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- 51: Jim Morrison: The Lizard King
- ... and entertained for millions of screaming fans during their years on top of the charts. To make things even better, they, the Doors, were probably nothing without lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison a man, who lived through many hardships, lived a troubled life, which included drugs, women, and many parties. To tell a story of this man’s life is to be an interesting journey but in order to do this we need to first ... was a character who seemed to do lots of crazy types of things and along with him, Jim’s personality began to form. When he returned home to his grand parents, that is who he lived with during a few years of college, he was nagged to cut his hair, shave, change clothes, and to go to church. So instead of listening to them, Jim left wine bottles in his ...
- 52: The Stone Angel By Margaret Laurence
- ... her thrown out into the wilderness. Hagar's son was born and they both returned to the place where Sarah and her husband, Abraham (Laurence's husband to Hagar was named Brampton to echo Abraham), lived. Hagar and her son were cast into the wilderness once again when Sarah bore a son of her own and Hagar's son, Ishmael, mocked Sarah's child. Nearing death, Hagar and her son were ... occurred in Manawaka. Hagar returned during the drought to find all of the Shipley's flowers and vegetables dead. "They'd had no water this year," says Hagar, not yet realizing that she, too, has lived most of her life in a drought. The water she was deprived of was that of a wild and free spirit that could express itself without restraint. Hagar experiences an actual lack of water when ... showing the two opposing ways to live your life. In the novel there is imagery of wild flowers and of cultivated flowers. Much like people, some are wild and others are tame or predictable. Hagar lived most of her life like a cultivated flower. Her inner responses are natural and wild; however, externally she acts rationally and tamely in fear of her overall appearance being effected if she acted spontaneously. ...
- 53: Korean Traditional House
- ... than coming home to a warm floor on a cold day. That's one of the reasons Koreans don't wear shoes in the house. In prehistoric times, people in the northern part of Korea lived in pit dwellings with straw roofs. In the south, they lived in houses built on stilts. These early people's lives centered around a stone fire pit. Their houses faced southeast to catch the sun and block the cold winds. In the mountains of central Korea, many people lived in nowa houses, wooden houses held together by mud and straw. Their roofs were made of thick wooden shingles, which were held down with heavy stones or logs. Nowa houses have no chimneys. The ...
- 54: Ernest Hemingway
- ... 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 ...
- 55: The Anasazi Indians
- From the scattered references made about the ancient Anasazi Indians in Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time, one can identify several cultural characteristics of this mysterious tribe. One can discover how they lived, where they lived, their religion, simple day to day activities, and mysteries about their culture. Even though many references are made about this tribe, people will never know the truth, for there is an unsolved mystery to why ... one knows what happened to them. The location of over 100,000 Anasazi sites have been found outside of Bluff, Utah along the San Juan river. Anasazi Indians were very picky as to where they lived. They chose to dwell in cliffs faced to catch the winter sun and shaded in summer, with enough floodplain to grow something and a source of water. These two story stone dwellings in cliffs ...
- 56: Personal Writing: Exchange Student In Japan
- ... I met my best friend and two other friends of mine from school. We would all be traveling together, most all the time. The only things that would really be different would be where we lived and who we would live with. As the flight, Northwest number 69 to Detroit was called I could hardly wait and I jumped up, not being able to wait to board. We needed to travel ... got into the car, they asked me more questions then my mother has asked me in my whole life. When we got to their home, I was introduced to the brother and the grandparents who lived with them. The house that they lived in was cute. It had all the same things as an American home, but in a simpler and different way. The lavatory and the shower and the sink were all in separate places. The ...
- 57: The Chinese Culture
- ... people on earth who were all alike, meaning there weren't people who were black, white, oriental, etc.. It states that the humans on earth all generally were the same. There were also gods who lived above the clouds in the heavens. And there was a huge heavenly ladder which started on a mountain and reached all the way up to heaven's door. It goes on to tell a story of a man who had two children. One was a girl and the other was a boy. They lived in a house which had a huge very thick roof. The man had built the roof so thick because it rained almost every day. He hated the rain. He knew it had its benefits but ... was destroyed. And every time the man rebuilt it, he made it thicker and thicker. He blamed all his misfortune on the Duke of Thunder. The Duke of Thunder was one of the gods who lived in the heavens. He was the god of rain and thunder. The man dispised the Duke very much and had a pure hatred of him. Every time it rained the Duke would descend from ...
- 58: Creative Writing: The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday
- ... forest there were birds and lakes and rocks and trees and rivers. the forest was also inhabited by a small group of people called the lizards. the lizards were a simple people and they had lived in the forest undisturbed for thousands of years in utter peace and tranquillity. once a year spring came, and the first blossoms began to show, the lizards would gather at the base of the mountain ... to give thanks for all that they had. they thanked the birds and they thanked the lakes and they thanked the rocks and the trees and the rivers; but most importantly, they thanked icculus. icculus lived at the top of the mountain, or at least everyone thought so, for no one had ever actually seen him. but they knew he existed, because they had the helping friendly book. icculus had given ... lizards thousands of years earlier as a gift. it contained all of the knowledge inherent in the un iverse, and had enabled the lizards to exist in harmony with nature for years. and so they lived; until one day a traveler arrived in gamehendge. his name was wilson and he was quickly intrigued by the lizards way of life. he asked if he could stay and live in the forest; ...
- 59: Eleanor Aquitaine
- ... Eleanor out of England and let her go to Poitou, now she was in the same position as she was after she divorced Louis. She now had a court full of poets and troubadours and lived a very happy life now that she had regained some freedom. She had now settled down and lived with her daughter Marie in Maurbergeon. Her daughter Marie was very fond of the Arthurian cult and encouraged Chrétien de Troyes to write Lancelot. It is during this period that courtly love is developed ... would not let the King get rid of her so easily. In a result Henry locked her up for 15 years in strongly fortified buildings where the hope of escape was very little. Henry now lived openly with Rosamund, but she shortly after this she fell ill and died as a nun on her deathbed in 1176. Eleanor was let out in 1189 after Henry's death. He died of ...
- 60: Success
- One has achieved who has lived well and laughed often. This quote seems to sum up what is meant by . If you are able to laugh often and much then you have definitely achieved happiness. The idea of living well, though ... what it means to live well. There are three levels of , in my opinion: societal , personal , and academic or professional . If someone can achieve all of these three levels of , they are someone who has lived well. Societal is something that is attained by aspiring to reach your own goals and dreams in cohorts with the goals that society has for us. Societal also has a lot to do with the ... be to meet someone, fall in love and get married. We are also apt to identify having good friends with having achieved socially. We have achieved societal , typically, if we have met the right person, lived happily, started a family and raised our children well. A part of societal is also to learn to treat people well; to practice the golden rule. We need to fill these goals that society ...
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