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Search results 1731 - 1740 of 3135 matching essays
- 1731: Thomas Jefferson
- ... secretary of the French legation, it was ostensibly an account of the resources, productions, government, and society of a single state. But it spanned a continent and contained reflections on religion, slavery, and the Indians. It afterward appeared in many editions and was the literary foundation of his deserved reputation as a scientist. In the Continental Congress (1783-1784), Jefferson's ...
- 1732: Theodore Dreiser
- ... The misadventures of his bothers and sisters in early adult life also gave him additional material on which to base his characters. In his later life, Dreiser would bitterly associate religion with his father being unaffectionate and the family’s endless poverty level. He always spoke and wrote of his mother being affectionate and caring at all times. Theodore Dreiser was ...
- 1733: T.S. Eliot
- ... our culture, poets can restore mythic unity to literature." So why was did was this poet often considered to be so controversial at times? "I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature, and a royalist in politics." T.S. Eliot so defined, and even exaggerated, his own conservatism. The ideas of this stimulating writer were perhaps traditional, but ...
- 1734: Sophocles
- ... portrayal of character, and by making each play a separate psychological and dramatic unity. Sophocles also effected a modification in the spirit and significance of a tragedy. Although problems of religion and morality still provided the themes, the nature of humans and their problems and struggles became the fundamental interest of Greek tragedy.
- 1735: Slobodan Milosevic
- ... dominant powers letting expediency rather than ethnicity determine the Balkan borders. Like the Bosnian muslims, Kosovar Albanians were lumped into the artificial Serb-dominated state called Yugoslavia – even though ethinicity, religion and geography bound them to Albania. Thus, Kosovo has been a pawn in the hands of the powers that mindlessly drew and re-drew the Balkan map. Despite being 90 ...
- 1736: Sir Thomas More
- Thomas More In life, belief can be a very powerful thing, powerful enough to affect major choices. Believing is having faith in an idea, person, thing or religion. In Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More made many important choices the were affected by a belief in the religious theory that the Pope is ...
- 1737: Sheyann Webb
- ... the squirrel was cleanly shot though the head, even though she was only 8 years old! Annie's mom liked having the meat for dinner, but the family's Quaker religion opposed violence. Annie had to promise never to use the gun on someone. Annie was well known in Cincinnati for her cleanly shot birds. People who ate the birds did ...
- 1738: Ronald Reagan
- ... main function in his presidency was described as "the great communicator." Reagan also received strong support from religious groups, who were unhappy about what they saw as decreasing respect for religion in public life and about increasing respect to sex and drugs, that had emerged in the late 1960s. These groups had little in common, and stood on Reagan’s side ...
- 1739: P. T. Barnum
- ... father he juggled several jobs. He bought his own store in Bethel, he started a newspaper, and he ran a lottery. Much to Charity's dismay Barnum adopted a new religion, Universalism, which offered what he called a more "cheerful" Christianity. Barnum was strongly opposed to the involvement of the Congregationalist church in local politics. In 1831 he used his newspaper ...
- 1740: Muhammed Ali
- ... Clay proceeded to the Rome Olympics and won the light-heavyweight gold medal. Immediately after winning the gold medal, Clay was subjected to horrible comments about his race and his religion, which forced him to throw his gold medal away because he felt that people did not accept him. Cassius Clay was a great amateur boxer, and won 100 out of ...
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