Asia countries such as China, Japan and Korea have a rich collective history over about four thousands years, and the feeling of nationalism is shared among the Asians. ... He declared, "The great man is who in the midist of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... The word solitude means the state of being or living alone in the dictionary, but these great peoples are not physically living by themselves in Emerson's case. ... After two hundreds year since Emerson published the Self Reliance document, the westerners fully understand his encouragements a...

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It is believed that the actual story of Beowulf took place two hundred years before it was permanently copied on to paper, and the author us unknown. ... The battle with the Dragon takes place many years after Beowulf had defeated Grendel and Grendel's mother, approximately fifty years of peace and prosperity had passed. ...

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James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington New Jersey on September 15,1789. James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist and son on of the prominent Federalist William Cooper. Cooper was an exceptionally smart child and entered Yale in February 1803. Cooper was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentlemen. In Coopers junior year at Yale he was expelled for executing many pranks. ...

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