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- 2231: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
- ... war is what Hobbes’ believes to be man’s original state of nature. According to Hobbes, man cannot be trusted in the state of nature. Limits must be put on freedom and inalienable rights. Hobbes lived in the 17th century, and wrote during the time of the English Civil War. His political views were influenced by the war. Hobbes perceived that by bringing back the monarch, there would be an end ...
- 2232: Marco Polo
- ... Marco and two priests. Early Life Despite his enduring fame, very little was known about the personal life of . It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice’s influence as a city-state coincided with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai ...
- 2233: To Race The Wind By Krents And All But My Life Klein
- ... survive is All but My Life by Gerda Klein. In her life, her family was torn apart by the war and were all taken to different concentration camps. Gerta encountered suffering throughout her life. She lived through being ripped away from her family, watching others die before her, and losing contact with everything that was familiar to her. She easily could’ve given up, used the poison she carried in her ...
- 2234: Johannes Brahms
- ... he died on April 3, 1897. Brahms was noted for his good nature, modesty, and humor. He had no personal enemies, and did not usually criticize the works of others. Brahms was never married; he lived the life of a simple middle classed citizen, and enjoyed fairly good health until the last years of his life. He died from cancer of the liver. The appreciation of Brahms in the music world ...
- 2235: Nelson Mandela
- ... During the height of apartheid, it was a common belief that the racial groups must have a separate development. In 1954, the Resettlement of Natives Act changed entire towns and villages in which Non-Whites lived by suddenly designating them to be White-only areas; the entire population would then be forced to resettle into tribal reserves. As well, Blacks not needed for labor in White communities were sent to live ...
- 2236: Ralph Ellison’s Life
- ... his personal identity. In 1917, when Ellison was just three, his father died. This loss forced his mother to go through hard times without a provider. In Ellison’s early years, he and his family lived among middle class whites. Ellison was endowed with learning and intellectual curiosity. Ellison was introduced to a new world, one that he would make his own. His history, folktales, and music were already important to ...
- 2237: William Faulkner
- ... position because they realize they are not equal to Miss Emily because of her Southern aristocratic standing. In the end, the community is left with many unanswered questions about the way that Miss Emily really lived her life. There are many reasons why ’s works are worthy of being included in any collection of great authors. The five differentiating characteristics of literature are creative or visionary, specific forms, culturally and ...
- 2238: Robert Frost: Biography And Review
- ... long and successful career in writing, teaching, and lecturing. Over the coming years he would receive a number of literary, academic, and public honors. He Received four prestige’s Pulitzer Prizes in his lifetime. Frost lived his life doing what made him happy and that was writing poetry. Frost spent the last years of his life giving interviews and public speaking. On December 2nd, 1962 in Boston, Frost would give his ...
- 2239: Alphonse Capone
- Born in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899, to Gabriel and Teresa Capone. He lived in a tough neighborhood the first ten years of his life. His schooling began not far from the Sands street "stews" at P.S. 7 on Adams St. with a 16year old teacher. There he ...
- 2240: The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
- ... “mainstream” of society until he married. He once wrote his friend Longfellow of his apprenticeship, “ [I am] carried apart from the main current of life...for the last ten years, I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.” Hawthorne feels that isolation is most extreme when it is self-imposed. He demonstrates this in the Scarlet Letter through Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Although Hester is publically put ...
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