bierce in A Sentence

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    What does Ambrose Bierce's definition of"eulogy" mean?

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    Toward the end of his life, Bitter Bierce had become completely disenchanted with this world.

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    On the other hand, many believe Bierce was executed by the federal army for spying, not Villa.

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    Bierce considered birth as“the first and direst of all his disasters,” his occurring on June 24, 1842 in southeastern Ohio.

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    With the Mexican Revolution raging south of the border, the 71-year-old Bierce left, ostensibly to observe or participate in the war.

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    According to this theory, the two found the skull together, parted ways in Belize, and Bierce was never heard from again;

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    In the December 26 letter, Bierce wrote that he intended to join Pancho Villa's revolutionary army as it rode to Ojinaga, Mexico.

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    Bierce could stand on a precipitous rim, raise his trusty gun to his head, and allow the bullet to do its work.

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    However, few ascribe to this theory, largely because Bierce was a no-nonsense pragmatist, and Mitchell-Hedges was a“blowhard… [given to] overstatement and lapses in truthfulness.

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    A couple of theories propose that Bierce intended to travel to South America, a place that had“held up a beckoning hand to[Bierce] all[his] life.”.

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    By the age of 15, Bierce was in Indiana where he had taken a job as a“printer's devil” for the abolitionist newspaper, the Northern Indianan.

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    At least one soldier reported seeing Bierce with the army before the battle on January 10,1914, but not after, leading some to conclude he was killed at Ojinaga.

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    Another variant of the theory has it that Bierce joined the revolution, only to be killed by Villa who was“weary of the mocking smart-ass who didn't promise fawning fealty.

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    A number of Bierce enthusiasts claim that although a letter was posted in Mexico, Bierce never went there, using it instead as a ruse to distract from his true aim- suicide in the Grand Canyon(one of his favorite places):.

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    In support of their“death wish” theory, some claim Bierce was“preoccupied with death and dying”[1] as evidenced by the macabre route he took to Mexico, which included visiting a number of the battlefield sites where he had witnessed so much carnage during the Civil War.

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