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- 31: Early America
- ... needs to have experiences. So the writers looked back on American history. They even had to go as far as before Christopher Columbus, and even before the year 1000. At that time the Native Americans lived here. They each had a tribe and their writingsa were very personal to how they lived their life and how they knew of America. They also had to think about all their fears and even the excitement in life itself. Some of the people lived and died horrible lives so the ones that survived it told others all about it. Some unforgettable and some hard to even believe, but that's how the people of the lived. The New ...
- 32: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... dat house, can't barely remember it was only his fourth birthday back in 1839 (Howard 1). Ya, me and Sam been friends ever since he moved here, best friends too, he was born an lived in Florida, Missouri prior to now. He moved here at the start of this year. See lots of people don't give me much thought cause me bein uneducated and havin a Pa like I ... did'nt think of her as that though. In Sam's mind Mrs. Elizabeth was a jail keeper (Eaton 27). So we use ta go in sit at the port. Hannibal, Mississippi was where we lived, an it was a big river town (Encarta 1994). Sam loved them steam boats, he could sit dare an look it em all day, and he usually did. Course me bein his best of friends ... and moved to Iowa. Sam came to visit his brother in Iowa and found Henry, his younger brother, now 17, there too. Well life was like ol'e times for a while. The three brothers lived together in Orion's house. This is the period of time when Sam was turned on to music. It happened after a music teacher, who lived on the floor below, was flat out sick ...
- 33: Cleopatra VII
- ... of Egypt's money. She threw parties and receptions all the time. She was addicted to spending money like people are addicted to smoking. She loved to spend money. She was a party animal. Cleopatra lived in one of the most luxurious places in the world. She lived in Alexandria, the capital of Egypt, the main center of trade in the Mediterranean Sea. She lived on the limestone island of Pharos. From Cleopatra's balcony she could see the lighthouse, Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the world. Underneath her balcony were gardens, with all kinds of colorful ...
- 34: Jonathan Swift Answering The Q
- Did Jonathan Swift's literary works reflect the life and times in which he lived? While researching for this paper I have read many criticisms, biographies and articles. In reading those I have come to the conclusion that his works clearly represented his life and times. I hope that by ... Mary and her husband took over the throne in 1688 and thus "the domination of dissipated royalists in government and the era of violent religious confrontations ended" (McDougal, p336). A lot of England's people lived in a comfortable life style during the eighteenth century, and some lived exorbitantly. In London, beautiful buildings and churches took the place of the old buildings that burnt down after the Great Fire. Middle class Londoners could relax and discuss whatever they pleased in any of ...
- 35: Nothing
- ... drinking, bitter man, who couldn't live up to his family's past. Family, place, and past. These things were most important to William Faulkner. After he was five years old, he and his parents lived only a few blocks away from his grandfather's home, The Big Place. Faulkner's grandfather was a successful lawyer and businessman. Townspeople called him the "Young Colonel" even though he had never served in ... passed only a few years before Faulkner was born, prevented black children from attending school with whites, or from riding the same railroad cars or entering the same churches or stores. So, although many blacks lived in Oxford, the only ones young Faulkner knew were his family's servants. The housekeeper, Caroline Barr, was a second mother to Faulkner and his brothers, who called her Mammy Callie. She served as the ... English and French literature. Eventually, Faulkner dropped out of college, too, and took odd jobs to support himself while he wrote poetry. Many of his poems were about Estelle, who by now had children and lived in the Far East. Encouraged by a friend, Faulkner sent his poems to magazines, and they began to be published. He lived briefly in New York, where he worked in a bookstore. But the ...
