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- 1351: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
- Swift's "A Modest Proposal" In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling personal statements. For example, Swifts, A Modest Proposal, is often heralded as his best use of both sarcasm and irony. Yet taking into account the persona of Swift, as well as the period in which it ... lived. In fact it was intended to help the lower-class to gain more recognition from the upper class. If a reader does take his proposal seriously, then the use irony and sarcasm in Swifts writing is exemplified. But, if a reader takes note of the irony they will notice the true point of the story; the assistance that the lower-class needs. Either way, the irony is present and Swift ... one of them is valid. This is a difficult task because we do not fully understand the environment in which it was written, we can only analyze the voice in which it is written. A personal opinion would be that he wrote this story purely for the amusement of the upper class. This is qualified because, as stated before, during the time that this was written the beggars could not ...
- 1352: History of the Far East
- ... the Son of heaven and should be on top of a strong hierarchy of authority ( de Bary, 259 ). But Buddhism , unlike Confucianism, could not provide basis of a political or social order, as it offered personal discipline leading to emancipation from the world, so Shotoku acknowledged that the individual has an end which transcends his role in the human community, he also believed that the state would be powerless to straighten ... Bary, 290 ). In this school the relationship between master and pupil was so close that a master usually had only one disciple. When the emperor Junna in 830 ordered the various sects to submit in writing their beliefs, Kukai wrote the Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness, his work was by far the best , it was written in perfect Chinese in which he presented the ten successive stages of religious consciousness. The esoteric school encouraged the use of art as religious expression, so painting, sculpture, music and writing were the new ways of spreading Buddhism. For Kukai whatever was beautiful was part of Buddha, like nature, art and religion. The two dominant schools of the Heian period, the Tendai and Shingon, both ...
- 1353: Emily Dickinson
- ... had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a substantial period of time. Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she never did reject or accept God. Wadsworth appealed to her ... hindered since childhood worsened. In Emily's life the most important things to her were love, religion, individuality and nature. When discussing these themes she followed her lifestyle and broke away from traditional forms of writing and wrote with an intense energy and complexity never seen before and rarely seen today. She was a rarity not only because of her poetry but because she was one of the first female pioneers ... for granted, cannot be grasped by even the greatest so called minds. Emily also saw the frightful part of nature, death was an extension of the natural order. Probably the most prominent theme in her writing is death. She took death in a relatively casual way when compared to the puritan beliefs that surrounded her life. Death to her is just the next logical step to life and compares it ...
- 1354: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... he talks about were with the women in his life. People like his mother, Ginerva King, and Zelda Sayre all had major impacts on Fitzgerald. The women in F. Scott Fitzgerald's life influenced his writing in a number of ways. The first major woman to make and impression on Fitzgerald's life was his mother. Mary (Mollie) McQuillan was of Irish decent. Her parents were Irish immigrants who became rich ... foundation for their family influenced Fitzgerald greatly. Even as a young boy he was aware of this situation. The theme that arose from this about a wife's inherited money appears frequently in Fitzgerald's writing (Magill 679). When the Fitzgeralds fell into financial trouble, the family had to depend on Mollie's family's money. When times like that came Mollie "abandoned the attempt to Tarleton 2 keep up her personal appearance (neglecting both grooming and fashion), which embarrassed her fastidious son. Scott later recorded a dream in which he admitted being ashamed of her" (de Koster 15). Furthermore, Fitzgerald's attitude toward his mother ...
- 1355: Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is an important poet principally because of the distinctiveness of her writing. Though only 7 out of her 1,200 poems were published critics still classify her as one of the principle poets of her time. In Dickinson's life the most important things to her were love, religion, individuality and nature. While writting about these themes she followed her lifestyle by braking away from the traditional forms of writing and wrote with an intense energy and complexity never seen before and rarely seen today. Her poems are written expressions of personal experiences throughout her life. It would be hard to classify her as a certain type of writter because of the diversity of her poems, but they can be broken down individualy into four main ...
