The Nobel Prize winning author George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. During his early years, Shaw and his two older siblings received their education from their clerical uncle whom provided them with tutoring sessions. He received an irregular education because he disliked the idea of organized training. Shaw grew to explore and appreciate various art forms through the influence of his mother whom would take him on a regular basis to visit the National Gallery of Ireland. During the year 1872, Shaw’s mother left his father taking his two older sisters with her to London. Shaw decided to join his family in London four years later after deciding to pursue writing. His mother supported Shaw financially as he strove to write his first few novels. Unfortunately, these novels met with failure. Publishers rejected them. Therefore, Shaw turned his attention away from novel writing to focus on British academic politics and activities. He joined the Fabian Society during the year 1884 and quickly became heavily integrated within the group. The following year Shaw was able to find writing opportunities by composing critical reviews of literature, art, music and theatre. Shaw was persuaded to join the Saturday Review as a theatre critic in 1895. Shaw took advantage of his position and “decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage”. Thus, his first collection of works Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant was published in 1898. The
Is James Shaw Hero or Not? I believe that James Shaw is a most amazing role model for all demographic. He is a truly heroic person. Also, James is a very courageous person.
Based upon what I have read in the article I believe that James Shaw Jr. Is a hero. I believe he is a hero because during the waffle house shooting he risked his life by unarming the suspect, Saved the lives of the survivor's in the shooting, ended the thirty-four-hour manhunt on the shooter Travis Reinking, and lived to tell about it. James Shaw Jr. Ended a thirty-four-hour manhunt by disarming the perpetrator to, as he states in the passage " save his own life. Though his actions consequently saved more than just his own as many people walk away alive that day along with a few minor injuries. Shaw not only could have lost his life in this incident, but he could have also left his four-year-old daughter behind. Shaw threw himself at the shooter
American history is full of instances of inequality. For example, during the Civil War, many African American soldiers were denied basic human rights and were not given the same duties as wWhite soldiers. Throughout the film Glory, Colonel Shaw tried his best to defend his men and was a strong advocate for equality between soldiers, even when Shaw’s superiors attempted to stop him. According to the high ranking Union officials, black combat troops were “still regarded as a risky experiment”(McPherson, Glory). Although there was never a significant difference of skill between African Americans and White soldiers, African American soldiers were still abused in the context of combat due to the negative social stigma. In particular, three scenes
Robert Gould Shaw was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His family lived off the inheritance of his merchant grandfather. He was born into a prominent abolitionists family. Abolitionists are people who wanted slavery to end. His parents were Francis George Shaw and Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, and he had four sisters: Anna, Josephine, Susannah and Ellen. He was a Unitarian. A Unitarian is a person, especially a Christian, who asserts the unity of God and rejects the doctrine of the Trinity.
1. Shaw and Barry distinguish two different forms of utilitarianism. What are these two forms? Briefly describe each and use examples.
I believe that James Shaw is a hero in our society. I believe this because he made an act of honor. Even though there was a man that was shooting, he decided to help the man out because he was hurt. James Shaw have a family and he never want to lose his family, but he believed that helping others is good and is better than seeing someone die. Being able to help someone is courageous and a generous act. James Shaw could have let the man die or help save the man and he chose to the man out. James Shaw is someone that deserves respect and that will always have respect due to his actions of honor.
Born in 1872 in Brighton, England to an average class family, Aubrey Beardsley was an English draughtsman as well as writer. Growing up in Brighton was not easy due to the genteel poverty he and his mother faced. Beardsley’s ensured that her children acquired intensive education through books and music. This author writes that for this reason, he was remarkably literate and a musical phenomenon. However, at this age, he was already battling tuberculosis that ultimately killed him in 1898.
Then Shaw’s ideas, which portrayed throw characterize of Andrew Undershaft to save creature in the world from the crime by using reality, and removing those people in case who they do not want to replace their idea. In contrast, their is some aspect of Undershaft ideas has not any effect since we are unable to remove their crime in the world. Consider Undershaft try to murder the people who do not want any change in their life and want to stay at their poverty, because there is some of selfishness person will let him to glorify for their places. As well as liberty it is on the human hood, it will has being a crime, so this crime which come from the
E.E. Cummings was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (E.E Cummings, poets.org 1). Cummings began was an early developer and learner and began writing around the age of 10 (1). He was the son of Rebecca Haswell Clarke and Edward Cummings (Berry, S.L. 29). He had one sister, Elizabeth Cummings, who he loved dearly and played with all the time. He and his father had an inseparable bond, Cummings described his dad as a hero and that they were very close. (29). Cummings being such an early developer had no problem with school and went to a private school where he continued to read and write (10). His reading level was extremely high (10)! Cummings studied many different languages consisting of Latin, French, and Greek (10). As a senior Cummings wrote and was the editor of the schools newspaper (10). When he was 15 years old he did the unbelievable and went to Harvard University (14). While in college Cummings loved to go to circuses and ballets (14). While balancing college and school work Cummings was a romantic (14). He also turned out to be an astonishing dancer (14).When Cummings, who was around twenty, was done earning his degrees and graduating he was ready to leave Massachusetts (15).
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” –Rudyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 at Bombay, India. Kipling spent the first six years of his idyllic life in India until his family moved back to England in 1871. After six months of living in England his parents abandoned him and his three year old sister, leaving them with the Holloway family, which in turn mistreated him physically and psychologically, this left him with a sense of betrayal and scars mentally, but it was then Kipling started to grow a love for literature. Between 1878 and 1882 he attended the United Services College at Westward Ho in north Devon. The College was a new and very rough boarding
T.S. Eliot was born September 26, 1888 in St. Louis. He was the youngest of seven born to Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Eliot. In 1906–10, undergraduate at Harvard. He discovered the Symbolists and Lafarge. He was in editor of the Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine. In 1911-14 he was in graduate student in philosophy at Harvard.
Although his father stayed behind in India, in 1911, like many others of his age, he went to boarding school in England with his mother upon moving back (Woodcock) ("George Orwell Biography”). Although being unpopular with his peers, he found comfort in reading ("George Orwell Biography”). This love of reading and writing is what would later push him to become an author. Nonetheless, the miseries of those years are told in 1953 in his posthumously published autobiographical essay, Such, Such Were the Joys (Woodcock). Notably, what he lacked in popularity, he made up in intelligence, winning scholarships to to Wellington College and Eton College where he continued his studies ("George Orwell
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 9, 1861 in an affluent family in the Jorasanko Mansion in Kolkata. His parents were Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories, songs and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he even played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays.
Both men were educated but took different paths after high school, both ending up in Paris to later become very well-known authors. T.S. Eliot grew up on St. Louis, Missouri where he lived until he left for college at 18. He earned an undergraduate and master’s degree at Harvard University before traveling to Paris for a year. F.S. Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and stayed there until he was 15 years old whne he was moved to attend a prestigious Catholic prep school. From there he attended Princeton but would eventually drop out and join the Army during the war. After the war ended, which he was never deployed to, F.S. Fitzgerald moved around and would eventually end up living in France.
Born on November 30, 1667, Irish author, clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift grew up fatherless. Under the care of his uncle, he received a bachelor 's degree from Trinity College and then worked as a statesman 's assistant. Eventually, he became dean of St. Patrick 's Cathedral in Dublin. Most of his writings were published under pseudonyms. He best remembered for his 1726 book Gulliver 's Travels.