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- 1981: Emily Bronte
- ... and Anne Bronte (1820-1849), and their brother (Patrick) Branwell Bronte (1817-1848), were born in Thornton, Yorkshire. The Bronte children's imaginations transmuted a set of wooden soldiers into characters in a series of stories they wrote about the imaginary kingdom of Angria-the property of Charlotte and Branwell-and the kingdom of Gondal-which belonged to Emily and Anne. A hundred tiny handwritten volumes (started in 1829) of the chronicles of Angria survive, but nothing of the Gondal saga (started in 1834), except some of Emily's poems. The relationship of these stories to the sisters' later novels is a matter of much interest to scholars. In the 1840s Charlotte's discovery of Emily's poems led to the decision to have the sisters' verses published. These appeared ...
- 1982: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... was sent home to help her. Poor young Isaac could not farm for his life. He abandoned the necessary chores and only thought about mechanical things to make and books to study. There are many stories about him at that time that show how forgetful he was becoming. One of the stories is about when he was once leading a horse, it ran away, and he didn’t even notice. The story says that Isaac’s horse slipped its bridle and ran away. The story then says ...
- 1983: Stalin
- ... like the first but thought through more. This time the government took more of a direct control over everything from budgetary discipline to reorganization of the state- supervised collective-farm markets. In just a very short time, the Soviet Union had managed to pass nations that had been markedly ahead of them in terms of industrialization. The third Five Year Plan was that of complete military armament. The military budget was ... go into effect or get started under a bureaucracy. In that highly volatile and dangerous time period only an iron fisted rule could bring about change fast enough to due any good. True in the short term peoples right were trampled upon and millions died from famine, purges, and the war itself but in the end hundred's of millions were saved. Alexander Werth, Russia at War, (London: Barrie and Rockcliff ...
- 1984: Comparison And Contrast Of Was
- ... give the reader the feeling of being there while the story is developing around them. The writers are also similar in the use of tone in their works. Irving’s use of tone in his stories is typically lighthearted, yet dramatic. This is demonstrated in “Rip Van Winkle” when Rip comes back from the “Kaatskills” and is talking to all the people in the town. There, he finds his son and ... The writing styles of Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe are very similar in their extensive use of descriptive passages but they are even more different by the tones which they use to develop the stories. Irving uses humor while Poe relies on horror. While their writings reflect a certain style and theme about Romanticism, clearly their own writing personalities are demonstrated.
- 1985: Everyday Use
- Everyday Use Dee stands out from her family in views of their heritage In Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use" she discuss the life of an African American family of a mother and her two daughters. The mother has a tremendous amount of love for both of her daughters, but the two ... tradition. The word heritage means; something that is passed down from preceding generations. This details that heritage has a lot to do with customs, property, reputation, and things of this sort. In Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use" the story begins off by mentioning a possession that can be obtained from inheritance. The mother (or protagonist) describes the yard as being comfortable than most people know. She says, "It is ...
- 1986: The Scarlet Letter Essay
- ... to escape the town (201): "It was the exhilarating effect-upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart-of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region." In short, fallen nature has set him free from his inner distress, but left him in an "unchristianized" world, a heathen world, damnation. He has given in to sin. He has, in effect, willingly agreed to commit ... Dimmesdale makes to climb back into the light is an effort that only a desperate man could have made. He used all his strength to make one final grasp at redemption but still falls quite short. Dimmesdale has the potential, though, of climbing much higher after death. Hester is as Hester was and as Hester will always be. Dimmesdale, the weak, fallen priest, was taken from earth at the height of ...
- 1987: The Hobbit: Overview & Review
- ... visions of elves feasting in the forest. To their surprize every time they announce their presence to the elves...they elves vanish! Once again Bilbo finds himself seperated from the group. He stops for a short nap and awakes to find himself tied down by a giant spider. He uses his sword to cut himself free. He then attacks the spider and kills it. Feeling proud of his deed, he decides ... his m agic ring and implements a plan to rescue his companions. It is a success and t he party (once again) gets out of an awful predicament. The celebration of escaping the spiders is short lived since the dwarf s are yet again captured...this time by the Wood Elves. Bilbo however dons his ring and escapes capture. He followed the elves to there home in the forest. There he ...
- 1988: Yarmouth,england
- ... conflicts prevailed as Clique complained to the King about new regulations, and that Yarmouth had control over the fishing areas. Problems with France pressed the communities to set aside some of the conflict for a short period of time, but soon that problem was resolved. Yarmouth, then had yet another problem. The inhabitants that lived by the harbor area were avoiding payments and were getting very disrespectful to the King's ... threat of invasion from their rival France, and the King soon ordered for a faster paced work, but it took too long and the walls of defense were just too big to finish in a short amount of time. The walls were built poorly, and soon crumbled into pieces. Therefore the king made a new tax on the people and construction of the town's defense began once again. The safe ...
- 1989: What We Talk About When We Tal
- The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy ... was because he couldn t see her through his eye holes....the man s heart was breaking because he couldn t turn his head and see his goddam wife. (p. 117) The author uses this short anecdote to tell the reader that there is hope; sometimes a relationship can turn into a deep love that will not wither away. The last few paragraphs of the story may seem strange and irrelevant ...
- 1990: Things Fall Apart 4
- ... toward his son Nwoye made their relationship based on fear instead of love and respect. Okonkwo wants his son to be a successful farmer and a great man, therefore he encourages him by telling masculine stories and by letting him know that was right to be masculine and to be violent. However, Nwoye preferred his mother s stories, so, Okonkwo saw too much of his father in him. Okonkwo assigns man s tasks to Nwoye, but always finds faults in his efforts to do them right, therefore, Nwoye was often reprimanded and beaten ...
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