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Edgar Allan Poe
Words: 1463 - Pages: 6.... age of eighteen. Two years after
his birth, she died of tuberculosis (Asselineau 409). When his mother
died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of Mr.
Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While
there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to pl .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
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already a burgeoning industry, A. G. Bell decided to turn his attention back to
assisting the deaf and following other creative ideas including the development
of a metal detector, an electric probe which was used by many surgeons before
the X ray was invented, a device having the same purpose as today's iron lung,
and also a method of locating icebergs by detecting echoes from them. With his
many inventions (especially the insanely popular and universally applied
telephone), his efforts to educate the deaf, and the founding and financing of
the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (now
called the Alexa .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
Words: 384 - Pages: 2.... submitted stories to magazines. His first
success came in 1833, when he entered a short-story contest and won a prize of
50 dollars for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle." By 1835 he was the editor of
the Southern Literary Messenger. He married his cousin Virginia, who was only 13,
and Mrs. Clemm stayed with the couple. The Poes had no children.
This success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in the
magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and he
looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he tried
free-lance writing in New York City and Philadelphia but earned very littl .....
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Durga Puja
Words: 570 - Pages: 3.... herself for the battle with Mahishashura. All the gods rendered their support by arming her with different weapons. After a great battle Durga killed Mahishashura, bringing back the heavenly peace.
As Durga is the image of power and vigour, since ages worshipping her, has become tradition. Purana reveals king Suratha was one of the eminent worshippers of goddess Durga; he used to worship her image during spring and the act is known as Basanti puja. But Shree Rama, before rescuing Seeta from Ravana, in haste worshipped her in the Autumn and act is called Akal Bodhan (Untimely Worship). However over the years, this Akal Bodhan has become .....
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Bram Stoker
Words: 651 - Pages: 3.... took up a post as the unpaid drama critic for the "Evening Mail," while at the same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the critic (and still holding his civil service .....
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Franz Kafka
Words: 1537 - Pages: 6.... shown in the writing of Metamorphosis. Kafka was a political genius who showed all his political beliefs through his one great work, Metamorphosis. All of the experiences in Kafka’s life are portrayed through Gregor, a person who wished he was dead at the end of Kafka’s words.
Distant from the poor, meager, and mostly un-vivacious reality of life and it’s hardships stands one man, Gregor, a provider of financial resources for his family. Such a young man is making his way in society, and the world in general. Through Gregor’s successes, and his almost workaholic attitude, he has suffered into prospering. Prosp .....
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Karl Marx 5
Words: 585 - Pages: 3.... French socialist thought, particularly the work of Saint-Simon, concerned with social progress as a result of workers leading the country. The political economy of Britain was another as was his friendship with Engels, both of which had an effect on Marx's transformation from a radical democrat to a communist revolutionary.
Marx's theory of society originates from the simple observation that humans must produce food and material goods in order to survive. As a result of this they must enter into social relationships with others, and production becomes a social enterprise. Alongside this exists the 'forces of production', a technical compone .....
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Billy Sunday
Words: 2382 - Pages: 9.... that indifference was the last thing that he would get from people. His most loyal admirers were confident that this rural-breed preacher was God’s mouthpiece, calling Americans to repentance. Sunday’s critics said that at best he was a well-meaning buffoon whose sermons vulgarized and trivialized the Christian message and at worst he was a disgrace to the name of Christ (Dorsett 2). There are elements of truth in both of these views. He was often guilty of oversimplifying biblical truths, and at times he spoke more out of ignorance than a heavenly viewpoint. He was also a man with numerous flaws. He spoiled his children, giving them .....
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Fidal Castro
Words: 3356 - Pages: 13.... his rape of the 1940 Constitution.
As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster
style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow.
Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a
regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent.
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hill .....
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Billy The Kid
Words: 670 - Pages: 3.... began running from the law, something he did all of his life.
eventually moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico were he began working for J.H. Tunstall. Tunstall was a rich farmland owner who had an ongoing feud with L.G. Murphy and J.J. Dolan over farmland and grazing rights. looked at Tunstall as a father and would do anything for him. But on February 18, 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a group of deputies who were under the authority of Sheriff William Brady who was a major Murphy and Dolan supporter. swore revenge and said he would not rest until the Murphy and Dolan group was dead. Billy had ended up killing most of the gro .....
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