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- 2151: A Summary of A Christmas Carol
- ... doesn't really mean "Bah!…Humbug!" (18) no matter how many times he says it. Fred is presented cheerful and in high spirits. "He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again." (18). As I said before, Fred is one of the ...
- 2152: Book Review: Darkness, Be My Friend
- ... Darkness, Be My Friend Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set out on a camping trip to a remote part of their ...
- 2153: Jane Austen: Background of Her Novels
- ... was during 1813 that knowledge of her authorship started to spread outside her family; as Jane Austen wrote in a letter of September 25th 1813: "Henry heard P. & P. warmly praised in Scotland, by Lady Robert Kerr & another Lady; -- & and what does he do in the warmth of his brotherly vanity and Love, but immediately tell them who wrote it!". Since she had sold the copyright of Pride and Prejudice outright ...
- 2154: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... were the others?' 'Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, consound the lot-'" Now, then, the house's attention continued, but the expression of interest in the faces turned to a sort of black frost. I wondered what the trouble was. I didn't know. I went on, but with difficulty- I struggled along, and entered upon that miner's fearful description of the bogus Emerson, the bogus Holmes, the ...
- 2155: The Style and Influences of Lewis Carroll
- ... Lewis Carroll. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Parkins, Keith. "Lewis Carroll." July 1998: n. pag. On-line. Internet. 28 April 1999. Available www: http://heureka.clara.net/art/carroll/htm. Bibliography Adams, Robert Martin. "Ironic Voyage." Lewis Carroll. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Bassett, Lisa. Very Truly Yours, Charles L. Dodgson, Alias Lewis Carroll. New York: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard Books, 1987. Baum, Alwin L. "Carroll ...
- 2156: James Baldwin
- ... one else could have imagined. As a result of his determination and talent, he was able to triumph, rise above the rest and become one of the most renowned black authors in history. REFERENCES Berens, Robert. Home page. 13 Feb. 2000 . Blair, Walter, et al. The Literature of the United States. 3rd ed. Illinois: Scott, Foresman, and Company, 1970. Canby, Henry, et al. Literature History of the United States. 3rd ed ...
- 2157: Lyndon Johnson
- ... construction of the Johnson presidential library in Austin. Johnson died on Jan. 22, 1973, 5 days before the conclusion of the treaty by which the United States withdrew from Vietnam. Bibliography Evans, Rowland, and Novak, Robert, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Exercise of Power : A Political Biography (1966); Geyelin, Philip, Lyndon B. Johnson and the World (1966); Goldman, Eric F., The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson (1969); Johnson, Lady Bird, White House Diary ...
- 2158: Andy Warhol
- ... walking attention grabber, and was so on purpose. His private life has been little revealed, but Warhol let everyone into his public life and loved every minute of it. Through the swapping of ideas with Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol realized that he now had the mode of reproduction that he was after. "Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems." This once again shows ...
- 2159: George Washington
- ... mustering, and regulation of various military companies. Washington seems to have been confidence he could make an efficient assistant at the age of 20, though he was then without military experience. In November 1752 Governor Robert Dinwiddie appointed him assistant of the southern district of Virginia. During the following summer, Virginia was shocked by reports that a French trip from Canada was establishing posts on the headwaters of the Ohio River ...
- 2160: Charles Dickens
- ... funeral led some to believe that he loves Mary more than his wife Catherine. Catherine was a good woman but lacked great intelligence. The couple ended up having ten children. Dickens now collaborated with artist Robert Seymour to do the sketches for The Pickwick Papers but Seymour ended up committing suicide leaving Dickens in search of finding someone to replace him. Soon after the death of Seymour, Dickens collaborated with another ...
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