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- 2611: Pope John XXIII
- Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, on November 25, 1881. He was educated in Bergamo and Rome and ordained a priest in 1904. During World War I he served as a medical sergeant and then as a chaplain. In 1921 he helped reorganize the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and in 1925 he was sent as papal representative to Bulgaria. He then served as apostolic delegate to both Turkey and Greece. During World War II he played a role in rescuing Jews from Nazi-controlled Hungary, and in 1944 he was appointed to the post of papal nuncio to France. He was made a cardinal and appointed ...
- 2612: Bless Me, Ultima
- ... There is loss of innocence all around the main character, Tony, with his brothers and the people he meets. Tony also loses a great deal of his own innocence to the harsh realities of the world which marks his transition from a boy to a man. The theme of the loss of innocence covers the entire essence of the book. There are many cases in the story where people had lost their innocence of life and it was lost to them forever. Tony s brothers are of such a case. They had gone to war to fight for their country and explore the world. But as they yearned and sought the outside and how it was, they lost their innocence in the process. Being in war they saw death and destruction which soiled their once virgin eyes. Although ...
- 2613: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... The Price produced and published. 1969 In Russia, a travel book with pictures by Ingeborg Morath, published, followed by In the Country (1977), Chinese Encounters (1979), "Salesman" in Beijing (1984). 1972 The Creation of the World and Other Business produced. 1979 The American Clock produced. 1980 Playing for Time, play made for television, produced. 1986 The Archbishop's Ceiling produced and published; Danger: Memory! published. 1987 Clara produced and published; Timebends ... various manual labor jobs. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938 where he began to distinguish himself as a playwright. Due to an old football injury, Miller was ineligible for military service during World War II. He toured army camps and gathered material for a screenplay, The Story of GI Joe which was based on a book by the famous war correspondent, Ernie Pyle. In 1944, The Man Who ...
- 2614: Song For Simeon
- ... end. Looking at the poem as a whole, two main themes stand out. First, the focus of it changes from beginning to end. The first stanza of the poem gives a broad view of the world itself with little focus on the speaker, while the last stanza's focus is almost entirely on the speaker and what he does or does not want. This change toward egocentrism may be an attempt to convey that people in the future will be more concerned with themselves than the world as a whole. The second theme is the change away from traditional ways that occupies the speaker's mind. It is as though the traditional ways are a rope that the speaker feels is beginning ... death (25). "Fleeing from the foreign faces and the foreign swords" (17) also is ambiguous to leave room for interpretation. What are the foreign faces and the foreign swords? They first create an image of war, but swords were no longer used in war at the time the poem was written. The foreign faces are more likely referring to the modern ideas that are foreign to the speaker. The foreign ...
- 2615: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- ... for Peace. He used his knowledge to create, educate, and lead. Sakharov became an engineer in a military plant at the age of 17. He was anxious to help his country, Russia, to win the war against Germany. It was there that he invented a device to test the cores of bullets. In 1945 he was invited to Moscow to conduct studies at the P.N. Lebedev Physicial Institute. At the ... and his fellow man. His love for Russia convinced him that his work was needed. He felt that the bomb would never be used but was needed by Russia to keep its position as a world power. He became increasing concerned for the fallout victims of his test explosions. He used his knowledge of genetics to educate others on the effect of nuclear testing on human genetics. He began to become the conscience of the world on the ill effects of nuclear testing. In 1958, he wrote and published an article stating that testing hydrogen bombs were harmful to humans. His own conscience began to be his guide. He saw ...
