Papers on People and Biographies
George Washington Carver 3
Words: 393 - Pages: 2.... the nutrients would stay in the ground, and crops could be planted on the same soil year after year. Carver discovered that planting peanut one year then the next planting cotton would keep the soil fertial for the following year. The peanuts contained nitrate-producing legumes, and the cotton took all the nutrients from the soil, so the soil was fresh each planting season. The farmer took his peanuts and used them as a source of food for their livestock. Carver did not over look the peanuts as just food for animals, and found over 325 ways to use the peanuts for other reasons than food. He used peanuts to make peanut butter, co .....
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Emily DIckinson
Words: 1605 - Pages: 6.... the eldest daughter of Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, member of congress, and for many years treasurer of Amherst College. Her father gave here the time, and literary education, as well as confidence to try her hand at free verse. Emily’s mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, was a submissive, timid housewife dedicated to her husband, children, and household chores. The Dickinson’s only son, William Austin, also a lawyer, succeeded his father as treasurer of the college. Their youngest child, Lavina, was the chief housekeeper and, like her sister, Emily, remained a home, unmarried, all her life. A sixth member who was added to the .....
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Heinrich Schliemann
Words: 4640 - Pages: 17.... ensured his status as a lasting folk hero and perennial bestseller (Calder 19).
The reality was that was an incredible con man, a generally unlikable braggart who succeeded only because of his queer mix of genius and fraudulence. He had a shylock's conscience when it came to business dealings, and his shady methods pervaded both his life and his archaeology (Burg, 15-31). Schliemann had a habit of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be grossly untrue are his tales of being entertained by the American president Millard Fillmore and his wife in 1851, .....
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Bob Dylan
Words: 735 - Pages: 3.... & The Rock Boppers. His fellow students were shocked to hear such a voice come from the small kid, when he sang at a high school talent show.
After high school graduation in 1959, Dylan enrolled in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to make s .....
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The Work Of Robert Frost
Words: 2840 - Pages: 11.... in those ideas--Greek, Hebrew, modern
Europeans and even Oriental--which make for well-built art at any time. He
does not parade his learning, and may in fact not know that he has it: but
there in his poems it is, and it is what makes them so solid, so humorous,
and so satisfying.
His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are
the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like,
America, or better yet, the world. He has been able to believe, as any good
artist must, that the things he knows best because they are his own will
turn out to be true for other people. He trusts his own fe .....
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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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William Lloyd Garrison
Words: 2553 - Pages: 10.... was left alone to raise and to support. (Archer 12) Money was scarce and hard to come by in the Garrison home. At one point in William's young life his mother gave him a tin pail and told him to go ask for scraps of food at the back doors of mansions on High Street. (Faber 15) William was humiliated and teased by other children. He didn't feel shamed in being poor but felt a wealth in shame that he did not have a father. He knew that someday he would make his mark and show everyone that he was someone.
Eventually William's mother decided she couldn't keep the family together any longer. She moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, and left .....
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Words: 2210 - Pages: 9.... upbringing allowed Harriet to excel in academics and realize her potential.
When Harriet was only four years old she experienced the tragic loss of her mother. From that day on her eldest sister, Catharine Esther Beecher, assumed the responsibilities left behind by their mother (Clendenning). This allowed the two sisters to form an everlasting, inseparable bond.
As Harriet grew older, Catharine was busy devoting her life to the education of women because at the time they were merely thought only good enough to be wives and housekeepers. Catharine’s hard and enduring work paid off because she eventually founded a school in Hartford .....
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Viete
Words: 436 - Pages: 2.... of Brittany and in 1589 he worked for the French state as a parliamentary councillor.
During the war with Spain (1590), Viète served Henry IV of France and deciphered the Spanish code in intercepted messages.
Viète introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in his book In artem analyticam isagoge (1591). He demonstrated the value of symbols by using plus + and minus - signs for operations, and letters to represent unknowns. He suggested using letters as symbols for quantities, both known and unknown. He used vowels for the unknowns and consonants for known quantities. The convention where letters near the beginning of the alphab .....
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Mozart
Words: 479 - Pages: 2.... through the symphonies he composed during this time. He had a glorious childhood career that would eventually as he got older fizzle, as the public would grow tired of him. From there on he would live in poverty until he died in Vienna. Wolfgang would write nearly a thousand works in his lifetime, with the significant ones to include over fifty symphonies, twenty seven piano concertos, and seven of the greatest operas of all time (). Some say that he was not an original composer because he never actually did invent a form or style, and his work leaned heavily on his predecessors. One can argue though that through his original contributi .....
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