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- 351: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... achieving her Ph.D. on a Fellowship for the Rosenwald Foundation. Zora's efforts in obtaining her Ph.D. were lacking. Her education received a boost in 1939 when she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Morgan State College (Hurston 204). This was the pinnacle and end of her academic achievements. Zora Hurston's career was one of storytelling and teaching. Zora used her talents to create "realistic black ... not willing to give of their prestigious careers. Hence, the marriage only lasted eight months, ending in a divorce in 1931 (Lyons 62). However, Zora and Sheen remained life long friends and continued to write letters and back forth where Zora once wrote him, "Your own mother has never loved you to the depth I have, Herbert."(Lyons 62) In March of 1937, while writing Their Eyes Were Watching God, she ...
- 352: Ralph Ellisons Life
- ... his long awaited second novel, on which he had been working every day, was said to be nearly complete. Among Ellisons several awards are a fellowship to the National American Academy of Arts and Letters in Rome (1955-1957). He was also elected vice president of the American P.E.N. (1964) and vice president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1967). He also received the Medal of Freedom (1969) and the Chevalier de lOrdre des Artes of Lettres (1970). Ellison received in 1985 National Medal of Arts for Invisible Man and for his numerous ...
- 353: A Lesson From Oliver
- ... clock. Through the smoky, plexiglass haze of the news-booth window I detected a thinly disguised smirk pasted over the hills and dales of Coffey's pudgy cheeks. As I ended with the traditional call-letters-into-an- uptempo-adult-contemporary the booth door opened behind me and I heard that familiar Coffey resonance: "Good work, Dave. I'll make a newsHOUND out of you yet." That was all. As he ... through the consonants like a scow at low- tide, it may be kindly stated that Linus always fell well short of his goal. He never seemed to connect his habitual pronunciation of the station call- letters as "C-Jar-Ahr-S", with his inability to move ahead in the corporate structure. But at least it may be said of Linus he was a man of patience. He stuck it out another ...
- 354: Descriptive Essay of My Watch
- ... is a 1cm in width gold strip. The gold looks as bright as a gold chalice from my local church. The clasp is a hard silvery gray such as that which borders the straps. The letters 'SEIKO' are clearly placed on the clasp in raised lettering. The clasp looks 3cm long when in the closed position, but when opened it extends to 11cm as two more 4cm metal pieces open outward ... side, there is a 1/2cm x 1/5cm sized box. This box is then further separated in two parts. 2/3s of the box is devoted towards showing the current day's first 3 letters, now showing a THU for Thursday. The remaining space of the box is set aside for the date of the month. In this box the number 14 is shown. Both, the day and the date ...
- 355: Francois Viete
- ... It also contains a systematic collection of trigonometric formulas. There were many misprints, and misunderstandings with the editor. The volume was not included in the collected books. His most significant contributions were in algebra. The letters had been used to describe the unknown quantity by early writers. He was first to use letters for parameters or constant coefficients in an equation (Hartshorne 4). Francois Viete died in Paris on February 23, 1603 (Hartshorne 4). Francois Viete is one interesting person. Without him in the world a lot of ...
- 356: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... naval bases there. Only away for two months, he returned to New York with double Pneumonia. While Franklin was ill, Eleanor was putting away some of his things. Among them, she found a bundle of letters. Right away she knew who they were from, and could tell that they were love letters. They were from her friend and social secretary, Lucy Mercer.After finding the letter's, Eleanor knew things would never be the same. She offered Franklin with the option of divorce, but they decided to ...
- 357: Cyrano de Bergerac
- ... Jaloux. Christian has the looks, but no creativity, and since Cyrano has the creativity and not the looks, he decides to love Roxane through Christian. He supplies Christian with the words to say and the letters to send to Roxane, and she never knows. Cyrano gets so caught up in the game that he forgets that it is Christian, and not him, who is winning Roxane. When the Gascons are sent ... safe when they go off to war, and Two, to make sure he writes her every day. Because of his love for Roxane, Cyrano risks his life daily to cross the enemy lines to send letters to her. After Christian dies on the front, he continues to visit Roxane in a convent, until the day that an enemy drops a log on his head. He dies at the convent with her ...
- 358: Creative Writing: Down and Out
- ... a corkscrew and finishes making supper. Richards grabs the first bottle and pops out the cork. He pulls out what seems to be a letter written by hand . Considering the conditions of the bottles the letters are still white, except for the contrasting black ink. He sets this letter to the side and opens up another bottle. He takes out another letter and sets it to the side. This process continues ... What do you make of these?" asks Richard. "I'm not sure what to make of them. I guess we will have to read them first," replies Chester. The two men begin to read the letters. What they learn is astonishing. As they read more they eyes open wider and wider. Martha eventually joins them and reads them out loud, starting at the first. Day 1 Coordinates 43'N 67'W ...
- 359: Civil War Journal
- ... do know he is fighting a battle himself, one he may not be so lucky with as we were, today. -Jonathan Dear Journal, October 4, 1863 It is cold out. I already received about 10 letters from my family. There must be more, but they might not have come yet. Every time we are at a site for longer than a day, I write to everyone. We are staying at a ... left for fear of the Union occupation. They went to Texas I think. That is what the Donovans' said. I figured they either died or they would move because of the of the lack of letters I had. It feels as if they had forgotten about me. I didn't fathom that this would happen, even Soo forgot about her Pa, but she did. They left and they did not care ...
- 360: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... was occupied with her first novel, "The Road Through the Wall." But it was in 1948 that her greatest success was achieved. The publication of the short story, "The Lottery", brought fame, as well as letters from readers all over the country. But more often there were abusive letters from people who did not understand her motives or what she was trying to do. A year later a book entitled, "The Lottery", was published containing an assortment of short stories including "The Lottery." The ...
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