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- 1551: Edgar Allan Poe: Reflection of His Pessimistic Moods in His Work
- Edgar Allan Poe: Reflection of His Pessimistic Moods in His Work Throughout literature, an author's works almost always reflect their mood and character. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer whose short stories and poems reflected his pessimistic moods. One of Poe's poems, "The Raven," is about a raven that flies into the home of a sad and lonely man. This poem best expresses Poe's sense ...
- 1552: Romeo and Juliet: Romeo - A Tragic Hero
- ... Romeo being deeply and hopelessly in love with Rosaline. However Rosaline does not feel the same way about Romeo. This is when Romeo is unhappy and says to Benvolio: "Not having that which makes having short." ( Act 1, Scene 1, Line 162). This very well illustrates how deeply Romeo was in love with Rosaline. In the next scene the audience realize that Romeo ha fallen for another, which is Juliet. "For ... This is evident when the audience see Romeo's noble birth, his tragic flaw, series of poor decisions he made and the fact that through his actions he brought suffering upon other people. Most plays, stories or novels have a moral. The moral of Romeo and Juliet is not to rush into things like love, hate and important decisions. All people should think twice about every decision they are making. From ...
- 1553: William Shakespeare: Most Famous of All English Writers
- ... come from his life and the point in history in which he lived, thus producing Much Ado About nothing. Shakespeare's life has very much to do with the style of his writing as his stories are from his past experiences. Shakespeare had a life that involved both the good and bad aspects of love. He was married for a short while, however, the marriage was suspected to be an unhappy one because he spent much of his later life away from his family. Shakespeare's misfortune in love is shown in Much Ado About Nothing ...
- 1554: Much Ado About Nothing: An Overview
- ... aspects of his characters and their strife to his audience? How did he direct the actors and what did the open air stage of The Globe look like? Imagine yourself in London circa 1600, a short year after the completion of the Globe Theater and perhaps a few months after the completion of the play Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV has just begun. Claudio and Hero are facing each other ... l14). His quick jabbing remark sets the audience on edge once again. Perhaps Don John succeeded in his vile plot to foul the wedding! Conrade and Borachio may not have been simple drunkards confessing fictitious stories to one another in a dark alley. The tension has mounted and Hero's negative answer to the Count's inquiry cannot cut it back. Friar Francis' repitition of the question, directed at Claudio brings ...
- 1555: Charlemagne
- ... education among the Frankish people was to bring about religious, political, and educational reforms that would change the history of Europe. Charlemagne was born in 742 at Aachen, the son of Pepin(or Pippin) the Short and grandson of Charles Martel. His grandfather, Charles, had begun the process of unifying western Europe, in the belief that all people should be Christian. Charlemagne's father, Pepin, continued this process throughout his rule ... portion of land around Rome, and was under constant aggression from the Lombards. Pope Hadrian I in 773 appealed to Charlemagne to help rebuff the Lombards, and in the winter of that year in a short and decisive campaign, the Lombards were defeated. Charlemagne then added "King of the Lombards" to his title, and gave control of the northern part of Italy to the Pope. The creation of the "Papal States ... Sourcebook . [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html]. August 1996 Holmes, George, The Oxford History of Medieval Europe. New York, Oxford University Press 1988 Charlemagne I. Rise to power A. Charles Martel B. Pepin the Short C. Carloman II. Changes in Political and Social order A. Shift from many Kings to Counts 1. Ownership by lineage changes to appointment by Charlemagne 2. The Oath of Fidelity p. 113 Carol. And ...
- 1556: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... marriage, Gauss lived an ordinary academic life which was hardly disturbed by the violent events of the time. His powers and his productivity were unimpaired, and he continued with a work program which in a short time would have brought an ordinary man to collapse. Although Gauss was often upset about his health, he was healthy almost all of his life. His capacity for work was colossal and it is best ... had not lost their gleam. The end came about a month later. In the morning of February 23, 1855 Gauss died peacefully in his sleep. He was seventy-seven years old. BIBLIOGRAPHY Gindikin, S.G., Stories about physicists and mathematicians, Russia, Moscow, "Nauka", 1982 (in Russian). Hall, T., Carl Friedrich Gauss, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970. Muir, Jane, Of Men and Numbers: The Story of Great Mathematicians. Dodd, Mead, and ...
- 1557: Steven Spielberg
- ... later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival and led to the boy genius's Universal Studios directing contract at the age of twenty. Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which included an ... artistically. Teaming up with his pal George Lucas (whose Star Wars came out the same year as Close Encounters, and made even more money), Spielberg created an action-adventure picture based on the old continuing stories, better known as serials, that they both loved as kids. Called Raiders of the Lost Ark and detailing the adventures of an archaeologist named Indiana Jones, it earned him another Best Director nomination and made ...
- 1558: King Arthur
- ... of Arthur, there is no mention of his queen, Guinevere; she was introduced by later writers, possibly to illustrate how the dream world of Camelot fell from grace. When Guinevere first appears in early Welsh stories, she is the daughter of a giant, but later she becomes the daughter of King Leodegrance of the West Country. In her original Welsh form of Gwenhwyfar, she was an folk figure before being connected ... at the very real Roman town of Caerleon in South Wales; Malory placed it at Winchester, which was the headquarters of the kings of Wessex and remained a royal seat after the Norman invasion. Other stories place it near Arthur's supposed birthplace at Tintagel. Cadbury Castle in Somerset has been named as another possible location of Camelot, which has been revealed during excavations to have been occupied during the time ... in a cave on a remote Western Island. This god had once ruled over a peaceful and happy kingdom, but had been overthrown. One day he would rise again and return to rule. There are stories of this ilk that explicitly name Arthur, such as the Wizard of Alderley edge, in which Merlin the magician guards Arthur and his knights, who lay sleeping in a cavern there until England once ...
- 1559: Shakespeare' As You Like It: Effective Use of Sound In Jaques' Speech
- ... out the verb instead of simply speaking it. The three initial stages are complete, leaving the reader dangling on the edge of adulthood. Soldiers are usually equated with fast wit and decisiveness. The use of short words and short sounds emphasize these next five lines of prose in Jaques' speech. Jealous in honor, sudden, and quick in quarrel, (2.7.151) is a line which is said quickly and brashly due to the short sounds such as ...pard, (2.7.150) and ...quick... (2.7.151) which are contained within it. The stage of the justice is equated with wit and wisdom. A slower sounding, softer word choice ...
- 1560: Steven Spielberg
- ... later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival and led to the boy genius's Universal Studios directing contract at the age of twenty. Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which included an ... artistically. Teaming up with his pal George Lucas (whose Star Wars came out the same year as Close Encounters, and made even more money), Spielberg created an action-adventure picture based on the old continuing stories, better known as serials, that they both loved as kids. Called Raiders of the Lost Ark and detailing the adventures of an archaeologist named Indiana Jones, it earned him another Best Director nomination and made ...
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