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- 2561: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... they are grown, And Plumbs and Apples thoroughly ripe do fall... And time brings down what is both strong and tall, But plants new set to be eradicate, And buds new blown, to have so short a date, Is by his hand alone that guides nature and fate (Spiller 64). Bradstreet's "simplicity of diction and imagery carry a genuine emotional effect, until, suddenly Anne Bradstreet realizes that she is perilously ... 232). The only reference to religion is to pray the heavens reward her husband, hardly a Puritan prayer. "Anne Bradstreet loved Simon Bradstreet and her children and God with a troubled realization that she fell short of God's, 'Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heard'"(Blair 229). Anne Bradstreet's poetry shows a merging of the private life with the religious life, but also a rebellious ...
- 2562: Davy Crockett
- ... farm, he learned how to make hats, he helped with the cattle, and did many odd jobs. When he wasn't working he went hunting and roamed the woods. Davy was the best at telling stories. He got to know a lot of people liked him. They elected him to the legislature. He was successful. He had 2 terms. Davy wanted to go fight with the Creeks. But his wife, Finley ... fought with James Bowie and William Travis in San Antonio at a mission. The Mexicans attacked the mission and Davy Crockett was killed. Davy Crockett was a famous American. He could hunt fish and telling stories. He was good with people and tried to help them. We remember him as a well-loved pioneer.
- 2563: Andy Warhol
- ... in underground film. In the late 70's he began to use sex and nudity to gain attention in his films. Whether this was moral or not; it did, however, work. The rest of his short life was spent visiting with celebrities and keeping up with the world's times. He tried to understand how the rest of the world saw things, but just never got there. Sadly, Warhol died of ... underground film-making crowds gathered in the back corners of Max's to try their chance at working with Warhol. In 1968, he was nearly killed by a woman who was in one of his short films. She shot him on the side of his chest, but fortunately he was not killed. He still continued to make films; such famous ones are "Eat," "Haircut," "Sleep," "Kiss," and "Empire." He would make ...
- 2564: The Identity of Thomas Pynchon
- ... him, and he is ashamed of his Bugs Bunny teeth" (Diamond 65). By isolating himself, Pynchon has created an aura of mystery that surrounds his persona and is reduplicated within his writings. Many of the stories about Pynchon himself are amusing, and have the flavor of suburban folklore: [Some] stories have Pynchon sealed inside a barrel and rolled into a wedding to avoid photographers, constructing a cocoon of engineering paper around his work space to ensure privacy when he worked at Boeing and responding to ...
- 2565: Queen Elizabeth I
- ... in four languages. She was fluent in the languages of Greek, Latin, French, and Italian. When Henry died in 1547, her brother, Edward, took over the throne at ten years of age. Edward, with a short reign on the throne, died in 1553, and Elizabeth's half, older sister, Mary took the throne. Mary, like Edward, died on November 17, 1558, after a short time on the throne.In October 1562, Queen Elizabeth almost died of small pox. In 1584, Europe's other major protestant leader, William of Orange, was assassinated. For the first time in her life, Elizabeth ...
- 2566: Crazy Horse
- Crazy Horse When I think back of the stories that I have heard about how the Native American Indians were driven from their land and forced to live on the reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the battlefield as winners. When stories are told, or when the media dares to tamper with history, it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the bad guys. They are portrayed as savages who spent their time raiding ...
- 2567: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... a time in England that was marked with a great amount of crime and very violent youths. Burgess himself had once cited this setting as the source of, or at least the inspiration of the stories of horror and violence told in this novel (Baldwin A8). The narrator of this book is the main source of these horror stories. Alex is cheerful in his life of crime, and is high-spirited about beating the elderly and raping the defenseless (Bergonzi 85). This trend can be seen in other books as well. One critic summed ...
- 2568: Abraham Lincoln
- ... after moving with his family to Macon County, Illinois, he struck out on his own, taking cargo on a flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana. He then returned to Illinois and settled in New Salem, a short-lived community on the Sangamon River, where he split rails and clerked in a store. He gained the respect of his fellow townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to ... his cabinet by retaining both secretaries. Lincoln's political influence was enhanced by his great gifts as an orator. Able to stress essentials in simple terms, he effectively appealed to the nation in such classical short speeches as the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address. Moreover, he was a capable diplomat. Firmly rejecting Seward's proposal in April 1861 that the country be united by means of a foreign war ...
- 2569: George Frederick Handel
- ... 1706. In the spring and summer of 1707 and 1708 he traveled to Rome, enjoying the backing of both the nobility and the clergy, and in the late spring of 1707 he made an additional short trip to Naples. In Italy, Handel composed operas, oratorios, and many small secular cantatas; he ended his Italian visit with the stunning success of his fifth opera, Agrippina (1709), in Venice. Handel left Italy for ... job for long. By the end of 1710 Handel had left for London, where with Rinaldo (1711), he once again scored an operatic triumph. After returning to Hannover he was granted permission for a second, short trip to London, from which, however, he never returned. Handel was forced to face his truancy when in 1714 the elector at Hannover, his former employer, became King George I of England. The reconciliation of ...
- 2570: Frank Lincoln Wright
- ... During the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a booming, crazy place. With an education of Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Wright found a job as a draftsman in a Chicago architectural firm. During this short time with the firm of J. Lyman Silsbee, Wright started on his first project, the Hillside Home for his aunts, Nell and Jane. Impatiently moving forward, Wright got a job at one of the best ... Wright. The house, in my opinion shows the exact definition of the Prairie style. The way that it's built on a narrow city lot and the way it's horizontal lines are, show the short, flat look of that style. The Imperial Hotel provided Wright with an architectural as well as engineering challenge. The hotel was finished in 1922 and was criticized for its aesthetic design, but when it survived ...
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