Dickinson Vs. Whitman
.... Walt Whitman grew up in
New York City, New York; this is one way that these poets' lives differ. The
main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily
Bronte. Walt Whitman was influenced by many people, some of which were: Elias
Hicks, James Macpherson and William Shakespeare. Whitman read many book reviews
by many people; from these, he realized Emerson was very influential. Whitman
was also influenced by the Bible, his walks in New York City, Tom Paine, and a
strong love for music. After Whitman started preparing to be a poet, he said he
was merely "simmering," but the ideas of Emerson brought .....
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Tiger Woods
.... old.
Tiger's Education: In the 7th grade Tiger had a GPA of 3.86! (Now there's the
real important stuff.)
Tiger spent 2 years at Stanford University in California majoring in Business.
Tiger has 2 half brothers and 1 half sister from his fathers first marriage.
Tiger loves McDonalds (CheeseBurgers) and Taco Bell.
Tiger's Caddy (Guy who carries Tiger's clubs for him): Mike "Fluff" Cowan, used
to caddy for another pro, Peter Jacobsen.
Tiger's Driver (Big Golf Club) is only 43-inches long, an inch shorter than most
clubs used by other professionals.
Tiger's Driver Club head is moving at an average speed of 122 mph at imp .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... 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 little.
Again he tried editing. His work was praised, but he was still paid little. His
efforts to organize his own magazine were unsuccessful. For the next two years
he turned again to free-lance writing.
For one of the most well-known and talented writers of our time, Poe had
to struggle for any kind of monetary reconcilement for his gen .....
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by
the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe's grandfather General Poe is where Poe
most likely got his military influence from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted to
become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct" (Moldavia).
Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University of Virginia in 1826
was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at
the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on
campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head wi .....
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Elie Wiesel
.... speaking from his lips. No one wanted to
believe his story and people lived life as usual.
It was not until German troops would enter Hungarian territory that life
would change for the Jews of Signet. At first the German soldiers did not seem
like a threat. During the week of Passover things seemed to be going well.
People were celebrating yet, it was not a complete celebration. On the seventh
day of the Passover Jewish leaders of the community were arrested. After that
rules were set by the Germans. Jews were confined to their homes for three days
and they could no longer keep valuables such as gold, jewelry and other object .....
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Emily Dickinson: Life And Her Works
.... developed a reputation as a myth,
because she was almost never seen and when people did catch a glimpse of her she
was always wearing white. Emily Dickinson never got married but is thought to
have had a relationship with Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she met in the
spring of 1854 in Philadelphia. He was a famous preacher and was married. Many
scholars believe that he was the subject of her love poems. Emily probably only
saw Wadsworth an additional three times after their first encounter which was
only done by him going to Amherst, where she lived. In 1861 Wadsworth moved to
San Francisco. It is after this time that Emi .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
.... (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New
England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal
not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as well (Sewall
98).
Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating theme
through out Dickinson's life. Dickinson, although secluded and isolated had a
few encounters with love, two perhaps serious affairs were documented in her
letters and poems. But, since Emily's life was so self kept and private the
exact ide .....
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Adolf Hitler
.... very impressed with his performance, and
gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The
rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply
to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next
35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the
dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have
happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more
talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have
been spared the nightmare into which this boy wa .....
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Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
.... and has
been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he
received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to
American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial
Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National
Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic
Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a
best selling history of man's search to know the world and himself, was
awarded the Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. .....
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William Christopher Handy
.... son of former slaves . As a 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling
minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers
Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a
school teacher and bandmaster. In 1893, during an economic depression, he formed
a quartet to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. For several
years afterward he drifted around the country working at different jobs.
Eventually he settled in Memphas, Tenn.
Although he lost his eyesight at age 30, after WW1 he conducted his own
orchestra from 1903 intill 1921. His eyesight partia .....
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Biography Of Charles Dickens
.... their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to
some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater.
He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather solitary,
observant, good-natured child with some talent for comic routines, which his
father encouraged. In retrospect Dickens looked upon these years as a kind of
golden age. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, is in part an attempt to
recreate their idyllic nature: it rejoices in innocence and the youthful spirit,
and its happiest scenes take place in that precise geographical area.
In the light of the .....
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Charles Dickens: Biography
.... way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
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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. 3
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. 4
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