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Joan Of Arc
Words: 1903 - Pages: 7.... it started coming
clearer to her and when she saw Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret her duty was
clear, she was the chosen one to crown Charles the VII. 2
Since France had been fighting with England in what was called the
Hundred Years' War, much of Northern France was captured by the English,
including Reims where the coronation for kings had been held for over centuries
before him. Since Reims was captured, Charles the VII, who had not yet been
crowned; was still called the Dauphin. When Joan had these visions of Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret, she told her family and friends. When she told
her father, he would not let her go. .....
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Fiction Authors
Words: 1489 - Pages: 6.... Huxley asks his readers
to look at the role of science and literature in the future world, scared
that it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxley
includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society,
a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer
part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with
his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is
the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach
to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various
me .....
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King Arthur
Words: 397 - Pages: 2.... it to be a fictional bibliography added only to give
his book some credibility. Therefore his work is considered to be
literature not factual history. Geoffrey is the one responsible for the
portrayal of Arthur as a splendid King who conquered the British Isles and
much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information
about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to
the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and
Chretien de Troyes continued on with the development of King Arthur and his
life, adding yet more detail and depth to the story. Robert Wace
con .....
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The Life Of Mao Zedong
Words: 3401 - Pages: 13.... 3 His family lived in a rural village where for hundreds of years
the pattern of everyday life had remained largely unbroken. 4 Mao's father,
the son of a "poor peasant," during Mao's childhood however, prospered and
become a wealthy land owner and rice dealer. 5 Yet, the structure of Mao's
family continued to mirror the rigidity of traditional Chinese society. His
father, a strict disciplinarian, demanded filial piety. 6 Forced to do farm
labor and study the Chinese classics, Mao was expected to be obedient. On
the other hand, Mao remembers his mother was "generous and sympathetic." 7
Mao urged his mother to confront his father but .....
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Paul Revere
Words: 1168 - Pages: 5.... Revolutionary War were be gossiped about around the town. On the Sunday morning in which he was to toll the bell of Christ’s church a young boy heard the first gun of the revolution. Revere didn’t know this yet but his honorable duty lay within that revolution. On the twenty-second day of July, 1754 Reveres father died in his sleep. He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like friends than father and son. After his fathers death Paul became the man of the house. He had to take on more responsibilities and work harder to support his large family. After a while the stress wa .....
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Howard Hughes
Words: 3889 - Pages: 15.... School of Law, yet never once appeared before a court of law. Big Howard spent the first 36 years of his life chasing money across the Texas plains, as a wildcatter and a speculator in oil leases, working hard enough and earning just enough to move on to another, hopefully more fortunate gamble. In the year of his marriage, Big Howard sold leases on land that proved to have $50,000 in oil beneath it. He promptly took his new wife to Europe for a honeymoon, and returned exactly $50,000 poorer. In 1908, Big Howard turned his ingenuity and his hobby to tinker into good fortune. Current drilling technology was unable to penetrate the thick .....
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Elvis Presley
Words: 409 - Pages: 2.... Be Cruel” (1956) and “All Shook Up” (1957). After that, his American sales have earned him gold, platinum or multiplatinum awards for 111 different albums and singles, far more than any other artist or group.
Elvis also starred in 33 films and made history with his television appearances and specials. From 1956 to 1958, he starred in four motion pictures, all of which featured his soundtracks: Love Me Tender (1956), Jailhouse Rock (1957), Loving You (1957), and King Creole (1958). After serving in the USA Armed Forces from 1958 to 1960, Presley appeared in numerous musical films: Flaming Star, Blue Hawaii, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Viva .....
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
Words: 2104 - Pages: 8.... understand why personal expression may be considered heretical,
the society in which Bradstreet lived and wrote must be examined in order
to comprehend what kinds of human activities and behaviors were acceptable
and how Bradstreet deviated from these behaviors.
Bradstreet was not truly unorthodox in that she did not dissent
from accepted beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century
and lived in a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived
within the limitations not only of the beliefs and standards of her society,
but of her sex. A woman's place was definitely in the home in Colonial
America. The expe .....
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Joseph Hyden
Words: 1818 - Pages: 7.... March 31 as Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool.
At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years. During his early years, he became interested in composing music, but he had no formal training until his late teens, when he worked for Italian musician and composer, Niccolò Porpora. He avidly studied music, including the works of C. P. E. Bach, .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Words: 1215 - Pages: 5.... and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum. ’s life truly was a work of art.
Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His early influences include his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright .....
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