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- 151: Hemingways For Whom The Bell T
- ... the Spanish Civil War in 1937, the setting for For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1928, Hemingway's father committed suicide. He did not reflect on this event in his writing until the thoughts of Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, in 1940. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) followed the failure of a military rebellion to overthrow Spain's democratically elected government. The war divided ... Republic was in power in Spain. A rebellion led by Francisco Franco and the Second Republic began and they received tremendous amounts of support from the people of Spain. They were known as the rebels. Robert Jordan fights on the side of the Loyalists in this novel, as did many Americans and other foreign volunteers, known as the International Brigades. As well as support from the people, the Second Republic had ... Germany and Italy. In the end these forces proved too much to handle for the weary Loyalists, and the war was lost to the Second Republic. For Whom the Bell Tolls is the story of Robert Jordan, an American college Spanish professor, fighting for "the cause" with the loyalists as an expert in demolition. It is written in startlingly crisp, concise prose (something which Hemingway was know for), and is ...
- 152: Leadership Ability of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
- Leadership Ability of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson The quality of leadership can be defined as one's ability to appeal to and sense the needs, wants, and feelings of one's constituency. A leader must also be innovative ... must also have good decision making skills under all circumstances, and must maintain credibility to his or her constituents. The political candidates during the 1960’s each reflected different levels of this quality of leadership. Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, for example, had vastly different levels of leadership ability. RFK was able to sense what his constituents wanted, and he had innovative social programs which appealed to many of his constituents ... much of the nation no longer desired to be involved in the conflict. His inability to deal with the pressures of the war eventually forced him to withdraw from the 1968 presidential race. In contrast, Robert Kennedy’s passion, openness, and sometimes brutal honesty seemed refreshing to the Americans of 1968. They a public who did not trust the government due to the LBJ White House’s credibility gap, and ...
- 153: Gentlemen Of The Night
- ... and "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" are two poems about the night which contain desires, and it is readily said that these two poets offer easily accessible emotion in their verse. For Frost, his emotion was an attainable one because he didn't fill his life with what he considered to be mundane challenges. "The most pronounced instance where my life was influenced by this instinct was when I gave up my work at Harvard," said Frost. It was during the course of attending school that Frost learned that structure, school or otherwise, made him feel restraint to the point of being unable to complete things because they had to be done. In his life as in his poetry, Frost relied ...
- 154: Robert Fulton
- Robert Fulton Robert Fulton made many contributions to the American economy. Fulton was the American inventor who brought steamboating from its mere experimental stage to its complete and successful stage. Fulton was born on Nov. 14, 1765 in ... piers. Although some of his bridge designs were used to build bridges in the British isles, his ideas for building canals were not accepted. Then in 1801 Fulton meet a man by the name of Robert R. Livingston. The two men decided to share the expense of building a steamboat in Paris using Fulton’s idea. It was a side paddlewheel boat, sixty six foot long boat, with an eight ...
- 155: Robert Andrew Millikan
- Robert Andrew Millikan In 1909 Robert Andrew Millikan set up an apparatus to measure the charge of an electron within an accuracy range of 3%. In 1913 he came out with a value of the electrical charge that would serve the ... may have had a little to do with his teacher’s habit of spending the summers using a divining rod to find water. After Millikan graduated from Maquoketa High he was accepted into Oberlin College. Robert actually began his physics career when he taught an elementary course at the request of his Greek professor during his sophomore year. He then transferred to Columbia University from which he graduated in 1893 ...
- 156: Robert Hunter
- Robert Hunter had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter ... almost immediately taken on as the primary lyricist for the band. In collaboration with Garcia's musical talent, Hunter began turning out dozens of poems that would later become well-known songs. The poems of Robert Hunter have diverse and variegated themes; most, however relate either to folk stories or the vivid emotions and scenes he creates in order to illustrate his point. Hunter's lyrical themes can be divided into ... ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/ambig.html 1997. 10. Dodd, David. The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: A Website. http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/#songs 1997. 11. Dodd, David. Light and Dark in the Lyrics of Robert Hunter. (Thematic Essay) http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/light.html 1997 12. Scully, Rock, and David Dalton. Living With the Dead: 20 Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Boston: ...
- 157: Robert Hunter
- Robert Hunter had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter ... almost immediately taken on as the primary lyricist for the band. In collaboration with Garcia's musical talent, Hunter began turning out dozens of poems that would later become well-known songs. The poems of Robert Hunter have diverse and variegated themes; most, however relate either to folk stories or the vivid emotions and scenes he creates in order to illustrate his point. Hunter's lyrical themes can be divided into ... ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/ambig.html 1997. 10. Dodd, David. The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: A Website. http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/#songs 1997. 11. Dodd, David. Light and Dark in the Lyrics of Robert Hunter. (Thematic Essay) http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/light.html 1997 12. Scully, Rock, and David Dalton. Living With the Dead: 20 Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Boston: ...
- 158: Robert Wright's Article "The Evolution of Despair"
- Robert Wright's Article "The Evolution of Despair" Robert Wright is the science writer for Time Magazine. Because he writes for this popular magazine, he enjoys the attention of many readers who look to him to provide them with the latest news from the ... is true, Wright's effort in persuading the reader can be appreciated. His guile in doing so cannot. After all, where is the justification for concealing an editorial within a scientific piece? Works Cited: Wright, Robert. "The Evolution of Despair" Time Magazine Vol. 146 No. 9 28 Aug. 1996: 1-4 (Full article is included for the use of citations because original page numbers could not be obtained.)
- 159: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 in Stafford, Virginia. The son of Lighthorse Harry Lee and was educated at the U.S. Military academy. In 1829 he graduated second in his class receiving ... October 12, 1870 Lee died at the University and has long been revered as an ideal by southerners and as a hero by all Americans. His antevellum home is now known as Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, and is a national memorial. In 1975 Lee's citizenship was restored posthumously by an act of the U.S. Congress.
- 160: Understanding "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... and make a conclusion based on them. This process, which is extremely common in today's society, was also common in the Victorian Age, in Victorian poetry, in the use of dramatic monologue. Perfected by Robert Browning in the mid nineteenth century, dramatic monologue very closely mirrors modern society's legal institution. In comparison, the reader is the jury, the speaker of the poem is the lawyer, and, thinking more abstractly, the author, Robert Browning in this case, represents the case as a whole. The decision the jury must make between what is actually right and what the lawyers imply to be right is the same one the reader ... monologue. "Porphyria's Lover" is a poem from Dramatic Lyrics critics often cite when explaining dramatic monologue. Because of it, the reader is pulled between what the speaker thinks is right and what really is. Robert Browning's perfection of dramatic monologue and use of a dramatic mask in his poem "Porphyria's Lover" create in his audience a conflict between sympathy and judgement (Magill, 335). To fully understand and ...
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