英语作文 我最喜欢的历史人物 50字

英语作文 我最喜欢的历史人物 50字
英语作文 我最喜欢的历史人物 50字

英语作文 我最喜欢的历史人物 50字
Qu Yuan
　　Qu Yuan,born in the Xiling Gorge area of what is today western Hubei province,was a minister in the government of the state of Chu,descended from nobility and a champion of political loyalty and truth eager to maintain the Chu state's power.Qu Yuan advocated a policy of alliance with the other kingdoms of the period against the hegemonic Qin state,which threatened to dominate them all.Legend has it that the Chu king fell under the influence of other corrupt,jealous ministers who slandered Qu Yuan and banished his most loyal counselors.It is said that Qu Yuan returned first to his family's home town.In his exile,he spent much of this time collecting legends and rearranging folk odes while travelling the countryside,producing some of the greatest poetry in Chinese literature and expressing fervent love for his state and his deepest concerns for its future.
　　According to legend,his anxiety brought him to an increasingly troubled state of health; during his depression,he would often take walks near a certain well,during which he would look upon his reflection in the water and his own person,thin and gaunt.According to legend,this well became known as the "Face Reflection Well." Today on a hillside in Xiangluping in Hubei province's Zigui,there is a well which is considered to be the original well from the time of Qu Yuan.
　　In 278 BC,learning of the capture of his country's capital,Ying,by General Bai Qi of the state of Qin,Qu Yuan is said to have written the lengthy poem of lamentation called "Lament for Ying" and later to have waded into the Miluo river in today's Hunan Province holding a great rock in order to commit ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era.
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　　Winston Churchill – Biography
　　The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965),the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother,was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.After a brief but eventful career in the army,he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900.He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century.At the outbreak of the Second World War,he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty - a post which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915.In May,1940,he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and remained in office until 1945.He took over the premiership again in the Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955.However,he remained a Member of Parliament until the general election of 1964,when he did not seek re-election.Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953.Among the other countless honours and decorations he received,special mention should be made of the honorary citizenship of the United States which President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963.
　　Churchill's literary career began with campaign reports:The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899),an account of the campaign in the Sudan and the Battle of Omdurman.In 1900,he published his only novel,Savrola,and,six years later,his first major work,the biography of his father,Lord Randolph Churchill.His other famous biography,the life of his great ancestor,the Duke of Marlborough,was published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938.Churchill's history of the First World War appeared in four volumes under the title of The World Crisis (1923-29); his memoirs of the Second World War ran to six volumes (1948-1953/54).After his retirement from office,Churchill wrote a History of the English-speaking Peoples (4 vols.,1956-58).His magnificent oratory survives in a dozen volumes of speeches,among them The Unrelenting Struggle (1942),The Dawn of Liberation (1945),and Victory (1946).
　　Churchill,a gifted amateur painter,wrote Painting as a Pastime (1948).An autobiographical account of his youth,My Early Life,appeared in 1930.
　　From Nobel Lectures,Literature 1901-1967,Editor Horst Frenz,Elsevier Publishing Company,Amsterdam,1969
　　This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures.The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate.To cite this document,always state the source as shown above.
　　Winston Churchill died on January 24,1965