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- 171: How John Donne Showed His Love
- How John Donne Showed his Love John Donne s poetry has been both ridiculed and praised. One reason for the ridicule is due to the fact that many people believe his work is vulgar, and his discussion of sex may seem improper ... down with his wife. Donne eloped with his underage lover Anne More which in itself was a scandalous event. Her father, Sir George More, objected to their marriage. Her father was so irritated he had John thrown in jail for marrying a minor without parental consent. Though the couple went through many hardships they loved each other very deeply (Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia). The words in Donne s poetry after the ...
- 172: Brave New World
- ... permanent relationship with a woman. The object of his desire is Lenina, and he convinces her to visit an Indian reservation with him to pursue his wish. At the reserve they meet a savage, named John who is the son a woman born in the civilized world, and got lost in the reserve many years before. His father turns out to be the director of the hatcheries where both Bernard and Lenina work. His mother has appalled the Indians and even her son in her attempt to remain “decently” promiscuous in the reservation. John is quite literate and is very familiar with the works of Shakespeare; from whom he has learned about behaviors and feelings that had been conditioned out of the minds of all “civilized” people. John represents what Huxley thought man fundamentally is.10 John and his mother are brought back to London with Bernard and Lenina for an experiment to find out how savages will react to the civilized ...
- 173: John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
- John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model? A role model can be looked up upon and imitated. Many would argue that Sir John A. Macdonald is not someone of this stature, but I have different opinions about him. By studying some books about him I concluded that this humble man is someone who deserves to be known as a good role model. Here are some reasons to why. It is John A. Macdonald's outstanding qualities that made him a upright leader. He won the hearts of people because he could relate to them and their problems. Showing humility, Mr. Macdonald considered himself as one ...
- 174: Romantic Poetry
- ... we get in the period is a range of competing, arguing, pain and suffering. You can look at Romanticism as sometimes dreamy and remote idealized visions of love shown by poets. Eg: unfortunate picture of Keats looking like a wistful wimp or Worthsword maundering on about daffodils; Shelley flits past with too much hair but not practical skill when it comes to paying the bills, over there is Coleridge, stoned out ... Government spy tried to murder Shelley. This shows there was more to the lives of these Romantic poets rather than simply than escapists. From all of the poets studied we find none was a woman. Keats was born over a livery stable, whereas Shelley was born on the family estate. Blake never went to school. Coleridge was a life-long Christian, whereas Keats was an atheist. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and grew up in the Lake District, the beautiful area of mountains, lakes, and streams near the Scottish border in northwest England. Wordsworth published Lyrical ...
- 175: Romeo And Juliet 7
- ... we get in the period is a range of competing, arguing, pain and suffering. You can look at Romanticism as sometimes dreamy and remote idealized visions of love shown by poets. Eg: unfortunate picture of Keats looking like a wistful wimp or Worthsword maundering on about daffodils; Shelley flits past with too much hair but not practical skill when it comes to paying the bills, over there is Coleridge, stoned out ... Government spy tried to murder Shelley. This shows there was more to the lives of these Romantic poets rather than simply than escapists. From all of the poets studied we find none was a woman. Keats was born over a livery stable, whereas Shelley was born on the family estate. Blake never went to school. Coleridge was a life-long Christian, whereas Keats was an atheist. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and grew up in the Lake District, the beautiful area of mountains, lakes, and streams near the Scottish border in northwest England. Wordsworth published Lyrical ...
- 176: John Dalton 2
- John Dalton (1766 - 1844) Around September 2, 1766 John Dalton was born. He was born in Eaglesfield, England. Dalton was most known for the development of the modern atomic theory. Dalton was taught at his early ages of learning by his father and a ... work with his cousin in Kendal, but he stayed a teacher. In 1793 he moved to Manchester, this is where he would remain the rest of his life. Dalton was influenced greatly by the mathematician John Gough. Dalton while in Manchester became the teacher of math and philosophy at a college. He taught there until 1799. Dalton became a chemist and physicist after his teaching jobs. Dalton did a lot ...
- 177: John Wayne
- The Duke takes his place in history. John Wayne, one of America’s greatest actors and directors of all time. His fame and superstardom led to many problems in his career. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit ... under his birth name, Marion Michael Morrison. He held many behind-the-scene jobs at Fox before moving in front of the cameras in the late 1920’s in a series of small roles. Director John Ford, who befriended " the Duke", recommended him for the lead role in Raoul Walsh’s western epic, The Big Trail. Wayne did not let the stardom go to his head. He spent the rest of the decade making his way through a series of low budget films whose failing budgets and quick shooting schedules did little to advance his career. In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in the 1940’s, his legend ...
- 178: John Lennon
- John Lennon Lennon was born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the ... what it is, simple English, make it rhyme and put a backbeat on it, and express yourself as simply [and] straightforwardly as possible." His most fully realized statement, as a solo artist was 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature ... For all of the unvarnished genius of Lennon's recordings, however, much of what lingers in the public memory goes beyond musical legacy. Rather, it has to do with leading by example. The relationship between John and Yoko endured challenges from within and without to became one of the most touching and celebrated of 20th-century romances. They were gallantly foolish in undertaking performance art pieces - bed-ins, happenings, full- ...
- 179: The Work of John Collier
- The Work of John Collier 1John Collier, a contemporary English author, was born in London, England on May 3,1901 and lived his last years in Palisades, California where he died of a stroke on April 6, 1980. Collier ... the 1920's era, educated in post-Victorian England, and according to Anthony Burgess in the London Times. He was known for "literary allusiveness and quiet wit" (Contemporary works was published in 1972 entitled The John Collier Reader. His literary style reached beyond his native country and became popular in the United States. John Collier's writings are full of surprises. His short stories combine an element of horror as well as love which are focused on the relationships of the young and old. Collier is notable for ...
- 180: John Wayne
- The Duke takes his place in history. John Wayne, one of America s greatest actors and directors of all time. His fame and superstardom led to many problems in his career. His image as an icon of American individualism and the frontier spirit ... under his birth name, Marion Michael Morrison. He held many behind-the-scene jobs at Fox before moving in front of the cameras in the late 1920 s in a series of small roles. Director John Ford, who befriended the Duke , recommended him for the lead role in Raoul Walsh s western epic, The Big Trail. Wayne did not let the stardom go to his head. He spent the rest of the decade making his way through a series of low budget films whose failing budgets and quick shooting schedules did little to advance his career. In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in the 1940 s, his legend ...
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