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- 1901: James Cameron
- ... future which attempted to kill him. When Cameron woke up, he scribbled down some nasty ideas, and the ideas would later become the Terminator. After the shooting of Pirahna 2: The Spawning, Cameron accepted two writing jobs, Rambo: First Blood part 2 and Alien 2 (which would later become Aliens). Cameron later contacted action producer Gale Anne Hurd, and showed her the screenplay The Terminator which he had written. Hurd liked ... him at least a dozen times. The movie also set new standards for underwater shooting. The crew and Cameron had to design a lot of new gear. Cameron then went on to producing and ghost-writing the very successful surfer movie Point Break. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, whom Cameron married in 1991, the same year the movie came out. In 1990 Cameron contacted his old friend the screenwriter Wiliam ... he received his Oscar for best director, "I’m the kind of the world", and he will probably be for now! What about the future??? In the future James Cameron will be producing and perhaps writing the remake of "The Planet of The Apes" and after that James Cameron will probably look into doing a movie on his childhood hero Spiderman, which might start Leonardo Dicaprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger. What ...
- 1902: J.D. Salinger
- ... considered J.D. Salinger a very controversial writer because of the subject matters he wrote about. For example Salinger wrote about religion, intellectuals, emotional struggles of adolescents, loneliness and symbolism (Jones). Some critics feel his writing was inappropriate because of the topics he wrote about. The main characters were considered misfits of society. The characters generally did not fit in with traditional American culture. They could not adjust to the real ... to free them. Salinger uses much of the Zen philosophy to attain this freedom. The Zen Philosophy was a new sect of Buddhism that came out of China. It promoted Meditation as the way to personal fulfillment ("Zen" 146). One of Salinger’s characters in "Nine Stories" has a certain philosophy about life that runs parallel to the Eightfold Path used in the Buddhism religion. The Eightfold Path is one of ...
- 1903: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... along with a cover letter to several people in Germany. In Munich, a certain Judge Zeilinger ruled that Porter had violated the German law against "defamation and desecration." He was fined 6,000 DM for writing and distributing his book, which is a revisionist analysis of the Nuremberg trials. Zeilinger, also directed, in her "Order of Punishment," that all copies of Not Guilty at Nuremberg be confiscated, including copies in Porter's personal possession. Zeilinger wrote: "It is also ordered that all means for the production of this published work be confiscated, including any plates, forms, templates, negatives, or matrices." Zielinger charged that various passages from Porter's ...
- 1904: George Washington
- ... early notebooks indicate that he read in geography, military history, agriculture, deportment, and composition and that he showed some aptitude in surveying and simple mathematics. In later life he developed a style of speech and writing that, although not always polished, was marked by clarity and force. Tall, strong, and fond of action, he was a superb horseman and enjoyed the robust sports and social occasions of the Virginia planter society ... denigration of Washington by American author Rupert Hughes, which helped to distort Americans' understanding of their national origins. Both the hero worship and the debunking miss the essential point that his leadership abilities and his personal principles were exactly the ones that met the needs of his own generation. As later historians have examined closely the ideas of the Founding Fathers and the nature of warfare in the Revolution, they have ...
- 1905: George Lucas
- ... 1966, Lucas decided to teach a training program for navy filmmakers. This way he could make his film, an idea he had rolling around in his head, called THX: 1138:4EB. After twelve weeks of writing, filming, and editing, the film was finally done. "I didn’t expect it to turn out so well," Lucas said (1, 68). This little film was what made Hollywood notice George Lucas. After this success ... Even though THX was a commercial failure, it still remains Lucas’s favorite film. "The experience was frustrating and character-building for Lucas, who had spent the better part of two years making a very personal movie that had been dumped into the marketplace without attention or care (1, 98)." Marcia Lucas stated, "Directing that movie [THX) was a great thing for George. It was a breakthrough. Now he was really ...
