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Savage Conversations is a book by author and poet LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma).Published in 2019, the story is based on historical events that occurred in the United States between 1862 and 1876: the execution of thirty-eight Dakota men, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the court-ordered institutionalization of Mary Todd Lincoln. [1]
This is a list of the Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor, a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. It follows the retrospective order and arrangement of the five-volume collection, chosen by Landor himself and to be found in his Collected Works. These were then published separately (1883).
The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
Image credits: anon #4. My brother once was in a restaurant, making small talk with a guy sitting at the bar. Toward the end of their conversation the bartender comes up to the guy and politely ...
Asking these this-or-that questions is a great way to strike up a conversation with someone new or learn more about your friends.
Debates are a time for the public to truly get a sense of their nominees. It is believed that debates can truly make, or break a candidate. Here are some of the most iconic moments from debate ...
Imaginary Conversations is Walter Savage Landor's most celebrated prose work. Begun in 1823, sections were constantly revised and were ultimately published in a series of five volumes. The conversations were in the tradition of dialogues with the dead, a genre begun in Classical times that had a popular European revival in the 17th century and ...
Talking to Strangers studies miscommunication, interactions and assumptions people make when dealing with those that they don't know. To make his point, Gladwell covers a variety of events and issues, including the arrest and subsequent death of Sandra Bland; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's interactions with Adolf Hitler; the sex abuse scandal of Larry Nassar; the Cuban mole Ana ...