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- 1481: Stephen Crane Biography
- ... work. Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball. Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a ...
- 1482: Stephen Crane
- ... Hotel reveals some interesting facts about how the dramatic effect is created and how the actual telling of the story is tied to Crane's philosophic and moral standpoint. He also activates components speaking of violence and war throughout the text. Here I will discuss two equally important themes: colors speak and color as a moral statement. Bright colors represent speaking out or screaming while less vivid ones represent silence or ...
- 1483: Sheyann Webb
- ... To her suprise, the squirrel was cleanly shot though the head, even though she was only 8 years old! Annie's mom liked having the meat for dinner, but the family's Quaker religion opposed violence. Annie had to promise never to use the gun on someone. Annie was well known in Cincinnati for her cleanly shot birds. People who ate the birds did not have to worry about chipping a ...
- 1484: Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker
- ... middle of the month over 2,000 people had gathered. The Thirst Dance celebration was disrupted by the North-West Mounted Police pursuing an Indian accused of assaulting the farm instructor on an adjacent reserve. Violence between the Indian bands and the 90-man police force was averted by the peacekeeping efforts of Pitikwahanapiwiyin and Mistahimaskwa (Big Bear). When news of the Mιtis success at Duck Lake reached the Poundmaker reserve ...
- 1485: Pompeys Rise To Political Prom
- ... entered Rome in triumph, but encountered opposition from the Senate. Pompey then formed an alliance, commonly called the First Triumvirate, with Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus. The career of Pompeius opened in fraud and violence. It was instigated, in war and peace, through illegality and treachery. Pompey was a great general, but a bad politician. Pompey helped to end the slave revolt of Spartacus in 72 BC. Because of his ...
- 1486: George Bush Biography
- ... 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army. Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Clinton.
- 1487: Pablo Picasso
- ... him to create the 11 by 25 foot masterpiece which he named "Guernica". This large mural was, without doubt, the greatest of all creations made by Picasso in his lifetime. It depicted war through anger, violence and death using the tragedy of the bullfight. The critic Jean Cassous stated, "it overflows with fullness and presence, with signs and cries." During World War 2, Picasso was forbidden to exhibit his work after ...
- 1488: Capone
- ... was punished and forced to apologize. Al Capone did not become a leader until he went to Chicago. At the time he was still an apprentice to Johnny Torrio. In the midst of the gang violence and bootlegging was Chicago. Chicago was a great place to start a ring of organized crime. The government was very weak which made it easier to do crime. Capone entered the city of Chicago in ...
- 1489: Nelson Mandela
- ... maximum security prison. While in prison he rejected many offers to be released if he would recognize Transkei and agree to settle there. He also rejected an offer of release on condition that he renounce violence. Released on February 11, 1990, Mandela plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference ...
- 1490: Al Capone
- ... barber shop. He also wrote literature and poems, when he had the time. Capone grew up in a loving family. His father never hit the kids, he only talked to them. There were no disturbances, violence, or dishonesty about this family. The killer in Capone was thought to have come from when he had gotten his first job. Capone was a role model to many of the boys in the community ...
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