This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

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.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.

The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

In addition to these geometrical constructions, Dürer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.

Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.

As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

However, forgetting the last word, he tries to trick the book by mumbling / coughing the missing word.

A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

In the Masoretic Text, it appears as a single work, either the first or last book of the Ketuvim ( the latter arrangement also making it the final book of the Jewish Bible ).

In most printed versions it is the last book in Ketuvim ( following Ezra-Nehemiah ).

Steven Tuell argues that having Chronicles as the last book in the canon is appropriate since it " attempts to distill and summarize the entire history of God's dealings with God's people.

However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.

This last possibility seems to be supported by the 2007 oral biography of Thompson, which states that the term is taken from a song by Booker ; though, it does not explain why Thompson or Cardoso would have chosen the term to describe Thompson's journalism.

Within the last two decades there have been an onslaught of novels, documentaries, works of art, and websites devoted to Thompson.

Matt Williams was very good ( 38 HR, 110 RBI,. 294 BA ), with Robby Thompson and Will Clark ( in his last season with the Giants ) providing offensive support.

Mathiessen also takes the view that the last line was probably a Thompson addition derived from Valiente.

Known as " Big Bill ", Thompson was the last Republican to serve as Mayor of Chicago, and ranks among the most unethical mayors in American history.

* Nicknames are sometimes based on a person's last name (" Tommo " for Bill Thompson ) or a combination of first and last name (" Droopy " for Andrew Peterson, or " A-Rod " for Alex Rodriguez )

" In fact, she was so distraught by the film, Thompson claimed, that she even walked out of it before she saw the two last segments, Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria, because she did not want to be subject to any more of the film's " brutalization.

The Trojans have sent many players to the collegiate level in the last 15 years including Rocky Calmus ( Oklahoma / Tennessee Titans ), Sean Mahan ( Notre Dame / Tampa Bay Buccaneers ), Jason Lohr ( Nebraska ), Jason Carter ( Oklahoma ), Garrett Mills ( Tulsa / Minnesota Vikings ), Chase Beeler ( Stanford ), Bryan Pickryl ( Texas ), Kejuan Jones ( Oklahoma ), Jay Henry ( West Virginia ), Phillip Dillard ( Nebraska / New York Giants ), Corey Callans ( Oklahoma ), Jake Laptad ( Kansas ), Cory Dorris ( Tulsa ), Chris Adkins ( Tulsa ), Gabe Lynn ( Oklahoma ), Tramaine Thompson ( Kansas State ).

The John Thompson Coal Sheds and Granary is the last remaining wooden grain elevator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is being restored by the Lemont Village Association.

A lifetime of extreme poverty, ill-health, and an addiction to opium took a heavy toll on Thompson, even though he found success in his last years.

With the exception of making a brief run at free agent Tina Thompson and a failed effort to pry Swin Cash out of Seattle, the Sun withheld making changes to a team that tied atop the Eastern Conference last season.

An old bell, once housed in the belfry at the brewery, was re-sited at The Thompson Bell, the last remaining public house in the village.

In the last 87 years, The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards have recognized some of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century, including Richard Anuskiewicz, Richard Avedon, Harry Bertoia, Mel Bochner, Truman Capote, Paul Davis, Frances Farmer, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Maynard, Joyce Carol Oates, Phillip Pearlstein, Peter S. Beagle, Sylvia Plath, Robert Redford, Jean Stafford, Mozelle Thompson, Ned Vizzini, Kay WalkingStick, Andy Warhol, and Charles White.

In the last week of December 1942, led by journalist Dorothy Thompson, fifty leading German-Americans including Babe Ruth signed a " Christmas Declaration by men and women of German ancestry " condemning Nazism, which appeared in ten major American daily newspapers.

Originally she was supposed to play the casino's personal hooker, but at the last minute during the pilot filming, Gary Scott Thompson changed it to Special Events Director.

He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson, but the last scene reveals that he had survived ; he went on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the next five films in the series.

The field season at La Milpa would be one the last ones for Thompson, though he was not aware of this at the time of his publication Maya Archaeologist.

Thompson was, as he himself noted, of the last generation of " generalists " engaging in activities ranging from finding and mapping new sites and excavation to the study of Maya ceramics, art, iconography, epigraphy, and ethnology ( on the side ).

Thompson was awarded four honorary doctorates in three different countries, along with being award the Order of Isabel la Catolica by Spain, the Aztec Eagle by Mexico in 1965 and the Order of the Quetzal by Guatemala during his last trip to the Maya lands with the Queen of England in 1975.

The last appearance of Thompson was unique in many ways: for the next few weeks, his eclipse was not only discussed at length ; equally significant, it also became a subject which refused to die off on its own.