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Elizabeth BlackwellWhen graduated from Geneva Medical School in 1849, she became the first woman doctor in the United States. When she enrolled in the Medical Register of the United Kingdom, this made her Europe’s first modern woman doctor.
was born in 1821 in Bristol, England. She was one of nine children and ...
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Slaughter House FiveIt seems as though all we hear on the news lately is bad news. So it goes, right? After all, if we took to heart all the tragedies that occur everyday in the world we'd never get out of bed in the morning. We would have an overload of grief so heavy that we'd probably all die of a broken heart. ...
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GangsOriginally the word gang had no negative connotation. In Old English, gang simply referred to a "number of people who went around together-a group." Today a gang can be defined in four basic ways:
• an organized group with a leader
• a unified group that usually remains together during peaceful ...
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Robert SchumannRobert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of
Zwickau, Saxony, in 1810.The youngest of five children, was
brought up in comfortable, middle-class respectability. As a child, he
apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities.
At the age of six, Robert was sent to the local ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. that book was made by
Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There were things which he
streched, but mainly he told the truth. That ain' nothing. I never ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac"Aggressive: I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated-on the spot! Friendly: How do you drink with such a nose? You ought to have a cup made specially. Descriptive: ‘Tis a rock-a crag-a cape- A cape? Say rather, a peninsula!"
is a heroic comedy, a play which is light and humorous ...
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Walt WhitmenAll Alone
Walter Whitman was an American poet of the 1800’s.
Walt was arguably one of America’s influential and
innovative poets of his time. Whitman began work as a
printer and journalist in the New York City area. He wrote
articles on politics, civics, and the arts. During the
Civil War, ...
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Arthur Henderson As Foreign SecretaryArthur Henderson's period as Foreign Secretary was the high point of his career, and also probably the most satisfying part of his life. During this period he went from strength to strength at home and abroad. Henderson did not look the part of a diplomat, he had no foreign languages or social ...
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Summary Of The Old Man And The Sea"There's nothing like a friend when your really up a tree," is a
quote from Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post. This is shown in the story
The Old Man and The Sea. The author of this story is Ernest Hemingway,
Who has written many books and novels which he is well known for. This
story is ...
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Dante's InfernoDante Alighieri, one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, was
born in Florence, Italy on June 5, 1265. He was born to a middle-class
Florentine family. At an early age he began to write poetry and became
fascinated with lyrics. During his adolescence, Dante fell inlove with a
beautiful ...
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Multiple Personalities: Do They Really Exist??
Multiple personalities- the existence of two or more distinct
personalities or personality states within one person. In actuality, up to
ten or even more personalities can coexist within one person, some
documented cases have revealed over one hundred. But, the question remains,
what exactly ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Suicide Is His DownfallIn the drama Death of a Salesman by Author Miller the main character, Willy Loman, is a struggling salesman who prosontifies the true definition of a domestic tragic hero. A domestic tragic hero is an ordinary man, who has good qualities, but has several fatal flaws. Examples of Willy’s flaws ...
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Frankenstein - Rejection By Society Many lessons are embedded into Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Bantam Books 1991), including how society acts towards the different. The monster fell victim to the system commonly used to characterize a person by only his or her outer appearance. Whether people like it or not, society summarizes ...
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In The Zoo: Caesar And The BearJean Stafford's "In the Zoo" is a short story that cleverly uses animals to further develop the human characters. Each human character in the short story has his/her own personality likeness bestowed upon an animal. The human characters are complex and well drawn out, each having an individual ...
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Red Badge Of Courage 2Throughout every major time period and every piece of literature there has come to be a stance in the community of the church and how it was displayed to the public eye. The novel, The red badge of courage by Steven Crane, has this imagery of the church and its religion, which is evident in ...
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Heros EssayWhat is a hero? To you, the reader, I submit this question so that you may form your own opinion. What is a hero and what qualifications make he or she worthy of the title? The reply you have formulated in your mind has probably come to you rapidly and with alacrity, so much that you may deem ...
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The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere“One if by land, two if by sea"- the supposed famous words spoken by Paul Revere to Colonel William Conant, an American soldier stationed in the steeple of the North Church in Boston, waiting to send the signal of the proposed path of the British invasion on April 18, 1775 to Paul Revere. ...
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Gullivers Travels 3In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the main character,
Gulliver, embarks on numerous journeys bringing him to strange
lands and affecting his views of the world around him. His
response to each voyage differ as do his ideas and reactions to
the environment in which he is ...
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Beowulf And Hrothgar: Anglo-Saxon Ideal Code Of ConductThe epic poem of “Beowulf” presents the characteristics of two
heroes, Beowulf and Hrothgar. During this Anglo-Saxon time period,
Hrothgar rules as the king of his Danish lands. However, this king faces
many problems due to the disturbances of a monster known as Grendel. As an
Anglo-Saxon ...
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Early American WritersIn the literature of there is one common trait
among all the writings: religion. Among Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards
all speak of their opinion of religion, god, heaven, and material things.
Anne Bradstreet was a puritan wife, originally from England but then
moved to America. Upon moving ...
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