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- 561: A Crime In The Neighborhood
- ... lower lip."(86) This particular event made Marsha very curious of Mr. Green especially since it had been the same day that Boyd was murdered. From this point on she had wondered if the killer lived right next door to her and her family. Another possible reason that Marsha gets caught up in her "detective" work is that she’s lonely. She doesn’t have many friends to play with and ... Green. Marsha tells Lois that she thinks he is Boyd’s killer. At this point in the Boyd Ellison investigation, the police had no suspects and would only say they believed it was someone who lived in the area. The police had also gotten information that a brown Dodge had been at the scene shortly before Boyd Ellison was murdered and coincidentally, Mr. Green drove a brown Dodge. After Marsha had ...
- 562: A Crime In The Neigborhood
- ... lower lip."(86) This particular event made Marsha very curious of Mr. Green especially since it had been the same day that Boyd was murdered. From this point on she had wondered if the killer lived right next door to her and her family. Another possible reason that Marsha gets caught up in her "detective" work is that she's lonely. She doesn't have many friends to play with and ... Green. Marsha tells Lois that she thinks he is Boyd's killer. At this point in the Boyd Ellison investigation, the police had no suspects and would only say they believed it was someone who lived in the area. The police had also gotten information that a brown Dodge had been at the scene shortly before Boyd Ellison was murdered and coincidentally, Mr. Green drove a brown Dodge. After Marsha had ...
- 563: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... fearlessness. He called his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth. Gandhi overcame fear in himself and taught others to master fear. He believed in Ahimsa (nonviolence) and taught that to be truly nonviolent required courage. He lived a simple life and thought it was wrong to kill animals for food or clothing. In his religious studies, he happened upon Leo Tolstoy’s Christian writings, and was inspired. It stated that all government ... He would later use this tool in fighting the British for India’s independence. He started his first two ashrams in South Africa, one was named Phoenix and the other, Tolstoy. Men, women, and children lived at the Tolstoy Farm where they were schooled about fearlessness, self-reliance, self-denial, self-sacrifice, and suffering; and embracing poverty and living in harmony with other people and with nature. Once educated they could ...
- 564: Sojourner Truth
- ... 1986. Truth's origins hardly suggested that she would become a national icon. Born Isabella Baumfree around 1797 in New York State, Truth was born a slave and remained so until 1826. Although she never lived on a plantation or in the South, Truth experienced first-hand the brutality of slavery. As she related in her autobiography, Narrative of , first published in 1850, one master scarred her for life when she ... win. Her young son, Peter, had been illegally sold to a plantation owner in Alabama, and Truth secured a lawyer and prevailed in court to gain her son's freedom. In the mid-1830s, Truth lived and worked within a religious cult led by a self-styled prophet, one Robert Matthews, who created an autocratic "Kingdom of Matthias." When the cult imploded over charges of sexual promiscuity and murder, Truth was ...
- 565: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... Shaw was in a unique position to bear witness to the rise of modernity" (Bemrose 57). Shaw used his time in this world to become one of the greatest playwrights, philosophers, and critics who ever lived. His thoughts and words have influenced many people in the past and present. He was born on July 26, 1856 into a family that was not very wealthy but had great musical talent. His mother ... pictures without discrimination of intelligence. By doing this, he was able to open people's minds to art who never would have thought of it. Shaw was perhaps one of the greatest playwrights who ever lived. Through unique characterization and shocking story lines, he was able to amuse audiences for years. "Crime, adultery, and sentimental romance were the usual themes of serious plays before his own. He shocked the critics and ...
- 566: Isadora Duncan
- ... start yet another Isadora Duncan school of dance. Isadora and her girls were happy there. They had everything they wanted; a beautiful place to dance, a family, and just enough money to support themselves. They lived in this spot for five years, until once again Isadora Duncan was penniless. She and her girls went to Paris, knowing for sure they would get the same, if not better response as they did in New York. They got what they had been looking for when they arrived, and immediately began giving concerts to overflowing theaters. Isadora Duncan never lived beyond that trip to Paris, for she died on September 14, 1927 after having dinner with her life-long friend, Mary Desti. After dinner, she hopped into a Bugatti sports car with the agent from ...
- 567: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams Into Reality In Much Of His 19th Century Prose
- ... mankind. His clever, yet crucial purpose for using dreams is to represent, through symbolism, the human divergence conflict manifested in the souls of man during the firm Christian precepts of the Era in which he lived. As a visionary in an extremely conservative Puritanical society, he carefully and successfully manages to depict humanity's propensity for sin and secrecy, and any resulting punishment or atonement by weaving dreams into his tales ... a matter of course; its eccentricities and aimlessness, --with nevertheless a leading idea running through the whole. Up to this old age of the world, no such thing has ever been written. (Par. 4) Hawthorne lived in an era of Christian premise which disallowed him to verbally voice observations and subsequent opinions of his perceptions regarding man's sinful and secret nature. The Puritanistic attitudes were firmly rooted in the communities ...
- 568: St. Joan Of Arc
- Saint Joan of Arc was born in Domremy in Lorraine, France, in 1412. Until the age of seventeen years, she lived the life of a simple shepherdess. At this time, she was commanded by Heavenly Voices to lead the French armies against the English forces which had invaded France. She did so with great success. Betrayed ... d'Arc is amazing. She was devoted and loyal to her God, her King and noble calling which was to restore the French king, Charles VII to the throne. With that goal in mind, she lived and died for what she believed in. Her last words, as she was swallowed up with fire, was that of her God.
- 569: Sigmund Freud
- ... wife. Sigmund was the oldest son out of eight children. Sigmund also had two half-brothers from his father's first marriage. In October 1859 the family moved to Vienna where Sigmund grew up. He lived there until June 1938. Freud attended high school at Leopoldstadter Communal-Real- und Obergymnasium. While in high school he got the idea of becoming a scientist when he heard, a lecture delivered about Goethe. In ... in 1889 his son Martin. Once again in 1891 Martha gave birth to Freud's second son Oliver. The Freud family then moved to the house Berggasse 19 in the 9th Viennese District where they lived until 1938. In 1892 Freud's third son was born Ernst, and in 1893 his second daughter Sophie was born. The birth on Freud's sixth and last child Anna was born in 1895. Also ...
- 570: The Life Of Beethoven
- ... rest of his life searching for a cure for his deafness but by 1819, his deafness had become total. Beethoven never married. Although he had many friends, he spent much of his time alone. He lived out the later part of his life in various villages near Vienna, where he took long walks carrying sketchbooks in which he would write down his musical ideas Beethoven's life was also troubled by ... deaf on the stage, unaware that the orchestra had stopped playing, un-til one of the soloists turned him around to see the tremendous applause. Many people regard Beethoven as the finest composer who ever lived. His music was unique and emotional. Never before had instrumental music been brought to such heights. He also made great improvements with chamber music for piano, as well as for string quartets, trios, and sonatas ...
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