- 2616: Blood Revenge In Julius Caesar
- Et tu Brute? Caesar sputtered before falling into the darkness known as death. But this was not the end of Caesar however. Caesar returns to this world as a shade or ghost form. In fact, in this form he exerts more influence over Brutus than he ever did in mortal form. Caesar is more powerful in his spirit for to affect Brutus than in his mortal form. It is in this ghost form, Caesar full-fills his revenge on Brutus. (netessays.net) Revenge did not occur in the ancient world only in plays and stories. Revenge was a way of life, an every day belief of the ancient times. In ancient times, the times of the Greeks and Romans to be precise, the inhabitants believed ... and colleague, Antony. Blood Vengeance was an absolute duty, an unconditional claim on the part of the dead. (B-Vengeance) Antony believed this aspect of blood-revenge so full hearted that he even waged a war for Caesar s behalf. He waged this war so that the conspirators may finally be defeated and so his duty to Caesar may finally be full filled. This loyalty to the dead drove Cassius ...
- 2617: The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
- The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes The Old Gringo is a fiction novel written by one of Latin America s most renowned and eloquent authors, Carlos Fuentes. Filled with war, adventure, love and more, this novel takes you back to the Mexican revolution fought in 1912. This contemporary fiction is based on many themes found and experienced by the main characters in this novel. The ... old gringo. Harriet is described as a, quick, elegant, and a beautiful woman of thirty. In a discussion with Miss Harriet and the old gringo, we learn that her father disappeared in the Spanish-American War somewhere in Cuba. Her and her mother were the only ones at home, which made her want to come to Mexico even more. In this novel, Miss Harriet has an affair with Tomas Arroyo to ... old gringo stood for the bravery that every young man or woman would want in their lives. Unlike the gringo, Arroyo seemed to just represent evilness and jealousy, something we have plenty of in this world. More personalities and representations were distributed through out the novel as well. With these characters, Carlos Fuentes had a whole story full of diverse persons and a story full of meaning. My favorite part ...
- 2618: The Roosevelt New Deal Program
- ... event in U.S. history. It lasted through the 1930s and everyone's life changed during that time. One of the causes for the Great Depression was the stock market crash. From the end of World War I in 1919 the stock market prices kept rising. On October 24, 1929 the stock market crashed. Stock prices plummeted. On that one day, the value of stocks fell fourteen billion dollars. Business started to ... money got the more people got laid off. Herbert Hoover said the cause was international and that the remedy for it must be sought in the same fashion. That meant that he thought the whole world was in the Depression and that the whole world would have to come up with a way to get out of it. Millions of people lost all of their savings. Many people ended up ...
- 2619: Romanticism Vs. Survival In Th
- ... I survived. You died (PAGE 236). After everything is passed, he stops to think about what he did wrong and regrets it, but at the time, he just cared about himself. When he went to war he met Regina and they started to have a relationship, but since he is a survivor, once again he saved himself. Regina got killed, but he didn t. However, his son Lorenzo, has a completely different life story, but of the same importance. Lorenzo was a romantic. He had his ideals and although he wasn t involved in the Spanish Civil War, he fights only to reach his dreams. He fights against the Fascists because they were oppressive, and not only that but because he wanted to make his father proud of him. At war, Lorenzo learned to love, admire and respect his friend Miguel, which was something very hard for you to see in Artemio Cruz. Lorenzo cared a lot for his friends. When he met Dolores, he ...
- 2620: Charles Manson- Methods To The
- ... tied around his neck, his hands tied behind his back with a leather thong, and an ivory-handled, bi-tined carving fork in his stomach; he had been stabbed multiple times and had the word WAR carved in his flesh (Bugliosi 55-56). The murderers were members of a group led by Charles Manson called the Manson Family. These people were completely controlled by Manson. He had them convinced that they ... religion was the book of Matthew of the New Testament, and it began as a mixture of Zoroastrianism and Scientology. The name The Process refers to the changes necessary to avoid the end of the world with its associated judgment. Processeans worship Jehovah, Lucifer, and Satan (Process par.17). Even though The Process fervently denies that Charles Manson was ever a member, many ideas from his philosophy parallel Process concepts. Both ... a third of mankind. Manson preached that the third part of mankind was the white race that would die in Helter Skelter (Bugliosi 323). Helter Skelter was the name that Manson had given the race war between the whites and the blacks. He believed that the blacks would win but would be unable to govern and then be forced to turn to the Manson Family for leadership (Bugliosi 329-331). ...
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