- 1906: George F. Handel
- ... Cesare, Ottone and Tamerlano proving them not only to be the latest master of the italian "seicento" but also a composer opened to the new perspective of the fusion of national styles in an highly personal language, Ariosti left London and went to Madrid together with a clever impresario a certain Tarchi who eventually left him in a state of absolute indigence. But a turmoil followed another and when Haendel assigned ... poetry of Ludovico Ariosto accompanied by Haendel's lines nevermore so much lyrical. In fact coming bacvk from Italy to London Haendel entered the so called period of the Masterate in which instead substantially than writing for the public he started to write only for himself reaching an equivalent of Bach's Regulirte Kirckenmusik. Indeed the mean of this Katharsis didn't have to be the opera but the Oratorio a ...
- 1907: Cynthia Ozick
- ... Elie Wiesel stating that just because she was not a witness of the Holocaust and part American, she should not be excluded from being part Jewish. Though inexperienced about the Holocaust, Cynthia Ozick still kept writing. She knew that the people who were held in concentration camps were mistreated and many were killed. Even though the setting and the action of the story that she wrote was swift and terrible, it did not seem like it. Cynthia Ozick’s writing would not be explained in details, she would let the reader figure out where the story was taking place. She would use figurative language and similes in order to describe something. For example, in the ... we, as human’s, will go to ensure, or at least try to convince ourselves that they have ensure their survival. Cynthia Ozick would give other hints to let the reader know that she was writing about a concentration camp. For example, Cynthia Ozick would give hints such as, a golden star sewn in their coats, or explaining that the characters were walking with no destination. The golden star was ...
- 1908: Cicero
- ... March 15, 44, and was not present in the Senate when he was murdered. On March 17 he spoke in the Senate in favour of a general amnesty, but then he returned to his philosophical writing and contemplated visiting his son, who was studying in Athens. But instead he returned to Rome at the end of August. It was in May that Octavian learned of Cicero's unfortunate remark that "the ... of Rhodes he believed that an orator should command and blend a variety of styles. He made a close study of the rhythms that were likely to appeal to an audience. His fullness revolutionized the writing of Latin; he is the real creator of the "periodic" style, in which phrase is balanced against phrase, with subordinate clauses woven into a complex but seldom obscure whole. Of the speeches, 58 have survived ... form; it is estimated that about 48 have been lost. The bulk of his philosophical writings belong to the period between February 45 and November 44. Cicero lays no claim to originality in these works. Writing to Atticus, he says of them "They are transcripts; I simply supply words, and I've plenty of those." His importance in the history of philosophy is as a transmitter of Greek thought. In ...
- 1909: Calvin Coolidge
- ... governments deficiencies, while Coolidge received credit for his simplicity and honesty. On Coolidge's first full term as the 30th President of the United States, he was known as the darling of the Conservatives. His personal beliefs that were reinforced throughout his life played a major role into shaping his behavior while in office. Frugality, tolerance, industrious, and fairness earned him the respect and admiration of a booming nation. In the ... A man with little words his only reply was written on a piece of paper, "I do not choose to run for reelection at 1928" (Coolidge). He retired back at Northampton, where he busied himself writing newspaper and magazine articles. Living up to his name as "Silent Cal", Coolidge stayed away from politics until his death. Coolidge died on January 5, 1933 and was buried at Plymouth, Vermont A hero is ...
- 1910: Blaise Pascal
- ... death in general and also to his father's death particularly. These ideas were to later form the basis of his philosophical work called Pensees. Then in May 1653 Pascal worked with mathematics and physics writing Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids which he explains his law of pressure called Pascal's law of pressure. Adamson writes: "This treatise is a complete outline of a system of hydrostatics, the first in ... fellow defender of Jansenism. At the time Arnauld was on trial before the faculty of theology in Paris for his controversial religious works. Pensees was Pascal's most famous work, which was a collection of personal thoughts on human suffering and faith in God which he worked on from 1656 to 1658. Pensees contained "Pascal's Wager" which claims to prove that belief in God is rational with the following argument ...
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