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- 911: George Lucas
- ... technobrat, a cold, mechanical filmmaker devoid of warmth and humor(1, 101). He offered the movie, American Graffiti, to United Artists, whose president suggested a two-picture deal (the other being Star Wars). Lucas had Richard Walters, a classmate at USC, write the film with Gary Kurtz as producer. After he read the script, Lucas was disappointed. He then had Bill Huyck and Gloria Katz, close friends, write another script. Finally ...
- 912: George Wallace
- ... of 1972, at a campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland things turned for the worse. While participating in a final round of hand shaking with the crowd. A frustrated Arthur Bremer, who also tried to assassinate, Nixon set his sights on Wallace. Bremer stalked Wallace for weeks trying to get a chance to shoot him. From a range no more than three feet away, the assassin shot Wallace 3 times, severing his ...
- 913: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... having a baby. In Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants the man wants his sweetheart to have an abortion so that they can continue as they once lived. In To Have and Have Not, Richard Gordon took his wife to "that dirty aborting horror". Catherine's death, in A Farewell to Arms, saves the author's hero from the hell of a complicated life. ENDNOTES Peter Buckley, Ernest, The Dial ...
- 914: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- ... how the narrator discovers the many ways he may die. Although he must rely on his senses alone to feel his surroundings, he knows that somewhere in this dark, gloomy room, that death awaits him. Richard Wilbur tells us how fitting the chamber in "The Pit and the Pendulum" actually was. "Though he lives on the brink of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into unconsciousness, he is ...
- 915: Edward Vii
- ... Edwardian Era was the beginning of the 20th century, and led to all sorts of predictions by all sorts of people about how that century would signal the start of a truly golden age," said Richard Washington. This era is known as the sanest era in the history of our world (www.geocites.com). Edward VII along with other Edwardians helped to make it that way. Saki is a novelist and ...
- 916: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... nineteenth century. Emily s father, Edward Dickinson, was a grand figure in Amherst. In his letters, he comes across as a remarkably ambitious man a typical success-oriented, work-oriented citizen of expansionist America, in Richard Sewall s characterization. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, he soon became the leading lawyer in town. For thirty-seven years he was the treasurer of the college that his father helped establish in 1821 ...
- 917: Ernesto Che Guevara
- ... the world. Works Cited Anderson, Jon Lee. Che Guevara A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press, 1997. Castaneda, Jorge G. Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Harris, Richard. Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara s Last Mission. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970. Ernesto Che Guevara . Bolivia Web. 1997. (13 April 1999). Perez - Stable, Marifeli. The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy. New ...
- 918: Emily Dickinsons Private World
- ... truly able to free herself from the confines of society and live her own life, unfettered, innocent, and free. Bibliography Farr, Judith. Emily Dickinson- A Collection of Critical Essays. New Jersey:Prentice Hall, 1996 Ellman, Richard and O'Clair, Robert. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. New York:W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.
- 919: Dwight D. Eisenhower
- ... only suffered 76% casualties (Barry 30). Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most popular and successfulpresidents in our country's history. Eisenhower was elected to the office ofpresident twice. His first term with vice president Richard Nixion began in1952 (Hargrove 65). Then again in 1956 Dwight Eisenhower was reelectedto president winning by a landslide (Hargrove 76). Dwight Eisenhower solved many problems of his era. He helped to stop the Korea war ...
- 920: Daniel Boone
- ... the Ohio, where Louisville is now. There was another visit to Kentucky in 1773, and in 1774 he built a cabin at Harrodsburg. On this trip, Boone followed the Kentucky River to its mouth. Colonel Richard Henderson of the Transylvania Company hired Boone as his agent, and in March, 1775, Boone came again to the "Great Meadow" with a party of thirty settlers. They began to clear the Wilderness Road and ...
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