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  1. Há 16 horas · Early life Main article: Dickens family Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth 2 Ordnance Terrace, Chatham, Dickens's home 1817 – May 1821 Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 1 Mile End Terrace (now 393 Commercial Road), Landport in Portsea Island (Portsmouth), Hampshire, the second of eight children of Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow; 1789–1863) and John ...

    • Novelist
    • 9 June 1870 (aged 58), Higham, Kent, England
    • Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, England
    • Ellen Ternan (1857–1870, his death)
  2. Há 16 horas · Southern plantation fiction (also known as Anti-Tom literature, in reference to reactions to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin of 1852) from the mid-19th century, culminating in Gone with the Wind, is written from the perspective and values of the slaveholder and tends to present slaves as docile and happy.

  3. Há 16 horas · Mario Batali, Class of 1982, chef, restaurateur, television host ( Molto Mario, Iron Chef America) Bill Bellamy, Class of 1989, comedian, actor. Avery Brooks, Class of 1973, actor, educator. John Carpenter, Class of 1990, first-ever champion of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire television quiz show.

  4. Há 16 horas · Eugene O'Neill, class of 1910 (did not graduate) – Nobel laureate (Literature 1936), three-time Pulitzer Prize winner; Ralph Barton Perry, A.B. 1896 – Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1936, professor at Harvard University; Ernest Poole, A.B. 1902 – Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › RhetoricRhetoric - Wikipedia

    Há 16 horas · Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of seven paintings depicting the seven independent arts. This painting illustrates rhetoric. Jesus was a preacher in 1st-century Judea. Rhetoric ( / ˈrɛtərɪk /) is the art of persuasion.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › JihadJihad - Wikipedia

    Há 16 horas · Etymology and literary origins. The term jihad is derived from the Arabic root jahada, meaning "to exert strength and effort, to use all means in order to accomplish a task". In its expanded sense, it can be fighting the enemies of Islam, as well as adhering to religious teachings, enjoining good and forbidding evil.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ModernismModernism - Wikipedia

    Há 16 horas · Modernism is an early 20th-century movement in literature, the visual arts and music, emphasizing experimentation, abstraction and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics and social issues are also aspects of the movement which sought to change how 'human beings in a society interact and live together'. [2]