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- 1951: Modern American History
- ... but in a way he affects the lives of every citizen. On several occasions, Greenspan has saved the market from failure through quick action. He has always chosen the sound long-term route over a short-term benefit, even against protest. The market is a direct representation of the economy of the US, and Greenspan has a huge influence on it. Because of this, he changes the core process of money movement in America every day. And since he never succumbs to short-term prospects, Greenspan has ensured a sound future economy. Martin Luther King, Jr. was without a doubt the most important race relations leader in the history of the United States. King was the single man ...
- 1952: Lincoln
- ... living in Indiana, Lincoln s mother died of a devastating outbreak of what was called milk sickness , along with several other relatives. The hardest years of Lincoln s life were yet to follow. After a short time it became apparent that Thomas Lincoln could not cope with his family by himself. Thomas went back to Kentucky to seek a wife. He married Sarah Bush Johnson. They made a businesslike arrangement for ... felt that it was important for the children to be educated. Lincoln became adept at writing and reading. And almost from the beginning he a became a leader. These years of Lincoln s childhood were short. He grew up in tough economic times. Out of necessity Abraham was worked very hard on the family farm. He was even hired out to work for other farmers and by law Thomas Lincoln was ...
- 1953: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- ... etiquette to high treason. Louis demanded total loyalty to the throne and discretion in public and private behavior. (Dumas, Afterword). Louis was born on September 5, 1638. It was also an event that fell just short of being miraculous, for the king and queen had been married for twenty-three years and they detested each other. After all these years of unfruitful marriage, everyone had become resigned to the idea that ... separates them, one to be king and one to be in an iron mask so the royal family would not be divided. Louis XIV knew his father, Louis XIII, for a small period. "Only a short time had they known each other, and even then there was no warmth in their relationship. The boy feared the gloomy man who, so very rarely, found a few minutes to peek into the nursery ...
- 1954: Kurt Cobain
- ... friends, and for a time he even lived under a bridge of the Wishkah River in Aberdeen. A few years later, in June of '89, Nirvana's first album was released, entitled Bleach. They did short US tours and European tours to promote their album with bands such as Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 1992 Nirvana kicked off their first world tour. That's when Nirvana started getting ... s responsible for the most creative rock music of the last decade. In his music he didn't communicate in complete sentences or elaborate arguments, his lyrics were a stream of conscieness insights to the short attention span of his audience. Conterary to the plan Kurt had for his life, he became rich and famous and carried the banner for this generation of rebellious teens. To some kurt was a depressed ...
- 1955: Kobe Bryant
- ... Synergy. An important concept in Kobe Bryant's psyche. To hang around Kobe Bryant is to talk about his three greatest passions-basketball, family and hip-hop. That's it. You're not gonna get stories about how much expensive stuff he's bought with the help of his three year, $3.5 million contract and his multi-million dollar deals with Sprite and adidas-he just lets the money pile up in the bank. His only visible indulgences are his Lincoln Navigator and the black Range Rover he bought for his older sister, Shaya. No stories of groupies and older girlfriends on the road-his mother screens his calls. He spends most of his time ordering room service and writing rhymes. He's one of the rare young brothers who can ...
- 1956: King Tut
- ... pharaoh the direction of the state was devolved onto an older official named Ay. ( He succeeded Tut when he died.) When Tut was alive, however the Egyptians had a flair for playing games and telling stories. All Egyptians enjoyed contests and stories, but the wealthy pursued those pastimes with an elegant flourish. Royalty such as Tut, was portrayed on the walls of his tomb playing the game senet, which reenacted the quest for eternal fulfillment after death ...
- 1957: Karl Marx 2
- ... condition of production " (Marx, p.75). If the proletariat is forced to violence, then violence should be used, because it is for the greater good. Marx puts it all together in one final statement. "In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things." (Marx,p.86). Putting things back into perspective again, it is important to realize that this violence should be short lived, and only continue until the proletariat is in a position to make some changes to society. "Of course, in the beginning, this [the establishment of communism] cannot be effected except by means of despotic ...
- 1958: Influences Of Virginia Woolf
- One of the greatest female authors of all time, Virginia Woolf, produced a body of writing respected worldwide. Driven by uncontrollable circumstances and internal conflict, her life was cut short by suicide. Her role in feminism, along with the personal relationships in her life, influenced her literary works. Virginia's relationships throughout her life contributed, not only to her literature, but the quality of her ... her mother's approval in order to 'measure her own stature" (Bond 38). Battling with a sense of worthlessness, Virginia's mother helped her temporarily rid herself of self-criticism and doubt. This however was short-lived. When Mrs. Stephen rejected Virginia, she felt her mother's disapproval directly related to the quality of her writing. "Virginia Woolf could not bear to reread anything she had written Mrs. Stephen's rejection ...
- 1959: Hofstadter
- ... as moved by fears of modernity, nostalgia for an agrarian past, and no small amount of bigotry. Revisionists have since poked fatal holes in this portrait (for example, Hofstadter overstated the Populists' nativism and gave short shrift to their legitimate and well-developed critique of Gilded Age capitalism), yet the book still serves for historians of populism (and progressivism) as the point of departure for their work. Among his other influential ... life. No wonder C. Vann Woodward described Hofstadter as a hard man to vacation with, one who always had typewriter and bibliographies in tow. So it turned out that when his own life was cut short, by leukemia, at age fifty-four in 1970, Hofstadter had already written a lifetime's worth of lasting history. "It seems almost unkind to speak of Richard Hofstadter as a fulfilled historian -- when he was ...
- 1960: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... to leave vain loves and turn their hearts to Christ. Chuacer s characters are psychologically so complex that the work is known as the first modern novel. 6 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories set within a story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket. The poet joins a group of pilgrims, described in the General Prologue, who assemble at the Tabard Inn ... to be pieces written earlier by Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales , composed of more than 18,000 lines of poetry, is made up of separate blocks of one or more tales with links introducing and joining stories within a block.6 The uniqueness and skillfulness presented in this piece of work lies in the dramatic interaction between the tales and the framing story. After the Knight's courtly and philosophical romance about ...
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