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JFK: His Life And LegacyOn November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of
Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead,
apparently by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The world had not only
lost a common man, but a great leader of men. >From his heroic actions in
World War II ...
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Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
T.S. Eliot was a very influential pessimist, always and constantly
thriving on his hatred of little things and his love life.
Eliot was born in St. Louis Missouri - 1888 ad. His parents were
both writers and loved the arts, most effectively passing on the genes ...
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CaravaggioProbably the most revolutionary artist of his time, the Italian
painter abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists
before him. Through the use of his revolutionary techniques of selective
lighting, became a prominent painter in the Baroque period.
Discarding the traditional ...
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William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission"Among the poets of his own illustrious generation, William Carlos Williams
was the man on the margin, the incorrigible maverick, the embattled
messiah." (Unger 402) Throughout his career, Williams has always been
known as an experimenter, an innovator, and a revolutionary figure in
American ...
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The Life Of Emily DickinsonAlthough she lived a seemingly secluded life, Emily Dickinson's
many encounters with death influenced many of her poems and letters.
Perhaps one of the most ground breaking and inventive poets in American
history, Dickinson has become as well known for her bizarre and eccentric
life as for her ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson“…was truly one of our great geniuses” even though he
may have a short biography (Hodgins 212). But as Emerson once said himself,
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” Emerson was also a major
leader of “the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism”. (Encarta 1)
Transcendentalism was ...
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William Wordsworth BiographyWilliam Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770 in the village of Cockermouth, Cumberland, into a comfortable middleclass family with roots firmly planted in Lake County. In 1778, Ann Wordsworth died suddenly, and then, over the Christmas holidays of 1783-1784, John Wordsworth followed. (Dome critics ...
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Frank McCourtInformal Essay on Angela’s Ashes Angela’s Ashes is a moving book full of poverty, suffering, and death that shows that no matter how difficult things seem, the hard tines can always be overcome. Angela and Malachy McCourt, both Irish, were married in America after a passionate night together that ...
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Marilyn Monroe 2Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career.
Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the fathers address as unknown. Marilyn would never know the true identity of ...
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Biography Of Emily BronteEmily Bronte was born in Thornton on July 30, 1818 and later moved with her family to Haworth, an isolated village on the moors. Her mother, Maria Branwell, died when she was only three years old, leaving Emily and her five siblings, Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell to the care ...
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Arthur Kornberg(1918-), American biochemist and physician, claims he has never met "a dull enzyme." He has devoted his life to pursuing and purifying these critical protein molecules. His love of science did not spring from a family history rooted in science. He was born on March 3rd, 1918, the son of ...
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Michael Jordan: King Of The CourtWhen I began my report I didn’t know much about Michael Jordan, but I did know that he was “undoubtedly the greatest player in the history of the NBA” (“Michael Air Jordan” 1). It seemed like every time I heard the word basketball I also heard the name Michael ...
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Edgar Allan PoeMany authors have made great contributions to the world of
literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the
Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the
Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar
Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm Xgrew up in different environments. King was raised in a comfortable middle-class family where education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and ...
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Billy SundayFor almost a quarter century was a household name in the United States. Between 1902 when he first made the pages of the New York Times and 1935 when the paper covered his death and memorial service in detail, people who knew anything about current events had heard of the former major league ...
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Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucienteswas born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, a village in northern Spain. The family later moved to Saragossa, where Goya's father worked as a gilder. At fourteen years old, Goya was apprenticed to Jose Luzan, a local painter. Later he went to Italy to continue his study of art. On returning to ...
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Charles Dickens 2Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but left it in infancy. His happiest childhood years were spent in Chatham, an area to which he often talks about in his stories. From 1822 he lived in London, until, in 1860, he moved permanently to a country ...
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Biography Of Christopher ColumbusColumbus, Christopher (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Coló
n) (1451-1506), Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the
Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making
landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
His ...
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Vincent Van Gogh 2Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch postimpressionist painter who has a tragically short career. His work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Holland. He was the eldest son of six children ...
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Frederick Douglass And SlaveryAbolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and
influential black leaders of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his
writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of his
books accounts of his own experiences as a slave. A reader is able to perceive ...
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George Dantzigwas born on August 14, 1914. He studied mathematics at the University of Maryland, receiving his A.B. in 1936. He received an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1937.
Dantzig worked as a Junior Statistician in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1937 to 1939, then, from ...
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Machiavelli And PlatoNiccolio Machiavelli (Born May 3rd, 1469 – 1527 Florence, Italy.) His writings have been the source of dispute amongst scholars due to the ambiguity of his analogy of the ‘Nature of Politics” and the implication of morality. The Prince, has been criticised due to it’s ...
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Mark Twain And His WritingsWhat does Mark Twain mean and where did Samuel Langhorne Clemens come up with this pseudonym?
“On river boats, one member of the crew always stood near the railing measuring the depth of water with a long cord which had flags spaced a fathom (six feet) apart. When the crewmen saw the flags ...
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Hugh Of Balmawas a Carthusian mystical writer. One of his works, De theologia mystica, also known as De triplici via, was written between 1246 and 1297.
This book was one of the first to attempt a methodical description of the interior life according to the schema of the "three ways". Those "three ways" ...
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Isaac Asimovis a very talented writer. Isaac focuses on the intensity of his novels and short stories. Suspense is one of the things he focuses on when writing short stories such as "Marooned off Vesta." "Marooned off Vesta is a story of triumph and intelligence. This story shows what can happen if you ...
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