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… town, Huntington, New York. His house is now a museum that sits across the street from the Walt Whitman Mall. To honor Walt Whitman's greatness several of his poems from The Leaves of Grass have been engraved upon the walls of the mall. The life…

… A Man For All Seasons, Thomas More was found guilty of treason because he refused to support King Henry VIII's decision to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon. The King sought this divorce because he wanted to marry his mistress, Anne Boleyne.…

… The author's name is Joseph T. Ward. Ward grew up in a town very much like Monroeville. He and his friends didn't know what they were going to do after high school so they joined the marines. The biography is written about Joseph T. Ward. He…

… disregard for the natural order of human life are characters that are often deemed iconic and are thoroughly scrutinized. Set on the mysterious and gloomy Yorkshire moors in the nineteenth century, Wuthering Heights gives the false impression…

… the social changes that took place during the early 1900's that resulted in the demise of the old Scottish crofters. John Guthrie is the father of the main character, Chris and he represents the death of the old way of life. John Guthrie was a very…

… The little dream Vonnegut took with him to war was not founded on the rubble of insanity, absurdity, and irrationality that he experienced in WWII. His dream was founded on order, stability, and justice. It was founded on what Dresden symbolized.…

… her to be quite different in some ways but also similar in others to the writers that we have read. Maso changed the literary tradition by having no set story in her novel. When reading her novel you go to a family then all of a sudden it switches to…

… Gandhi as a immaculate role model to follow. His shrewd characteristics, and his peaceful ways made him the perfect man to emulate. The violence that we see in the television each day shows us how desolate the world has become, but Mahatma Gandhi's…

… or nothing" (Miller p6), was the motto of a man named Eugene O'Neill, who wrote from his soul in an attempt to find salvation. In the year 1888, the Barrett House hotel in New York's Times Square saw the birth of a man who would be called the greatest…

… Alabama, a city of about 7,000 people in Monroe County, which has about 24,000 people. Monroeville is in southwest Alabama, about halfway between Montgomery and Mobile. She is the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch…