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- 1931: Karl Marx 2
- ... society. Simply put, a communist society is one where all property is held in common. No one person has more than the other, but rather everyone shares in the fruits of their labors. Marx is writing of this society because, he believes it to be the best form of society possible. He believes that communism creates the correct balance between the needs of the individual, and the needs of society. He ... man than naked self-interest, than callous cash payment.' It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom Free Trade. (Marx, p.57) . Here Marx is speaking of how the bourgeoisie- controlled society ...
- 1932: John Locke 3
- ... lives. He taught that you should not be very fond of people who accept religious doctrine on blind faith. He also stressed his concern for discovering truth was put truth ahead of any desire for personal fame or reputation. Locke's views concerning religion are expressed mostly in the essay and in the Reasonableness of Christianity which was published in 1695. Lock once said, "religious belief that rests merely on authority ... thinking. To me John Locke was very important in our history. He had many other views that has effected this world and country. But over all I experienced many things will researching this report and writing it. When I first started out I had no idea who John Locke was, but now I know how much he has effected history in a major way. But by doing this report made me ...
- 1933: 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 ...
- 1934: 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 ...
- 1935: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... the hope of salvation into a vicious confidence game. Although Chaucer in this way satirizes the abuses of the church, he also includes a number of moral and religious tales. This is followed by a personal confession in which Chaucer retract all his secular writings, including Troilus for Criseyde and those Canterbury tales that incline toward sin. 4 Like the ending of Troilus for Criseyde the retraction is a reminder that ... later called heroic. 4 His method of versification, which depends on sounding many E s in final syllables that are silent, in modern English, was no longer understood by the 15th century. Nevertheless, Chaucer s writing dominated English poetry up to the time of Shakespeare.4 Chaucer lived a very full and diligent life, a life that defined the extreme meanings of outspokenness. The multitudinous of life experiences that enable him ...
- 1936: 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 ...
- 1937: Frank Lloyd Wright 3
- ... and each door way had an inscription of For the Worship of God and the Service of Man. Throughout Wright s career, architects who were more conventional than Wright opposed his unorthodox methods. Distressed with personal difficulties and professional antagonisms, he passed a year of self-imposed exile (1909-1910) in Europe. Upon his return, he established a new home and school for himself in Spring Green, Wisconsin, named Taliesin (after ... Morris gift shop (1950) in San Francisco; and the Price Tower (1955), a skyscraper Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1959 he completed the curvilinear Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Wright spent much time is writing, lecturing, and teaching. By 1908 he had originated most of the principles that are today the struggle against discrimination won him the hostility of the American scholars, nevertheless his work profoundly influenced the development of ...
- 1938: Frost
- ... felt the need to once again move. In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish himself quickly and would reap the awards of immediate success. In 1894 at the age of twenty Frost sold and published his first poem My Butterfly:An Elegy to The Independent, a ... of North of Boston . Sales from the books that Frost had published enabled him to buy a farm in Franconia, N.H. and send him on his way to a long and successful career in writing, teaching, and lecturing. Over the coming years he would receive a number of literary, academic, and public honors. He Received four prestige s Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime. Frost lived his life doing what made him happy and that was writing poetry. Frost spent the last years of his life giving interviews and public speaking. On December 2nd, 1962 in Boston, Frost would give his last public speech. The following day Frost enter the hospital ...
- 1939: Emily Dickinson 5
- ... these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and his church (Chase 28). Here put more stuff about why she did not except the Puritan God and why because of this you saw it in her writing (on page 12-? In Aiken). Her father was also an influential politician in Massachusetts holding powerful positions (Johnson 26). Due to this her family was very prominent in Amherst. Emily did not enjoy the popularity ... 29). This private life that she lived gave her, her own private society. She refused to see almost everyone that came to visit and rarely left her father s house (Johnson 31). In Emily s writing changed over the years due to events in her life. Most of her writing was about nature, friends, love and almost a third of her poems dealt with the subject of death (Ferlazzo 22). I m going to focus my paper on the topic of death. A lot ...
- 1940: Emily Dickinson 3
- ... the last - sagacity must go - (#501) (In these lines Dickinson doubts the sense of religious claims about life, death and life after death). Her cryptic language thus became part of her search for truth and personal clarification. She couched her poetry in ambiguous, complex and multi-layered language - in this form it became both a defence, and a game. The riddles concealed her anarchy, her dissension and her audaciousness in questioning ... transcending the rational...play was freedom...abandon, diversion, riddle, improvisation. Emily Dickinson s poetry was an introspective search for answers to her inner turmoil. Contained within these poems - of specific importance the riddles - are the personal literary devices which as exploratory structures...give tentative order to the chaos of her emotions and thoughts. Emily Dickinson presented her riddles through both established language devices and her own vision of the scheme of ... that sways towards horror. This "nihilistic" second stanza contrasts completely with the somewhat cloyingly sentimental tone of the first stanza achieving a quasi-ironical effect. In the poem, the small comfortable puritan faith in a personal resurrection (stanza1) is simply allowed to hang in the air as a point from which to measure the cold immensity of infinite space and unending time. The poem s conclusion is more implicit, and ...
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