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- 19271: Herbert George Wells
- ... horrors of 20th-century warfare. Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, and educated at the Normal School of Science in London, to which he won a scholarship. He worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he became a full- time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship with Rebecca West produced a son, Anthony West, in 1914. In the next 50 years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time Machine mingled science, adventure, and political comment ... also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which depict members o! f the lower middle class and their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, ...
- 19272: Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
- ... evening" are used to state that this Power has an equilibrium, an intrinsic, inevitable concordance. The five similes in this stanza are all intangible; the first four are all an intrinsic part of the Romantic’s love of, and preoccupation with, nature. Through these similes Shelley constructs an image of the Power’s awesome and intense status. The second stanza is a question Shelley asks of the Power. Lines 2 and 3 are particularly important, as it is where he says the Beauty (another form of the Power) "shine[s] upon | …human thought". On line three, the question is posed to Beauty: "where art thou gone?" However, he recognises the futility of such a question with lines 4–8, which are a series of ...
- 19273: GotMilk
- How did people revere their gods differently among three civilizations? Did they worship with the same general intent? What were gods’ role(s) in people’s lives? A brief exploration into the religions of Egypt, Greece, and the Hebrew people may bring insight to these questions. Although the main idea of higher beings remains constant throughout societies’ religion, their form of presence in people’s lives varies. I will present the relationship between the leaders and the gods, as well as resemblance to monotheism and systems of government. Egyptian religion is polytheistic. The gods are present in the form ...
- 19274: Saint Francis of Assisi
- ... to caring for outcasts and lepers of Mount Subasio. Francis also restored the ruined church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. He held mass there for the outcasts that were not allowed in the other churche! s. one day, during mass, Francis heard a voice telling him to go into the world and to possess nothing, but do good everywhere. Doing just that, Francis found himself preaching in Assisi later in the ... the Poor Ladies, which later became known as the Second Order of Franciscans. Francis attempted to travel to the Holy Land in 1212, but did not make it. His missionary work in the late 1210's was anything but successful. He was able to reach the Holy Land in 1220. He wanted to become a martyr and was proud to hear that five Franciscan friars were murdered while carrying out their ... urged "implicit obedience to superiors as holding the place of God, literal observance of the rule 'without gloss', especially as regards poverty, and the duty of manual labor" (Robinson). "Humility was, no doubt, the saint's ruling virtue. The idol of an enthusiastic popular devotion, he ever truly believed himself less than the least. Equally admirable was Francis' prompt and docile obedience to the voice of grace within him. ... Later ...
- 19275: Music And Ednas Awakening
- In Kate Chopin s The Awakening, the romantic and lyrical nature of Frederick Chopin s Impromptu, as well as its originality, are the vehicle by means of which Edna realizes her love for Robert and her desire to be free and self-determined. Chopin s Impromptu arouses "the very passions ... within [Edna s] soul"(p.34). The harmony, fluidity, subtle rhythm and poetic beauty of the Romantic composer make Edna loose herself in the music that stirs her emotions. ...
- 19276: The Jacksonian Democrats
- ... agreeable with how they went about preserving the political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity they stood for. While trying to create this balance, Jackson used tactics favorable only to his opinion. Jackson’s main idea was to rid of aristocracy, giving the power to the poorer classes, standing against rich white men. The flaw in their scheme was that the people who came up with this idea were ... to the Bank of the United States. Jackson stated his reasons in Document B mainly as a precaution of the rich taking over and bending “the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” Daniel Webster’s retaliation article on Jackson’s veto message replied by strongly addressing their hypocritical ways. He states in Document C why the veto was unreasonable. Webster also warns how it may backfire due to the injustice. Foreign observers viewed that ...
- 19277: Christian Morals in Beowulf
- ... proposing christianity into the theme of the story. The reason that Grendel becomes outraged is that the bard in the mead hall is singing a song that has to do with creation. This shows Grendel's apparent disregard for God and he proceeds to go to the hall and capture men and eat them while they are asleep. As we progress into the story, we learn that Grendel carries the curse of Cain with him. "He bore the curse of the seed of Cain/ Whereby God punished the grievous guilt of Abel's murder." Cain was the son of Adam and Eve and was the one who murdered Abel, his brother, out of a jealous rage for God's favor to Abel. This shows us that Grendel had more than just a dislike for the men, the song was showing Grendel that his ancestor was looked upon as the bad person and was ...
- 19278: Discussing Literary Genre
- ... define because the concept encompasses so many different literary qualities and conventions that can be broken or accepted, overlapped or mixed. Rather than define genre, some theorists approach the discussion of genre using Ludwig Wittgenstein s concept of family resemblances among literary texts. Although a literary text rarely has all the characteristics of a particular genre, this method involves the discernment of similar conventions among texts within a genre. However, the ... in that genre. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, considered to be the father of the modern short story, show the contrast between the classification of short fiction in the 19th century and today. Poe s short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue , provides suspense and mystery; however, the story does not include the main character s moment of consciousness, the key ingredient in classifying modern short stories. Although The Murders in the Rue Morgue does not entail a moment of revelation, the story was regarded as short fiction in 1841. ...
- 19279: Robert Kennedy
- Robert Kennedy Robert Kennedy served as attorney general of the United States from 1961 to 1964 and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. He was assasinated in Los Angeles in June 1668, whil campaigning for the Democratic nomination for President. In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian-born Arab, was convicted of the assasination and sentenced to death. The sentence was changed to life imprisonment in 1972 after the California Supreme Court declared the state's death penalty unconstitutional. Robert Kennedy was appointed attorney general of the United States by his brother, President John Kennedy, in 1961. Robert Kennedy also acted as his brother's closet advisor. After the President's assassination in 1963, Kennedy continued as attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy resigned from the Cabinet position in 1964 to run for the Senate. Kennedy had entered ...
- 19280: Glenn Theodore Seaborg
- ... Atomic Energy Commission by the University of California; from 1954 to 1961, he was Associate Director of LRL. In the same year, he was appointed by President Truman to be a member of the AEC's first General Advisory Committee, a post he held until 1950. In 1958, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. In that capacity he served until his appointment by President Kennedy to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1961, when he was designated Chairman of the Commission. His term of office expires in 1968. From 1959 to 1961, he was also a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Dr. Seaborg was given a leave of absence from the University of California from 1942-1946, during which period he headed the plutonium work of the Manhattan Project at the University of ... rare-earth series of lanthanide elements. The concept demonstrated how the heavy elements fit into the Periodic Table and thus demonstrated their relationships to the other elements. The body of information assembled in Dr. Seaborg's laboratory has made it possible to predict the radioactive characteristics of many isotopes of elements still to be found. Under Dr. Seaborg's leadership, also, whole new bodies of methodology and instrumentation have been ...
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