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- 781: Woman of the Year: 1953-Queen Elizabeth II
- ... of the Year. She had practical intelligence since she was a kid and she respected peoples opinions. Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21, 1926 at the London home of her mother's parents, Lord and Lady Strathmore. She was baptized at Buckingham Palace and named Elizabeth Alexandra Mary five weeks later. Elizabeth's father was Albert, the Duke of York. He was the second son of King George V ... was a member of the Scottish aristocracy. Her sister Margaret Rose was born on August 21, 1930, when she was 4 years old in Glamis Castle. Her grandparents were George V and Queen Mary, and Lord and Lady Strathmore. Elizabeth and her sister were homed schooled. She was taught by Miss Marion Crawford, a young Scottish woman. At the age of 5, she usually woke up at 6 a.m. and ...
- 782: Cow Lore
- ... river... and will dye the moon white!" He held up his large tankard of ale to the ceiling. "We will show our true selves to The Great One In The Sky... we will show our Lord, the mighty Black Angus, that we are worthy of him! To YOU, my Lord!" Mike lowered his arm and swilled the remainder of the ale. With the backward tossing of his head causing unconsciousness, Mike lost his balance and fell backwards, crashing down heavily onto a nearby table, cracking ...
- 783: A Man For All Seasons (A Man Cannot Serve Two Masters)
- ... do you sir?"(Bolt, 61-62). Now, Sir Thomas More, through out the play tries to balance his life between God and King. More as he obeys God and King prays for his King, "Dear Lord give us rest tonight, or if we must be wakeful, cheerful. Careful only for our soul's salvation. For Christ sake. Amen. And bless our lord the King."(Bolt, 8). To continue his service for both God and King, More is willing to sacrifice everything if it will allow him to serve both; "There is my right arm. (A practical position ...
- 784: Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
- ... valley of ashes sits a rather large billboard with the sightless eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. George Wilson, Myrtle's Husband, identifies the eyes to that of God. As stated in the Bible, "The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (Samuel) yet nothing is done when "God's" eyes see all the immorality and garbage during the "ballyhoo" years. After the death of Myrtle, George realizes that these eyes in fact ...
- 785: Imagination 2
- ... imagination empowers humans.^1 It allows people to speculate or to see into the future. It allows artists to create, inventors to invent, and even scientists and mathematicians to solve problems. J.R. Tolken wrote Lord of the Rings by sitting in his backyard and imagining everything coming to life.^2 He thought about all the what if possibilities. But this method of storytelling can be used in much more subtle ... someone else s blood in the bathroom. Findley chose to have Everett s dream invade reality, leaving the reader to think about the possibilities of how the blood got there and why. Like Tolken with Lord of the Rings , Findley wondered what would happen if the imaginary world invaded the real world, in this case, what if a nightmare became reality. In Edgar Allan Poe s short story The Telltale Heart ...
- 786: Charles Darwin
- ... distribution of natural species to the experience of pigeon breeders, to develop and support his argument. As far as he was concerned, Darwin was nowhere near ready to present his theory when, in 1858, Alfred Lord Wallace, sent a paper to him. Wallace's paper stated the very theory that Darwin had been labouring on for two decades. Soon a joint paper was written and published , and the theory of evolution ... but from our viewpoint we have hundreds of examples of natural selection taking place all around us each and every second of each and every day. Fortunately, Charles Darwin (and maybe I should credit Alfred Lord Wallace) had the insight and boldness to conceive and develop a theory so controversial to his time and culture. Bibliography Clark, R.W. (1984). The Survial of Charles Darwin. New York: Random House Sproule, Anna ...
- 787: The Concrete Dangers Of Abstra
- ... this point, Macbeth still maintains control of reality, as he dominates the battle bravely and honorably. In composing this scene, Shakespeare further accentuates the future detriments of the thane due to illusions. In effect, the lord remains successful both publicly and privately as long as he does not confuse ideal with the present. This is immediately confirmed by the following scene, when the meeting with the witches forces Macbeth to consider ... himself declares in his tirade, Mine eyes are made the fools o th other senses . In effect, the vision of Macbeth upon reality has been dramatically transformed by his vision of the ideal, and the lord can no longer distinguish the line that separates the truth with the domain of envies, plans and imagination. In other words, Macbeth has been corrupted by illusion even before initiating the murder that will lead ...
- 788: Harriet Tubman 3
- ... chunk of ice, I would, and put it in a basin, and fill it with water; then I'd take a sponge and begin. First man I'd come to, I'd thrash away the flies, and they would rise, they would, like bees around a hive. Then I would begin to bathe the wounds, and by the time I had bathed off three or four, the fire and heat would ... the ice and made the water warm, and it would be as red as clear blood. Then I would go and get more ice, and by the time I get to the next ones, the flies would be around the first ones and thick as ever (Bradford 97) She treated her patients with medicine from roots and miraculously never caught any of the deadly diseases the wounded soldiers would carry. During ...
- 789: Life of William Shakespeare
- ... presented different plays week after week. The companies were commercial organizations that depended on admission from their audience. Scholars know that Shakespeare belonged to one of the most popular acting companies in London called The Lord Chamberlain's Men. Shakespeare was a leading member of the group from 1594 for the rest of his career. By 1594, at least six of Shakespeare's plays had been produced. During Shakespeare's life ... Both were impressed with Shakespeare which made his name known. There is evidence that he was a member of a traveling theater group, and a schoolmaster. In 1594, he became an actor and playwright for Lord Chamberlain's Men. In 1599, he became a part owner of the prosperous Globe Theater. He also was a part owner of the Blackfriars Theater as of 1609. Shakespeare retired to Stratford in 1613 where ...
- 790: Exile And Pain In Three Elegiac Poems
- ... deal with the trial. The author continually describes how incredibly miserable he is living his life in exile, how awful it is to have to live without the guidance from a higher rank being a lord and king in this case, how there is no one to talk to and to share ones feelings with, and how there is no money or riches of any kind for a man who is ... on land, he missed because all he knew was the wretched sea and all the misery it was causing him. Among the things he desperately missed were mead, a drink made of fermented honey, his lord, and his friends voices. To some these things might seem amazingly simplistic, however anyone stuck at sea would start to miss the simplest things that they never even thought twice about getting, and begin to ...
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