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- 1311: Civil War
- ... distance of 400 miles and was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North. He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on what ever they could get from the country through which they passed. On their route, the army destroyed anything and everything that they could not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In ... when they arrived. The fires had been set to cotton bales by Confederate Calvary to prevent the Federal Army from getting them and the high winds quickly spread the fire. The controversy would be short lived as no proof would ever be presented. So with Columbia, Charleston, and Augusta all fallen, Sherman would continue his drive north toward Goldsboro. On the way, his progress would be stalled not by the Confederate ...
- 1312: Benedict Arnold
- ... beginning their second marriage. (Macks 118) Arnold began to receive high social status after marrying into the Shippen family. (B Arnold) That’s what Arnold had longed for his entire life. He and his wife lived generously and extravagantly, and Arnold drew criticism for living beyond his means. (Macks 118) Benedict found himself in debt most of the time and was on the look out for scams that would entitle him money to spoil his wife. (Macks 118) Only Arnold knew the two lived beyond what they could afford and Benedict soon realized that his new social status was too difficult to pay for. (B Arnold) Arnold was involved in some risky business involving him using government supplies for ...
- 1313: Thomas More's Utopia
- ... is so prescise and well formatted that it is difficult to see any flaws other than the ones that were out of his control. More, just as anyone, was a slave of the society he lived in. No matter how hard More tried to escape it, his morals and values were still derived from the society he lived in. This is why one must look at Utopia as a society designed only to better the people of the capitalist England. It is absurd to look at Utopia as a perfect state, in as ...
- 1314: Ben Franklin
- ... Philadelphia (#1). Soon Franklin found a job as a printer. After a year he went to England, where he became a master printer, sowed some wild oats, amazed the locals with his swimming feats, and lived among inspiring writers of London. By 1726 Franklin was tiring of London (#1). He considered becoming an itinerant teacher of swimming, but when a Quaker merchant by the name of Thomas Denham offered him a ... Philadelphia (#1). Soon Franklin found a job as a printer. After a year he went to England, where he became a master printer, sowed some wild oats, amazed the locals with his swimming feats, and lived among inspiring writers of London. By 1726 Franklin was tiring of London (#1). He considered becoming an itinerant teacher of swimming, but when a Quaker merchant by the name of Thomas Denham offered him a ...
- 1315: Marilyn Monroe
- ... ward of Los Angeles General Hospital. Due to Gladys’ instability and the fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in a foster home. At the age of 7, Norma Jeane lived briefly with her mother. Gladys began to show signs of mental depression, and a year later she was admitted to a rest home. Norma Jeane was then placed with a family friend for a year ... me..(I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game." (MarilynMonroe,http://www.ionet.net/~jellenc/mmbio3.html) In 1941, Norma Jeane again lived with a family friend when she met Jim Dougherty, who was 5 years older than her. They then married on June 19, 1942. "Grace Mckee (family friend she was living with) arranged the marriage for ...
- 1316: The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber
- ... his cowardly display after facing a wounded lion and because of his inability to stand up to his wife. However, Francis Macomber regains his happiness and bravery while out hunting buffalo; unfortunately, it is short lived. Francis Macomber is a man in his mid-thirties, "very tall, very well built… and considered handsome." He excelles at court games and has quite a number of big-game fishing records, yet, this morning ... s body, Wilson walks over to the car where Margot is crying. "That was a pretty thing to do.' he said in a toneless voice. 'He would have left you too.'" Francis Macomber's short lived, happy life is ended tragically by an accidental shot to the head by a bullet from the rifle held by his wife. Perhaps Margot shot her husband, fearing a divorce, because of his new found ...
- 1317: Spanish Labor Systems And Indi
- ... they could live well as long as they exploited the indigenous people they would live well. In fact it is quoted in The Limits of Racial Domination that In the sixteenth century, the white community lived on the surplus produced by a vast number of Indians working in a very primitive economic system... Then by the next century they had changed the economy to one modeled after the contemporary European design ... of the work force in three ways, they saw themselves as protectors of the indigenous people, they saw themselves as religious saviors of inferior human beings, living crudely , and they believed that since the people lived under the Spanish Crown they should also pay it.. Spain had little problem justifying the treatment at first, later people questioned whether or Spain s real reason for being in the Americas was to save ...
- 1318: Francesco Petrarch
- , was a man held in high regards of his peers. The life in which Petrarch lived, was certainly not one of which many people could have had dealt with. A life of solitude, misplaced love and, family misfortune that was endured. But, through hard workand perseverance, loyalty to the churches which ... At the Age of 49, Francesco was unsure of where he wanted to live. He sent out several letters asking if he could move to different cites in Italy, Petrarch moved to Milan. There here lived under the Archbishop. He did this only on the stipulation that he would have freedom and solitude. The Archbishop Agree to these terms and the life that he undertook is described as: solitudo tranquilla.' He ...
- 1319: The Power And The Glory By Graham Greene
- ... to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State Approval. I. One day I gave The Power and the Glory to... a native of Mexico who had lived through the worst persecutions... She confessed that your descriptions were so vivid, your priest so real, that she found herself praying for him at Mass. I understand how she felt. Last year, on a trip ... he could, not because he wanted to be a martyr, but because he knew nothing else to do. After twelve hours of travel he reached the village where his one-time mistress and his child lived. The woman took him for a night, and the following morning he said a mass to the villagers. Before he could escape the police entered the village. Marcia spoke with him as her husband, and ...
- 1320: "The Stranger": Analysis
- ... Camus was his parents, who were a working class family. He was determined to make a better life for himself by getting an education and preparing himself to go to college. The fact that he lived in North Africa, he wrote lots of fiction books, dealing with moral problems of universal importance. 1. I think Albert's prospective in life was to just be able to write books for people that ... influenced in Meursault's life. She comforted him when he was going through hard times when his mother died. She was there for him and gave him support. Raymond was Meursault's best friend. Raymond lived up the hall from Meursault's apartment. Raymond was a considerate person and I believed the character he played was positive. Although, his downfall was that he was always causing some type of trouble, which ...
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