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- 1011: Stephen Hawking
- ... the London Sunday Times Best Seller list for a record two hundred and thirty seven weeks. Longer than other book. Of course, Hawking points out that this does not include Shakespeare or The Bible. This book was on the cutting edge of what was known about the nature of the universe. But since that time, there have been many advances in ...
- 1012: Maya Angelou
- ... her theme was love and the universality of all lives. "The honorary duty of a human being is to love, "Angelou said. She spoke of her early love for William Shakespeare's works, and offered her audience excerpts from the poems of several African-Americans, including James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. But always, she came back to love -and ...
- 1013: Mark Twain
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family ...
- 1014: Cleopatra
- ... and Marc Antony. However Marc Antony and Cleopatra were involved in the Battle of Actium, in 31 b.c., which they lost. Marc Antony then committed suicide. Their relationship inspired Shakespeare’s play, “Antony and Cleopatra,” which dealt with their lives together. In result of losing the Battle of Actium, Cleopatra surrendered and attempted to establish a relationship with Ocatavian, later ...
- 1015: Walden
- ... of his character and of his relationship with calpurnia. In conclusion, wives in theatre and literature offer insights into their men. In the theatrical work of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the wives of key characters play a small but extraordinarily significant role. Female characters such as Portia the wife of Brutus, and Calpurnia wife of Julius Caesar, offer readers or ...
- 1016: The Sexes
- In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Petrucio recognizes, respects and desires Katherine s strength of character. Petrucio is a clever man who sees beyond facades because he uses them in addition to a lot of irony ...
- 1017: The Glass Menagerie
- ... live with him. Tom almost tries to hide the fact that he is also a thinker. Tom is known to write poetry. One of his fellow workers even calls him Shakespeare. Tom pays the bills, and still treated like he is a child. The other to people in the house, Tom's sister and mother, do not seem to work at ...
- 1018: Stones From The River
- ... Many authors refer to other literary works. Literature is not as popular today as it was in previous history. People do not seem to read the classics like Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, and The Odyssey unless they are required to do so do a class. Now people seem to be more interested in popular fiction, the Inquirer and magazines. The protagonist, Trudi ...
- 1019: Romeo And Juliet 2
- Youth often suffer for older peoples mistakes. This is true in many cases in the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. This mostly occurs between Romeo and Juliet, but other characters were affected as well. Mercutio and Tybalt were also victims of older people s mistakes. Romeo and Juliet suffered greatly ...
- 1020: Redemtion And Salvation In A T
- ... matter how many times someone seems to be at an end, salvation is always possible. "It is said that Sydney Carton holds a position in literature no less illustrious than Shakespeare's Hamlet in his appeal as a tragic hero" (Coles p 41). Carton is throwing away his life but by his one distinguished act of humanity he achieves complete redemption ...
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