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- 391: Ernest Hemingway 5
- ... face the unpredictablilities of life with honor and dignity, but he must also face the challenges alone. Each man faces his struggle alone...for only as solitary individuals can they assert their manhood (Weeks 165). Robert Weeks states that a man must depend upon himself alone in order to assert his manhood, and the assertion of his manhood, in the face of insuperable obstacles, is the complete end and justification of ... This was a futile relationship because of Jake s wound from the war. Couldn t we live together, Brett? Couldn t we just live together? (Hemingway, Sun 56). His other friend was his tennis partner, Robert Cohn, a graduate of Princeton and former boxer, whose only goal was to win Lady Brett Ashley. Despite the intentions of these two men Brett s only interest was to drink, meet new friends, and ... He enjoyed the food, the wine, and the view outside his window, the companionship of Bill and Harris, and most of all the fishing in the dam. Moreover, he was removed from the company of Robert Cohn, Brett and Mike who were reminders of the emptiness of life. In his solitary moments in the river, Jake as described by Hemingway, is one who fished with dignity. While carefully baiting his ...
- 392: Elizabethan Food
- ... that because of the way her father treated his wives, Elizabeth was disgusted by the idea of marriage. The more romantic feel it was because she couldn't marry the man that she really loved, Robert Dudley. When Elizabeth became Queen, Dudley was married, and then his wife died under mysterious circumstances a few years later. Although Robert Dudley was cleared of any wrong-doing in the matter, Elizabeth could not marry him because of the scandal that would no doubt arise. Or perhaps it was a combination of both. Regardless of the ... Spain sailed toward the tiny island nation. England prevailed and was on its way towards becoming the supreme naval power that it was in the 1600 and 1700s. This was also near the time that Robert Dudley died. Elizabeth kept the last letter he sent her in her desk, with "His Last Letter" written on it. Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603 and was succeeded by James I (James VI ...
- 393: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... recluse. She spent the next five years in her bedroom at her father's home. She continued writing, however, and in 1844 produced a collection entitled simply Poems. This volume gained the attention of poet Robert Browning, whose work Elizabeth had praised in one of her poems, and he wrote her a letter. Elizabeth and Robert then exchanged 574 letters over the next twenty months. Immortalized in 1930 in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street, by Rudolf Besier, their romance was bitterly opposed by her father, who did not want any of his children to marry. In 1846, the couple eloped and settled in Florence, Italy, where Elizabeth's health improved and she had a son, Robert Wideman Browning. Her father never spoke to her again. Elizabeth's Sonnets from the Portuguese, dedicated to her husband and written in secret before her marriage, was published in 1850. Critics generally consider the ...
- 394: The History Of Coca-Cola
- ... newspapers, he would give away coupons for a free Coke at any fountain. Coca-Cola was sold after the Prohibition Era to Ernest Woodruff for 25 million dollars. He gave Coca-Cola to his son, Robert Woodruff, who would be president for six decades(Facts, Figures, and Features Multiple pages). Robert Woodruff was an influential man in Atlanta because of his contributions to area colleges, universities, businesses and organizations. When he made a contribution, he would never leave his name, this is how he became to ... old Coke off the market came about because taste tests showed a distinct preference for the new formula. The new formula was a sweeter variation with less tang, it was also slightly smoother(Demott 54). Robert Woodruff's death was a large contributor to the change because he stated that he would never change Coca-Cola's formula. Another factor that influenced the change was that Coke's market share ...
- 395: The Grateful Dead
- ... the style of their live concerts that made people keep coming back. In 1959 when Jerry Garcia was thrown out of the army, he picked up his guitar and started playing music with his friend Robert Hunter. Robert Hunter would later become the Grateful Dead's non- performing song writer. Robert and Jerry lived in San Francisco, California. On one New Year's Eve party, Garcia and Hunter met Ron "The Pig Pen" McKerman, who played harmonica, keyboard and was also a vocalist. Pig Pen ...
