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- 3731: William Shakespeare
- ... and culture of his native Warwickshire. William married Anne Hathaway in 1582. He was 18 and she was 26. They had twin daughters Hamnet and Judith and later their third daughter Susanna. (Bender 15). Shakespeare lived in an England that was overwhelmingly rural and had virtually no mechanized industry. It was a society very different from the one we enjoy in the U.S. today. Death and disease were the common ...
- 3732: William Faulkner 2
- ... 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 William Faulkner 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 ...
- 3733: Washington Irving
- ... a humorous magazine called Salmagundi. In 1809, he published Dreidrich Knickerbocker's History of New York. He later went to Europe in 1815. Many people were very anxious to meet him. From 1815-1832, he lived in England, Dresden, Paris, and Spain. In 1819, he published The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, which most people see as his greatest work. This book was a collection of essays and stories. Among the stories ...
- 3734: Walt Whitman 2
- During the time period that Walter Whitman lived, there were many controversial things happening to the American people as a whole. One of the most strenuous upon society at the time was the Civil War. The Civil War created many problems in the ...
- 3735: William Penn And The Quakers
- ... gifAlthough William Penn was granted all the land in Pennsylvania by the King, he and his heirs chose not to grant or settle any part of it without first buying the claims of Indians who lived there. In this manner, all of Pennsylvania except the northwestern third was purchased by 1768. The Commonwealth bought the Six Nations' claims to the remainder of the land in 1784 and 1789, and the claims ...
- 3736: William Bradford
- ... to see it, does it really fall? This quote explains the very logic of history. Throughout the course of history, many significant occurrences have shaped our society to what it is today: free. not only lived through a symbolic historical cornerstone of America, but wrote about it too. , the second governor of Plymouth colony elected, was accountable for the young colony s success through great hardships. The Pilgrims were signified as ...
- 3737: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... rates and the inflation rate were the lowest in years, but by midyear the unemployment rate reached 7.8%, the highest since 1984. In September the Census Bureau reported that 14.2% of all Americans lived in poverty, the highest proportion since 1983. As his administration seemed to drift in the face of declining economic conditions, Bush shook up his White House staff twice. His first chief of staff, John Sununu ...
- 3738: Robert Stevenson
- ... his chemicals were not working, so he commits suicide. That s why Mr. Utterson finds him dead in the laboratory. Dr. Jeykll s full statement in the last chapter reveals his story and how he lived with his evil personality until the death. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a supernatural story combined with mystery and horror about the double personality in man. He evolves his story ...
- 3739: Ramses
- ... spent most of their time together, and at age ten, became heir to the thrown. He took the thrown in the year of 1292 B.C, between the ages of 22 or 32. The pharaoh lived over all other people in the kingdom. II reigned in the 19th dynasty. was thought of an incredible pharaoh, and was a great war leader to the Egyptians. He was one of the best known ...
- 3740: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 1937, while writing Their Eyes Were Watching God, she met Albert Price III and later married him in June of 1939 in Florida (Hurston 204). Their time together, just like her previous marriage, was short lived and ended in February 1940. The low point of Zora's life may have been when she was accused of molesting a young ten-year old child. Zora was proven innocent, though the incident followed ...
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