.... stone carving from one of the sculptors working on the Florence cathedral in about 1400. Between 1404 and 1407 he worked in the workshop of the Gothic sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, who had won the competition to create some bronze doors for the cathedral baptistery. Donatello created two marble statues in a new style for the church of Or San Michele in about 1415. In these statues, 'St. Mark' and 'St. George', for the first time since Roman classicism, the human body was shown as a functioning figure with a human personality--in sharp contrast with medieval art. Donatello's well-known statue 'Zuccone' ("pumpkin" because of its bald head) of 1425 for the campanile, or bell to ....

.... Roy Jr. to fight a 14 yr. old when Roy himself was only 10. The boy out weighed him by 16 lbs. The training facilities weren’t to Roy Sr.’s standard so he constructed his own ring in a pasture and fmade a punching bag with scrap materials. Local kids watched as Roy’s father taught him the fundamentals of boxing. Soon they got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though because he had to ask others that he knew for money to take the kids to boxing tournaments in neighboring states. The ....

.... Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction" in 1963, "Young Folk" in 1940 and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in 1948. Many critics have considered a very controversial writer because of the subject matters he wrote about. For example Salinger wrote about religion, intellectuals, emotional struggles of adolescents, loneliness and symbolism (Jones). Some critics feel his writing was inappropriate because of the topics he wrote about. The main characters were considered misfits of society. The characters generally did not fit in with traditional American culture. They could not adjust to the real world. However, Salinger’s most successful stories a ....

.... streets. I enlisted in the United States Army and there authored another book called Tamerlane and other Poems by a Bostonian. This book included “Tamerlane,” as well as “Song,” “Dreams,” “Visit of the Dead,” “Spirits of the Dead,” “Evening Star,” “Imitation,” “Stanzas,” A Dream,” “The Happiest Day,” and “The Lake”. A while later I was appointed company clerk, but I wanted to leave the army. In order to do this; I had to find a replacement. Finally, I found a man, who wanted to reenlist anyhow, if I paid him seventy-five dollars. After leaving the army, I drafted a poem dubbed “Al Aaraaf.” Carey, Lea and Carey decided that ....

.... stole into the town late at night. Wallace made his way to the home of Hesilrig and gained revenge for the death of his beloved Marion. The garrison of English soldiers were put to the sword and from surrounding towns and villages men "who were bitter of heart, and weighted down by the burden of bondage flocked to his banner". During the early summe months of 1297, Wallace and his volunteer army marched throughout Scotland capturing Castles and Towns, driving the invaders south. In their march north, the towns of Glasgow, Scone, Perth, Dundee and all the land north of the Forth and Clyde was Liberated by the Scottish army. Eventually they reached Aberdeen, routed t ....

.... he was being beat up. Chris and his mother were very poor. Mice, and cockroaches infested their house. To make ends meet his mother was babysitting other kids in the neighborhood. She would read to him and help with his homework and make sure his hand-me-down clothes were clean. chris's stuttering problem tortured him in school. In class one day he had to read an essay he wrote in front of the class. When he started to stutter he heard the kids starting to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his seat with anger inside him. When he got home that night he told his mom what happened and she helped him with the problem. At the end of the school year he ....

.... (Gault 61). To Aaron it was a perfect life, or “his personal vision of the best of all possible worlds” (Gaul 62). He was an accomplished athlete, “the best... Willow Creek had ever produced” (Gault 62). Then people revered Aaron, and he was completely satisfied with his life. All of this changes abruptly and violently when a farming accident almost kills Aaron and necessitates the amputation of his leg. With his leg severed by a harvester, driven by his father, Aaron is continually haunted. He relives the incident through a nightmare of his: “first the noise- the machine’s noise- would have to come, closer and closer and... ....

.... described, what does he want next?” (Thoreau 1496). In today's society, most everyone has the necessities of life, but chooses to indulge in the luxuries of life. In America today, most all families have more than one car, own multiple numbers of televisions, and have far more clothing than necessary. We have become a society whose focus points to materialism. According to Thoreau, the necessities of life are food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. (1495) “When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities” (Thoreau 1496). Thoreau is saying that it is a choice to obtain more than the necess ....