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    Time Lines: Reflections on the Human Experience
    Time Lines: Reflections on the Human Experience
    Time Lines: Reflections on the Human Experience
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    Time Lines: Reflections on the Human Experience

    By R. K. Landis

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    TIME LINES is a collection of thoughts, questions, and comments inspired by the lives and works of more than 100 famous, not-so-famous, and a few infamous historical figures. The subject matter is diverse, and can perhaps best be described as "Social Commentary", covering personages from Abbey to Zeno, and topics such as philosophy, science, religion, war, race, ethics, journalism, law, and politics.

    To get an idea of the approach taken by TIME LINES, examine the sample poems from the book that appear on this web page. Each poem, whether light-hearted or more serious in nature, is intended to consider a given issue from an original, unique perspective, and in a manner that leads to further reflection on that issue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 30, 2004
    ISBN9781477163221
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      Book preview

      Time Lines - R. K. Landis

      Copyright © 2005 by R. K. Landis.

      Illustrations by Corel

      Ottawa, Canada

      ISBN:          Softcover                                 1-4134-5329-5

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      CONTENTS

      Democritus

      Emmanuel Kant

      George Santayana

      Francis Galton

      Niccolo Machiavelli

      Abraham Lincoln

      Renè Descartes

      Jesus Christ

      Rachel Carson

      Martin Luther

      George Armstrong Custer

      Mark Twain

      Edward Lorenz

      Mahatma Gandhi

      Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

      Helen Keller

      Adolph Hitler

      Babe Ruth

      Orson Welles

      Orson Welles

      Chief Red Cloud

      Samuel Johnson

      Edward Abbey

      The Professor

      Charles Darwin

      Vasco Nuñez De Balboa

      Nathan B. Forrest

      The Soldier

      Vince Lombardi

      Hermann Goering

      James W. Johnson

      Leo Szilard

      Maffeo Barberini

      Patches

      George Gamow

      George Bernard Shaw

      Fidel Castro

      Robert Koch

      Saint Matthew

      Archimedes

      Carl Sandburg

      Jackie Robinson

      John Paul Sartre

      Johann Gutenberg

      Larry Doby

      The Unknown Saint

      K. E. L.

      K. E. L.

      George Fox

      Huckleberry Finn

      Elizabeth

      Alfred Nobel

      Pete Rose

      Charles Babbage

      Charles Babbage

      Zeno Of Elea

      Jackson Pollock

      Humpty Dumpty

      Gregor Mendel

      Carl Pearson

      Billy Sunday

      Galileo

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