39 Results for : epithet
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Beyond Karen
Beyond Karen ab 25.99 € als Taschenbuch: Emerging from the depths of an epic epithet. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,- Shop: hugendubel
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Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer ab 87.99 € als epub eBook: Appellatives Periphrastic Denominations and Noun-Epithet Formulas. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 998min
After a three-day romance, Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy to become Lady Randolph Churchill. At a time when women had few freedoms, she was a cornerstone of high society and behind-the-scenes political dynamo. However it was Jennie's love life that marked her out, causing scandal and earning her the epithet 'more panther than woman'. Yet, in many ways, Jennie was deeply loyal to her husband. When he was dying of syphilis she took him on a round-the-world trip to conceal his violence and mania. He returned in a straitjacket with only weeks to live. After Randolph's death her great project became her son, Winston... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joanna David. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/000257/bk_howe_000257_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer
Toward the Characterization of Helen in Homer ab 15.99 € als Taschenbuch: Appellatives Periphrastic Denominations and Noun-Epithet Formulas. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Jay Gould: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 84min
The term "robber baron" has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century, but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses made the individuals on top incredibly rich, and that, in turn, led to immense criticism and an infamous epithet used to rail against them: robber barons. The industrial might wielded by men like Gould in the later 19th century directly led to a public backlash and made President Teddy Roosevelt the “trust buster”, and there has since been countless regulations to attempt to avoid the types of monopolies found over 100 years ago. However, many 20th-century historians and writers pushed back against the allegations hurled at the “robber barons” and even took issue with the name.Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould, known to his few friends as Jay and his many enemies by names not suitable to print. Famed editor Joseph Pulitzer called Gould “[o]ne of the most sinister figures that ever flitted, bat-like, across the vision of the American people,” and Robert G. Ingersoll said of him, “I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.”Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the sto ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/127343/bk_acx0_127343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The History of the Gilded Age’s Most Controversial Business Partnership , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 161min
The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses made the individuals on top incredibly rich, and that in turn led to immense criticism and an infamous epithet used to rail against them: robber barons. The industrial might wielded by men like Gould in the late-19th century directly led to a public backlash and made President Teddy Roosevelt the “trust buster”, and there have since been countless regulations to attempt to avoid the types of monopolies found over 100 years ago. However, many 20th century historians and writers pushed back against the allegations hurled at the “robber barons” and even took issue with the name. For example, Libertarian writer John Stossel argued, “They weren't robbers, because they didn't steal from anyone, and they weren't barons - they were born poor...” Dozens of these men would be pilloried as “robber barons,” but few of them were as wealthy or influential as Andrew Carnegie, who built America’s foremost steel empire. Ironically, Carnegie epitomized the American Dream, migrating with his poor family to America in the mid-19th century and rising to the top of the business world in his adopted country. A prodigious writer in addition to his keen sense of business, Carnegie was one of the most outspoken champions of capitalism at a time when there was pushback among lower social classes who witne ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Teutsch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129148/bk_acx0_129148_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Henry Clay Frick: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad and Steel Magnate Who Became One of America’s Most Famous Art Collectors , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 90min
The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses made the individuals on top incredibly rich, and that in turn led to immense criticism and an infamous epithet used to rail against them: robber barons.Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, few were as influential as Henry Clay Frick, who rubbed shoulders with men like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie while overseeing some of the era’s biggest companies. Though his was not the “rags to riches” story one often hears of this era, his drive and ambition helped transform a young man from a solidly middle class family into a millionaire by the age of 30. At the same time, despite the characteristic ruthlessness with which he dealt with business associates and foes alike, he was devoted and sometime even tender to his friends and family. After surviving an assassination attempt, he lived to toast the 20th century and avoided going down with so many others of his era on the Titanic, only to see the world he had worked to create consumed by a European war that spread around the world. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Frick is that his most well-known and lasting legacy had nothing to do with his business but with his most prized hobby. Should the name Frick come up in a New York boardroom today, it is not in the context of some business deal but instea ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Hare. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129201/bk_acx0_129201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Complete Poems of Sappho , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min
Sappho is widely recognized as one of the great poets of world literature, an author whose works have caused her fans to repeat, in many different forms, Strabo’s amazed epithet when he wrote that she could only be called "a marvel".The reception of Sappho’s poetry, even through the 20th century, offers a case study of the conflicts induced by the sexual preferences she seemingly alludes to in her verse. Little is known with certainty about the life of Sappho, or Psappha, in her native Aeolic dialect.She was born probably about 620 BC to an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos during a great cultural flowering in the area. In antiquity, Sappho was regularly counted among the greatest of poets and was often referred to as "the poetess“, just as Homer was called "the poet“. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelli Winkler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197834/bk_acx0_197834_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mind Games: A Diana Racine Psychic Suspense, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 690min
During a New Orleans Mardi Gras Ball, psychic entertainer Diana Racine touches the hand of a masked Cyrano de Bergerac and is instantly transported into the icy-cold body of a dead woman submerged in water. As Diana crumples to the floor, water filling her lungs, she hears Cyrano whisper that the game has begun. Diana has been called every epithet in the book: charlatan, cheat, publicity hound...and genius - all at least partially true. But convincing New Orleans police lieutenant Ernie Lucier that her vision of the dead woman is the real thing may be her hardest act yet. He becomes a believer when Diana leads him to the alligator-infested bayou and the woman's remains. When another vision leads to another body, it's clear that the two dead women are a prelude to the killer's ultimate victim - Diana. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gwendolyn Druyor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017164/bk_acx0_017164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 564min
In The N Word, a renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America.Asim claims that even when uttered by hipsters and hip-hop icons, the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America's socioeconomic ladder. But he also proves there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history: from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle to Mos Def. Only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur's grip on our national psyche. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/002226/bk_blak_002226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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