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Stephen Crane Biography
Words: 296 - Pages: 2.... as a poet. He was original in his field of work. Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball.
Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then hired as a reporter in the American West, and Mexico. At age 27 Cr .....
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Words: 1001 - Pages: 4.... was the only who has got the right answer. From that day Gauss was
popular in the whole school.
On October 15, 1795, Gauss was admitted to Georgia Augusta as "matheseos
cult."; that is to say, as a mathematics student. But it is often pointed out
that at first Gauss was undecided whether he should become a mathematician or a
philologist. The reason for this indecision was probably that humanists at that
time had a better economic future than scientists.
Gauss first became completely certain of his choice of studies when he
discovered the construction of the regular 17-sided polygon with ruler and
compass; that is to say, after his first .....
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John D. Rockefeller
Words: 2128 - Pages: 8.... Cleveland, and John entered Central High School in Cleveland. While he was a student he rented a room in the city and joined the Erie Street Baptist Church, this later became the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Active in its affairs, he became a trustee of the church at the age of 21.
He left high school in 1855 to take a business course at Folsom Mercantile College. He completed the six-month course in three months and, after looking for a job for six weeks, was employed as assistant bookkeeper by Hewitt & Tuttle, a small firm of commission merchants and produce shippers. Rockefeller was not paid until after he had worked there three mo .....
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Van Gogh
Words: 1032 - Pages: 4.... Many artists start out by taking art lessons of some kind and proceeded to college and universities. The first time had anything to do with learning about art was when he apprenticed to the international art firm of Goupil, and the reason he did was because his Uncle was a partner. On March 30, 1852 a child was born from Anna and Theodorus , it was a little boy,they named the boy Vincent. "The baby Vincent died a few weeks after his birth."(Elizabeth, Lawrence Hanson 5) On March 30,1853, exactly a year after the first baby was born, Anna and Theodorus gave birth to another baby boy. His name was Vincent, the same nam .....
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Anne Moody
Words: 916 - Pages: 4.... them with a pass to downstairs in that nice section and my blackness sent me to the balcony. Now that I was thinking about it, their schools, homes, and streets were better than mine.” Soon after Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. “Emmett Till’s murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle at a white woman in Mississippi.” Although her mother refused to give an explanation of the organization, Moody learned about the NAACP from one of her teachers soon after the incident. It was at age fifteen that Mo .....
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Nathanial Hawthorne
Words: 892 - Pages: 4.... had seven gables. This house,
Nathanial visited in his youth, was his inspiration for the house in his
book " The House Of The Seven Gables". The story of The House Of The Seven
Gables streches over two centuries. It's the classic scenario of two rival
families, in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and
the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut
to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but
obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. His rival arrived
at the settlement abou .....
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Aristotles Notion Of Body And Soul
Words: 522 - Pages: 2.... they succeed in seeing the grand scheme of things, that reason is more important than appetites, they are fit to be the rulers of the slaves.
My opinion on Aristotle’s notion
The superiority of the soul over the body is not as absolute as Aristotle puts it. Most certainly there are many times when the soul is more important than the body. For example, a man sees a very beautiful, married, woman. His body would tell him to try and have sexual intercourse with this woman. In this case it is good that his soul would tell him that committing this action would be wrong, because, after all, this woman is married. Also, in general, peopl .....
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Rosa Parks
Words: 399 - Pages: 2.... the bus and called two policemen. Mrs. Parks was arrested and taken to jail.
Edgar Daniel Nixon, head of the NAACP in Montgomery, posted a $100 bond to get her released. Although Mrs. Parks was not the first black person to get arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, Mr. Nixon decided that she wouldn't be the last. He called a meeting of black leaders to see what action they should take.
By the end of the meeting, the leaders agreed to call a one-day boycott of all the city buses for Monday Dec.5. On Monday, the buses began their run through the black neighborhood and came back empty. The boycott was a sucess. They set up .....
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Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
Words: 309 - Pages: 2.... Crime Syndicate,” a governing board that was ethnically diverse. The Syndicate was the co-founder of the all-Italian “La Cosa Nostra” governing board known as the “National Commission.”
During his short career, the Dutch man was responsible for 135 murders. During this time, the District Attorney Thomas Dewey became a threat, and Schultz decided to
kill him to get him out of the way. But before execution day arrived, Schultz was arrested for Income Tax evasion, a common tale of those days. Schultz could not foresee the outcome of the trial; so he had a steel box created by an ironworker in which he could hide some of his “tre .....
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Sojourner Truth
Words: 1520 - Pages: 6.... by a strong belief in the Holy Spirit. God was the major source of guidance, and willpower from the commencement of the slave trade until the emancipation of slavery. Slavery was orchestrated on a mass scale and caused the separation of many families in order to ensure that slaves would remain with there respective masters. Subservience to the slaveowners was considered to be sacred. Slaves were mentally programmed to believe there masters were gods. The wives of the slaveowners were seen as goddess's ,with there prime intent on down playing the daily work done by the African-American women. This was evident with Sojourner's first slave m .....
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