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- 31: Gandhi
- ... found valuable in his own and other religions. He commanded a Red Cross unit in the Boer War, and organised a commune near Durban based on the ideas of Leo Tolstoy. Gandhi finally returned to India in 1915, after the government of the Union of South Africa had made important concessions to his demands, including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition ...
- 32: Stephen Crane
- ... Along with his beliefs in Darwinism, he drew much if his influences from his religious beliefs (Colvert 12:108). Famous writers such as Hamlin Garland, William Howells, Rudyard Kipling, and Tolstoy also influenced him (12:101). The first of his stories was Maggie, which was very unpopular ("Stephen" n.p.). His second novel, The Red Badge of Courage, earned Crane international ...
- 33: Jimmy Carter
- ... Blest Be the Tie That Binds" Color - Blue Gift to receive (as a youth) - Books Books - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Poet - Dylan Thomas - Miller Williams Philosopher - Paul Tillich - Reinhold Niebuhr - Soren Kierkegaard Bible quote "Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open ...
- 34: Henry James
- ... so-called Chicago anarchists, some of whom were executed for killings during the Haymarket Square riot which they were not believed to have committed. After his plea, a string of Tolstoy-influenced novels were released by Howells, which include A Hazard of New Fortune and The Quality of Mercy. Howells, while opposing idealization, made his "comic criticisms of society" by comparing ...
- 35: Henry James And William Dean Howells
- ... so-called Chicago anarchists, some of whom were executed for killings during the Haymarket Square riot which they were not believed to have committed. After his plea, a string of Tolstoy-influenced novels were released by Howells, which include A Hazard of New Fortune and The Quality of Mercy. Howells, while opposing idealization, made his "comic criticisms of society" by comparing ...
- 36: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... s conservatory in Leipzig, his brain was beginning to deteriorate. He attempted suicide, and was committed to an asylum in Bonn. There he died, at age 45, in 1856. Leo Tolstoy was an author, and lived from 1828 to 1910. Leo suffered from mental illness (Atychiphobia, Geniophobia, Polyphobia). Leo lived his life in the past, and that horrified himself. When young ...
- 37: Emerson And Thoreau
- ... poll taxes. He did so to express his opposition to the Mexican War. Thoreau spent one night in jail for his refusal. The essay greatly influenced such reformers as Leo Tolstoy of Russia, Mohandas Gandhi of India, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of the American civil rights movement. Emerson wrote about nature, saying that in order to find your ...
- 38: Abraham Lincoln
- ... one hears the name of America uttered with such mystery as if it were some heaven or hell...but I heard this only in connection with the name Lincoln." --Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "In the days before antiseptic surgery, Lincoln had foreshadowed his own demise; his efforts to preserve the life of the nation had been successful at the cost of ...
- 39: Henry James And William Dean H
- ... so-called Chicago anarchists, some of whom were executed for killings during the Haymarket Square riot which they were not believed to have committed. After his plea, a string of Tolstoy-influenced novels were released by Howells, which include A Hazard of New Fortune and The Quality of Mercy. Howells, while opposing idealization, made his "comic criticisms of society" by comparing ...
- 40: Rock And Roll
- ... part of the legend that Lewis became, a legend that, like his, proved to be remarkably hard to snuff out. Lewis’s story reads like a sprawling novel, one by Tolstoy perhaps, if that writer had grown up eating chitlins.”18 The 1950’s were of time of change, but also advancement. People realized that what their parents had done when ...
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