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- 961: The Protector Of The Scots And The Hammer Of The Scots
- ... Scottish highlands (“Sir William Wallace” http:\\www.mcallister.com/clan/wallace.html). This new status as an Outlaw did not weaken William, in fact it started to form him into the Scottish hero that many stories would be made of. He started to attract to his side many men weary of the English repression of their homeland. These men having heard of William’s bold attack on an Englishman and subsequent ... of Williams success in battle was racing through Scotland and England. He was indeed becoming a true leader for the Scots who thought themselves on the way to independence from the hated Edward I. The stories eventually reach King Edward who was in France at the time. His remedy to this “Scottish Problem” was to dispatch a number of troop north to crush this rebellion. Wallace’s army had a problematic ... to see and parts of his body spread throughout the country to show the Kings subjects what happens to rebels. In the end Edward is victorious over Sir Williams uprising however in just a few short years Robert the Bruce will win back Scottish independence for over 400 years. Edwards ongoing military campaigns will leave his kingdom in debt and the heir to the throne Edward II is far less ...
- 962: The Permanent Campaign
- ... some sort of a line as to what the media will eport. More often than not our media tends to focus on the negative aspects of our government and our political system. We never hear stories about how welfare helped a single mother get back on her feet after a layoff or a divorce, all we hear from our media is how some people have six welfare children. We are at ... time they have already labeled that candidate as immoral or whatever, so when they recant the story on the back page of the Food section the damage is already done. All that these types of stories do is degrade our government officials and our political candidates, when this happens it promotes a general distrust of our government. When our society really begins to completely distrust anything and everything our government tells ... be in major trouble. I believe that if we scrutinized our media as much as we do our candidates our country would be much better off. We have become a country of instant gratification and short attention spans. When we want information we want it now and we want it fast. People need to start considering the sources of the information that streams so easily throughout the country in our ...
- 963: Hemingways For Whom The Bell T
- ... sense of adventure. He had garnered his father's passion for hunting and fishing in the north woods of Michigan, a period of his childhood which left important impressions later reflected in several of his short stories such as "Up in Michigan" and "Big Two Hearted River." In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old ... It was absolutely the most heartbreaking, gut-wrenching thing I have ever read. I was as close to tears as I had ever been. The sympathy one feels for the fascists at this point is short lived though when, in chapter 11, the reader learns of the slaughter of Joaquin's (part of Pablo's band of guerrillas) family. It serves to acquaint the reader with the cruel practices of ...
- 964: Joy Luck Club - Literary Analy
- ... June is going to China to meet her two long lost sisters. June’s mother passed away and now June has to join the Joy Luck Club. As the story goes on the members tell stories of their lives. The tell of the hardships of their lifes, all of them about mother-daughter relationships and how the mothers compared them and expected to much of them. When mothers compare and expect ... or disapproves. Suyuan decides that with piano lessons she and her daughter will rise above Lindo and Waverly. Jing-Mei only sees tedious lessons and hours of practice, but her mother envisions proudly sharing success stories between friends, comparing and convincing other mothers that her daughter was the best. Every detail and aspect of their lives were picked out and compared and for the one daughter that lost these comparisons, a ... in herself, because she felt that since her childhood she had failed her mother. "In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. I didn't get straight A's. I didn't become class president. I didn't get in to Stanford. I dropped out of college. For unlike my mother, I did not ...
- 965: Thomas Hardy
- ... anonymous during the first two novels. As most writers do, Hardy had a hot streak. From 1878-1912 he was " possessed with during with driving energy," as he wrote nine more novels, three volumes of short stories, and three collections of poems. He also wrote his greatest achievement during the First World War period. The Dynasts, which were 520 pages of mingled prose was said to be " a God’s eye view ... formal poetry consisted of sonnets, epigrams, and translation, these being more or less traditional. Narrative poetry was like telling a story and Hardy used topical anecdotes and past legends in ballad form to tell those stories. His satirical poems relied on human folly and the sense of humor of the reader. His best satirical poem was based on Victorian sexual morality called The Ruined Maid. Somewhere along the line his ...
- 966: Tim Leary
- ... he went on vacation to Cuernavaca Mexico. An anthropologist from the University of Mexico, who was a frequent visitor to the villa where Tim was staying, offered some of the religious mushrooms. Remembering Barron's stories, he tried them hoping they could be the key to psychological transformation. They had that effect. "I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that ... Eastern on the inside, this was a place for the hip and elite to get away for the weekend and test the boundaries of their own souls. In 1964 Tim was married again for a short time and while he was away from Millbrook some changes occurred. Tim thought Alpert let the place get out of hand and they had a split in their relationships. Alpert changed his name to Baba ... G. Gordon Liddy ended the Millbrook era. With the cultural changes going on at the time, the government was becoming alarmed at the way the youth started to use LSD. The press was full of stories of young people having horrible experiences. Tim became discouraged with how the press focused on LSD but paid no mention to all the alcohol induced problems, which were far more severe. He started giving ...
- 967: Edgar Allan Poe 2
- Edgar Allan Poe, son of Actress Eliza Poe and Actor David Poe Jr., born 19th of January 1809, was mostly known for his poems and short tales and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his pshycological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide. Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned before ... habits forced White to eventually let him go. Edgar moved around to New York and Philadelphia, trying to establish a name in literary journalism but without any major success. His theories on musical poems and short prose narratives which were to aim at "a certain unique or single effect" can be for example be seen in "Ligeia"(1838) and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1839) which would eventually become one of his most famous stories. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is sometimes considered the first detective story. Examples of his use of a rythmic and flowing language are the poems "The Raven" (1845) and "The Bells" (1849). ...
- 968: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- The short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor could be viewed as a comic strip about massacre and martyrdom. What stops it from becoming a solemn story is its intensity, ambition ... a man that views murder as a sport, he can look at a pile of bodies as nonchalantly as Bailey skimming over the weather report. The irony is absurd. This family is doomed by news stories and columnists. Nothing could be more horribly ridiculous. O'Connor is re-enforcing her stylistic approach to the literature by having the children read comic books in the beginning of the short story, all the way through their fateful journey. This story, in many ways, is a verbal comic strip. It mimics that of the frames of a comic strip with small self-contained scenes. Their ...
- 969: Timothy Findley
- ... his current life long friends; actress Ruth Gordon. Gordon convinced Findley that writing was his real talent and that he should pursue it further with more concentration. So findley gave up acting after his first short story was published in The Tamarack Review to concentrate on his writings. Findley had problems receiving recognition from his first two books, The Last of the Crazy People (1967) and The Butterfly Plague (1969). It ... of Jalna, and The National Dream; for which he received an ACTRA award for co-writing with his partner, William Whitehead. After The Wars, Findley came out with six other popular novels, two collections of short stories and Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer’s Workbook (1990), a collection of articles, journal entries, and reminiscences. Findley has been very active in the writing community; he has helped to found the Writer’ ...
- 970: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... 1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire includes some 30 full-length plays, numerous short plays, two volumes of poetry, and five volumes of essays and short stories. He won two Pulitzer Prizes (for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955), and was the first playwright to receive, in 1947, the Pulitzer Prize for ...
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