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- 591: Cyrano de Bergerac and Mother Teresa: Heros?
- ... is really try not to procrastinate. It’s hard to hear it from me because I sound like the biggest hypocrite, but trust me in the end you’ll save yourself a lot of unneeded stress. However, I must admit I stressed a lot less about this project than the eight pager we did in January. I do think that it would have been easier if we would have had to ...
- 592: Martin Luther King Junior
- ... he lived to protect. King’s preoccupation with Vietnam and his determination to lead a Poor People's March on Washington combined with shifting public priorities to challenge his leadership. He was near exhaustion from stress, and his speeches increasingly alluded to his possible death. He was undeterred, however, for as he put it on April 3, 1968, he had "been to the mountain top and seen the Promised Land." The ...
- 593: Sigmund Freud
- ... minds. He called this free association. Freud was one of the world’s most influential thinkers. Freud’s theories on sexual development led to an open discussion and treatment of sexual matters and problems. His stress on the importance of childhood helped teach the value of giving children an emotionally nourishing environment. He showed the crucial importance of unconscious thinking to all human though and activity. But Freud’s strongest impact ...
- 594: Jessica Savitch: The Dark Side of a Golden Girl
- ... becomes depressed and attempts suicide. Jessica secretly arranges to terminate her pregnancy, because she does not want to pass Donald's genes onto her child. She tells others that she miscarried, because of all the stress she has been through. On August 2, he hangs himself with Chewy's leash in the basement. Jessica is hurt, but is taking it well. "I called her two days after Don died," says James ...
- 595: The Life Of Stalin
- ... a personal letter to Trotsky. Lenin had been previously placed under virtual house arrest by Stalin and his cadre, in order to "protect him" from assassination attempts and allow him to recover in a relatively stress-free environment. Stalin, in a fit of rage, called Krupskaya on the telephone and screamed at her ferociously (for allowing Lenin to write the letter). Stalin, among other things, called her a whore and threatened ...
- 596: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... all the accusations but finally they got to me and I turned to drinking once again. My beloved wifey died January thirtieth, 1847, when she was but twenty-five. I was somewhat relieved because the stress of her illness was so great, yet the loss I suffered was much greater. After her death I found myself wanting someone to love and someone who would take care of me. This began my ...
- 597: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... scheme, 2) Has a cadence or beat, 3) No set line length, 4) Has stanzas, but no set stanza length, 5) Uses repetition. Whitman's use of free verse marked a break in the syllable-stress tradition. In his poetry he didn't count the syllables stresses, or feet, in the long lines of poetry. Whitman used the item of anaphora, which is the use of repetition at the beginning of ...
- 598: The Life of Aristotle
- ... essential works include his Rhetoric, his Poetics (which survives in incomplete form), and his Politics (also incomplete). Methods Perhaps because of the influence of his father's medical profession, Aristotle's philosophy laid its principal stress on biology, in contrast to Plato's emphasis on mathematics. Aristotle regarded the world as made up of individuals (substances) occurring in fixed natural kinds (species). Each individual has its built-in specific pattern of ...
- 599: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... released from the hospital two weeks later. Immediately he went back to work on EPCOT.23 Walt Disney always had poor habits. He was a heavy smoker, and drank. He was under high levels of stress. More than once he was forced to go on a vacation to relax. Now doctors said he may not live longer than two years.24 Roy Disney completed Disneyworld after his brother's death. Roy ...
- 600: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... gas stations for miles long, and without taxes added, gasoline costed well over a dollar a gallon. Jimmy also faced serious oppostition within his won party, expecially when, during his third year, he began to stress military preparedness at the expense of social programs. Senator, Edward Kenndy, starting s the front-runner, challenged Jimmy for the 1980 democratic presidentail nomination. Democratic voters, however, gave Jimmy a series of primary-election victories ...
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