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- 261: Life In A Medieval Village
- is about archaeological discoveries from the Middle Ages. The author, Frances Gies, uses details and descriptions to help her auidence visualize how people worked and lived seven hundred years ago. The village is a very small town, or as we would say, a metropolitan suburb. The population consisted of farmers rather than merchants or craftsmen. Still, socially, economically, and politically, it was a community. Together the people formed an integrated whole for agricultural production. There they lived, labored, socialized, loved, married, sinned, went to church, paid fines, and had children. The medieval village represented a new stage of the world's oldest civilized society, the peasant econonmy. Houses didn't necessarily face ... and Joseph Gies are great authors, because of the way they told the story about the medieval village. If anything I think they wanted whomever read this book to get an insight into how people lived seven hundred years ago and to be able and compare it with today's society. To just get a feeling on what has changed so that your more aware of your history and able ...
- 262: Crazy Horse
- ... brave charged against the Arapaho's led hisfather to give Curly the name . This was the name ofhis father and of many fathers before him . In the 1850's, the country where the Sioux Nation lived, wasbeing invaded by the white settlers. This was upsetting for manyof the tribes. They did not understand the ways of the whites.When the whites tore into the land with plows and hunted thesacred buffalo ... liquor and damaging lifestyles much different from thelifestyles of the Sioux. In 1865, U.S. officials wanted to obtain land from theIndians. They offered many different bribes, such as gifts andliquor, to the Indians who lived around the forts. They were very good at making the sell of land seem temporary and they convincedmany that what the right thing to do was sell. The land theywanted was access land into the ... Sioux. It was a place where spiritsdwelled, a holy place called Pa Sapa by the Sioux. The whites hadonly the crudest concept of what the hills meant to the Indians.By 1876 ten thousand whites lived in Custer City, the frontiertown of the southern Black Hills. Agency Indians were not livingvery well on the reservations. Government agents were corrupt.They would accept diseased cattle, rotten flour and wormy corn.They ...
- 263: The Mists Of Avalon
- ... s deathbed, and once to visit Viviane’s grave. Avalon was her true home, it was the place that had adopted her, and the place that helped her grow and change. Morgaine as a child lived with her mother and her mother’s husband Uther, until Viviane took her into the service of the Goddess. She was a quiet girl that kept her thoughts and feelings to herself. She was satisfied ... her, but with the exception of her brother Arthur, she did not love them. When Viviane brought Morgaine to Avalon for the first time, she was even more a child then she was when she lived with Uther and her mother – both in her character and in her knowledge. At the castle she had known what she needed to know for someone of her station, but at Avalon she started ... back to her home. Morgaine who was shunned everywhere else, found shelter in her true home Avalon, the place that had adopted her, the place that had watched and participated in her changes. She had lived there on and off since she had turned eleven-years-old. The people there were her family. Most had died or left by the time Morgaine returned and sentenced the Merlin to his death, ...
- 264: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- ... way before his time and people didn't realize the power he had with words. Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most original poets to write in English at any time period. He only lived for 45 years and only had three of his poems published during his lifetime. Gerard was torn between his love of God and his love of poetry. Gerard Manley Hopkins, born on July 28 1844 ... a beech tree), bloomfall (fall of flowers), bower of bone (body), firedint (spark), firefolk (stars), unleaving (losing leaves), and leafmeal (leaf and piecemeal). Gerard Manley Hopkins led a life that he thought was good. He lived a life that met both his mothers and fathers expectations. He like his father wrote poetry, but unlike his father didn't like to publicize his works. And like his mother he was very actively involved in the church, becoming a priest. But unlike his mother didn't devote his whole life to religion. Gerard unfortunately only lived to be 45 when he died of typhoid. He was the professor of classics at University College, Dublin for many years before he passed away. When Yeats said that Hopkins' style was merely "the ...
- 265: Stephen King
- ... born on 1974 in Portland, Maine. His name was Stephen Edwin King. After his parents serpertion as a toddler, Stephen and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen, David, and their mother lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which was where Stephen’s father’s side of the family lived. They then moved to Stratford, Connecticut, that was where spent most of his childhood paying frequent visits to his mother’s side of the family that resided in Malden, Massachusetts and Pownal, Maine. Around his ... age of 59. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. During the fall of the same year King moved his family to Boulder, Colorado. wrote The Shining in the half of a year they lived in Colorado. They then returned to Maine in in the summer of ‘75. It was in his new house that King finished writing The Stand, which was set back in Boulder. eventually moved ...
