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- 2621: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut
- ... states that "Dresden is led up to, as it were, by events that precede and follow it." It is surrounded by allusions that lead up to other devastating events in history (Reed 205). The historical allusions that Vonnegut uses are very repetitious. War seems to be a type of metaphor for the condition of people in the world and Dresden is ... a protagonist like Billy Pilgrim in them. Vonnegut wrote "It seemed categorical imperative that I write about Dresden, the firebombing of Dresden, since it was the largest massacre in the history of Europe and I am a person of European extraction and I, a writer, had been present. I had to say something" ("The Biography of Kurt Vonnegut"). Vonnegut was also ...
- 2622: The Crime at Compiegne
- ... Proving herself to be a good deal more than ordinary, Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of Orleans and patron saint of France, united her nation at a critical hour in history and decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in France's favor, forever ending England's dreams of hegemony over France. The crimes and eventual triumph of this most amazing young ... new word." Where Dostoevsky's theory falls through is with his assertion that "the act of carrying out a crime is always accompanied by illness." Jeanne was never ill that history has recorded except to be dubbed insane and a heretic by the English. Perhaps illness would have befallen her if she had been allowed to live; she was burned at ...
- 2623: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... the Mob You are about to hear about the life of John Gotti, from his birth in New York, to his becoming the head of the largest Mafia family in history. I will tell you about his life from the time of his birth until his conviction for murder. There is not enough information available to tell you everything, but I ... an eleven's forever". Works Cited Davis, John. Mafia Dynasty the Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family New York. Harper Collins, 1993. Dorigo, Joe. Mafia a Chilling illustrated History of Underworld New Jersey. Charwell books, 1992 Gross, Km. "Cold-Blooded King of a Hill Under Siege" . People 12,Nov 1991:76 Hewet, Bill. "Bad Fellas". People 23,March 1992 ...
- 2624: HG Wells
- ... The Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which depict members of the lower middle class and their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling ... irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was a member of the Fabian Society. He ...
- 2625: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... put my own value judgements aside, and truly look for the contributions Nietzsche gave to philosophy. Much of my understanding came only after I had a grasp of Neitzsche's history; therefore, I encourage you to read-up on his history before diving into his philosophy (see Appendix I). The modern Westerner might disagree with every aspect of his philosophy, but there are many things one must unfortunately admit are true ...
- 2626: Christopher Marlowe
- ... reflective of the style of the times? Christopher Marlowe contributed greatly to English literature. He developed a new metre which has become one of the most popular in English literary history, and he revitalised a dying form of English drama. His short life was apparently violent and the man himself was supposedly of a volatile temperament, yet he managed to write ... that without Marlowe's contribution to English tragedy, Shakespeare would never have at tempted such an unpopular style and he would not be canonised as he is today. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is surely the pinnacle of Marlowe's achievement. The subject no doubt appealed to Marlowe. In no other play of his, nor in the majority of English ...
- 2627: The Black Death In Europe
- The Black Death In Europe Europe has experience two great plagues throughout its history. The first came in 1347, it was known as the Black Death. The second hit Europe’s most famous city, London, in late 1664 or early 1665; residents called it ... Drable, Margaret. “The Decameron.” Drable, 260 4. Fenton, James. “The Disease of All Diseases.” The New York Review of Books 1 December 1994: 48. 5. Viault, Birdsall S. Modern European History. United States of America: McGraw-Hill Inc., 594
- 2628: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- ... grew to cities with trade routes that extended communications with other cities and countries. Works Cited Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony. Renaissance and Revolution. New York: Panthion. 1965. The New Cambridge Modern History. Ed. G. R. Elton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 1958. v.2. Thomas, Hugh. "Europe, history of." The New Grolier Mulimedia Encyclopedia. 1993 ed.
- 2629: The Conflict in Chechnya
- ... tactics dominated the region until October of 1999, when Russia launched the massive second military attack on Chechnya. "Three years after suffering one of the most humiliating defeats in its history at the hands of a small, improvised army of Chechen guerrillas, Russia was once again in the state of undeclared war with the mountainous republic." (Quinn-Judge, P., Back Into ... more Chechen fighters. Nowadays, after many years of complete incapacity to resist they face a choice of surrender or death. Chechens live on small territory, which in various periods of history, has been the target of ambitious interests of various peoples who were powerful at the time. Each contact with the strangers caused a cataclysm (catastrophe) for the Chechens as the ...
- 2630: Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing
- ... bomber named Enola Gay left the Pacific island of Tinian on a bombing mission. The target: Hiroshima. At 8:15 A.M. Japan time, the first atomic bomb dropped in history "The Little Boy" (made of uranium) exploded a minute later after being released, at approximately 580 meters above the center of Hiroshima. The temperature of the air at the point ... can never be forgotten. This implies that talking about the A-Bomb is today a very sensitive and sometimes even political issue. The atomic bombs ended the deadliest war in history. More than 14 million men under arms, including more than 300,000 Americans, had died. Another 25 million civilians had perished. Much of Asia and Europe had suffered terrible damage ...
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