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- 15461: Helen of Troy: The Face that Launched One Thousand Ships
- ... she was able to imitate the voices of all the wives of the Greeks while they waited inside the Trojan Horse, she is also in possession of an Egyptian drug which removes all sorrow. Helen's role in the War is ambiguous. In the Iliad she is critical of herself and of Paris (and of Aphrodite), while the Trojan horse episode seems like an attempt to trick the Greeks and save ... Aethra. The Dioscuri rescued her and returned her to her home in Lacedaemon, taking Aethra prisoner at the same time. When Helen reached marriageable age, all the greatest men in Greece courted her. Her mother's husband, King Tyndareos of Lacedaemon, was concerned about the trouble that might be caused by the disappointed suitors. Acting on the advice of Odysseus, he got all the suitors to swear that they would support ... to Lacedaemon, where they lived an apparently happy married life once more. After the end of their mortal existence, they continued to be together in Elysium. There were a number of different accounts of Helen's relationship with Paris. In some, she was truly in love with him, although her sympathies were mostly with the Greeks who beseiged Troy. In others, she was a beautiful and wanton woman who brought ...
- 15462: Joe Louis Barrow
- ... bomber. He was born on May 13, 1914 and he died on April 12,1981.Born in Chambers county Alabama to his mother Lillie Barrow and father Munroe Barrow. They moved to Detroit and that's where he grew up and started his boxing career. Joe was sixteen when he started in the amatuer boxing ring. His mother was giving him money for violin lessons, but Joe Louis was not interested ... mother found out, she was angry. Still she encouraged him to do his best at boxing. He was excited and went to fill out the forms for his first fight.When he realized there wasn't enough room to complete his full name he just wrote Joe Louis, that is how the name became so famous in the short form. Joe then meet a man named George Slayton, who soon became Joe's manager. With George's help Joe made it to the Golden Gloves.Joe's first fight was against Jack Kracken, July 4,1934. He only made $55.00 for the fight and 3 months ...
- 15463: Pablo Picasso
- Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and he died in France in 1973. Picasso's father was an art teacher in a local school. He wanted Picasso to become a great artist some day. Picasso's painting style changed more over the period of his life than any other great artist. He was always trying new and different things. When his best friend died, Picasso felt alone and sad and all ... of blue. This was called the Blue Period. Picasso explained the Blue Period by the fact that Prussian blue was the cheapest color that there was. He was indeed extremely poor at this time. Picasso's most important work of his Blue Period was La Vie (Couple Nu et Femme avec Enfant) of 1903. During this period, he would prefer to paint beggars because it allowed him to see both ...
- 15464: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... the importance of appearances, especially in public. Dr. Hemingway invented surgical forceps for which he would not accept money. He believed that one should not profit 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 her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they ...
- 15465: Sir Robert Laird Borden
- ... picking up strength in the election while the Liberals began losing it in areas such as Ontario and especially Quebec, where French Canadians considered Prime Minister Laurier to be too "British" in his procedures. Borden's chance at becoming Prime Minister come from Laurier's two biggest problems. The problems being Canada's relationship with Great Britain and Canada's relationship with the United States. The biggest problem in Canada's relations with Great Britain was the inquiry of what role Canada would play in any major ...
- 15466: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- The Life of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800's. Her father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and she alone decided to rebel against that and reject the Church. She like many of her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views ... Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive ... left the East in 1861 Emily was scarred and expressed her deep sorrow in three successive poems in the following years. They were never romantically involved but their relationship was apparently so profound that Emily's feelings for him she sealed herself from the outside world. Her life became filled with gloom and despair until she met Judge Otis P. Lord late in her life. Realizing that they were well ...
- 15467: Geoffery Chaucer
- ... authors of the late Middle Ages. He was born in London, England, but the exact date is unknown. Chaucer was probably the son of John Chaucer a tavern keeper, who was deputy to the king's butler. He may have gone to either Oxford or Cambridge. All of his jobs, vacations, and experiences affected the way he wrote. Without these experiences we might not have any of his works. When Geoffrey ... to Canterbury, and then two more for each pilgrim on their way back, but he only finished twenty-four. In these tales Chaucer shows the pilgrims and their stories with great realism. In "The Friar's Tale," "The Reeve's Tale," and "The Cleric's Tale," Chaucer shows his remarkable knowledge of human nature. One trait shown in these tales is greed. Chaucer shows how greed is present in a common miller, a summoner, ...
- 15468: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... of actors (Inglis 505). His father, David Poe, was from a Baltimore family. He was an actor by profession and a heavy drinker. Soon after Edgar Allan Poe was born, he left his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the age of eighteen. Two years after his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410). In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish ... to withdraw from the University (Asselineau 410). In May of 1827, Poe enlisted in the army as a common soldier. He did this under the name of Edgar A. Perry. He was stationed on Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor for over a year. Poe adapted very well to military discipline and quickly rose to the rank of regimental sergeant major. After a while, he got tired of the same ...
- 15469: Adolf Hitler
- ... he never completed high school. He applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but was rejected for lack of talent. Staying in Vienna until 1913, he lived first on an orphan's pension, later on small earnings from pictures he drew. He read voraciously, developing anti-Jewish and antidemocratic convictions, an admiration for the outstanding individual, and a contempt for the masses. In World War I, Hitler ... then in Munich, volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. He proved a dedicated, courageous soldier, but was never promoted beyond private first class because his superiors thought him lacking in leadership qualities. After Germany's defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, remaining in the army until 1920. His commander made him an education officer, with the mandate to immunize his charges against pacifist and democratic ideas. In September 1919 ... of voters. Nazi representation in the Reichstag (parliament) rose from 12 seats in 1928 to 107 in 1930. During the following two years the party kept expanding, benefiting from growing unemployment, fear of Communism, Hitler's self-certainty, and the diffidence of his political rivals. Nevertheless, when Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933, he was expected to be an easily controlled tool of big business. Once in power, however, ...
- 15470: Henry Kissinger
- ... today. Born May 27, 1923 in Furth Germany, Kissinger would soon raise to service two presidents, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald Ford, as the chief foreign policy advisor and secretary of state (Kissinger ). With Kissinger’s guidance the United States would reopen its relations with the Peoples Republic of China for the first time in many years; his ‘shuttle diplomacy’ would prove valuable in dissolving the conflict between the Israeli’s and Arabs in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 through a cease fire; and finally his negotiation of a cease fire in the Vietnam conflict which so many had desired. When, in 1938, he came ... this compacity, Kissinger reigned supreme. Through shrewd tactics, and skillful political manuvering “he managed to usurp most of the duties for foreign policy into his own hands,” (Kissinger 156). In fact, it was through Kissinger’s skill in foreign affairs that the door to China swung open for president Nixon. Perhaps had it not been for Kissinger, the phrase “Only Nixon could go to China,” would be nothing more than ...
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