Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955)
.... still used today and has been very useful to everyone. I think he was a great man.
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Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
.... the Governor. After arriving in London, Franklin discovered the Governor had not been completely straight with him, but he did find work at a famous printing house. Eighteen months later Franklin left London to return to America as a merchant’s clerk. It wasn’t long before Franklin and his boss both took ill and his boss died leaving Franklin out of a job again. He looked for work as a merchant clerk but instead returned to work at a printing house. Also during this time Franklin began to rethink his religious convictions. He vowed to operate honestly in all dealings and recognized the importance of character and reputation .....
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The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
.... and she was left alone with only uncles and her grandmother. In 1899 at the age of 15 her uncles out of control drunkenness scared Eleanor’s grandmother of Eleanor’s safety. She sent Eleanor away to a boarding school in England. In 1902 she returned to New York at the age of 18. She was ready to come out in the world and find a husband. Eleanor was not very good at small talk, so when men started courting her she would be very shy and timid. When Franklin a distant cousin started courting her they fell in love and were married. Franklins mother Anna was very controlling. Since Franklin was her only child she didn’t want him leaving .....
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The Biography Of John Marshall Harlan II
.... the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre.
After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From 1951 to 1953, Harlan served as a ch .....
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Emilie Du Chatelet
.... significant work came from the period she spent
with Voltaire, one of the most intriguing and brilliant scholars of this time,
at Cirey-sur-Blaise. For the two scholars this was a safe and quiet place
distant from the turbulence of Paris and court life. She started studying the
works of Leibniz but she then started to analyze the discoveries of Newton. She
was extremely success in translating his whole book on the principals of
mathematics into French. She also added to this book an "Algebraical
Commentary" which very few general readers understood.
To realize the significance of her work for future French scholars it is
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Emily Jane Bronte
.... the girls in the household arts.
While at home doing housework, Emily secretly worked on poetry. In 1845,
Charlotte discovered some of Emily's poems and confessed that she, too, had
written some poetry. As it turned out, so had Anne. After much persuading, the
poems were published in a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton
Bell. Pseudonyms were used because the girls wanted their poetry to be taken
seriously. Only two copies were sold. The failure led all three to begin work on
novels: Emily on Wuthering Heights, Charlotte on Jane Eyre, and Anne on Agnes
Grey. All three novels were successful and published in .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... of nature, death, and her dislike of organized religion. War is
occasionally pulled into Emily's poems also.
Emily seemed truly concerned over happenings in her personal life. So
she mainly focused her writings on the loss of her lover. In "I Never Saw A
Moor," she describes things that she had never seen or experienced before but
she knows what they are about. Here, Emily is trying to express herself on why
she thinks Charles left her. She is desperately searching for answers. Emily
attempted to teach others a lesson when she wrote "Tell All The Turth, But Tell
It Slant." In this work, she wishes that Charles had given .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... 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. Even though she rejected .....
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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
.... Coast rappers,
including M.C. Hammer, Ice T, Tone-Loc, and Young MC, in a stop the violence
campaign led by the single "We're All In The Same Gang". With N.W.A, Eazy broke
down all the doors of mass exposure previously closed to rap music.
Attempts to rock the young musician's foundation were generally useless.
Arrests for performing N.W.A's biggest hit "F*** The Police", and other attempts
at censorship only helped pave the way for his success. By the time the group
had released its last album, Efil4zaggin, in 1991, they had sold more than six
million records.
As a businessman, Eazy had built a solid commodity with his Ruth .....
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
.... 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 a friend listen to one of his stori .....
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Ernest Hemingway
.... of the fighting marlins. It was then
that he imagined that man under the two circumstances and came up with the idea.
After about twenty years of pondering on the story , he decided that he would
start on the novel of The Old Man and the Sea. The story The Old Man and the
Sea is about a old man named Santiago who has to over come the great forces of
nature. Things seem to always go wrong for him because originally he started
out going to fish for some dinner, then he caught the biggest marlin ever and
it pulled him out in the bay of Cuba even more then he was. After he was pulled
out, he hurt his hands and couldn't risk going .....
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Evita: Saint Or Sinner?
.... her friends. Eva met singer Agustin Magaldi, and, packed her bags and
sneaked out of her mother's boarding house to the city of Buenos Aires.
Once Eva learned the rules of the 'casting couch,' she dropped Magaldi
and began her ascent to stardom. For years she wandered the streets, auditioned,
and did whatever she had to do, no matter how distasteful. Eva gained modeling
work and small parts in radio plays, frequenting nightclubs, and began to find
better work.
After several jobs in theatres, she was interviewed by the magazine
Sintonia. After Eva started an affair with the magazine's owner, he began to
give her good expo .....
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