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- 4781: Martin Luther King Jr. 4
- ... and his dreams for social change, are intertwined with the American experience. Martin Luther King s influence on the history of American makes him the most influential person of the twentieth century. Works Cited Ansbro, John. Martin Luther King, Jr. : The Making of a Mind. New York: Orbis Books (1994) 231, 232.
- 4782: Pope Paul III: The Sixteenth Century Miracle
- ... the direction of a long- demanded reform. (729) Works Cited Bayer, Franz Joseph. Book of The Popes. Boston: Crossway Books, 1970. Brusher, Joseph. Popes Through The Ages. New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Co. Inc., 1965. John, Eric. The Popes. New York: Hawthorn Books Inc.,1964. Ranke, Von. History of The Popes Volume I. New York: Warner Books, 1975.
- 4783: Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality
- ... who was doing what was morally right, not for the fame that would eventually accompany it. In fact, he didn't 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 ...
- 4784: Jonathan Edwards
- ... Edwards delivered his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". It was given at Enfield, Massachusetts. His methods in this sermon are said to have been influenced by the English philosopher John Locke. Locke believed that everything we know comes from experience. He emphasized that understanding and feeling were two distinct kinds of knowledge. Although Edwards read his sermon in a calm and straightforward manner, it had ...
- 4785: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... 1977); Pritchard, William H., Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered (1984); Thompson, Lawrance, Robert Frost, 3 vols. (1966-76); Thompson, L., and Winnick, R.H., Robert Frost: A Biography, ed. by E.C. Lathem (1981); Walsh, John Evangelist, Into My Own: The English Years of Robert Frost, 1912-1915 (1988).
- 4786: Similarities of Bradstreet and Wheatly
- ... brought up as a puritan, she had puritan religious beliefs, which were exposed in her poems. In her poems, Bradstreet used a literary device called inversion. These poems were discovered by her brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, who published them without her knowing. Phyllis Wheatly may have lived a very short life, but her accomplishments are still appreciated today. She was a slave brought over from Africa, at a young age ...
- 4787: Michael Jordan: King Of The Court
- ... with just seventeen seconds left in the game. This amazing basket is often referred to as The Shot . Later on in his years at UNC Michael captured both the Dr. James Naismith Award and the John Wooden Award in 1984. He was also named the NCAA College Player of the Year in 1983 and 1984. With Michael too anxious about turning professional, he decided to skip his senior year at the ...
- 4788: Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
- ... was made by Paul Revere and two others that were from Boston. At ten o'clock p.m. Paul received instructions from Dr. Joseph Warren, for him to go to Lexington to tell and warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams about the British coming. He had to ride his horse to Lexington and Concord to warn the American patriots and the colonists. Revere was captured and detained en route, but another ...
- 4789: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... working with Naval Intelligence. Soon, he was full- time assistant to the director, taking the rank of Lieutenant, and later Commander. Fleming became the right-hand man to one of Britain's top spymasters, Admiral John Godfrey. During the last year of the war, Fleming traveled to Jamaica for a Naval conference. The trip, though brief, revealed the lush island to Fleming. Here there was no war, no rationing, no food ...
- 4790: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... of Arthur", "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". Since Tennyson was always sensitive to criticism, The bad reviews of his 1832 poems hurt him greatly. Critics in those days took great joy in the harshness of their reviews. John Wilson Croker's harsh criticisms of some of the poems he wrote kept Tennyson from publishing again for another nine years. The success of his 1842 poems made Tennyson a popular poet, and in 1845 ...
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