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- 521: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
- ... imagination, a person might reconcile adverse moral behavior and establish more balance and clarity of reality while they are awake. The Bible was a direct source of reference for Hawthorne. He grew up reading and studying religious concepts. In the Book of Job, Elihu's speech to Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar expresses Hawthorne's belief in God's "answer" to mankind's sinfulness. For God speaks again and again, in ...
- 522: Harper Lee
- ... local schools until 1944, at which time, she entered Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama. She became a Fulbright Scholar and spent a year at Oxford University. She also attended University of Alabama for four years studying law. In 1950, she quit the school and moved to New York City where she worked for Eastern Airlines and British Overseas Air Corporation. She began writing at a young age, but she was never ...
- 523: Sigmund Freud
- ... between these two terminal points of knowledge. If it existed, it would at the most afford an exlocalization of the processes of consciousness and would give us no help toward understanding them." (Freud, 1924). By studying the development of human beings Freud suggests that humans are made up of an apparatus that each of us prescribe the characteristics. The oldest of this apparatus is what Freud calls the Id. The Id ...
- 524: Robert Schumann
- ... education in 1816 at a private school. It was at this time that he started piano lessons from J. G. Kuntzsch. Kuntzsch was the organist oat St. Marys Church (Sadie 831). In 1820, he began studying the piano at Zwickau Lyceum. He also showed expertise in literary studies while there (Sadie 831). He studied law at Leipzig University. He soon gave that up and concentrated on his music career (Stanley 147 ...
- 525: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... his home, but he couldn't continue and had to give up his pioneering work (8). Leonardo also had great interest in guns, artillery, and lethal weapons. The powers and strengths was another subject worth studying, which he was more than just advanced at (Costantino 20). "He mastered the science of the past, improved both the practical and theoretical science of his own time, and, with his amazing intuition, foresaw many ...
- 526: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... It was a bitter disappointment to Hitler and effectively left him on the outside looking in at the artistic community in Vienna. His friend Kubizek had successfully gained entrance to the Vienna Conservatory and was studying music there, doing quite well, in contrast to Hitler. Hitler soon parted company with his friend in a rather strange manner. When Kubizek returned to Vienna after two months of military training in November, 1908 ...
- 527: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the ...
- 528: The Beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... be traced to his character which is shaped by his moral values and personality. We look at MLK and these traits to reveal the rationalization of his rise to transracial leadership in our society. Through studying the life and example of Martin Luther King, Jr., we learn that his moral values of integrity, love, truth, fairness, caring, non-violence, achievement and peace were what motivated him. King is not great because ...
- 529: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... from something important for the good of mankind. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. He forbad Ernest's sister from studying ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation". Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed ...
- 530: Mao Zedong
- ... sources. Evidence of this line of behavior dates from December 1957. As he prepared to launch the Great Leap forward Mao requested to be provided with all major editions of the Chuci. He spent months studying and comparing them. The "Li Sao" was Mao’s favorite poem and contributed to his romantic nature in literature ("revolutionary romanticism") in the spring of 1958, and to the flowery call of the Great Leap ...
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