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- 2221: The Awakening: A Woman’s Fight For Independence
- ... Pontellier. She feels alone, with no one who would understand to confide into. Rather than be forced to live in such a world of tyranny and succumb once again to the mechanical lifestyle she had lived for so long, she chooses death. In death, there are no expectations, no one to impress or be “proper” for, and most importantly she has no one to answer to, except herself. It is ...
- 2222: Search Of April Raintree
- ... as were her brother and two sisters, because of her parents alcoholism. Both sisters committed suicide and Culleton turned to writing for and emotional release. She is now a mother and lives in Toronto. She lived through the heart ache of being put in a foster home at a young age. Unlike the novel, In , her experience in the foster homes were generally positive ones. Beatrice Culleton wrote this book to ...
- 2223: Langston Hughes
- was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His father was James Nathaniel and his mother was Carrie Mercer . His grandfather was Charles Langston, an Ohio abolitionist. As a young boy he lived in Buffalo, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Lawrence, Kansas, Mexico City, Topeka, Kansas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Kansas City, Kansas. In 1914 his parents divorced and he, his mother, and his stepfather moved to Lincoln, Illinois ...
- 2224: Karl Marx: Communism
- ... they get bored, they go to the movies, theme parks, and other entertainment. They wouldn't want to work. His idea that there would be no currency in the future is also wrong. Humans have lived for thousands of years. We have gone through time periods where barter was the only trade. They all eventually took up currency. Karl's idea of concentration of wealth is faulty. People who are rich ...
- 2225: John Quincy Adams
- ... peace commissioner to France and defused the crisis. Because of his opponents, he has forced out of office after one term. After his presidency, he and his wife Abigail moved back to Mass. where he lived for the next twenty-five years. Although the effects of old age and the death of his beloved Abigail troubled his final years, his mind remained sharp and his spirt buoyant until the end. He ...
- 2226: Lou Gehrig
- ... baseman, "Larruping Lou," as he also came to be known, over came his faults through perseverance, patience, tireless practice and hard work, and blossomed out into a smooth and skillful a first baseman as ever lived. More than all this, though he never was flamboyant nor spectacular, and never sought the headlines, clean-living Gehrig of exemplary habits became an idolized and inspirational hero to many boys throughout America. Ironically, "The ...
- 2227: The Beliefs Of John Locke And Thomas Hobbes
- ... integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes lived through the civil war and was disturbed by the mess it created. He set fourth his political philosophy in a book called Leviathan, published in 1651. His Leviathan presents a bleak picture of human beings ...
- 2228: John Dalton (1766 - 1844)
- ... period. He also attended meetings in York, Oxford, Dublin, and Bristol, Dalton was often a guest speaker. But other than that Dalton spent most of his time in a laboratory testing atomic theories. John Dalton lived until July twenty seventh, 1844 when he died. In memory of the English chemist, physicist and teacher a statue was erected in his memory out side of his home in Manchester, but most other of ...
- 2229: Michelangelo
- ... many talents in art. His best were with the brush, and the hammer and chisel. After painting on fresh plaster, painted from life. He also sculpted from life. A great man in Italy named Lorenzo lived in a palace and was wealthy. liked him, so he sculpted a wonderful mystical fawn head for him. Lorenzo was speechless. He asked to live with him in his palace. After two years in the ...
- 2230: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... his lecture, "The uses of Natural History" after he got back from Europe. His attempt being to, "humanize science." [Grolier pg.304] His later marriage to Lydia Jackson lasted the rest of his life. They lived in Concord, Massachussetts. Lydia was forced by Ralph Waldo to change her name to Lydian. His reasoning for this was because of New Englander's habit of pronouncing things that ended with 'a', with an ...
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