Papers on People and Biographies
MARGARET ATWOOD
Words: 1256 - Pages: 5.... no conscious memory.
Structured in alternating sections told from Grace Marks' point of view as well as that of an omniscient narrator, this blend of fact and fiction is pieced together like a quilt (a deliberate metaphor established from the novel's divisions or chapters, each named for a particular pattern of quilting). The events leading up to the murders are revealed through narrative, letters, newspaper accounts, excerpts from Susanna Moodie's journal, notes by doctors and wardens and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Atwood maintains an ironic distance that manages simultaneously to reveal the char .....
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Stonewall Jackson
Words: 520 - Pages: 2.... Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year.
In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he married Elinor Junkin, who died a year later. In 1857, he married Mary Anna Morrison.
Jackson joined the Confederacy and soon made his reputation as at the First Battle of Bull Run, also called Manassas. When his men were retreating .....
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Robert E. Lee
Words: 2627 - Pages: 10.... to his father and always wanted to know what he was doing. George Washington and his father, "Light-Horse Harry Lee," were his two heroes and he wanted to be just like them when he grew up. In 1811 the Lee family moved to a larger home in Alexandria, Virginia. The next year his father received injuries in a Baltimore riot from which he never fully recovered and that also caused his leaving of Alexandria for a warmer climate. He died six years later at Cumberland Island, Georgia when Robert was only 12. Robert was forced to become the man of the family and cared for his mother and sisters because his father and elder brothers had left. Ro .....
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Woodrow Wilson
Words: 754 - Pages: 3.... the author of a popularly acclaimed book on George Washington.When Professor Wilson was 39, he suffered a minor stroke that left him with weakness of the right arm and hand, sensory disturbances in the tips of several fingers, and an inability to write in his usual right-handed manner. As often happens following minor strokes, there was recovery: his
right-handed writing ability returned within a year.
Was his career impeded? No, in 1902 he became the president of Princeton. But the problem recurred in 1904. In 1906 it happened again, this time with blindness in the left eye (also supplied by the left internal carotid artery, which is pro .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
Words: 1970 - Pages: 8.... Poe into the family (at his wife's request), and gave him the middle name Allen as a baptismal name, though he never formally adopted him. Even though Allen´s treatment toward Poe is not exactly known, we know that Allen never treated Poe with sensitivity. In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, which would effect his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on .....
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The Divorce Of Michael Jackson And Lisa Marie Presley
Words: 287 - Pages: 2.... Jackson's affair has been exposed, although we
are not allowed to release much of this information but we can say that
this third party was a major Hollywood player.
Michael claims that he was not actually having an affair but merely
providing sexual favors in order to get a speedy production for the sequel
to his past smash hit movie "The Moon Walker". Though, this extra parter
denys this and says there has been an on going relationship since before
the hookup of Jackson and Presley. Are these aligations true? I think so.
The divorce was made final late last week, now Michael has moved in
Permanently to his large day care .....
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Augustus Demorgan
Words: 691 - Pages: 3.... the term “ mathematical induction” to differentiate between the hypothetical induction of empirical science and the rigorous method. Often used in mathematical proof, for advancing from n to n+I.
DeMorgan made his greatest contributions to knowledge. The renaissance of logical studies, which began in the first half of the 19th century, was due almost entirely to the writings of the two British mathematicians, DeMorgan and G. Boole. He always laid much stress upon the importance of logical training. His importance in the history of logic’s, however, primarily due to his realization that the subject as it had come down .....
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Aaron Kornylos Struggle In Crossbar
Words: 760 - Pages: 3.... athlete, “the best... Willow Creek had ever produced” (Gault 62). Then people revered Aaron, and he was completely satisfied with his life. All of this changes abruptly and violently when a farming accident almost kills Aaron and necessitates the amputation of his leg. With his leg severed by a harvester, driven by his father, Aaron is continually haunted. He relives the incident through a nightmare of his: “first the noise- the machine’s noise- would have to come, closer and closer and... then the pain, so terrible that the brain in it’s mysterious wisdom shut down the system... just after the s .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 1530 - Pages: 6.... of French and British intellectuals.
Jefferson was born on the thirteenth day of April of the year 1743 at Shadwell in Goochland (now in Albemarle) Co., Virginia, which was at the time considered a western outpost and was to remain as Jefferson¡¦s lifelong home. He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson. His father, Peter, was a surveyor, a cartographer, and a plantation owner and he was also largely self-educated. His mother, Jane was from the prominent Rudolph family of colonial Virginia. Jefferson¡¦s intense interest in botany, geology, cartography, North American exploration, and love of Greek and Latin a .....
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Oliver Cromwell
Words: 481 - Pages: 2.... and executed. In 1649, with the conflict in England settled, they could concentrate on the issue of Ireland.
Cromwell and 12,000 troops landed in Dublin on August 15, 1649. Cromwell was so determined to rectify the atrocities against his fellow Protestants that his efficiency in wiping out the Irish Catholics made him the most feared man in Ireland. The purpose of his ruthlessness was to eradicate the revolt and to clear the land and make it safe for English settlement. On September 11th his army invaded the town of Drogheda, killing all 3,500 soldiers and civilians. Cromwell ordered his men to "put all to the sword." In October, he .....
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