Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the " death of a beautiful woman " stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife.

The anti-nativist view has many strands, but a frequent theme is that language emerges from usage in social contexts, using learning mechanisms that are a part of a general cognitive learning apparatus ( which is what is innate ).

The Ascension has been a frequent subject in Christian art, as well as a theme in theological writings.

The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and Saint Lawrence Boulevard ( known colloquially as " The Main ").

In Hindu mythology, ritual, and art, the power of the combined man / woman, or androgyne, is a frequent and significant theme.

A frequent theme in his work is the Second World War.

A frequent theme was the claim that Winston Churchill had advance knowledge of the Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor, and refused to warn the Americans in order to bring the United States into World War II.

Indeed the battle of the sexes was a frequent theme of the series.

The contact with Mediaeval art contributed to another frequent theme in Vigeland's art, the dragon as symbol of sin but also as a nature force, fighting against man.

Leitmotifs established in The Matrix return-such as the Matrix main theme, Neo and Trinity's love theme, the Sentinel's theme, Neo's flying theme, and a more frequent use of the four-note Agent Smith theme-and others used in Revolutions are established.

The collection of verses attributed to Theognis has no overall structure, being a continuous series of elegiac couplets featuring frequent, sudden changes in subject and theme, in which different people are addressed and even the speaker seems to change persona, voicing contradictory statements and, on a couple of occasions, even changing sex.

Because of his resemblance to Walt Disney and his frequent visits to the Disney theme parks, he was often asked to sign autographs and pose for pictures with park visitors who mistook Hench for Disney himself.

A frequent theme among science fiction films is that of impending or actual disaster on an epic scale.

The ubiquity of the wicked stepmother has made it a frequent theme of revisionist fairy tale fantasy.

Biographers and critics often suggest Poe's frequent use of the " death of a beautiful woman " theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his own life, including his mother Eliza Poe and his foster mother Frances Allan.

Racism was a frequent theme in Big Black songs, influenced partly by the sharp racial divisions present in Chicago at the time.

Similarly, She marks one of the first fictional examples to raise the spectre of the natural decline of civilisation, and by extension, British imperial power, which would become an increasingly frequent theme in Gothic and invasion literature until the onset World War I.

In the case of Irvin v. Dowd, Frankfurter would state what was for him a frequent theme: " The federal judiciary has no power to sit in judgment upon a determination of a state court ... Something that thus goes to the very structure of our federal system in its distribution of power between the United States and the state is not a mere bit of red tape to be cut, on the assumption that this Court has general discretion to see justice done ...".

Bergerac's relationships with women were a frequent theme — often as a subplot to the main crime investigation.

The main theme of this book is how death and illness affect people, and how courage and a commitment to live fully in the face of daily discouragement and frequent setbacks transform such a life, however brief.

The recapitulation begins in the subdominant, making any modulatory changes in the transition to the second theme unnecessary – a frequent phenomenon in early sonata form movements written by Schubert.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

This information was accepted with the frequent interpretation that those persons who did not show arm-levitation must be preventing it.

Another frequent pioneer difficulty, caused by wearing rough and heavy shoes and boots, was corns.

One of the other main reasons why French critics called it ' American Shot ' was its frequent use in westerns.

The rule, as was inevitable, was subject to frequent violations ; but it was not until the foundation of the Cluniac Order that the idea of a supreme abbot, exercising jurisdiction over all the houses of an order, was definitely recognized.

But by the 10th century the rule was commonly set aside, and we find frequent complaints of abbots dressing in silk, and adopting sumptuous attire.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

Carnegie was a frequent contributor to periodicals on labor issues.

The system of having two rectors was found to lead to frequent quarrels and the republic thenceforth sent out a single official styled Bailie and Captain, assisted by two councilors, who performed the duties of camerlengo by turns.

Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.

Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud, and they eventually separated.

Barbara was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 1999 ).

One of the most frequent speculations is that the entire book ( excepting 9: 4-20 ) was originally written in Aramaic, with portions translated into Hebrew, possibly to increase acceptance-many Aramaisms in the Hebrew text find proposed explanation by the hypothesis of an inexact initial translation into Hebrew.

The services were at the same time simplified and shortened, and the use of the whole Psalter every week ( which had become a mere theory in the Roman Breviary, owing to its frequent supersession by saints ' day services ) was made a reality.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

A frequent method for this purpose is reiterating what one heard in one's own words and asking the other person if that really was what was meant.

Colonial Cuba was a frequent target of buccaneers, pirates and French corsairs seeking Spain's New World riches.

In the 730s Leo III carried out extensive repairs of the Theodosian walls, which had been damaged by frequent and violent attacks ; this work was financed by a special tax on all the subjects of the Empire.

At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.

Controversy around this issue was frequent.

* Richard Nixon was a frequent visitor and did much to add to and modernize the facilities.