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Mariner" "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return" This was sung by Nature Boy and I feel like it connects fairly well with Wordsworth's Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey and Coleridge's The Rime…

in jail. This time he was in jail for breaking parole and doing a string of robberies. Their mother always brought them to the prison for weekly visits with their father, which would lead to his having a significant influence over them, even though…

on its maiden voyage. That night there were many warnings of icebergs from other ships. There seems to be a conflict on whether or not the warnings reached the bridge. We may never know the answer to this question. The greatest tragedy…

unsinkable. But on April 14 and 15, 1912, many people all around the wold found out that it wasn't. The sinking of the Titanic was most likely the worst disaster ever to occur on the Atlantic Ocean. It sank because of many mistakes made by the builders…

voyage, there have been many theories behind the mystery of how this unsinkable ship ended up on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Up until now, the theory has been that an iceberg tore open a 300-foot gash in the side of the 900 foot-long luxury liner.…

biggest disasters of the century. The ship that was proclaimed to be "unsinkable" proved that wrong. The if-onlys start to come in when you get to see all of the reasons why the Titanic shouldn't have sank even after it hit the iceberg, that is…

awe. Its Creator remains a mystery, its purpose not evident, but its beauty beyond all measures. The early men of this world named these heavens, stars and some planets, that was as far as they could go. As time passed others grouped stars together…

power in the Soviet Union between 1929 and 1953 due to the appeal of Communism ? Joseph Stalin was the longterm Soviet Communist leader who retained power between 1929-1953 due to a variety of reasons, a number of which can be attributed to the…

noted the profound contrast between individual freedom and political freedom in his critique of American democracy. He observed that the people had a great passion for freedom and liberty, they were filled with beliefs rooted in idealism and founded…

on September 9, 1828, at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate south of Moscow. He was orphaned at the age of nine, then raised by relatives and educated by French and German tutors. At the age of 16, Tolstoy enrolled at Kazan' University (now Kazan' State…