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- 1211: Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell
- ... mystic. This work can be interpreted on many levels, according to one source the “literal, allegorical, moral, and mystical”1. It's meaning varies upon the reader, one person may see a beautiful piece of literature, while another may see a frightening glimpse into their future. Some may denounce The Divine Comedy as heresy, while others still may embrace it and welcome it's lessons into their lives. It is a ...
- 1212: The Life and Work of Chaim Potok
- ... 17, 1929, in New York, New York to Benjamin and Mollie Potok. The first university he went to was Yeshiva University where he graduated in 1950 with a B.A., summa cum laude, in English Literature. He also went to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America where he left with an M.H.L. and a rabbinic ordination in 1954. Finally, he graduated the University of Pennsylvania with a doctorate in ...
- 1213: Robert Penn Warren
- ... of the murder into a long dramatic poem, which was to emerge at last in 1953 as Brother to Dragons: A Tale in verse and Voices, one of the most distinctive long poems in American literature. Warren's marriage to Eleanor and the births of their two children, Rosanna and Gabriel, brought new life into his writing. After the Pulitzer Prize- winning Promises: Poems 1954-1956, dedicated to his children, Warren ...
- 1214: The Cause For The Great Migrations
- ... water; if the feet or hands showed no severe burns, the accused was declared innocent. All these practices influenced the development of medieval law and government. Culturally the Germans had little use of writing their literature was preserved by oral transmission. They favored poetry and the earliest surviving examples of poetry wasn’t written down until the ninth century, but they still provide an authentic reflection of German culture, testifying to ...
- 1215: The Black Death In Europe
- ... Both writers display this very well. Works Cited List 1. Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. Ed. Louis Landa. London: Oxford University Press, 298. 2. Drable, Margaret. “Boccaccio.” The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drable. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 113. 3. Drable, Margaret. “The Decameron.” Drable, 260 4. Fenton, James. “The Disease of All Diseases.” The New York Review of Books 1 December 1994: 48. 5. Viault ...
- 1216: The Zhou Dynasty
- ... on the Zhou dynasty also. During this period in time, philosophers such as Confucius and Mo Zi brought about many beliefs and ways of thinking. Confucius developed the Five Noble Truths and the Golden Rule. Literature and historiography made many great advances. 7 (See Appendix D2, E4) One of the reasons why the kingdom was weakened so severely was because of its population. The Zhou simply did not have enough people ...
- 1217: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb And Its Use
- ... atomic bomb, and he appeals to the world to abolish nuclear weapons now. Kenzaburo Ohe also strongly opposes the atomic bomb. He is a very famous writer, who has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature, so this book Hiroshima Note, which I refer to, is also famous in the world. In this book, he writes about his feeling when he visited Hiroshima. He met those who fought against the aftereffect ...
- 1218: The Renaissance and the Church
- ... in 1300s, was one of the largest periods of growth and development in Western Europe. The increase in trade caused a abundance in wealth that resulted in the focusing of the arts. Such things as literature, paintings, sculptures and many more works are known to have blossomed from the period known as the Renaissance. Many other important occurrences , such as the Reformation and split of the Roman Catholic Church caused by ...
- 1219: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- ... atomic bomb, and he appeals to the world to abolish nuclear weapons now. Kenzaburo Ohe also strongly opposes the atomic bomb. He is a very famous writer, who has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature, so this book Hiroshima Note, which I refer to, is also famous in the world. In this book, he writes about his feeling when he visited Hiroshima. He met those who fought against the aftereffect ...
- 1220: The Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- ... keep an account of the past in order to truly understand who we are today. The old saying, "history repeats itself," has a great deal of truth to it. The development of agriculture, architecture, and literature are just a few areas in which history has indeed repeated itself in different times, in different lands, but often from similar causes and with similar consequences. However, sometimes history's repetition takes on an ...
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