- 1356: Frank Liszt
- ... Wagner, Berlioz and Verdi and, as the teacher of Hans von Bülow and others in the German avant-garde, became the figurehead of the 'New German school'. In 1861- 1869 he lived mainly in Rome, writing religious works taking minor orders in 1865; from 1870 he traveled regularly between Rome, Weimar and Budapest. He remained active as a teacher and performer to the end of his life. Liszt's personality appears ... and elegant, worldly manners. But though he had a restless intellect, he also was ceaselessly creative, seeking the new in music. He helped others generously, as conductor, arranger, pianist or writer, and took artistic and personal risks in doing so. The greatest pianist of his time, he composed some of the most difficult piano music ever written (e.g. the Transcendental Studies) and had an extraordinarily broad repertory, from Scarlatti onwards; he invented the modern piano recital. Liszt had two personal touches to all of his compositions, experiment with large-scale structures, and thematic transformation. His transcendental piano technique was imaginative in the same way, coming from his desire to make the piano sound like ...
- 1357: Frederic Douglass
- ... of an economic stand point, but it reaches deeper than that. One can work hard achieve something good in many different aspects of life. It does not always have to be looked upon as only personal gain. This embodies the one part of the American Dream Fredrick Douglas was able to achieve. Once Frederick had been in the abolitionist movement for a while he became very active in writing for the anti-slavery newspaper, The "Liberator". Though he was writing, and traveling around to do speeches with abolitionists, Frederick was beginning to have different views than the people he was with. Instead of just going along with the flow Frederick took the initiative to ...
- 1358: Bypassing the Truth About Reality
- ... essay “Notes of a Native Son”, Baldwin shows how his father represents an extremely stubborn man, set in his ways, unwilling to change. “He could be chilling in the pulpit and indescribably cruel in his personal life and he was certainly the most bitter man I have ever met”(56). It’s obvious to me how Baldwin’s father was definitely a mean man, full of hatred and animosity towards everyone ... to myself that was an androgynous human being. And tried to avoid all possible traits and characteristics that I might share with a female. I realized, in English class, when everyone was reading their free writing works that I wouldn’t be considered different and unusual if I make note of my feminine characteristics. The ability to realize that I was androgynous in many ways was the coming to grips with ... connection between the books he read and the life he lived. He was able to gain information and different outlooks about society which he could relate to in his strong opinions and views. He claims “writing was my great conciliation”. Baldwin used Paris and France to enable him to discover his identity, which was freedom to do whatever his heart desires. “I love a few and a few woman, and ...
- 1359: Emily Dickinson
- ... had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a substantial period of time. Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she never did reject or accept God. Wadsworth appealed to her ... hindered since childhood worsened. In Emily's life the most important things to her were love, religion, individuality and nature. When discussing these themes she followed her lifestyle and broke away from traditional forms of writing and wrote with an intense energy and complexity never seen before and rarely seen today. She was a rarity not only because of her poetry but because she was one of the first female pioneers ... for granted, cannot be grasped by even the greatest so called minds. Emily also saw the frightful part of nature, death was an extension of the natural order. Probably the most prominent theme in her writing is death. She took death in a relatively casual way when compared to the puritan beliefs that surrounded her life. Death to her is just the next logical step to life and compares it ...
- 1360: George Patton
- ... house and would entertain Georgie for hours with tales of his Civil War adventures. With this steady diet of combat regalia, Georgie was convinced that the profession of arms was his calling. GENERAL PATTON`S PERSONAL SIDE ARMS. THE IVORY HANDLED REVOLVERS BECAME HIS TRADEMARK DURING WW2. TOP SMITH & WESSON .357 MAGNUM. BOTTOM COLT .45 MODEL 1873. Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights ... BRADLEY STANDS IN THE MIDDLE. They also carried the stamp of high morale and drive for which Patton's units were to become famous. Even Patton's wife Bee got in on the act by writing The March Song of the Armoured Force for the unit. As the armoured forces expanded, so did Patton's responsibilities as he was given command of the Ist U. S. Armoured Corps. While plans for ... of the breakout, Patton was all over the front as his 3rd Army advanced so fast that entire German divisions were often bypassed to be mopped up by following elements. One example of Patton's personal heroism occurred when a tanker was knocked off his vehicle by a shell fragment. Patton applied pressure to an artery on the man's arm until a corpsman arrived, probably saving the tanker's ...
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