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David Belasco
Words: 569 / Pages: 3 .... Twist and Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1879, with James A. Herne, his first important collaborator, he wrote the popular melodrama Hearts of Oak.
In 1880, Theatrical manager Daniel Frohman brought Belasco to New
York City, where he spent most of his life. For several years he was the stage manager of the Madison Square Theater, for which he wrote plays, Achieving popularity with May Blossom (1884), a Civil War love story. It was followed by Lord Chumbley (1888), a domestic drama featuring a comic Englishmen. In 1893, written with Franklyn Fyles, was The Girl I Left Behind Me, a popular Indian melodrama.
In 1895, Belasco had his first smash hi .....
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Cultural Anthro - Karl Marx
Words: 1291 / Pages: 5 .... ethnography, Social Contract and Economic Markets. I believe that Karl Marx’s economic factors and Judith Blau’s cultural factors together define the middle class.
Karl Marx believed class was a matter of economics, that is, how the individual fits into the pattern of modern capitalist society. Marx argued that the whole of capitalist society was constructed in order to support this idea including the society’s infrastructure. Marx believed that social classes arise when a group gains control of the means of production. This group also has the power to maintain or increase its wealth by taking advantage of the surplus value of labor .....
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Words: 478 / Pages: 2 .... examiner. In less than a year he saw the opportunity he wanted. The Columbia Trust was about to be taken over by the First National. Joe decided that if anybody was to take over the Columbia, he should be the one. Joe had supporters, which was accompanied by a game of bluff that finally forced First National to give up. When the merger was called off, the Columbia directors rewarded him with the top job. At 25 he had become the youngest bank president in the country.
In 1914, now the successful bank president married the love of his life, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Rose was the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald, a le .....
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Alexander The Great
Words: 629 / Pages: 3 .... of Achilles. Because of the affiliation that Alexander thought he had with Achilles, Alexander carried a copy of the Iliad with him wherever he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip. Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrior's career. His favorite literature, the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds.
Aristotle also showed him that leaders must have compassion and understanding. Alexande .....
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Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
Words: 1035 / Pages: 4 .... His family
followed the moral values of Jainism, this included the practice of ahmisa
(non-injury to all living things), vegetarianism, fasting, and tolerance of
other cultures.
Gandhi's teenage years were full of problems. He was not good at
school, or in sports, he also missed a year of school at age 13, when he
got married. Life got very stressful for him when his father became sick.
He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he started to
smoke shoplift and eat meat.
In 1887 he started collage at the University of Bombay. He did not
like it there and decided to go to England and become a barrister and
return for a .....
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The Works Of Sinclair Lewis
Words: 297 / Pages: 2 .... conception of American
life with one that was realistic and even bitter. Lewis was born in Sauk
Center, Minnesota, on February 7, 1885, and was educated at Yale
University. From 1907 to 1916 he was a newspaper reporter and a literary
editor.
In Main Street (1920) Lewis first developed the theme that was to run
through his most important work: the monotony, emotional frustration, and
lack of spiritual and intellectual values in American middle-class life.
His novel Babbitt (1922) mercilessly characterizes the small-town American
businessman who conforms blindly to the materialistic social and ethical
standards of his environment; the word "Babbitt," d .....
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Robert Frost
Words: 1041 / Pages: 4 .... his life, evolved to become one of America’s greatest poets.
Frost’s poems were not respected in the United States at the time that he first began writing. But after a brief stay in England, Frost emerged as one of the most extraordinary writers in his time. Publishing A Boy’s Will and North Of Boston, Frost began his quest.
In the book A Boy’s Will, Frost writes poems of hope and beauty. “Love and a Question,” illustrates the optimistic view of a bridegroom trying to help a poor man. He thinks that he should help him, but not knowing if he can. His heart shows compassion but his minds shows logic. The c .....
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Nostradamus
Words: 1019 / Pages: 4 .... Shining pots and pans of brass hung low from the
mantle shelf. At either angle of the fireplace was an oak settle were
his grandfathers liked to laze and talk when they came to visit. On the
walls hung light cabinet shelves holding salt and spices.
Nostradamus had one definite brother, Cèsar who wrote Histoire de
Provence, a book which sustains the myth of the Nostradamus royal line.
Historians think Nostradamus had three other brothers, Bertrand, Hector, and
Antoine, but they are not sure and almost nothing is known about them besides
their names.
Nostradamus was educated by his grandfathers. First Peyrot, who had
been a great trave .....
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Kobe Bryant
Words: 5263 / Pages: 20 .... Robert Horry, meanwhile, gave Jazz guard Jeff Hornacek a rough forearm, earning himself an ejection. But this is nothing compared to the tension between Laker coach Del Harris and his point guard, Nick Van Exel. In Game Four, Van Exel had been pulled by Harris for waving off the coach's instructions, screaming vulgarities as Harris waved an admonishing finger in his face. Tonight, however, Van Exel is having a hell of a game, hitting key jumpers from all over the floor. His hot hand has saved them in clutch situations before, but now the ball is about to go to someone else for the game-winning shot.
The 18-year-old rookie, . The Golden Child.
A lan .....
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Serial Murderer Ed Gein
Words: 2396 / Pages: 9 .... quiet town of about 700 in population (Milwaukee
Journal). This was a town where every body knew each other or thought they
did. Plainfield was soon to be a town that would soon rock the nation.
His father George Gein held jobs as a tanner and carpenter when he
wasn't working the farm. When he was not working he would often visit the
local bars and drink himself drunk(Hotvedt). He was often a coward to his
wife and cowered in fear of her. This led him to become an alcoholic to
escape the verbal abuse. His wife would often pray in front of their sons
for the death of him. Her wishes finally came true when he died in 1940 of
causes unkn .....
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