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- 481: Emily Dickinson 5
- ... on December 10,1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts (Davidson 247). She was the second born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson (Davidson 247). Her older brother Austin and her younger sister Lavina lived in a reserved family headed by their authoritative father (Davidson 247). Emily s mother was not emotionally accessible, thought out there lives (Davidson 247). Their parents weren t involved in their children s lives. One ... in Amherst. Emily did not enjoy the popularity and excitement of her public life in Amherst. So she began to withdraw from the town, her family and friends (Johnson 29). This private life that she lived gave her, her own private society. She refused to see almost everyone that came to visit and rarely left her father s house (Johnson 31). In Emily s writing changed over the years due to ...
- 482: Atomic Bomb 2
- ... on their courage (Stone, 7). The following passage from the first chapter shows this:A hundred thousand people were killed by the bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of the counts many small items of chance or volitionС step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the nextдhat spared him. And each that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything (4). Hersey was attempting to chronicle what had happened at Hiroshima, and to ...
- 483: Death Of A Salesman
- ... a dreamer, a salesman who saw it necessary to 'enter the jungle' to 'get the diamonds out'. From a reader's view, Willy was a very foolish man who turned his back onto reality and lived out his hollow dream but yet to access Biff's claim of Willy's dreams being 'all, all wrong'. There are three crucial aspects in which we must examine. Firstly, we must examine the battered ... to help his brother Ben but he refused. Willy could have told Linda about 'the woman' and thus resolved his conflict with Biff but he didn’t. Willy could have taken Charley's job and lived happily ever after but he didn’t. Not because he was a negative person or wanted to be a 'self-made man'. Willy did it because he had the heart of a salesman but he ...
- 484: Apache And Cherokee Indians
- ... was able to see through these conflicts. Women and the extended family played an important role in the society and also in the lives of young children. Groups of different extended families, called bands, often lived together and functioned democratically. The Apache also evolved as the coming of the white man changed their lives. These Indians became adept at using horses and guns, both introduced to them by the coming settlers ... little more carefully. The story of the Cherokee Indians was probably the most disturbing of any we have seen so far. The Cherokee were the most unfortunate of the North American Indian solely because the lived on the Eastern half of the United States. Their geographical location left them to be the first major tribe to come in contact with the white men. The Cherokees saw one man, Andrew Jackson, as ...
- 485: Men, What Are We
- ... after forest, crippling the land once rich, and full of life. Just to produce paper when it can be harvested using hash. To use the land for cattle for 3 year when it could of lived till end of the world it self. What are we? Over the history of time there is the losers and the winners. There have been wars, hatred of different colors of skin. This kind of ... more likely then less there is a born instinct, instinct to eat, run, and swim up the river when time to lay eggs, and instinct to kill. No matter what there is an individual whom lived in a good family, good life, had all wanted and more. Loving family, and friends. Who become killers for fun, mantle maybe. But most are described as natural born killer. The fact of natural born ...
- 486: The Life And Work Of Washington Irving
- ... These works include "A Tour on the Prairies" in (1835), "Astoria" in (1836), and "The Adventures of Captain Bonneville", in U.S.A. (1837). In 1842 Irving was appointed U.S. minister to Madrid, he lived there until 1846, going on with his historical research and writing. He returned to the United States again in 1846 and settled at Sunnyside, his country home near Tarrytown, New York, where he lived until his death. Irving's popular but elegant style, based on the styles of the British writers Joseph Addison and Oliver Goldsmith, and the ease of his best work attracted an international audience. To a ...
- 487: Abraham Lincoln
- ... the Conferral group he promised a Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves, not all slaves were freed but many were and the reason for it was because it depended on the state were they worked\lived because many states were fighting agenist the Union; nor did it work for the slaves that lived in the south which were already under the Union control. Lincoln declared the freedom of slaves on January 1, of 1863, from the rebellion of and ageinst the federal government and showed the world that ...
- 488: Henry David Thoreau Was A Rebel
- ... the lure of money and property, Henry would separate himself from these attractive deceptions and seek out the reality of nature's truths, and "not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary" (Krutch 172). The quality of life throughout America was ... that it was impossible and that it was crazy. Then years later, as they were on their death beds, these same townspeople looked back upon their lives and they all realized they truly "had not lived" (172). Finally they all died, not knowing true happiness. The words in Henry David Thoreau's Walden form this voice that can save modern man from the illusions of life. Critic Joseph Wood Krutch comments ...
- 489: The Ideal American: Malcolm Little
- ... the reasons that Malcom may have believed these things. His cruel life all pointed him towards these beliefs. A much more honest and religious man, may have come to the same conclusions had he have lived the life that Malcolm lived. One of abuse, poverty, murder, and hopelessness, all at the hands of the white man. His actions were not justified, but can almost be considering his plight. It is this partial justification that I offer ...
- 490: Andy Warhol
- ... of his artistic career, his enrollment in and completion of Carnegie Institute of Technology with a bachelor degree in pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, who he had met at school. Warhol, with his education centered around design, set out to begin his career on the right foot. He started doing drawings ... Andy appreciated his mother, and never wanted to explain how she had an impact on him. Maybe it was the fact that she meant well, and tried her hardest to take care of him. She lived with him on 89th Street and Lexington Avenue until 1971. By then, suffering from senility, she required constant care and Andy sent her back to Pittsburgh to be cared for by his two brothers, John ...
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