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Jules Verne
Words: 372 - Pages: 2.... there, however, his passion for theatre grew. Later in 1850, 's first play was published. His father was outraged when he heard that Jules was not going to continue law, so he disconinued the money he was giving him to pay for his expenses in paris. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. After spending many hours in Paris libraries studying geology, engeneering, and astronomy, published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. Soon he started writing many more novels novels. Some of his more famous novels are Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leag .....
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
Words: 412 - Pages: 2.... of the rock band Nirvana.
Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He
was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he was eight
years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for
a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that Cobain committed
suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and
tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his
father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of
dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Words: 480 - Pages: 2.... and he lost the use of his legs permanently. In 1928 Roosevelt
was persuaded to run for New York governor by, then governor and Democratic
nominee for president. He won that election and in 1932 he won the party's
presidential nomination. Despite his opponents claiming that he was
physically and mentally unfit for the presidency, he flew to Chicago and
pledged to the people at the Democratic National Convention, a New Deal.
That expression, a symbol of an era in American history, represented a
cluster of ideas formulated by the candidate and his Brain Trust, a group
of advisors recruited from New York's Columbia University. On the eve .....
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Words: 349 - Pages: 2.... later on took up residencecy in Baltimore with his widowed aunt
Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. He later on started writing fiction
aas a way to support himself. In 1832 the Philadelphia Saturday Courier
pulished five of his stories. Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond
in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger and married
Virginia who was not yet 14 years old. In January 1837 Poe annouced his
withdrawl as editor in the Messenger.
He stayed in New York City then in Philadelphia and again in New
York to establish himself as a force of literary jouranalism. Over the
years he discovered new forms of .....
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James Fenimore Cooper And His Writings
Words: 940 - Pages: 4.... at this time. Among them was James
Fenimore Cooper, whose contributions of American literature is unarguable,
as his novels were the quintessential representative of American
romanticism.
America produced many renown authors during the age of American
romanticism. During this time, writers, such as: Washington Irving,
William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allen Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper emerged.
Romantic writers emphasized intuition, an inner perception of truth that is
independent of reason. To discover this truth, Emerson wrote in The
American Scholar (1837), a man must "learn to detect and watch that gleam
of light which flashes acr .....
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Biography Of William Shakespeare
Words: 917 - Pages: 4.... were well respected prominent people.
When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began
attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class.
Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day.
The teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was
probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it
was known to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several
large fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live.
Stratford also had fields and woods surrounding it giving W .....
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Words: 307 - Pages: 2.... his road to sucess at the 1948 Democratic national convention. This where he spoke of Truman's Civil Rights proposals. This lead to his election to the U.S. Senate that same year and gave him the reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal. Humphrey had a good Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents during this term, Johnson was the White colored type President and Humphrey was the President that went and got things done, the blue colored worker, he was the guy that was willing to get his hands dirty. Humphrey later died at his hom .....
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Wrestling With The American Culture
Words: 619 - Pages: 3.... interference by a team member, or be outside the
ring for more the a ten second count by the ref. To score these victories they use
some moves that are very technical and precise but other moves our punches and
kicks. The wrestlers dress in mostly bright colored and tight clothes that have there
name or “catch phrase” written on it.
Wrestling goes straight to it’s demographic audience when it gets sponsors
like Castrol motor oil, RC cola, Chef Boyarde, and Tower Records. The color
commentators plug these every chance they get before or after the matches. The
fans of this sport cheer every chance they get and bring large sign .....
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Confucius
Words: 576 - Pages: 3.... of the district in which he lived. When his mother died in 527 BCE he mourned for a long period of time. After this stage of his life he began a new way of life as a teacher, traveling from place to place with a small group of disciples preaching. His teachings of Chinese ideals and customs soon spread all throughout Lu. In his speeches he also taught the people gathered his view of filial piety and his views of moral values. Then at the age of fifty he was appointed as the minister of crime of Lu. This administration was very successful, and made Lu very powerful and free from crime. never wrote his teachings out on paper himself, .....
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Gather Together In Maya Angelou's Name
Words: 1110 - Pages: 5.... the children were cared for by their paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Annie Henderson (Neubauer 21).
In her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou tells
the story of her childhood. She also makes the reader keenly aware of her
close connection with her grandmother. Stephen Butterfield says of Caged
Bird (in his Black Autobiography in America, 1974): "Continuity is
achieved by the contact of mother and child, the sense of life begetting
life that happens automatically in spite of all confusion- perhaps also
because of it."
Annie Henderson is a God-fearing, independent woman whose firm hand
leads Maya throughout many rough sp .....
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