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- 281: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... to go on in my opinion. Hemingway's strong parts of this story are emphasized on vocabulary. He probably learned these fisherman terms for he once was a fisherman in Cuba. There is one problem to this, though. Throughout the story he uses these terms over and over although the ordinary person, like me, would forget them after the first use ...
- 282: Zinn's A People's History of The United States of America
- ... Americans first came into contact; the Arawak natives came out to greet the whites, and the whites were only interested in finding the gold. From the Bahamas, Columbus sailed to Cuba and Hispañola, the present-day home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. One-hundred fifteen years later and 1,500 miles to the north, the colony of Jamestown was founded ...
- 283: Old Man and the Sea: Themes
- ... to go on in my opinion. Hemingway's strong parts of this story are emphasized on vocabulary. He probably learned these fisherman terms for he once was a fisherman in Cuba. There is one problem to this, though. Throughout the story he uses these terms over and over although the ordinary person, like me, would forget them after the first use ...
- 284: Hank Williams
- ... at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans. Actually, they were married three times; the extra times were in front of paying customers. They took a $30,000 honeymoon going to Cuba, or they would have if Hank had not been so drunk that they had to cancel it. Despite his problems, Hank was still the number one selling country artist. Billie ...
- 285: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... assistant secretary of the Navy. While in this office he actively prepared for the Cuban War, which he saw was coming, and when it broke out in 1898, went to Cuba as lieutenant colonel of a regiment of volunteer cavalry, which he himself had raised among the hunters and cowboys of the West. He won great fame as leader of these ...
- 286: Comparison: Caesar and Fidel Castro
- ... voted in by the people. He did this by gaining popularity by attacking other countries and defeating them. Another big difference was the country's they overtook. Fidel took over Cuba which is a poor country. Being a poor country, and being under terrible times, the Cuban people were influenced easily. Caesar took over the Roman Empire which was massively rich ...
- 287: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- ... figures all over the world, and during the 60's he took advantage of this repeatedly. He mainly just pissed off one important official after another, getting kicked out of Cuba and Prague, and annoying American conservatives. He was a familiar figure at protests against the Vietnam War, this coupled with the fact he was so open with his views helped ...
- 288: Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
- ... This quote speaks of the beauty that Christopher was taken by when he explored the islands he came upon due east of Juana. Of the Juana group, one island was Cuba, and of the new group lie Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Christopher was astounded to see that the vegetation was in bloom all year. Though I think this was for ...
- 289: Ernest Hemingway
- ... to Spain during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. He was also a correspondent that covered World War II. After the war Hemingway went to live in Havana, Cuba and then in Ketchum, Idaho. He developed an interest in bull fighting and used this them in his writing of his book Death in the Afternoon in 1932. Hemingway and ...
- 290: Winston Churchill
- ... had an extraordinary memory. Winston Churchhill didn't want to go to university. Instead, he enrolled in the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He graduated in 1894. After service in Cuba and India, he worked as a war- correspondent in Northern India, Sudan and in South Africa, where he was captured by the Boers. His daring escape made him an overnight ...
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