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- 1121: The Period of Ramses II
- ... temples and the schools were a large part of their religion. The schools in the temples contained “books on ethics and the literary works which the young scribes might well need, as well as technical literature” (Hornung 107). In the temples there was “economic and intellectual activity…[and] was the setting for the birth and development of the plays whose legendary themes gave Egypt its drama and its comedy” (Montet 299 ...
- 1122: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... available in his father's library, it is probable that he had read some of their works before he went to secondary school (1941), the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled only in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron, to ...
- 1123: Stephen King
- ... Gloria Taylor, a literary critic, said, "For years, I’ve been saying that Stephen King is much more than just a horror writer. And I believe he has not been given credit for taking American Literature and stretching its wings. "Bag of Bones," proves me right ( Website for King Fans)." The next stylistic quality is that of the bizarre twists and turns the plot makes throughout the course of any novel ...
- 1124: Ray Bradbury
- ... Fahrenheit 451, was released in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the books, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy. Ray Bradbury's work has been included in the Best American Short Story collections (1946, 1948, and 1952). He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award in 1954 ...
- 1125: Who the Book is About: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa and continued to write novels, plays, and travel books, but it was more than 150 stories for children that established him as one of the great figures of world literature. Hans Christian Andersen died April 4, 1875. We did not only lose a good man, but a great storyteller, author, novelist, playwright, and hero. 1. The subject of the book is worthy of being written ...
- 1126: Mikhail Lermontov
- ... idea of domination of the world by proletariat (Communist Manifesto by Marx). Following all this it is impossible for the contemporary writers not to include some of the elements of history into their work of literature. In the following the trait of history will be examined in the book by Mikhail Lermontov “The Hero of Our Time.” The book begins with story of a Muslim girl Bella being kidnapped from a ...
- 1127: Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile
- ... Egypt, close to both the Mediterranean Sea, and the vassal states of the Levant. Like all well-born Egyptians, the young Ramses learned to read and write and received instruction in the nation’s theology, literature, and history. Careful attention was paid to his physical development too. Pharaohs were expected to excel in the military skills of chariotry and archery. Ramses was still only in his midteens when his father, with ...
- 1128: Bill Gates
- ... a hand full of young students. Bill Gates and a few other Lakeside students immediately became inseparable from the computer. They would stay in the computer room all day and night, writing programs, reading computer literature and anything else they could to learn about computing. Soon Gates and the others started running into problems with the faculty. Their homework was being turned in late, they were skipping classes to be in ...
- 1129: Agatha Christie
- ... cells," his special ability to focus on every little clue, and his heavy reliance on intuition, that have let Christie "establish her character as the antithesis of Sherlock Holmes in the annals of English detective literature" (C.L.C., Vol. 8, p. 140). There are many who see similarities in Holme's and Poirot's methods. However, critic Julian Symons, along with several others feel that "in the best Christie stories ...
- 1130: B.F. Skinner and His Influence in Psychology
- ... awaited him if he ever turned out to be a criminal. Overall Skinner had a good and happy childhood. College Life After graduating high school, Skinner went to Hamilton College where he majored in English Literature and minored in Romance Languages. He was drawn toward English when he was in high school by one of his teachers named Miss Graves. She also was responsible for his enjoyment of art and sculpting ...
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