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2 years imprisonment. James Arthur Ray (born November 22, 1957) is an American self-help businessman, motivational speaker, author and convicted felon who was found guilty in 2011 of causing three deaths through negligent homicide . A former telemarketer, [ 1] Ray taught Stephen Covey motivational seminars while employed at AT&T and claimed he ...
Layamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English alliterative verse poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. Layamon's Brut is 16,096 lines long and narrates a fictionalized version of the history of Britain up to the Early Middle Ages. It was the first work of history written in ...
Habakkuk 2:14. " God Is Working His Purpose Out " is an English Christian hymn. It was written in 1894 by Arthur Campbell Ainger as a tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson. [1] The original music for the hymn was written at the same time by Millicent D. Kingham but a number of other pieces of music have been used for the ...
In the song "Delirium of Disorder" by punk band Bad Religion, the opening verse quotes the novel, "Life is a sieve through which my anarchy strains resolving itself into words. Chaos is the score on which reality is written...." In the song "Protest Song 68" by Refused, the opening verse quotes the novel, "To sing you must first open your mouth ...
See media help. " Nearer, My God, to Thee " is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and ...
Original text. The poem, like many of Oliver St. John Gogarty 's humorous verses, was written for the private amusement of his friends. In the summer of 1905, he sent a copy to James Joyce, then living in Trieste, via their common acquaintance Vincent Cosgrave. Joyce and Gogarty had quarreled the previous autumn, and Cosgrave presented the poem ...
James Arthur (born 1974, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American-Canadian poet. He grew up in Toronto, Canada. [1] Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, London Review of Books, The Walrus, and The American Poetry Review . Arthur lives in Baltimore, Maryland and is an associate professor in the ...
The Green Eye of the Yellow God. The Green Eye of the Yellow God, a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes, is a famous example of the genre of "dramatic monologue ", a music hall staple in the early twentieth century. [ 1][ 2] The piece was written for and performed by actor and monologist Bransby Williams. [ 3][ 4] It has often been misattributed to ...