: Coleridges Use of Biblical Imagery and Natual Aymbolism in Poetry and Philosophy. Associated University ...
- 4320: Ride Of The Second Horseman
- ... that war is nothing more then an unnecessary way to confront issues that could easily be solved other wise. This is why Egypt becomes one of the Old World strongest centers. As the book says John Muller put forth the audacious proposition not only that was war obsolete but that it was finished simple because most people had come to find it repulsive and uncivilized. "Like dueling and slavery, war does ...
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