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- 331: Love In Hamlet
- ... through his actions. Polonius never approved of Ophelia's love for Hamlet. He didn't want to see his daughter get hurt by Hamlet. As a result, Polonius ordered Ophelia to give him the love letters that Hamlet wrote to her. He insisted that he knew what was going on between them. "Have you so slander any moment's leisure, and to give words or talk with the lord Hamlet. Look ... Ophelia let Polonius take advantage of her. Hamlet's actions hurt Ophelia in the same way that Ophelia hurt Hamlet, by telling her father everything about their relationship. As well as giving him the love letters Hamlet wrote. Ophelia was confused by Hamlet's actions and believed he was out of his mind. She couldn't understand why the man who loved her was acting the way he was. She thought ...
- 332: Critique of "The Invisible Man"
- ... his entire dreams unknowingly destroyed. The man with no name is instructed to go to work for the summer to earn money for the next semester, which he unknowingly will never see. He is given letters to deliver to different businessmen in order to get a job. These letters speak badly of him. Which he discovers when one of the secretaries shows him the letter. He then gets a job at a factory where they make paint. There he meets Mr. Brockway his boss ...
- 333: Greek Literature
- ... any other Indo-European language . Scholars have determined that the Greek alphabet was derived from the Phoenician alphabet. During the period from the 8th to the 5th century BC, local differences caused the forms of letters to vary from one city-state to another within Greece. From the 4th century BC on, however, the alphabet became uniform throughout the Greek world. CLASSICAL PERIOD There are four major periods of Greek literature ... Eastern monasticism; his brother Gregory of Nyssa (died 394), who wrote many works in which he combined Platonic philosophy with Christian teaching; and Gregory of Nazianzus (died 389), who is noted for his poems, sermons, letters, and writings on theological controversies. The writings of the historians, geographers, philosophers, scientists, and rhetoricians are read today largely as curiosities or as sources of historical information. A work such as 'Byzantine History', a 37 ...
- 334: The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"
- ... Major General, John Singlaub. Singlaub boasts WACL is the coordinating body for raising private aid for the Contras, a task support ed explicitly by the Reagan White House which has sent government officials and glowing letters of support to WACL meetings in recent years. WACL also serves as an umbrella for several Eastern European emigre groups founded and lead by Nazi collaborators, and there is far more. As the Anderson brothers ... was, among other things, ardently anti-Communist. Why are these lessons so hard to recall, and why do so many voices that still cry out against Nazi ideology remain silent when the Nazis themselves receive letters of praise from our President?
- 335: Florence Nightingale
- ... so impressive that she was elected to the membership in the statistical society of England. Karl Pearson acknowledged Nightingale as a prophetess in the development of applied statistic (Audain, 1). These statistics, along with her letters and notes convinced the military authorities, Parliament and Queen Victoria to carry out her proposed hospital reforms. Many of her statistical forms and diagrams are still in use today within the military and hospitals. Nightingale ... writing. Her book Notes on nursing: What it is and is Not, was published in 1859, was a success and widely read. She also produced over 150 monographs and books and wrote over 12,000 letters (Olsen, 2). One of her largest documents was privately printed, titled Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army. It was almost 1,000 pages and full of statistics ...
- 336: The Style and Influences of Lewis Carroll
- ... for instance, and start conversations based on tomfoolery, much like his stories. He then proceeded to exchange addresses with them, giving them his real name, Charles Dodgson. Then, after the initial meeting he would send letters from Lewis Carroll, saying that Charles Dodgson had asked him to write the child, and after a few such letters he would reveal that Carroll and Dodgson were the same person. He obtained hundreds of friends in this way; some wrote only on rare occasions, while others came to visit him frequently (13-20). Children ...
- 337: Carl Gauss
- ... a bricklayer. Despite the hard living conditions, Gauss's brilliance shone through at a young age. At the age of only two years, the young Carl gradually learned from his parents how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet. Carl then set to teaching himself how to read by sounding out the combinations of the letters. Around the time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he ...
- 338: Emerson 3
- ... roots. Finally, Emerson tackles the title topic of his lecture The American Scholar, the American scholar himself. Emerson found himself addressing the students at a time when he saw: the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters anymore. As men were separated to fulfill various necessary functions, the: scholar is the designated intellect. Emerson sees an ideal state of scholar being one where man is capable of original thinking and analyzing, not ...
- 339: Roger Rosenblatt's "The Bill of Rights": Inescapable Dilemma
- ... is this amendment morally correct? Modern man deals with dilemmas such as these with anguish and frustration. Modern man has found a way to try to solve his problems mostly through petitions, rallies, picketing, writing letters to Congressmen, etc. But would one expect to see Huckleberry Finn writing an angry letter to his Congressman? Would one see him picketing Jim's master's house in Hannibal because he didn't support ... not, and act on his decision be it legal or illegal. Huck proved that actions speak louder than words by ripping up his note to Miss Watson. Thus, modern man needs to rip up his letters to Congressmen, throw away his signs for picketing, and do what is morally correct; because that is the only way to cope with the inescapable dilemma of Democracy.
- 340: Ernest Hemingway 4
- ... March 14, 1946 he married Mary Walsh. He regarded the end of a marriage as a personal defeat (Rood 187). Hemingway had many kinds of figures. He was a craftsman dedicated to the art of letters who rarely wavered in his adherence to the highest standards of artistic probity. He also significantly influenced twentieth century writing on all levels through his pronouncements and the principles of professionalism which he introduced and ... Lesniak 19). Hemingway was awarded many awards, they included the Pulitzer prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea in 1953, the Noble Prize in 1954 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in 1954 (Rood 187). On July 2, 1961, Hemingway was found dead with self inflicted wounds at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (Rood 188). A great lose for all literature lovers and ...
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