- 396: Overhead Look At Sands
- ... Elinor. When Edward announces his marital availability, Elinor bursts out of the room crying. She thought that if she might have been her fault for showing little affection towards him. Later on his younger brother, Robert, and Lucy meet and fall in love. This enables Edward to break his engagement to Lucy and let Robert and her to get married. He then returns to see Elinor. At this meeting Elinor finds out that Edward was not married to Lucy but rather that his brother Robert was married to her. This time, she lets her true feelings come through, in fear that of losing him again. Memorable Passage: How are her [Elinor] feelings to be described? From the moment of ...
- 397: Mendin Wall
- Walls Have Two In Robert Frost s Mending Wall, he shows a man views about a wall. The man names both pros and cons of having the wall. He also hints at how a wall might affect a particular society. The ...
- 398: Cryogenic
- ... like believing you can turn a hamburger back into a cow." (Bagnell, 1995) Previous generations predicted man would never fly, reach the moon, cure polio or transplant a human heart. Anything is possible. "Look at Robert Goddard and his rockets, or Galileo. They were mocked and scorned, but they were eventually proven right. And think of the adventure if I re-animate in another solar system with my loved ones. What ... cold storage with four companies. The four main cryonics groups are Alcor, the largest, in California; the American Cryonics Society/Trans Time and Cryospan, both in California; and the Cryonics Institute, founded by movement pioneer Robert Ettinger in Michigan. There weren't that many people involved in this process because it is very expensive and it is also a pretty new technology. But today there is a few companies try to ... different plan for cryogenic. This man has a very different viewpoint from the other. "The hope is to have the years and health to do what is impractical now: Explore the Amazon, know Shakespeare and Robert Burns, learn to play Mozart and Scott Joplin...travel the solar system and the stars, see mankind scattered safely around the galaxy, pass on my loved ones is overwhelming; to lose that chance, heartbreaking." ( ...
- 399: David Livingstone
- ... spending a month in Cape Town with the London Missionary Society Secretary of South Africa, Livingstone sailed to Algoa Bay. He then trekked 125 miles over land to a missionary camp to wait for Dr. Robert Moffat, a Scottish born missionary who had worked there for over 20 years. Livingstone was deeply disappointed in the mission, a small and very unkempt village. Despite Moffat s years of work, only a few ... missionary work. After being attacked by a lion near Mabotsa, which severely damaged his right shoulder and inflicted a wound that would trouble him throughout his life, Livingstone returned to the main mission operated by Robert Moffat. Once there he married the Moffat s eldest daughter, Mary. The marriage was done with little enthusiasm, and Livingstone carried almost no affection for his new bride whom he described as stout and stumpy ... to reach the Makololo the next year, but was held back by fever, and the dreaded tsetse fly. In April 1851 Livingstone set out once again, this time accompanied by Oswell. He was also, to Robert Moffat s distress, accompanied by his wife and children. The Moffat s pleaded with him not to take the family, but Livingstone insisted that all of them must go. He promised to deepen the ...
- 400: King Of The Seas
- By: li-c From the many inventions that emerged from the American Civil War, the Ironclad, designed by Captain John Ericsson and Robert L. Stevens, has impacted the world by advancing naval warfare technology. It gave America more influence in Europe and put America ahead of Europe in naval matters. The impact and influence changed naval warfares forever ... feelings and thoughts on the ironclads. Fox, Vivian C.: A Change in Naval Warfare. Harvard University Press, 1983. This book talked about how without the Ironclads we would still have an wooden navy. Mac Bride, Robert: King of the Seas. Philadelphia 1987. This book showed how the Ironclad made the Wooden ship obsolete. Mac Bride, Robert: Civil War Ironclads The Dawn of Naval Armor Chilton Company Philadelphia 1962. This book showed how the ironclads advanced technology and caused a revolutionary of changes for the navies around the world. Pratt, Marion ...
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