The Life Of Emily Dickinson
.... children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations.
She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a substantial period of time .....
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Sir Robert Laird Borden
.... wanted he province to retire from he Canadian federation. In 1896, the Conservative party was in extreme need for new people and the Halifax Conservatives thought Robert to be a good candidate. In the beginning, Robert was hesitant to enter into the world of politics, but finally agreed to run for parliament. He ended up winning the election even though Prime Minister Charles Tupper of the Conservative government, was overthrown. In 1900, Robert Borden was reelected to Parliament, but once again, the Conservative Party was defeated. Then, in 1901, Sir Charles Tupper resigned as Conservative leader and Borden, reluctantly, too .....
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Johannes Brahms
.... such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. . After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made a Knight of the Prussian "Orde pour le merite," and was also elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1889, Brahms was presented with the freedom of his native city, Hamburg, an honor which was the most sacred to him. While all of this was happening, Brahms continued composing. His first ten years wer .....
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To Race The Wind By Krents And All But My Life Klein
.... frustrated with each other many a times, and she occasionally called him ‘stupid’. Harold always tried his best. One summer in camp he received an award. Not out of the sake of pity, not because he was blind, but because he tried his hardest and did the best he could do. As his life progressed, Harold was taken advantage of many times, used in plans and schemes for the sake of his blindness. Harold plowed through his college years tackling any problems that stood in his way. He ended up meeting the girl of his dreams and passing the bar exam. No matter how many names Harold was called, or how many times he hated his blindne .....
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Paul Ehrlich
.... Paul Ehrlich published a paper on dyes. A year later, he graduated as a doctor of medicine.
Ehrlich's major contributions to science began as soon as he became a doctor. Now a doctor Paul Ehrlich became assistant and eventually the senior house physician at the Charite Hospital in Berlin. While working at the hospital, Ehrlich grew to be known as an expert stainer. He showed that all dyes could be categorized as being basic, acid, or neutral. Through staining experiments, he discovered the tubercule bacilli. With this discovery, Ehrlich collaborated with Robert Koch and undertook the first treatment of patients with tu .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life.
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came from his environment around him.
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Richard Henry Lee
.... giving so much power to the central government, the states would eventually lose their own power and the federal government would take over. This meant that the federal government would ultimately control over all the land within its borders. This, Henry Lee felt, would be impossible for a central government to do. It is written in a letter from Richard Henry Lee to Edmund Pendleton that:
“… in a country so extensive as the territory of the U. States which is stated by Capt. Hutchins at a Million square miles, whilst the empire of Germany contains but 192,000, and the kingdom of France but 163,000 square miles.”
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Newton And Prisms
.... light. To demonstrate and prove his theory, Newton used a prism.
A prism is a type of lens with sharp angled edges that are able to separate light. Prisms can be very simple boxes or triangles or prisms can be in complex shapes like diamonds. The prism's ability to bend visible light into the different colors that make up the rainbow is what helped it become the perfect tool for Newton.
To set up his experiment, Newton took a single beam of "white" light and passed it through a prism. The prism separated the colors in the white light to form a wide color band called a spectrum. Newton then took the band of colors rangin .....
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Marco Polo
.... ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade (Hull 23).
Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders ventured, including the family of Marco Polo. The Polos had long-established ties in the Levant and around the Black Sea: for example, they owned property in Constantinople, and Marco’s uncle, for whom he was named, had a home in Sudak in the Crimea(Rugoff 8). From Sudak, .....
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
.... This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the constitution, nowhere in the constitution is the acquisition of land a right of the government, Jeffersons' predisposition was to strictly go by the constitution (as seen with the national bank controversy), this is another contradiction during his administration. Since the appropriation of the Lousiana territory was important for the expansion of the united states, h .....
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Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr.
.... However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed that only through revolution and force could blacks att .....
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