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- 4891: Life and Times of Alexander the Great
- ... his eye storming an Athenian fortress. During Alexander's early years, he was watched over by a man named Leonidas2. Leonidas saw to all of Alexander's education and tutelage in many varied subjects including: writing, geometry, reading, arithmetic, music, archery, horseback riding, javelin, and other types of athletics. Alexander's nursemaid was an endearing gentleman whose name was Lysimachos, who won Alexander's heart at an early age by playing ...
- 4892: Animal Farm and Russian Revolution Comparison: Highlights, Events, Characters, Themes
- ... the Russian Revolution. The characters in Animal Farm and the Russian Revolution can also be compared. Mr. Jones is very similar to the Czar Nicholas II in that he is more interested in his own personal comforts than the well being of his animals or his farm. Old Major can be said to represent either Karl Marx or Lenin as a visionary who predicts a grand future. Snowball is similar to ...
- 4893: Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl
- ... life and flavor. The pictures provide the reader with a true image of the Dust Bowl, as if it were a scene right out of The Wizard of Oz. Overall, R. Douglas Hurt combines marvelous writing with sheer facts, to create The Dust Bowl, a wonderful book, which is not only informative, but also interesting. Bibliography R. Douglas Hurt. The Dust Bowl. Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1981.
- 4894: Steven Spielberg
- ... through for Spielberg with the honorary Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1987. Over the next few years, with Always, Empire of the Sun, and Hook, Spielberg's golden touch seemed to be failing him. His personal life was also in turmoil: he and actress Amy Irving divorced, and he married his Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom leading lady Kate Capshaw. Professionally, he came back with two huge movies in ...
- 4895: ADHD On Child Intelligence
- ... their adolescence. Long term studies have found that the outcome of these children was continued academic problems and school failures (Aman et al., 1996). However, there is suggestion ADHD children show greater artistic ability when writing or drawing slowly and precisely (Morgan, 1997). Testing the intelligence of ADHD involves a number of measures. Psychoeducational testing is used to assess intellectual ability and to search for learning disabilities. Tests such as the ...
- 4896: Charles Babbage
- ... result in delaying Babbage's work. Babbage also apparently miscalculated his task. The Engine would need about 50 times the amount of money he was given. In 1827, Babbage was overwhelmed by a number of personal tragedies: the deaths of his father, wife and two of his children. Consequently, Babbage took ill and his family advised him to travel abroad for a few months. Upon his return, he approached the Duke ...
- 4897: Albert Einstein and His Theories
- ... behalf of world Zionism, Einstein renounced his former pacifist stand in the face of the awesome threat to humankind posed by the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1939 Einstein collaborated with several other physicists in writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out the possibility of making an atomic bomb and the likelihood that the German government was embarking on such a course. The letter, which bore only Einstein ...
- 4898: How Does Bernard Shaw Satirise
- When Bernard Shaw was writing 'Arms and the Man' in 1893-1894, Romantic ideals concerning love and war were still widely accepted and considered normal; an attitude that did not change, even with Bernard Shaw's efforts to the contrary ...
- 4899: Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... opinions and attitudes. He had been taught to admire strong politicians and to think of himself as an aristocrat whose great virtues are fearlessness and willingness to assume leadership.(Bentley, p. 85) Despite his own personal efforts to be bad and mean, Nietzsche remained innocent and caring. The first major school of thought that Nietzche adhered to was because of the writings of Schopenhauer. After purchasing Artur Schopenhauer's The World ...
- 4900: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... works as "The murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) and "The fall of the house of Usher" (1839). Poe's wife passed away in 1847, and Poe took it hard. Yet he continued with his writing until he died the on 7th October 1849 by alcoholic poisoning. Edgar Allan Poe was mostly known for his analytic and criticising analyses. It was them which gave him respect as a critic. Poe was ...
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