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- 4821: Stephen King: The King of Terror
- ... own vision and imagination. King's 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 ...
- 4822: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... to truths being in and out of favor. There it is. One couldn't say half so much if one were tragic. Copyright © 1951 by Mark Van Doren. Permission to reproduce granted by Charles and John Van Doren, executors. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; June, 1951; "Robert Frost's America"; Volume 187, No. 6; pages 32-34.
- 4823: Robert E. Lee
- ... These usually involved dull service such as a seat on a court-martial. However, there was one such duty that proved to be much more important. In October of 1859 he was sent to quell John Brown's bloody raid at Harpers Ferry (Grimsley). In the nations capital, setting just below Arlington, there were heated debates over states' rights union verses disunion, and slavery. All the salons of Congress and in ...
- 4824: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- ... Swift's critics go even farther than misanthropy, accusing him of sadism. He is accused by some of actually enjoying the pain he inflicts on his readers through his thick satire (Knowles 34). British poet John Gay was bothered greatly by Swift's work, and went so far as to beg Swift to take mercy on his readers, claiming that his writings are much too hard on human beings (Bloom, Gulliver ...
- 4825: Ray Bradbury
- ... in 1962, and his teleplay of The Halloween Tree won an Emmy. Also he has written for such T.V. shows: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Twilight Zone and in 1953 did a screenplay for John Haston's Moby Dick. Ray Bradbury's writing has been honored in many ways, but perhaps the most unusual was when an Apollo astronaut named the Dandelion Crater on the Moon after Bradbury's novel ...
- 4826: Alfred Nobel
- ... practical use in construction work. He also realized that the safety problems had to be solved and a method had to be developed for the controlled detonation of nitroglycerin. In the United States he visited John Ericsson, the Swedish- American engineer who had developed the screw propeller for ships. In 1852, Alfred Nobel was asked to come back and work in the family enterprise which was booming because of its deliveries ...
- 4827: Rudyard Kipling
- ... won the Nobel prize in literature in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterized his writings. Death of both his children, Josephine and John, deeply affected his life. Both these incidents left a profound impression on his life, which his works published in the subsequent years after their deaths displays. Between 1919 and 1932 he traveled intermittently, and continued ...
- 4828: Charles Manson
- ... promise of revenge from the Black Panthers. Scared, Manson ordered his followers to practice guerrilla tactics and they did so, without question. Manson sad he taught love because in love there is no hatred, but John Flynn, a man who testified at his trial, testified to some very incriminating admissions by Manson. Barbara Holt, a "Family" member, fled the group before a raid. She later showed up as a prosecution witness ...
- 4829: Malcolm X
- ... The AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (dictated to Alex Haley, 1965) publicized Malcolm's ideas and became something of a classic in contemporary American literature. Bibliography Breitman, George. The Last Year of Malcolm X (1967). Clarke, John H. ed., Malcolm X (1969). Goldman, Peter. The Death and Life of Malcolm X (1973). Malcolm X, Malcolm X: The Last Speeches, ed. by Bruce Perry (1989). Wolfenstein, E. V., The Victims of Democracy (1981 ...
- 4830: Rutherford Hayes
- ... 35 lynchings, 262 black men and women were severely beaten, and over 100 homes were burned . To Hayes benefit, most people believed that he truly didn t foresee what would happen with his policy. Professor John W. Burgess noted Hayes "greatest struggle which he had with himself ... was the question whether he was deserting the just cause of the black man and delivering him back to servitude" . There were actually mixed ...
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