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- 931: Charlie Chaplin
- ... separated shortly after Charlie was born, leaving Hanna to provide for her children. Unfortunately his father died of alcoholism in 1901 and his mother became ill, constantly going in and out of mental institutions. Chaplin lived his childhood in and out of run-down furnished rooms, state poorhouses, and an orphanage. His childhood was marked by poverty, cruelty, hunger, and loneliness- subjects which became major themes in his silent comedies. was ... performer as opposed to the events, which befell him. People couldn't wait to get home from the stress and hardship of reality to sit and watch his shows. In conclusion, was a person who lived in poverty and had to struggle during his early life. His childhood was rough and unstable. Yet, Charlie's outstanding talents and ingenious led him to become the unforgetable legend he will always be remembered ...
- 932: Martin Luther King
- ... a man to admire for his true leadership excellence and also for the content of his character. The virtuous character of, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been shown by the high moral values he lived by. Other aspects of the excellence of his character and leadership are evident in the following: his personality, goals, attitudes, perception, self-esteem, habits, managerial style, identity, vision, choice, and behaviour. Personality develops early in ... would become. This statement best exemplifies the vision of MLK not of what he planned to do in specifics but his life as a whole which led to those accomplishments and his successful yet short lived career. One of MLK s most important as well as most difficult to proclaim is his ability to choose. Choice is very difficult when one direction can lead you down while the other can take ...
- 933: Call Of The Wild Book Report
- ... this essay, I will go over what Buck was like, how and why he was forced to adapt to his new environment, and what he changed into. When we first met up with Buck, he lived in the Santa Clara Valley, on Judge Miller's property. He was the ruler of his domain, uncontested by any other local dogs. he was a mix between a St. Bernard and a Scotch Shepherd ... knew he was dying. While Buck was being beaten, a man named John Thornton came fort and took Buck from his attacker. The man nursed Buck back to health, and from that day forward, Buck lived for that man. Buck loved him with all his being. After being with this man for quite some time, Buck started to hear a call from far away. He started paying more and more attention ...
- 934: Frank Lloyd Wright
- “.......having a good start not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who has yet lived, but fully intend to be the greatest architect who will ever live. Yes, I intend to be the greatest architect of all time.” - 1867-1959 CHILDHOOD Born in Richland Center, in southwestern Wisconsin, on ... raised under the influence of a Welsh heritage. The Lloyd-Jones family, his mother’s side of the family, had a great influence on Wright throughout his life. The family was Unitarian in faith and lived close to each other. Major emphasis within the Lloyd-Jones family included education, religion, and nature. Wright’s family spent many evenings listening to William Lincoln Wright read the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Blake ...
- 935: Chaucer
- ... reference. Evidence of the role and impact of religion in society is shown in the epic poem Beowulf of the eighth century and Geoffrey 's Canterbury Tales of the fourteenth century. The time in which lived was "one of the most disagreeable periods of our national history" (Legouis 80). The Black Death destroyed a third of the population and many people turned to the church for help. Goeffery , being "the great ... an act of religious devotion, where a person or groups of people travel to a holy site in honor of a religious figure (Quinn 76). Almost every literary work ever produced at the time that lived had religious undertones. This was because of the simple fact that "the church was the fountain of literacy and sole purveyor of what education there was during these centuries"(Vinson 8). The church was the ...
- 936: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... reiterates his feelings about the war and its separating effects in a subsequent quote, Bäumer once again uses his father to represent the whole of society oblivious to the trained killing machines that once lived as regularly operating beings. The inexplicable ignorance of the civilians continues to reveal itself as another person, this time his German-master approaches him with comments, which display that the people know nothing about the ... zone where the front begins they transform into "instant inhuman animals"(pg. 56). Remarque expresses the fact that the front resembles a magical line; once they cross it they re not the same people they lived as on the other side of the line. Paul comments, "We have become wild beasts. We do not fight we defend ourselves against annihilation"(pg. 103). Here Remarque states that the German soldiers only defend ...
- 937: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... fires continuously at it, fearlessly staring death in the face. It is in these few moments that he finds himself at last a happy man. Finally he has conquered his weakness. His happiness is short lived, for Margot shoots him a few minutes later. She begrudges Macomber the triumph of having proved himself as a man. He must die, as he threatens to escape from her domination. The destructive power of ... woman.” This passage, as well as several domineering women characters in Hemingway’s work, makes you question how he felt towards his mother. Ernest Hemingway’s literature is work in which happiness is short lived, caused temporarily by alcohol then destroyed by the reality of death. He did not glorify love affairs, but make them cheap and unemotional. Wealth is described as evil and corrupting in his novels. Though not ...
- 938: Mozart And His Music
- Mozart is perhaps the greatest musical genius who ever lived. Mozart 's full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756. Mozart is the greatest musical child prodigy who ever lived. He began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at age 9. His father took him on a series of concert tours together with his sister, Maria Anna; born four and one-half ...
- 939: Stoic Death Themes Of In The N
- ... it takes the death of a loved one to bring meaning to one's life. In the case of The Death of Ivan Ilyitch, though, it is his own death that is dealt with. Ivan lived a pleasant life, attending law school, being in the company of high society. He did some things that he questioned at first, for the acts made him feel a bit disgraceful. He saw that the ... was more concerned for his acceptance by strangers than he was of having a happy family life. He felt that as long as his business life was fine, although he ignored his family life, he lived a good life. Once an accident left him terminally ill, one could say he began to accept the role of death in his life. He didn't accept it with open arms, however, for he ...
- 940: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... to American literature have become increasingly more prominent as the years have passed. As short fiction has become a more accepted genre in literary circles, Poe's theories are studied with more passion. Although he lived a rather melancholy existence, Poe did experience moments of joy, and desired to capture beauty through poetical form. Indeed, what he left behind for the literary world was his gifted genius, revealed through his poetry ... broken. However, upon her death, Poe still used her as his muse, finding the inspiration to write of death and love and reunion. He died on October 7, 1849 (Hart 521-2). Throughout his short-lived life, Edgar Allan Poe compiled a collection of literature, offering poetry, short fiction and literary criticism. In fact, perhaps even more than his poetry and short fiction, Poe's criticism is what has endured, and ...
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