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- 5061: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... lifetime. Gerard was torn between his love of God and his love of poetry. Gerard Manley Hopkins, born on July 28 1844, was the eldest of eight children of a London marine insurance adjuster. Besides writing books about marine insurance Gerard's father, Manley, also wrote a volume of poetry. His mother on the other hand was a very pious person. She was actively involved in the church and impressed her ...
- 5062: George Washington
- ... circumstances, he was slow in re-adjustment. The consequence was, that he often failed in the field, and rarely against an enemy in station, as at Boston and York. He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going ...
- 5063: Sophocles
- ... burned their dead with a simple ritual. They thought that with a few exceptions the spirits of all the people went to a gray and gloomy place the underworld . The Greeks gave human qualities and personal characteristics to their gods and goddesses. They believed that the gods as having weaknesses and wants much like their own but on a grander scale. The Greeks had many gods for various things such as ...
- 5064: Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
- ... clearly stated by Iocaste when she says, "Since Fate rules us and nothing can be foreseen? A man should live only for the present day.", is a something that many people can associate with their personal beliefs. As the play ends, the plague upon the city disappears, and Oedipus is punished for his crimes. At conclusion, the reader is left with a sense of both pleasure and disquietude. Sophocles, by using ...
- 5065: Evita Peron
- ... the Spiritual Leader of the Nation. Her own final contribution to that deification came in her will, in which she wrote that she wanted "the poor, the old, the children, and the workers to continue writing to me as they did in my lifetime." She died on July 26, 1952, at the age of 33. A specialist was brought in to embalm the body and make it "definitively incorruptible." Evita's ...
- 5066: Evita: Saint or Sinner?
- ... They were seen leaving the gala together.6 Their attraction was not kept secret. Evita- what she liked to be called, now that she was a celebrity- and Peron became inseparable. Their attraction became a personal bond as well as a political alliance. She was active in formation of policy and penned plays about the Peronist 'Revolution.' By her account, Juan himself was responsible for the coup of 1943. This and ...
- 5067: U.S Involvement in the Vietnam War
- ... in modern society. One of the prime examples of this is the Vietnam War. Although South Vietnam asked for our help, which we had previously promised, the entire conflict was managed in order to meet personal political agendas and to remain politically correct in the world's eyes rather than to bring a quick and decisive end to the conflict. This can be seen in the selective bombing of Hanoi throughout ...
- 5068: Street Car Named Desire
- ... includes many aspects of his life in his writings. Everything in his life is in his plays, and everything in his plays is his life. Through an examination of symbolism within the play, and Williams' personal life it can be said that A Streetcar Named Desire was Williams' out let to express his pain, and bitterness towards his childhood.
- 5069: HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
- ... the article Germany traces the steps by which Hitler became dictator and instigator of World War II. (See also World War II.) Believing himself on the road to world conquest, in 1941 Hitler made himself Personal Commander of the Army and, in 1942, Supreme War Lord. However, on July 20, 1944, a group of officers, dismayed by his "intuitive" military failures, set off a bomb in his office. He escaped with ...
- 5070: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... a sportsman and scholar in Sagamore Hill, his house at Oyster Bay, on Long Island. He published biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart Benton and works on the American West, some based on his personal experiences. In 1889 he was appointed to the U.S. Civil Service Commission. As head of the commission for much of his six years of service, Roosevelt was guided by the belief that the system ...
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