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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who was born November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was famous for his anchorman role for CBS Evening News, “his style [was] honesty, impartiality and level-headedness, and “And that's the way it is” was his jaunty nightly sign-off.” (Biography.com Editors) Cronkite reported several breaking news stories, especially during World War II bombings, Nuremberg trials, Vietnam War updates, Iran Hostage Crisis, and the assassination

Walter Payton receives the handoff and the Soldier Field crowd of over 60,000 jump to their feet. Payton breaks free from the first defender and finds an opening. The 50, the 40, the 30, the 20, Walter Payton just has one more man to beat. As the last defender dives to push Walter Payton out of bounds, he leaps for the pylon. TOUCHDOWN! The Bears take the lead as the clock ticks down late in the 4th quarter. Throughout Walter Payton’s career, he has been gaining people's respect with his hall of

Walter Raleigh - Organized an expedition in 1585 to establish a colony on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island. It was a failed attempt. Queen Elizabeth I - Queen of England who energized England by defeating the Spanish Armada, setting off a new spirit for colonization. The “enclosure” - The process of fencing off formerly shared public land and selling them off to private landowners, often putting poor farmers out of work. Sir Francis Drake - English explorer who attacked Spanish ships/settlements

Walter Mitty is a renowned surgeon, grizzled army sergeant, and deadly assassin that, in his words, could kill a man with any known make of gun from three hundred feet out with his left hand. He commands respect wherever he goes. The only catch is that this is all in his head. Walter Mitty is abnormally average and lackluster, but his daydreams transform the world around him into exciting scenes straight from a blockbuster movie. Walter views his own wife as a distraction from his beloved daydreams

Day Dreaming In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thurber uses day dreams to portray that Walter Mitty’s life isn’t exactly the life he wishes he lived. Thurber uses simple sounds to take Mitty into a whole different world, where he is the most important figure for once. A manly figure. He takes his mundane life and changes it into a wide variety of day dreams where he is the man he wants to be and has the attention he seeks. “Not so fast! You’re driving too fast!” said Mrs. Mitty. “What are you

fulfills our hero quest is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which was released in 2013. Directed by Ben Stiller, this comedy-drama adventure movie, the main characters are played by Ben Stiller as Walter Mitty, and Kristen Wiig as Cheryl Malhoff. The story is about Walter Mitty, who goes on an adventure to learn about himself and returns newly empowered, changes to a better person. Walter Mitty is a daydreamer Negative Assets Manager at LIFE magazine company. Walter is diligent at work and takes a great care

Sir Walter Raleigh the Poet and Gentleman Looking for tall, dark, and handsome? Sir Walter Raleigh was all of those things and so much more. As one of the most intriguing men of the Middle Ages, Sir Walter Raleigh's strong religious stances, political roles, outstanding writings, and genuine charm make him "Bachelor of the 16th Century". That is until he married in 1572. Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552, but not to the common name that is now in print. During his lifetime, his name

Walter Mitty, is an interesting character, who happens to live a very mundane life, but posses an imaginative brain. In the story, Walter Mitty spends most of his time daydreaming, as a strategy of ignoring or escaping his day-to-day duties. Walter Mitty is suffering a psychological condition known as Maladaptive daydreaming, and that he is not just a normal dreamer. Maladaptive daydreaming is a psychological condition, that, according to Aaron Kandola, “ Causes intense daydreaming that distracts

In Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Lie”, the speaker tells the soul “to go upon a thankless errand” and go accuse the world of lying. The speaker states that the soul has the truth as its warrant, which gives the soul no reason to fear telling authorities or those with power. The second stanza starts with the speaker telling the soul to accuse the church and the court of their wrongdoings. In the third stanza, he tells the soul what to say about the potentates, and the speaker says their greedy people

Examples In the short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, Walter Mitty is an inscrutable character. Walter first shows his inscrutability when he is on his way with his wife to a town called Waterbury going fifteen miles faster than the limit, not letting her know why. She believes that he is crazy and does this on purpose, but Walter was really living in his own daydream. This act of what seems to be a concealment, shows that Walter prefers keeping his imagination to himself