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- 531: Jimi Hendrix
- ... explicitly and unambiguously, who he thought he was, is” (Murray 147). “1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be),” the eleventh track on Electric Ladyland, is called by Murray: “rock’s premier work of science fiction; Hendrix was the music’s first and funkiest cyberpunk” (216). “Merman” marked the pinnacle of Hendrix’ producing skills, and Electric Ladyland was the first album that he himself produced. “Merman”’s lyrics indicate Hendrix’ increasing ...
- 532: The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- ... of Poe’s literature came in short stories (tales). These stories were mostly tales of horror, terror, and the supernatural. In these topics Poe was quite a pioneer, being the first to write modern science fiction and modern detective stories, where death (a part of horror, terror, and the supernatural) plays a key role. He also explored the world of nightmare where Charles Baudelaire thought that he delved into the “secret ...
- 533: Herman Melville
- ... for unspecified reasons. In 1847 Herman Melville marries Elizabeth Shaw and moves to Manhattan to become a writer. Many of his works were of what he had experienced or his opinions on certain issues. His fiction, though, seamed to be more of a regretfulness of what he had failed to do in his time on the sea. By looking at his job history his favorite thing was to be a sailor ...
- 534: Levi
- ... is a Man, 1947) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. Levi devoted the last fourty years of his life to attempts to deal with the fact that he survived Auschwitz. Levi published also poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories. Levi was born in Turin. Just before the Fascist racial law of 1938 forbade Jews access to academic status, Levi started his chemistry studies at the University of Turin and graduated ...
- 535: Marco Polo's Influence
- ... people to going to China. Not only bad effects, but good ones. Since his book was considered a fairy tale, a lot of explorers tried to find out themselves if his book was fact or fiction. Christopher Columbus was one of them, and instead, found America. Marco Polo is a very influential man, in good ways and bad. His reason when he wrote his book was to share his experience with ...
- 536: Martin Luther
- ... before the shrine because God himself is present there, even though no one else is present besides you and this sacrament. Luther abolished this concept of presence. He denounced the character indelebilis as a human fiction" (Tillich 236-237). For Luther to take this position required considerable courage on his part due to the fact he was facing an ecclesiastical force of great strength and authority. Luther did what most kings ...
- 537: Paul Dunbar Research Paper
- ... to Paul. Paul’s career started out strong right from the beginning when he was in high school. He acquired much praise and respect from his peers due to his experiments with both poetry, and fiction. This all took place in Dayton, Ohio, where Dunbar attended school with such people as the Wright Brothers. Dunbar began to build a reputation for himself, and at the tender age of twenty, wrote his ...
- 538: The Writings of David Foster Wallace
- ... show off their style is through patterns. Wallace has no recognizable patterns in his work. He is all over the spectrum. He jumps around and never forms any known method to his works. Wallace’s fiction and use of the elements proves to be twisty. They catch you off guard and don’t contain any good ending/bad ending, as we are normally used to seeing. Others who have read his ...
- 539: Billy the Kid: The True Story
- ... maybe, one of the meanest men that ever lived. But this is untrue, most of the stories you’ve probably heard are just that, stories. Because if the life of Billy the Kid fact and fiction ride side by side and it is difficult to tell between the two. But I am going to tell you the true story of Billy the Kid, to the best of the information that is ...
- 540: Twain
- ... or traveling proved to be enjoyable to a global audience. Although Twain had at first been considered merely an amusing professional funny man, during his last years he was placed by many among the great fiction writers, (Wister xxvi). Yale and Oxford gave him honorary degrees and leading 3 critics, William Dean Howells for one, hailed him as a genius. Twain used to joke about his books being called classics by ...
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