Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
.... committed
suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and
tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his
father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of
dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would
jerk around as if he was being electrocuted. After his death, the sale of
Nirvana memorabilia increased dramatically.
As you can see, both Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain have some
characteristics in common. They had both been hospitalized for an illness.
However, one was physical while the other was men .....
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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
.... 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York, and became the person in
charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also began the abolitionist
newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well known
American abolitionist, John Brown. Brown was involved with the Underground
Railroad, and later wanted Douglass to join him on terroristic attacks on a
United States government arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Douglass declined to
participate in such activities. He fled, once again, to Europe, fearing that
his association with John Brown might threaten him. He returned a .....
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Frederick Douglass And Slavery
.... and whipped on her
back. The master would whip her till he was literally covered in blood. "No
words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart
from its bloody purpose." The louder she screamed, the harder the master seemed
to whip her. Douglass witnessed this first as a child. As he grew older, many
more of these incidents would occur. "It struck me with awful force. It was the
blood stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, though which I was
about to pass."
An old slave master of Douglass was Captain Anthony. Captain Anthony was,
at times, a kind and gentle man. However, slavery made hi .....
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Albert Einstein
.... a leading scientific thinker. In 1909 the fame that resulted from his
theories got Einstein a job at the University of Prague, and in 1913 he was
appointed director of a new research institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser
Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that extended
his theories. He put forth new views on the nature of gravitation. Newton's
theories he said were not accurate enough. Einstein's theories seemed to
explain the slow rotation of the entire orbit of the planet Mercury, which
Newton's theories did not explain. Einstein's theories also predicted that light
rays pas .....
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George Washington Carver
.... over-farmed. All of the soil's nutrients had been
depleted by the cotton and tobacco plant. Carver improved soil with his
own blend of fertilizers. He also advised farmers to plant peanuts and
sweet potatoes, he told them this would help the soil. So many farmers did
this and were stuck with peanuts and sweet potatoes. So he made over 300
bi-products from plants such as cereal, oils, dyes, and soaps. In addition,
Carver developed a "school on wheels" to teach farmers from Alabama the
essentials for soil enrichment. Carver had experimented with various types
of fertilizers. He grew huge vegetables with these fertilizers. He al .....
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Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years Of Movie Magic
.... movies up until his death in 1980, while working on the 54th of
his career (Sterrit 3).
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1889 in London,
England. As a child his parents were very strict with him and they imposed
severe and unusual punishments upon him, as what they considered to be
discipline. One of these incidents scarred him for life. As punishment
for arriving home late one night, young Alfred's father had a policeman
friend lock the boy up in a cell for five minutes, "in order to teach him
where naughty little boys who come home after 9 o'clock would eventually
end up." (Phillips 27). Throughout his car .....
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Alfred Tennyson And His Work
.... was recognized by his peers as having
unusual promise. He and Tennyson knew each other only four years, but
their intense friendship had a major influence on the poet. On a visit to
Somersby, Hallam met and later became engaged to Emily Tennyson, and the
two friends looked forward to a life-long companionship. Hallam died from
illness in 1833 at the age of 22 and shocked Tennyson profoundly. His
grief lead to most of his best poetry, including "In Memoriam", "The
Passing of Arthur", "Ulysses", and "Tithonus".
Since Tennyson was always sensitive to criticism, The bad reviews
of his 1832 poems hurt him greatly. Critics in those .....
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A Memorable Experience In Photography
.... and course of world
happenings, led him into a role as a professional photographer of
war(Images of War20). To really admire and understand Capa, you must have
a fascination for dramatic and emotional pictures of war. There probably
has been thousands who admire the work he does. Well you can include me
in that group of thousands. Capa puts into perspective in just one
photograph, something my grandfather will never forget. The Bombing of
Pearl Harbor. The photograph that brings back these memories is taken
somewhere in Europe during World War II. It's a photograph that has the
air full of scores of Japanese warplanes. The .....
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Anne Boleyn
.... Being queen seems to be
one of her childhood dreams, which is understandable, because many girls
dream of being a princess or a queen when they get older. Anne's final and
strongest love was the love for her daughter. Elizabeth was the most
important thing in Anne's life, and she would have done anything that she
could for her daughter. For instance, she fought with Henry many times for
the sake of Elizabeth, and the most important is that she chose death so
that her daughter would have a better life.
Anne was a very respectable character for the most part. She was
unselfish in the end by choosing to die for the sake of her d .....
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
.... beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century
and lived in a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived
within the limitations not only of the beliefs and standards of her society,
but of her sex. A woman's place was definitely in the home in Colonial
America. The experiences of women were considered narrow and trivial in
comparison with men's.
Puritanism was more than a religious belief; it was a way of life.
"In the dozen years before 1640, some 15,000 Englishmen crossed the
Atlantic in order to establish a 'Holy Commonwealth' in which that way of
life could flourish"(Hall 1).
The Puritans were a .....
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The Life Of Anne Frank
.... college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the
effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New
Order." Eighty percent have decided to obay the dictates of their
conscience, but the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign
will be sent to a German labor camp."--May 18, 1943
Here is were the story begins ...
On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank's parents gave her a small red-and-white plaid
diary for her thirteenth birthday. Anne recorded her innermost feelings in
her diary, which she named "Kitty."
Less than a month after receiving her diary, on July 6, 1942, Anne and her
f .....
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The Life And Work Of Anthony Burgess
.... on in this paper. Anthony Burgess's work in A
Clockwork Orange and Enderby's Dark Lady strongly reflects significant
events or influences in his own life.
Anthony Burgess was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England
in early 1917. (Stinson 1). Both of Burgess's parents were members of the
theatric arts: His father was a pianist, his mother was a musical actress.
Burgess went to a Catholic elementary school, and was one of the many
victims of the "iron discipline and largely rote memorization" (Stinson 2)
typical in such schools of the time. Burgess attended Xaverian College,
and later moved on to the inexpensive U .....
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