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- 4791: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... them. Being the cunning craftsman that he is, Da Vinci wrote in his journal all the information needed to build his contraptions, but he wrote them backwards so that anyone who would look at the writing would pass it off as some code and give up trying to interpret it. Da Vinci also drew up blueprints for the airplane wing. His prints show the wing frame and basic shape. If built ...
- 4792: Mikhail Lermontov
- ... in peace by reaching decisions benefiting all sides. This leads to the first introduction of League of Nations and later UN to resolve problems of the whole world. Thus it is true the art of writing can show the progress of human kind and its relations between each other. By carefully examining Lermontovs work it is impossible not to wonder how human mind progressed over the countries. Just in 200 ...
- 4793: Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius
- ... was a simple man, not too impressive, and sometimes childish. Mozart remained utterly straightforward in his behavior, just as he showed an immense spontaneity of feeling in his music, he was extraordinarily blunt in his personal conduct. He found it difficult to hide what he felt, or to hint at it indirectly, Mozart felt like a failure at the end of his life. Because his success in Vienna had a special ...
- 4794: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- ... being overly sentimental. However, Longfellow never fell out of favor with the poetry reading public, primarily because of his simple style, familiar themes, easily grasped ideas, and clear, simple, melodious language. Longfellow avoided the intensely personal in his works. Therefore, the themes and topics he used were a varying spectrum of everything, but himself. Some of his works included the topics of; innocence in Evangeline, bridging the gap between Anglo and ...
- 4795: Hitler
- ... a man of incredible energy and endurance. His day consists of Sixteen and eighteen hours of uninterrupted work. He is absolutely tireless when it comes to working for Germany and its future welfare and no personal pleasure are permitted to interfere with the carrying out of his mission. The ordinary man in the street cannot even imagine a human being in Hitler's position not taking advantage of his opportunity. He ...
- 4796: The Metamorphosis
- ... action. The whole familys attitude changes as time passes and it is not the metamorphosis of Gregor, instead it is the metamorphosis of the family. Gregor is never worried about the metamorphosis from his personal point of view. Instead, he worries about his job and about his effect on others. The family he once supported turns against him and he is more along than before. Eventually, there is no poetic ...
- 4797: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Illinois where it was buried on May 4, 1865 in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois (Stefoff 115). Lincoln had achieved one of the greatest lives a man could have. He battled poverty, debt and personal grief to win the nations highest office and abolish slavery. In Conclusion, Lincoln was a great man.
- 4798: Beloved: Sethe's Motivation For Killing Her Baby
- ... protected from the cruelty and the "dirtiness" of slavery(Morrison 251). In this respect, her act is that of love for her children. The selfishness of Sethe's act lies in her refusal to accept personal responsibility for her baby's death. Sethe's motivation is dichotomous in that she displays her love by mercifully sparing her daughter from a horrific life, yet Sethe refuses to acknowledge that her show of ...
- 4799: Winston Smith
- ... is he afraid of his thoughts of freedom? I believe George Orwell leaves the interpretation up to the reader. "1984" is a frightening novel. It gives the reader an insight into an ugly society where personal values of love and family loyalty are destroyed and replaced by emotional loyalty to Big Brother, who alone has the power to create and to destroy. It is a society which cannot allow Freedom of ...
- 4800: Catch-22 2
- ... Germans, who keep shooting at him when he drops bombs on them, and by his American superiors, who seem less concerned about winning the war than they are about getting promoted. Heller spent eight years writing Catch-22, is a former student at three universities--New York, Columbia and Oxford--and a former teacher at Pennsylvania State College. From 1942 to 1945 he served as a combat bombardier in the Twelfth ...
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