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- 4831: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is traditionally held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, Shakespeare would of taken over his father's business, but according to one account, he became a butcher because of reverses ...
- 4832: Virginia Woolf
- ... accepting the rules. Woolf wants to show them that the are being held back. She does this by telling them what Napoleon once thought of them and what Mussolini thinks now. She even quotes Mr. John Langdon Davis who warned women "that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary (742)." She even calls them "disgracefully ignorant," and reminds them that they have never led an ...
- 4833: Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway
- ... Spain-members of the "lost generation", a phrase made famous by Hemingway himself. In post-war years, Hemingway spent most of his time writing books. But, when his first marriage failed, and produced a son, John, he had married Pauline Pfeiffer, who had his next 2 children. Based in Paris, he had travelled for skiing, bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had become what most of his work was all ...
- 4834: Charles Dickens
- Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in Ports Mouth, Hampshire. In his infancy his family moved to Chatham, where he spent his happiest years and often refers to this time in his novels (1817 ...
- 4835: William Faulkner
- ... The theme of this particular story is Ike maturing and following his southern traditions. He grew up to become an excellent hunter that showed respect for his fellow hunters as well as the wilderness. As John Lyndenberg wrote, The hunters from Jefferson are gentlemen and sportsmen, representing the ideals of the old order at its best, the honor,dignity, and courage of the South (Lyndenberg 385). As hard as it may ...
- 4836: Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison
- ... the seventh President, Andrew Jackson, in 1828 is said to be the first modern election of our time. It was the first election where the personalities of each candidate were the issues. Mr. Jackson attacked John Adam's as "not a man of democracy" and an aristocrat. Adams attacked Jackson calling him a drunkard and pointed out that Jackson lived with his wife two years before he married her. Despite this ...
- 4837: Sir Sandford Fleming
- ... of the successor Northern Ry in 1857. In 1863 the Canadian government appointed him chief surveyor of the first portion of a portion of a proposed railway from Queb ec City to Halifax and Saint John. Subsequently built as the Intercoloni al railway. Fleming was its chief engineer. In 1871 he was appoint ed engineer of the proposed new Canadian railway from Montreal to th e Pacific Coast. He was in ...
- 4838: The Henchmen: German Government Officials in WWII
- ... he swallowed a bottle of poison. Bibliography 1. Bradsher, Keith Fascism and the Jews The New York Times, June 6, 1993, p.58 2. Bullock, Alan Hitler: A Study in Tyranny Harper, 1962 3. Devaney, John Hitler: Mad Dictator of World War II New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978 4. Holborn, Hajo Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution New York: Pantheon Books, 1972 5. Marrin, Albert ...
- 4839: The Boston Massacre
- ... people become radicals. It was really an accident and the radicals tried to use propaganda and turn something small into something big. The British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been ...
- 4840: Notes on Emily Murphy
- ... a woman to the senate. Many other women's organizations soon followed suit, including the powerful National Council of Women. - (p. 143) In January 1921 the Montreal Women's Club, under the leadership of Mrs. John Scott, abandoned the vague request for appointment of "a woman" and asked Prime Minister Arthur Meighen point-blank to name Mrs. Emily Murphy to the senate as soon as there should be a vacancy. Mr ...
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