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- 1591: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as his fellow classmates, and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the ... the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and had little money. Napoleon spent little time with his regiment. He was more concerned with trying to free his home land of Corsica, witch had been taken with force ... But all the while still had his eyes on France. On June 18, 1815 Napoleon with his new army once again attacked the English, led by the Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo. This battle was short lived and Napoleon was quickly defeated, and he was once again abdicated. But this time they sent him to live on the Island of St. Helena, where he died in may 1821. As you ...
- 1592: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as his fellow classmates, and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the ... the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and had little money. Napoleon spent little time with his regiment. He was more concerned with trying to free his home land of Corsica, witch had been taken with force ... But all the while still had his eyes on France. On June 18, 1815 Napoleon with his new army once again attacked the English, led by the Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo. This battle was short lived and Napoleon was quickly defeated, and he was once again abdicated. But this time they sent him to live on the Island of St. Helena, where he died in may 1821. As you ...
- 1593: P. T. Barnum
- ... in Bethel and also one of the richest men. His longest running joke would be on Barnum. At the boys cresting, he deeded Barnum a piece of land called Ivy Island. For years Barnum herd stories about what a lucky young man he was to be given Ivy Island At the age of ten he set out to see the island himself. Barnum soon found out Ivy Island was named for ... The next year Connecticut outlawed lotteries. A few weeks later his store went bust. Then the final blow came, the newspaper could not repeat with the well-established Danbury Recorder and folded. Within a few short months he was wiped out. In 1834, with nothing left to lose Barnum moved his family to New York City. Without knowing it he started down the road to the "Greatest Show On Earth."4 ...
- 1594: Mark Twain
- ... moved to Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi, when young Clemens was 4 years old. It was in this river town that he grew up, and from it he gathered the material for his most famous stories. The character of Judge Carpenter is somewhat like his father; Aunt Polly, his mother; Sid Sawyer, his brother Henry; Huck Finn, a town boy named Tom Blankenship; and Tom Sawyer, a combination of several boys ... Behind his mask of humor lay a serious view of life. Tragedy had entered his own life in the poverty and early death of his father, the loss of a daughter, and his bankruptcy. His short story, 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg', published in 1900, which showed greed at work in a small town, is an indication of Twain's dark side. The controversial 'Huckleberry Finn', which is periodically banned in ...
- 1595: Special Effects
- ... in the early fifties would use a black cloth backdrop with white paint splattered off of toothpicks to simulate a space scene in the many science-fiction movies made in that era. There is also stories of a common plate being thrown across a "space" backdrop to emulate a flying saucer in mid-flight. Although the special effects persons of old were strapped with limits, one of these was not make ... did not matter at the time because it was state of the art. The next major breakthrough in the effects world was stop-motion animation. A process by which objects were filmed for a very short period (3 or 4 frames) being altered or moved very slightly at each interval of "cuts". "King Kong" and "I was a teenage werewolf" popularized this time-consuming process but was worth the results. The ...
- 1596: The Instigator
- ... aggression. Tybalt is one of the major characters of the play, in the aspect, he is responsible for the major turn of events, as his action turn the preceding part of the play from a short comedy into a full-length tragedy. On the streets of Verona, Tybalt and his subject run into their warring counterparts, Benvolio and Mercutio, of the Montague household. Being a peaceful man, Benvolio talks of peace ... word peace Tybalt illustrates his animosity toward the Montagues, as he repulsively responds, I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee (1.1.68-69). This remark was sparked after a short confrontation, which was stopped by citizens and peace officers. Later in the story, Mercutio describes Tybalt to Benvolio, O, he is / the courageous caption of compliments. He fights as / you sing prick-song; keeps time ... play, because his actions motivate a great turn of events and subside previous hope of a peaceful resolution, which leads up to the great tragedy of the end. Tybalt's hatred erupts ultimately making the short Shakespearean comedy into a full-length tragedy. The gregarious quality that Tybalt possesses draws the care of his friends and family, including Juliet, but the ruthless and aggressive qualities draw fear and caution out ...
- 1597: Paul Dunbar Research Paper
- ... when something of that magnitude was happening to his people. Dunbar stated through his poems that slavery was like a disease, and that it had to be stopped before it was too late. He told stories that were true, and he told stories that were fabricated, simply to get his anti-slavery views across to the world. The young master asks for a story, and yet again I am obliged to tell
(Dunbar 153). An odd occurrence takes ... Paul Dunbar used his writing as a tool for equality. He felt that the world was primarily good, he just thought that they needed to be educated. He educated them through his poetry, and told stories that inspired, shocked, and enlightened. Dunbar had a very mixed variety of poetry in his arsenal, he had fine manicured American Literature, and he also had a style of poetry that was commonly negro. ...
- 1598: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as his fellow classmates, and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him. Napoleon attended the ... the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and had little money. Napoleon spent little time with his regiment. He was more concerned with trying to free his home land of Corsica, witch had been taken with force ... But all the while still had his eyes on France. On June 18, 1815 Napoleon with his new army once again attacked the English, led by the Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo. This battle was short lived and Napoleon was quickly defeated, and he was once again abdicated. But this time they sent him to live on the Island of St. Helena, where he died in may 1821. As you ...
- 1599: Hamlet: Shakespeare Tragic Hero
- ... he realizes what he had done was wrong now that Hamlet knows the truth behind the matter. Hamlet is a tragic play because it has a beginning, middle, and end, and takes place in a short period of time. The play has a specific beginning, which consists of Hamlet seeing his father and considering what to do about it. The middle is one of the actions that he took, the "Mouse Trap." This set the course for the end, which was when the whole ending fencing scene takes place, when Hamlet and most of the other main characters die. The play took place in a short period of time and moved consistently without too many breaks in time. This is a tragic play because it contains all of the characteristics of the classic tragic play. It takes place over a short period of time with a beginning, middle, and end. It has a tragic hero who possesses a flaw that causes his demise. Hamlet did get done what he wanted to get done, but because ...
- 1600: Rasputin
- ... attraction to Rasputin, and there is some evidence to support the idea that he acted not only on the above motives, but also as a means of extracting personal revenge against the peasant. There were stories that Rasputin had rejected the Prince's homosexual advances; that Rasputin had compiled a dossier on Youssoupov's activities and was about to disclose its contents to the Emperor, forever ruining the Prince's name ... sole relationship with her was built on religious principles is beyond belief. I dont mean to say that Nicholas II was solely responsible for the fall of the Czarist regime, he simply drew the short straw. His father, like his father and his father before him were all Czars who begun with sweeping reforms but was to later undermine them themselves or by those around them. The Czars before Nicholas ...
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