- 36: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... Spencer county, Ind. Thomas hastily threw up a half-faced camp, a rude shelter of logs and boughs, closed on three sides and warmed only by a fire at the open front. Here the family lived while Thomas built a cabin. The region was gloomy, with few settlers, and wild animals prowled in the forest. By spring Thomas had cleared a few acres for a crop. In an autobiography that Abraham ... the "milk-sick" (milk sickness), a disease dreaded by Indiana settlers, and soon afterward, on Oct. 5, 1818, Nancy Lincoln, too, died of this malady. Without a woman to keep the household functioning, the Lincolns lived almost in squalor. To remedy this intolerable condition, Thomas Lincoln returned to Elizabethtown, where, on Dec. 2, 1819, he married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow with three children. A kindly, hard-working woman, she brought ... to be able, as he said later, "to read, write and cipher to the Rule of Three." All told, however, he attended school less than a year. Young Manhood During the 14 years the Lincolns lived in Indiana, the region became more thickly settled, mostly by people from the South. But conditions remained primitive, and farming was backbreaking work. Superstitions were prevalent; social functions consisted of such utilitarian amusements as ...
- 37: Creative Writing: My Grandfather
- My Grandfather, although he moved around a lot when he was a kid, grew up fairly well. He has lived in California, Texas, Wisconsin and many others. He traveled to many places because of his first career. Grandpa was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He lived there for the first three months of his life. He then moved to Texas where he lived in the suburbs of Dallas. He then moved to California and moved back to Texas to live with his grandparents for times when his mother couldn't have him stay with her. His mother ...
- 38: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... to become an "antiwar correspondent", and found that war was like a club where everyone was playing the same game, and he was never lonely. Martha went to Spain as a war correspondent and they lived together. He knew that he was hurting Pauline, but like his need to travel and have new experiences, he could not stop himself from getting involved with women. In 1940 he wrote For Whom the ... was showing, but still was inconsistent in his behavior. He never got over feeling like a bad person, as his father, mother and grandfather had taught him. In the last year of his life, he lived inside of his dreams, similar to his mother, who he hated with all his heart. He was suicidal and had electric shock treatments for his depression and strange behavior. On a Sunday morning, July 2 ... the storyline of his novel, A Farewell to Arms, from his personal experiences. The main character of the book, Frederick Henry, often referred to as Tenete, experiences many of the same situations which Hemingway, himself, lived. Some of these similarities are exact while some are less similar, and some events have a completely different outcome. Hemingway, like Henry, enjoyed drinking large amounts of alcohol. Both of them were involved in ...
- 39: Evolution 2
- ... that Africa was formerly inhabited by extinct apes closely allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee: and as these two species are now man s nearest allies, it is somewhat more probable that our early progenitors lived on the African continent than elsewhere. On the contrary, many anthropologists disagreed with Darwin s opinion because the Dark Continent, better known as Africa, was not a fit enough place for the origin of a ... the incomplete upper jaw of Ramapithecus showed a humanlike shape. The upper jaw of Ramapithecus, is an arch at the roof of the mouth. Similar to humans, Ramapithecus walked upright on two feet, hunted, and lived in a complex social environment. With the aid of Darwin s theory of evolution, Ramapithecus, the very first hominid species, became viewed by many anthropologists has a cultural animal, which states that Ramapithecus is a ... original Ramapithecus fossils are undisputedly human like in various ways, but the species of Ramapithecus was not human like. The jaw of Ramapithecus was a V-shape, not a U-shape. In addition, Ramapithecus had lived a lifestyle in trees, similar to its ancestors, the orangutans. Also Ramapithecus was not a bipedal ape, which proved that it was less of a primitive hunter-gatherer. The beginning of the apes and ...
- 40: Stoicism And Epicureanism
- ... Objects might be resolved to their basic atoms /but never are they utterly destroyed (Lucretius 454). With the concept that atoms composed the universe and therefore gods had no say in their daily lives, Epicureans lived their lives without the fear of an afterlife. Lucretius defied the Roman government and state religion with his principle that fear of death caused people to commit acts that they would not normally commit. He ... Roman jurisprudence. Marcus Aurelius believed that nature was the center of all things. He wrote, o nature from you are all things, in you are all things, to you all things return (Aurelius 512). They lived according to nature, not concerning themselves with many of the worries that other Romans were experiencing. Stoics were typically very tough and determined people, they stood up to emperors and accepted death rather than take ... avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death (Plato 311). Aurelius held that since it is possible that you may depart from life this very moment, direct every act and thought accordingly (Aurelius 520). They lived their lives in a carpe diem type lifestyle; where they lived for the present, neither for the past nor for the future, making the best of every day that they lived. The Stoics had ...
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