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- 601: Stephen King
- ... sings and plays the guitar. The band, called The Rock Bottom Remainders, puts on many concerts to benefit different charities (Beahm 72-73). Perhaps the most inspiration comes from the numerous towns that King has lived in over his lifetime. For example, the town of Orrington, Maine is the town that King and his wife lived in when they were first married. The town inspired him to write his smash novel "Pet Sematary." There was a road, called Route 15, that runs straight past King’s old house. Every day there ...
- 602: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... had many dreams through out his life. A dream to become an artist, a dream to unite all of the Germans, a dream to rule the world. Hitler did not live a normal life. He lived with many problems and diseases. At the beginning of his life he was just a regular boy, at the end of his life he was the most famous person in the world. Hitler’s rise ... help of lady luck. Hitler’s ambitions to gain power may have been caused by an abnormal life. Hitler was born on April 20,1889 in a Braunan Am Inn. When Hitler was young he lived in carefree days under his loving mother, Klara Hitler, and his father Alois, was an officer in the army. At the age of six Hitler’s father received a pension from Austrian civil service and ...
- 603: Rudyard Kipling
- ... culture and traditions. His parents decided to send him to England for education and so at the young age of five he started living in England with Madam Rosa, the landlady of the lodge he lived in, where for the next six years he lived a life of misery due to the mistreatment - beatings and general victimization - he faced there. Due to this sudden change in environment and the evil treatment he received, he suffered from insomnia for the rest ...
- 604: Death Of A Salesman: The Tragedy Of One Man
- ... of Willy Loman and the drama Death of a Salesman (Welleck 213). Kohut labeled Willy as Tragic Man because as many people Willy's struggle to grasp comfort and stability is destroyed in a universe lived imperfectly (Welleck 215). Arthur Miller uses this concept of the self and shame to illustrate the downfall of the central character. The concept of a declining and weakening self image is seen through out the ... is not destroyed by society but his own personal unconsciousness. Willy is haunted by his past which leaves him disillusioned about his future: "I still feel-kind of-temporary about myself"(Meyer 1734). Willy has lived a life of shame which has resulted in his weakened self image, he is no longer sure if he even still possesses the one tool essential to his trade- a good personality. He often worries ...
- 605: Fate In King Lear
- ... who choose to live within them are stretched out on the rack of the world. They suffer for no reason and die needlessly. Those who deny them die too. But we see that they have lived without virtue. King Lear begins the play acting more like a child than a man, much less a king. As the play progresses and Lear's suffering increases, we see him reaching out more and ... fault, the tragedy of human existence and even the brief moments of love and beauty that we experience lie not in the stars but in ourselves. Rosalie Colie said it best when she wrote "Lives lived w/out virtue aren't worth living."
- 606: Henry David Thoreaus Quest For
- ... in terms of producing the vital (animal) heat that is the grand necessity for the human body. Thoreau reduced his "affairs to be as two or three" (Walden, 66) and successfully simplified his life. He lived a "stern and more than Spartan simplistic [way] of life and he retained his elevation of purpose" (Walden, 67). This elevation of purpose directly refers to the transcendentalist movement that Thoreau was a pioneer in ... the chronicle comes to a conclusion. John Field, "an honest and hard-working man" (Walden, 141) that was living life that he was ultimately pre-destined to live. "Born to be poor" (Walden, 142), John lived to be poor because his field of vision was impeded by the restraints of society. John was capable of seeing one particular type of lifestyle, a routine that had to be followed with do or ...
- 607: Benito Mussolini
- ... burning socialist. Mussolini had huge goals of running a political machine based on his own beliefs. Born in the poverty-stricken village of Romagna, Italy, he was wild, nomadic, and defiant as a young adult lived the life of a bum. Showing fierce aggression at such a young age, he was expelled from two schools for knife-assaults on other students. His father a village blacksmith and his mother a schoolmistress, he lived life in poverty that seemed inscapable. By moving from Italy to Austria he devoted himself to the battle for human and economic freedom. Mussolini had become an impassioned Socialist. He had been appointed secretary to ...
- 608: Movie: Pretty Woman
- ... say that the film isnothing but a 1990 version of Cinderella, but it's very close. The characters in Pretty Woman pretty much resembles those in Cinderella. Vivian Ward, the poor hooker, who untilnow, have lived a life as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard,where she earned just enough money to pay her bills if itwasn't for her roommate Kit. Kit is also a prostitute. She usually buys dope for the rent money, which leaves Vivian towork extra. To draw parralels to Cinderella, Vivian would (off course) be Cinderella, and Kit would be the exploiting stepsister. They have lived like this for a long time, andcontinues living like that, until one day, when Vivian is picked up by Mr. Edward Levis, a businessman from New York,trying to find his way back to Beverly ...
- 609: Confucius In The Chinese History
- ... century. Few people have read any of his teachings today. Yet the truth and importance of his words resonate when they are heard, because Confucius' teachings developed in reaction to the times in which he lived -- and our times are very much like his. In the days Confucius lived were, compared to the past, a time of moral chaos, in which common values were widely rejected. Crime was on the rise and murder happened even in the royal court. Government was routinely corrupt or ...
- 610: Heart Of Darkness 8
- ... her. He is unable to shatter her delusion: "The last word he pronounced was your name," he lies. She is engulfed in emotion and tears.The entire novel parallels the author's own life. Conrad lived from 1857 to 1924. He was a novelist who lived in his work. He wrote about the experiences as if he were writing about himself. The story is written as seen through Marlow's eyes. Marlow is a follower of the sea. His voyage up ...
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