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Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

Aldous Huxley, Life and Works

20th century possessed a "rigid class structure"-to a large extent it still does-and that was clearly shown in the novel (Aldous H...

Francisco de Goya: His Life and Works

now retired. He was a pupil of Don Jose Luzan in Zaragoza, learning from his own invention when he visited Rome. He has no master ...

Edgar Allan Poe: His Works and His Life

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

Sir Thomas More: His Life and Works

"spent the next four years in the Charterhouse in devotion and prayer" (Kreis). During his time there he composed poetry and Latin...

Toni Morrison: Life and Works

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

Lillian D. Wald: Life and Works

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

Balancing Life and Work

enough to get by, or is making enough money to pay bills and go on an annual vacation a worthy goal? In defining how much money on...

The Life and Works of Puccini

music and his family had a lot of musical talent. He was not the first to exhibit this unique gift and his desire for a musical li...

Edmond Halley: Life and Works

globe he would presently find it out" (OConnor; Robertson). Halley then attended Queens College Oxford (Edmund Halley: 16...

David George Crighton: Life and Works

year of starting, and he was 23 years old. He needed a bigger challenge" (Williams [1], 2000). Williams notes that he was incredib...

Life and Works: Garrett A. Morgan

in Cleveland he learned about how sewing machines work and then opened a store where he sold machines and fixed them in 1907 (Blac...

Life and Works: Lewis Howard Latimer

honorable discharge (Blackinventor.com, 2006). After the war he worked in a patent law firm as an office boy (Blackinventor.com, 2...

Mozart: Life and Works

the Imperial Court, Mozart was such a mischievous child that he climbed into the lap of the Empress Maria Theresa and gave her a k...

Life and Works of William Faulkner

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

Life and Work of Euclid of Alexandria

author notes that, "the most usually presented idea - that Euclid was an ordinary mathematician/scholar, who simply lived in Alexa...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

Life and Works of Taha Hussein

himself with the Western cultures, going to France and learning, it seems, as much as he could. It was while in France that his pe...

Paul Roberts' 'The End of Oil'

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

Life and Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

and early career help illustrate how he was a relatively simple man who would likely have remained obscure without WWII and Nazi G...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Life and Work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

and stained glass" (Pioch). It was also in this year that he did his traveling to Italy where he did a great number of paintings t...

Life and Works of Katherine Anne Porter

Porter, 2005). Her education was obtained at convent schools and when she was 16 she ran away (Books and Writers, 2005). This i...

Life and Work of Marie Curie

a good university (Hole, 2005). "Marie studied physics and mathematics and quickly received her masters degrees in both subjects. ...

Life and Work of B.F. Skinner

conditioning is one of the simplest, but most profound discoveries concerning human behavior and the behavior of animals as well. ...

Life and Works of Saint Augustine

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

Life and Works of Shirley Chisholm

in Brooklyn, New York, and received her education, for the most part, in Barbados (Galeschools.com, 2008). She came back to New Yo...

The Life and Works of Martin Luther King Jr.

went to Booker T. Washington High School and Atlanta University Laboratory School (The King Center, 2008). He had incredibly high ...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Life and Works

they did not, by and large, take the lead in challenging the racial caste system. As Daddy King recalled, Instead of championing t...