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- 141: Cicero
- ... near Caieta on December 7. His head and hands were displayed on the rostra, the speakers' platform at the Forum, at Rome. From Cicero's correspondence between 67 and July 43 BC more than 900 letters survive, and, of the 835 written by Cicero himself, 416 were addressed to his friend, financial adviser, and publisher, Titus Pomponius Atticus, and 419 to one or other of some 94 different friends, acquaintances, and relatives. The number constitutes only a small portion of the letters that Cicero wrote and received. Many letters were suppressed for political reasons after Cicero's death. Cicero made his reputation as an orator in politics and in the law courts, where he preferred appearing for the defense and generally spoke last ...
- 142: Van Gogh
- ... deeply that art alone made his life worth living. We know a good deal about his inner life as a result of a massive, stirring and deeply moving autobiography in the form of hundreds of letters written to his brother Theo. The letters he sent to his brother include many eloquent descriptions of his choice of hues and the emotional meaning he attached to them. In one of his letters to Theo he wrote the following: I do not intend to spare myself, nor to avoid emotions or difficulties - I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time...The world ...
- 143: Cyrano De Bergerac 2
- ... with Roxane, Christian sets out on a mission and dies. Cyrano never gets to tell her that it is really him that she has fallen in love with and it was he who wrote the letters because their conversation was interrupted when Christian is brought back dead. Not telling Roxane that it was him and not proclaiming his love to her then was Cyrano's tragic flaw and he suffered tremendously ... He is a hero because he helps many people including the baker and Christian. He helps the baker fight one hundred men in order to get into his house and he helps Christian by writing letters to Roxane and talking to Roxane for him. Cyrano also takes very little credit for the deeds he has done and this is another thing that makes him a hero. "I Know that it will ... In the end, because of this letter, the play ends up not being a tragedy. Cyrano begins to read this letter before he dies and Roxane figures out that it was he who wrote the letters and he she had spoken to that night on the balcony even thought Cyrano still denies it and his love for her.
- 144: Blaise Pascal
- ... was to lead to the binomial theorem discovery by Newton for fractional and negative powers. Along with the help of Fermat they achieved the foundation for the theory of probability. This collective effort obtained five letters and occurred in the summer of 1654. They considered the dice problem, and the problem of points, both of which were considered by Cardan, Pacioli, and Tartaglia. The dice problem raised the question of how ... Christianity. It was then that Pascal made visits to the Jansenist monastery Port-Royal des Champs which was 30 km south west of Paris. He then began publishing anonymous works on religious topics, eighteen Provincial Letters during 1656 and 1657. These writings were written for the defense of his friend Antoine Arnauld who was an open opponent to the Jesuits and a fellow defender of Jansenism. At the time Arnauld was ... challenge of his own. Wren challenged Pascal, Fermat, and Roberval to find the arc length and the length of the arch of the cycloid. Pascal published his own solutions to his own problems in the Letters to Carcavi. This seemed to be his last great interest in science. He spent his last years giving to the poor and attending church in Paris one service after another. He died at the ...
- 145: Dueling
- ... nothing wrong with the letter then the person would reply by either explaining the problem or saying that he had not done anything (Seitz 36-37). There are two things that could happen after the letters had been sent back and forth. The first thing that could happen is that the person could refuse to duel. At this point the second would challenge the man to a duel. If the person ... IN JUSTICE TO MY CHARACTER I DENOUNCE TO THE WORLD JOHN RANDOLF, A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, AS A PREVARICATING, BASE, CALUMINATING SCOUNDREL, POLTROON AND COWARD"(Cochran 20). The other option that would happen after sending letters would to actually fight the duel. The second would make all of the arrangements when the challenge was accepted. Of these duties he would be in charge of arranging the time of day in which ... a spiraling downfall. Laws were established and enforced now and would end what our forefathers called the duel. It was written that Alexander Moseley of Virginia was arrested and heavily fined for the pre-duel letters written. This act was enough to keep some from dueling but not all. Dueling became so rare though and laws toughened that the formal duel jus t died out (Williams 77-83). An unknown ...
- 146: Color Purple
- The book The Color Purple was written by Alice Walker. The book was not written in a conventional manner. It was a series of letters spanning the life of Celie, the main character. Most of the letters were written by Celie and some by her sister Nettie. The theme of the book is to be true to yourself in spite of difficulties and never let go of what you believe in. Do ... love. Shug Avery encourages Celie not to take the abuse from her husband anymore and that she deserves better. Celie would finally leave her husband when she found out that he kept her sisters letters from her. Nettie was the sole reason why Celie had managed to survive. Celie could not tolerate any more abuse and left with Shug Avery and Mary Agnes. Mary Agnes was Celies stepson ...
- 147: Michelangelo Buonarroti
- ... paint the ceiling without any experience in fresco painting. Michelangelo needed to be persuaded by the Pope to paint the ceiling because he really did not want anything to do with the ceiling. Forty two letters were found which were written by Michelangelo during the four years in which he painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In his letters he does not mention anything about the artistic details , but rather writes about the monetary aspects. Pope Julius II withheld money from Michelangelo. Michelangelo justified it by saying in a letter to his father that his work did not deserve payment. In his letters he mentions that he has no friends and does not wish to have any. Michelangelo surveyed his boyhood friend Francesco Granacci and four other fresco painters from Florence to help him paint the Sistine ...
- 148: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... all by the age of 42, at which time he became the youngest man ever to hold the office of President. * He was one of the original members of the American Institute of Arts and Letters, and he was one of the first fifteen elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was a founder of the Boone and Crocket Club, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and the Long Island Bird Club. He also established himself as a historian (he was President of the American ... a remarkable number of books (often one a day), write more than thirty-five himself, and develop an extraordinary network of friends and contacts, which he maintained mostly by mail, writing well over 150,000 letters. Theodore Roosevelt Presidential achievements are impressive. In foreign affairs he led us into the arena of international power politics, thrusting aside the American tradition of isolationism, while on the domestic scene, he reversed the ...
- 149: "The Big, the Good, the Ugly"
- ... Both men had to try to impress the woman that they were trying to get by flattering her with their words and not really by their actions. Cyrano used Christian by writing all of his letters. Cyrano was able to get all of his feelings out for Roxanne and she did not know that Christian was not writing the letters. C.D. also used Chris by getting closer to Roxanne by writing letters when she went back to Arizona. Both men got caught by their love during the ends of the play and movie. Cyrano could have told Roxanne the truth earlier, but did not because he ...
- 150: Carson Mccullers The Heart Is
- ... her friends in New York, but none her family in the south knew. In 1943, Reeves was sent to the European front, and he wrote to Carson and begged for her forgiveness. The two exchanged letters throughout his stay and they remarried in 1945. They bought a house together in Paris. However, their life was chaotic and Carson soon left him again and then moved back to the states. Reeves committed ... his friend whenever he can get the time off, and brings him expensive gifts. Perhaps Singer knows in his heart that the gifts are what makes his friend love him. He even writes his friend letters, but Singer must realize that Antonopoulos can't quite understand these, since he never delivers them. In fact, Antonopoulos is a very simple character; all he is concerned with is food, and, on occasion, moving ... them in the deaf-mute. Yet when any of these characters are talking to anyone else, they feel isolated, since no one is really listening or understanding. They'd do just as well to write letters to no one, as Singer does to Antonopoulos, but somehow, that doesn't have the same effect as talking face to face with a human, even one who won't or can't even ...
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