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- 1291: Henry Adams
- ... and American education, was as far as possible sexless (Adams, 385). The only sculptures and paintings of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. For example, America was ashamed of her have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her (Adams, 384). However, during this time of the technology revolution, women were beginning to be viewed differently, especially in ...
- 1292: Freud And Dreams
- ... one of those wishes, which only emerges from the suppressed part of the mind and becomes active at night. 4) It may be a current wishful impulse that only arise during the night such as sexual needs or those stimulated by thirst. The place of origin of a dream-wish probably has no influence on its capacity for instigating dreams (Freud, pg. 550-551). Freud states that a child's dreams ...
- 1293: Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- ... if he does not acknowledge that his father was white, then he is not forced into thinking his mother was most likely raped by a white man. A majority of southern slaveholders took part in sexual relations with their slaves because it was their property and they felt should be able to do whatever they wanted to do with it. This idea of the slaveholder was an evil example of the ...
- 1294: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... have conjured up theories as to why Poe was the way he was. The explanation of genius in terms of medical science is particularly tempting in Poe s case. Hereditary madness, epilepsy, dipsomania and degeneracy, sexual impotence, syphilis, drug addiction, sado necrophilia: more explanations of genius have certainly been propounded for Poe than for any other.15 Since Poe s works place him to be referred to as an artist of ...
- 1295: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... be to boycott the bus company. The people in the locale agreed to participate and that started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As they continued to withhold patronage the white community fought back with terrorism and harassment. The community complained and King told them, We must learn to meet hate with love. Although King s views were continuously challenged by blacks who had lost faith in nonviolence, his belief in the power ...
- 1296: D.h. Lawrence
- ... his most notorious novels, Lady Chatterly s Lover. This book was filled with the sensations between a member of nobility and her husband s gamekeeper. It was also tabooed for it s sex words and sexual liberation. Another example that was also tabooed, yet showed heightened sensation, would be Women in Love, which explored the relationships between men and women. Many of his works created a heightened sensation to keep the ...
- 1297: Dorothy Parker
- ... this manner at the height of her popularity. Her cynical verses developed into something of a national frenzy, while giving the reader the impression that she recklessly stretched a woman's equal rights to include sexual relationships. It seemed that infidelity was included among these "rights." Her admirers culled quotations from her poetry that, while seeming to be among the most clever, were also among the least sincere. These epitomize the ...
- 1298: Chanel, Gabrielle
- ... victories were similar to the clothes she had been making for herself--women's clothes made out of Everyman materials such as jersey, usually associated with men's undergarments. Throughout the '20s, Chanel's social, sexual and professional progress continued, and her eminence grew to the status of legend. By the early '30s she'd been courted by Hollywood, gone and come back. She had almost married one of the richest ...
- 1299: Alice Walker
- Best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker portrays black women struggling for sexual as well as racial equality and emerging as strong, creative individuals. Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of Willie Lee and Minnie Grant Walker. When Walker was eight ...
- 1300: Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
- ... did not mature sexually or emotionally for quite some time. When he was interested in girls he would simply offer to carry their books or tease them. He forced himself into a state of great sexual repression which could have lead to some of his anger. It is also worthy to note there were no anti-Semitic groups in Linz during the time he was there and he even stated in ...
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