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…but his own career; in hacking his way to the Temple of Fame over the dead bodies of his enemies, rivals and friends" (GM 317). Marie's story starts from the moment when, on her fifteenth birthday, she is presented by her aunt with a diary in which she…

…. To this extent it is easy to sympathize with the impoverished, pitifully depicted Catholic contingent in John Conroy's harrowing and realistic account of the 'troubles', Belfast Diary - War as a Way of Life (1987). Northern Catholics crave national sovereignty…

…conditions Frida was never able to have any children and this was a great sorrow for her. She had a great love, Diego Rivera (she married twice with this man and dedicated to him a passionate diary) but also a lot of lovers, men and women, such as Leon…

…and had to spend 9 months confined to her room. During that time, she created an imaginary friend who would later be reflected in a painting called "The Two Fridas." Explaining the painting in her diary she wrote, "I experienced intensely an imaginary…

…became prohibitive. Marion County's Maria Baker Taylor, wife of John Taylor, who owned Osceola Plantation located southwest of Ocala, wrote in her diary on May 9, 1864: "I rode to the stores and purchased some black pins, a toothbrush and some Castor Oil…

…by the oppression and rigid control of the Party, which prohibits free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality. He has illegally purchased a diary in which to write his criminal thoughts, and has become fixated on a powerful Party member named O’Brien, whom…

…apparent. Yet such was the case. It is perfectly clear from Haig's Diary that he had no sense whatever, on July 1st, of the catastrophe that had befallen his army."(12). Even at the end of July 2nd, according to his diary, Haig still believed that the losses had…

…to this degree in order to keep himself busy and comfortable. Crusoe’s optimism and motivation are more than one can expect from a person marooned on an island for so many years. There is ample evidence of his optimism in his diary in which he contrasts good against…

…complete.” He felt that he would now focus all of his attentions on writing, knowing that all the other areas of his life would suffer. Kafka wrote the following in his diary the next day, “…everything rushed in that direction and left empty all those…

…with the date of his death. Owens second visualization came to his in his dreams, when he envisioned the reason of his death. Owen wrote of these dreams in his diary, he states, “THE WAY THEY LOOK AT ME, I KNOW TWO THINGS, I KNOW I SAVED THEN, I DON’T KNOW HOW…