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Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.
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Writing and Lives
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives.
His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.
He was also an editor, having completed The Winnipeg Connection: Writing Lives at Mid-Century in the year before his death.
Known for his work as the head writer of NBC's Days of our Lives and creator / head writer of Passions, Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as co-head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.
She has published articles and criticism in such journals as West Coast Line, Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, English Studies in Canada and Fuse Magazine, as well as several anthologies including Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography and Bringing it Home: Women Talk About Feminism in Their Lives.
* Wednesday Writers: 10 Years of Writing Women's Lives.
* NOMINATION ( 1984, 1985, 1987 ; Best Writing ; Days of our Lives )
Writing and Men
* April 10: Writing again from Monroe, Howard described the situation: " Men galloping about-guns getting ready-wagons being filled and hurrying off, and everybody in commotion.
Writing the story of the Four Just Men ( FJM ) who would kill the Foreign Secretary if he tried to ratify an unjust law, Edgar had to create his own publishing company, Tallis Press, to publish it.
* Women Writing About Men by Jane Miller ( 1986 )
His work is also featured in the book Swing Low, Black Men Writing and several anthologies, including, Aloud: Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Café, In Defense Of Mumia, Bum Rush The Page, Por La Victoire and Everything But The Burden.
* 1951: Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay-The Men
Writing and producing her debut album Bone Of My Bones, she was named one of the " 40 Men And Women Who Make London " by Time Out for their 40th anniversary edition as well as producing the soundtrack for Yves Saint Laurent's Manifesto campaign.
Writing and Parallel
* 1943: Oscar winner for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Original Story
* 1943: Oscar nominated for 49th Parallel as Best Writing, Screenplay.
Writing and first
Writing the rules didn't help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846.
Writing began in December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977.
Writing out the prime numbers in base-six ( and using the subscript 6 to denote that these are senary numbers ), the first few primes are
Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented the first taco feast enjoyed by Europeans, a meal which Hernán Cortés arranged for his captains in Coyoacán.
Writing down the targum was prohibited, nevertheless some targumatic writings appeared as early as the middle of the first century AD.
Writing for Science Fiction Studies in March 1975, Ian Watson proposed the following chronology for the first six novels.
Writing that " music is the ultimate teacher ," Kandinsky embarked upon the first seven of his ten Compositions.
* The first ( and last ) Best Title Writing Academy Award is given.
His first work was titled Ars versificandi et carminum ( The Art of Writing Verses and Poems, 1486 ).
It was also nominated for Best Writing — Screenplay Written for the Screen for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon making Toy Story the first animated film to be nominated for a writing award.
In the same year, Derrida published his first three books — Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology.
Derrida first received major attention outside France with his lecture, " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 ( and subsequently included in Writing and Difference ).
Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.
Writing under Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1947, she contributed to 23 of the first 25 originally published Nancy Drew mysteries.
" In 1829, he published the first book about his system, Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them.
The first section of On Writing is an Autobiography mainly about King ’ s early exposure to writing, and his childhood attempts at writing.
Writing years later for The Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr wrote " Malick's 1973 first feature is a film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn.
Science fiction writer Joanna Russ ( herself a lesbian ), author of How to Suppress Women's Writing, was one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.
Writing in the " Arthur Murray Silver Dance Notebook ", Lauré Haile, who first described " Western Swing ", listed the following songs / records as " Good Swing or Fox Trot Records ":
Writing began on 5 April 1963 with a first draft completed within four days.
Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.
The later film was well received and earned Delpy, who co-wrote the script, her first Academy Award nomination for Writing Adapted Screenplay.
The school newspaper of the University of Kansas is University Daily Kansan, which placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Writing Foundation competition, often called " The Pulitzers of College Journalism " in 2007.
Writing and century
Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.
Writing in the 4th century, the Pilgrim of Bordeaux reported that the sepulchers of David, Ezekiel, Asaph, Job, Jesse, and Solomon were located near Bethlehem.
Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 16th century painting.
Writing a century before Causantín was born, Bede recorded five languages in Britain.
Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, 16th century.
Artist depiction of " Saint Paul Writing His Epistles ", 16th century ( Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, Texas ).
A 17th century depiction of Paul Writing His Epistles.
Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argued that, as a result of global warming, " billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable " by the end of the 21st century.
Writing in the 1920s, Kondratiev proposed to apply the theory to the 19th century:
Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.
Writing in the 2nd century Athenaeus of Naucratis provides a recipe for lagana which he attributes to the 1st century Chrysippus of Tyana: sheets of dough made of wheat flour and the juice of crushed lettuce, then flavoured with spices and deep-fried in oil.
* Late 1st century – Young Woman Writing, detail of a wall painting, from Pompeii, is made.
Writing in the fourth century B. C., Aristotle also mentioned this principle.
Writing nearly a century later both the chroniclers John Mair and Hector Boece relied extensively on Bower for their own narratives.
Writing in 1910, Peirce admits that " in almost everything I printed before the beginning of this century I more or less mixed up hypothesis and induction " and he traces the confusion of these two types of reasoning to logicians ' too " narrow and formalistic a conception of inference, as necessarily having formulated judgments from its premises.
The dominant copybooks in North America at the start of the 20th century included those produced by A. N. Palmer, a student of Gaskell, who developed the Palmer Method, as reflected in his Palmer's Guide to Business Writing, published in 1894.
Writing in the 1960s, the historian Gene Weltfish drew from earlier work of Wissler and Spinden to suggest that the sacrificial practice might have been transferred in the early 16th century from the Aztec of present-day Mexico.
Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.
Writing in the 12th century, Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act.
Writing in the early-to mid-8th century, he mostly paraphrases Gildas's writings in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum and De Temporum Ratione.
Writing more than a century later the writer W. H. Murray agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the " character and atmosphere ", and rather stand-offishly suggesting that " to know Staffa one must go alone ".
" Writing in the second half of the same century, Michael Doukas regarded the story as worthy of inclusion in his Historia Byzantina.
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