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Allen Ginsberg: Poet

Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1927. While in high school, he discovered and fell in love with the poetry of Walt Whitman. But despite his interest in poetry his father wanted him to become a lawyer. So Ginsberg studied law at Columbia University, where he met many of his life-long friends and ...

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Mark Twain

's works are some of the best I've ever read. I love the way he brings you into the story, especially with the dialogue used, like in Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn. is my favorite dead author. was never "" at all. That was only his pen name. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. ...

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Beowulf

Back in the day of the Viking, how they viewed and thought of themselves, is in some ways different than how we view them today. was one of many of these so-called Viking "heroes", and even today people view in different ways. Some people think that he was an Ideal Germanic hero; while others ...

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Spender And Sankichi Two Views

Stephen Spender's "Epilogue to a Human Drama" and Toge Sankichi's "Dying" are poems detailing the destruction of two cities, London and Hiroshima, respectively, during or after World War II bombings. Spender wrote "Epilogue to a Human Drama," hereafter referred to as "Epilogue," after a December ...

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The Great Gatsby: Daisy's Love

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the character of Daisy Buchanan has many instances where her life and love of herself, money, and materialism come into play. Daisy is constantly portrayed as someone who is only happy when things are being given to her and circumstances are going as she ...

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Alcatraz

The name is derived from the Spanish "Alcatraces." In 1775, the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala was the first to sail into what is now known as San Francisco Bay - his expedition mapped the bay, and named one of the three islands Alcatraces; over time, the name was Anglicized to . While the ...

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Nikola Tesla

My great grandmother was born on September 30, 1895 in Strum, Wisconsin, and used to tell us the most important invention for the home, in her lifetime, was the clothes washing machine. Now history always seems to make the present era seem more civilized, when in fact, it is probably only cleaner, ...

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The Canterbury Tales: The Monk

In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the author wrote about an imaginary pilgrimage on April 11, 1387 to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas A. Beckett. He also wrote about a dishonest monk. The Monk was a man who looked as though he enjoyed the good life. He was ...

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The Cause For The Great Migrations

The cause for the “Great Migrations” was to plunder new lands and settle. Germanic tribes had for centuries challenged the Roman frontiers because their primitive, unproductive economies forced them to search constantly for new lands to plunder or settle. The Germans were attracted by the wealth ...

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The Works Of Edwin Robinson And Paul Simon

Then two poets who are similar are Edwin Robinson and Paul Simon. They wrote about people of whom they were envious. This was their way of coping with their impoverished lives. Simon and Robinson were both unhappy with their socio-economic status. Examples of this can be found in both Simon's ...

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Chinese Pottery

The earliest of which we have any records is the Neolithic ware from the river plains and loess highlands of north and north-west China. It was made between 5000 and 2000 B.C. and contains bowls, jars, pots and beakers of low-fires earthenware. This pots were not turned on a wheel but were buildt ...

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Eliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney

Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" tells the story of a single character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself. The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dante's "Inferno," provides a key ...

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George Lucas

THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back…the list goes on and on. Although many have not heard of each of these films, everyone certainly has to know the man behind them. has, in many cases, written, produced, and directed, not to mention edit, his own films. His ...

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Robert Hunter

had his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia. Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until ...

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John Steinbeck

was born in February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas was an agricultural valley in California. His father was the county treasurer and his mother was a schoolteacher. This is where his education began from a mother that encouraged him to read. The community was a comfortable environment ...

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Creative Writing: A Sunday

The leaving was easier than she thought. All those nights practising it in her head. Just wanted to look at the gardens, so pretty in the spring. Just wanted to see the gardens. Except in the end nobody asked. She simply put on the good blue dress, combed her hair and walked down the corridors, ...

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Jessie James

: Murdering Outlaw or American Hero There are two sides to everything. Coins have both heads and tales, the moon has a dark side and a face that we are so familiar with, and yes, the Lochness Monster has both a head and a tail. To every opinion, or story, there will always be one that ...

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In Flanders Fields

the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved, and were loved, and now we lie.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To ...

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Gatsbys Dream

What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream as: everyone ...

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The Pencil Box

Nobody liked Jane. As soon as Emily Sweet found that copy of Anne of Green Gables—a three-hundred-page-long book! —in Jane’s faded purple kindergarten backpack, that was it. Any hope Jane had for a normal life, for swing on the swings, for making a life long friend, someone to ...

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