Martin Luther: A Biography Of Martin Luther (1483- 1546)
.... the church door at Wittenberg. Tetzel retreated
from Saxony to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, where he published a set of counter-
theses and burnt Luther's. The Wittenberg students retaliated by burning
Tetzel's, and in 1518 Luther was joined in his views by Melanchthon.
The pope, Leo X, at first took little notice of this disturbance,
but in 1518 summoned Luther to Rome to answer for his theses. His
university and the elector interfered, and ineffective negotiations were
undertaken by Cardinal Cajetan and by Miltitz, envoy of the pope to the
Saxon court. The scholar Johann Eck and Luther held a memorable
disputation at Leipzig (1519); .....
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Thomas Paine: Propaganda And Persuasion
.... the continent, but fully believes
that a separation must sometime or other finally take place...” A second
type of propaganda used was either/or fallacy. Paine had the sentiment
that a man either fought for freedom or would always be known as a coward
when he stated, “The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his
children will curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little
might have saved the whole, and made them happy.” The third and final use
of propaganda in Paine's The Crisis was the bandwagon appeal. To truly be
an admired American, Tom thought that one had to support and fight for
freedom for all .....
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Henry David Thoreau Was A Rebel
.... would separate himself from these attractive deceptions and seek out
the reality of nature's truths, and "not, when I came to die, discover that
I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so
dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite
necessary" (Krutch 172).
The quality of life throughout America was rapidly changing when
Henry cast his critical eye on Concord. Where others saw progress and
prosperity, he saw wastefulness and poverty. "We live meanly, like ants"
(173).
The transcendentalists were deeply concerned about the quality of life in
America. A great tide .....
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Thoreau As A Prophet
.... which are
necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the
superfluities” (Thoreau 1496). Thoreau is saying that it is a choice to
obtain more than the necessities of life. We choose to buy excess clothes
and excess technology. What happened to being content with what God has
given us? “But if my jacket and trousers, my hat and shoes, are fit to
worship God in, they will do; will they not?” (Thoreau 1501). In the Bible
it says, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of
worshipers the Father seeks.” (John 4:25). .....
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Thornton Wilder
.... American consul general in Shanghai (Goldstone 11). He was then
schooled at Berkeley, California; Chefoo, China; and Ojai, California
before completing high school back at Berkeley in 1915. He studied the
classics at Oberlin College and Yale University, where he received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919 (Unger 356). Wilder spent a year as a
resident of the American Academy at Rome, where he began writing The Cabala.
Back in the United States he taught French at Lawrenceville High School in
New Jersey from 1921-1928 and began doing graduate work at Princeton, where
he took his Master of Arts degree in 1926. The Cabala was issue .....
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Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
.... in 1947. He attended a local
catholic parochial elementary and secondary school. Most of his friends
were interested in sports, and following their favorite teams throughout
the season, but Tom had more important things on his mind like guns, tanks,
and planes. He went to Loyola College, a Jesuit college of liberal arts in
Baltimore where he majored in English. While attending college he joined
the ROTC in order to serve in Vietnam, but poor eyesight kept him from
fulfilling his desire. The first short story he wrote was rejected by
Analog Sci-Fi magazine, crushing another dream of having his name on a book.
In 1973 he b .....
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A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
.... 15 and 30% of
the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the
traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a
thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role
in her country's politics as an important aspect of the modern nation's
identity. As she has proved neither conservative nor liberal in her stance, she
has so come to symbolize a popular democracy.
It was raining on the sunless April day in 1926 when Elizabeth Bowes-
Lyon announced to her husband of three years that it was time. The Duke and
Duchess of York were anticipating .....
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Christopher Marlowe
.... him three
years later by the constable of Shoreditch in relation to that death. In
1592 he was deported from the Netherlands after attempting to issue forged
gold coins. On the 30th of May 1593 he was killed by Ingram Frizer in a
Deptford tavern after a quarrel over the bill. He was only 29 years old.
During the middle ages, culture and government were influenced greatly by
the Church of Rome. The Reformation of Henry VIII (1529-39), and the break
of ties with that church meant that the monarch was now supreme governor.
This altered the whole balance of political and religious life, and,
consequently, was the balance of lit .....
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The Life And Work Of Washington Irving
.... his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this
reputation was enhanced by his next work, "A History of New York " (1809),
evidently written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American
scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The work is a account of New York State
during the period of Dutch occupation which was from (1609-1664). Irving's
mocking tone and funny descriptions of early American life offset the
nationalism in much American writing of the time. Generally considered the
first important contribution to American comic literature, and a great
popular success from the start. The work brought Irving lots of fame and
financ .....
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Walt Whitman And His Poetry
.... fact: his opening poem in the Leaves of Grass tells about how
he knows he will die soon. It says that “I have walked the roads you will
walk” which is telling about how he once was alive just like us. It is a
peom that remembers him and speaks to future generations.
Indeed, Walt Whitman is a very interesting poet, and his style is
the best in the world.
Sample Peom
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
In cabin'd ships at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious
waves,
Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine,
Where joyous full of faith, .....
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Why Mark Twain Is The Greatest American Author Of All Time
.... to get everybody's attention but smart enough to know when to
stop. I read some of the things that Tom had done in the book and some of
the lies he would tell and I thought "man he is crazy for doing that" but
as I thought about it more it seems reasonable to a kid at that age and why
wouldnt he act the way he did ?
Mark Twain takes a big step to the side when he writes about one of
Miss Watsons slaves. Jim is a strong black slave in about his mid-twenties.
As you read about Jim and see what he's had to go through you can start to
understand that his actions are very much like what slaves in that time
really did. Jim overhears .....
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William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
.... of knowledge, Williams attended the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine, and later
visited the University of Leipzig, for post-graduate study (Bloom 4338).
Williams fulfilled his parents' lofty standards by becoming a general
practitioner with his degree from Pennsylvania. Their standards,
unfortunately, did not match up with those of Williams himself. He did not
wish to become
a doctor, but found himself becoming infatuated with poetry. He often
found himself torn between what he wanted to do, and what his parents
wished for him to do. He was caught, because his love was not as promising .....
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