Walter De La Mare was born on was born on April 25 1873, and up until his death in June 22, 1956 lived a very uneventful life. Born to a principal at the bank of England by the name of James Edward De La Mare, he lived in a very privileged household. His mother, Lucy Sophia Browning, who was the daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and author Dr. Colin Arrot Browning, was James’ second wife. Many believe his mother his mother was related to poet Robert Browning but this is false. Together his parent had two sons, and four daughters. Although his parents named him Walter he despised the name and liked to be called “Jack” instead. Walter De La Mare joined the Esperanza amateur dramatics club at the age of nineteen. While part of the Esperanza
Francisco Pizarro was a famous Spanish explorer. On September 13, 1524, Francisco Pizarro set sail from Panama to a conquest of Peru. He brought about eighty men and forty horses with him. In 1528, Pizarro went back to Spain managed to obtain in a group of people from Emperor Charles V. Francisco Pizarro was known for capturing the Inca Emperor, Emperor Atahualpa, in 1532. In 1533, Pizarro conquered Peru.
Texas in early 1836, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and his main force of at least 5000 men followed an inland route toward San Antonio. At the same time, Mexican General Jose Urrea with some 900 troops, left Matamoros and followed a coastal route into Texas.
Giovanni de Verrazzano was the first European to sight the New York Harbor, Narragansett Bay, and Block Island. He sailed to America with four ships in 1524. He died do to cannibalistic natives.
Former Chicago White Sox pitcher Esteban Loaiza has been arrested for allegedly dealing cocaine out of his California rental home. He was taken into custody in Imperial Beach, near the Mexican border.
Walter Mosley was born on January 12, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, as Walter Ellis Mosley. His mother, Ella, was Jewish and worked as a personnel clerk. Her ancestors had emigrated from Russia. His father, Leroy Mosley (1924-2005), was an African American from Louisiana who was a supervising custodian at a Los Angeles public school. His parents tried to marry in 1951 but, though the union was legal in California where they were living, no one would give them a marriage license. Walter Mosley loved his parents very much and losing them later in life was a big devastation to him. Walter had lost his parents in his early adult life. Speaking about their death, he said, “Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It’s not just losing them, it losing the possibility of family.” (Source #6)
There is no doubt that the particular layout of space of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition reflected the gender inequalities that existed within American society at the time. In particular, the Women’s Building offered a microcosm of the prejudices that dominated the overall landscape of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Although the men who organized the Columbian Exposition were unable to exclude women’s achievements altogether from the exposition, they were successful in relegating them into a bounded unit that overwhelmingly categorized their contributions as different and marginal, framing womanliness as “soft,” “delicate,” and “refined.” Discussions of the Women’s Building’s architectural aesthetics highlights such gendered dimensions of the Columbian Exposition quite clearly.
On January 12, 1876 Flora Wellman gave birth to John Griffith Chaney, Better know as Jack London, in San Francisco California, she was not married at the time (“Jack London Biography” 1). London’s mother suffered a life of illness and was left unable to take care of him, instead Virginia Prentiss, a former slave, took care of him for the first eight months of his life. London’s father, William Chaney, was an attorney, journalist, and an astrologist. His father never was a significant part of his career or life (Stasz 1).
As a senior in Cristo Rey, many people ask “How does it feel to be a senior? Aren’t you excited?” and I respond no with a smile on my face. As many people don't know being a Cristo Rey student isn’t easy for many reasons like academics and time management. A typical Cristo Rey student has fifty days less than any high school student in Philadelphia. Given these points, the school has to make sure the students are where they're supposed to be or higher. Yet, I’m hoping all the work each student puts in at Cristo Rey pays off in college. In addition, Cristo Rey students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement Literacy their senior year and I am currently in the Advanced Placement Literacy class. I am striving to enhance my reading and
A woman can either make or brake a man. In this case let’s just say the women of the Middle Ages and Le Morte Darthur do a lot of braking. Powerful men throughout medieval history and in Sir Thomas Malory’s, Le Morte Darthur, all fall under the rule of lust which causes nothing but turmoil for themselves and their country. Malory writes about three influential and authoritative men that all fall to lust: King Arthur of England, Merlin the Wizard, and Sir Lancelot Du Lake. Each man brakes in some form or fashion because of the lust for a women; Arthur’s lover, Morgouse, gives birth to a son, who is destined to destroy him and camelot, Merlin’s lover, The Lady of the Lake, traps him in a cave, and Lancelot’s lover, Guinever, literally drives him mad into the woods and keeps him from The Holy Grail.
Bartolome de Las Casas was an important protector of native peoples because the latter part of his life was dedicated to social reforms that called for better treatment of the natives.
Primo Levi was twenty-four years old in the winter of 1943 when the Fascist Militia arrested him. With “little wisdom and no experience,” he, along with six hundred and fifty others, was taken from his home, stuffed in one of twelve wagons, and hauled off to the unknown. They soon came to find out that this unknown destination was Auschwitz, but all other questions were left unanswered. The average life expectancy of a new entrant was three months but Levi lived in the concentration camp at Auschwitz for ten months before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. He was one of twenty people who left the camps alive. Almost immediately after returning to Italy, Levi began writing his story, Se questo è un uomo, which has been translated as If
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an English Poet of the Romantic Movement who read various number of Shakespeare’s plays and many different passages from Paradise Lost before the age of 10. As a child, Elizabeth suffered from lung ailment and spinal injury that had plagued her for the rest of her life, but that didn’t stop her from completing her education, and writing numerous amount of sonnets and poems. When she was living under her father’s tyrannical rule, she bitterly opposed slavery and her siblings being sent away to Jamaica by writing the poem, The Seraphim and Other Poems, that expresses the Christian sentiments in the form of Greek tragedy. In 1846, the couple, Elizabeth and Robert, eloped and settled in Florence, Italy, in which helped
Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess.” Making Literature Matter. Ed. John Schilb, and John Clifford. Boston: Bedford, 2000. 1376-1378.
Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He was a mathematics professor who made pioneering observations of nature with long-lasting implications for the study of physics. Galileo constructed a machine that changed everything in astronomy, the telescope, and this supported the Copernican theory. In 1600, Galileo met Marina Gamba, a Venetian woman, who gave him three children. The daughters were Virginia and Livia, and son Vincenzo. But He never married Marina because he feared his illegitimate children would threaten his social standing. He died in Arcetri, Italy, on January 8, 1642.
In 1812 on May 7th, Robert Browning was born (The comp. Poetical works of Browning) . He was born in the Parish of St. Giles in Camberwell, London to a middle-class family Browning was the oldest of three children. Browning`s family consisted of a boy and two girls. Browning`s younger sister, Clara, died during childbirth, while his other sister, Sarianna, outlived him. Robert Browning and his family were always very close, and he was also taught many good values from his father, who conducted most of his education and is said to be why his writings were so strange (The Comp. Poetical works of Browning). When browning was twelve years old he wrote his first small piece of poetry which was quite good for a young man or even women at his age, but as advanced as his talents were, Robert Browning did no writing in between the ages of thirteen and twenty (Knipp).