- 266: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important American writers of his time. He wrote about the troubling time period in which he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wealthy, and suffered great personal anguish because of these ... fraternity called the triangle club, the second most prestigious cliche on campus, football being first. After Princeton, Fitzgerald was quoted as saying to a friend “I want to be the greatest writer who ever lived don't you (Bruccoli, 1981).” In 1917, Fitzgerald joined the army and prepared to fight in World War I. It was soon after his mobilization that he sold his first story to the Smart ... that his work would have a permanent claim upon the American Literary World. Fitzgerald's life mirrored his novels. His live was filled love and tragedy. He pursued his dreams, and in real life, often lived those dreams. He longed to capture his youth and its purity. He produced thousands of short stories, often times to support their frivolous lifestyles as well as to tell their stories. Many scholars have ...
- 267: Henry Ford
- ... Michigan farmer to develop a production process that was so simple, effective and efficient it changed the entire course of history. In this report, we will present a brief history of the era in which lived, the background from which he came, and important management trends he followed. It is hard to summarize the era in which lived. Chiefly because he changed the entire tone of the era in which he lived, making his career a transitional period. We will begin with the world before Ford. In the mid-latter part of the eighteen hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United States was still tending its ...
- 268: The Children Left Behind
- ... too, but they don’t think of me the same way…’” (DeBonis 56). Joe was like a “man without a country”; he was made to feel he did not belong while he lived in Vietnam. Many of the Amerasian children in hopes of escaping persecution and finding their identities had dreams of coming to the United States, “ ‘ I will leave my homeland/ as I have lived in it, with nothing/ but a ticket to my fathers land/’” (qtd. in DeBonis). This poem mirrors the way many of the Amerasian children interviewed in DeBonis’s book felt. Outcasts in the ... and big round eyes. ‘You American’ she recalls them shouting, ‘Why don’t you go home?’ Today she began that journey (Crossette n.pg) Though some of their fathers have not always lived up to their responsibilities, the United States has taken the steps to try and make up for what theirs fathers lack. Even if these men have not said “yes, you belong to me, ...
- 269: Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
- ... cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X’s hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his childhood. Martin Luther King lived in an entirely different environment. He was a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an ivy league college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian with an A average ... Malcolm X’s life was known to many as a nightmare because he was abused and haunted by both blacks and whites. Malcolm X blamed many of the conditions that blacks in the United States lived in on the whites. He also talked about how the white man still sees the black man as a slave. Martin Luther King appeared to many as calm and idealistic. Many say his calmness came ... in Malcolm X and Martin Luther King’s backgrounds had a direct influence on their later viewpoints. As a black youth, Malcolm X was rebellious and angry. He blamed the poor social conditions that blacks lived in on the whites. “His past ghetto life prepared him to reject non-violence and integration and to accept a strong separatist philosophy as the basis for black survival,” (Internet, Malcolm X ...
- 270: Ralph Waldo Emerson And Henry David Thoreau
- ... nonconformity. At first glance, one may conclude that these men's thoughts were parallel and their beliefs identical. But with careful study of their essays and poems, and understanding of the way in which they lived, Emerson and Thoreau become very different thinkers, with some very different thoughts and opinions. A basic theme common in both Emerson's and Thoreau's writing is nature. Many of their most famous works, like ... on my love for some things. Therein I am whole and entire" (Thoreau 248). After his day spent outdoors, he would return home to record his observations and thoughts, in detail, in his diaries. He lived without the common comforts or luxuries of the day: he did not eat meat, he did not work, and the only time he ventured into the town for anything but a walk or a visit ... comparison with leaves, one of the simplest forms of nature he stated, "They posses a divine health. God is not more well" (Thoreau 247). Emerson, too, was a great writer and lover of nature. He lived in the town of Concord with his second wife and children. He entertained many guest in his moderately sized house when he wasn't traveling to places like Europe, St. Augustine or South Carolina ( ...
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