The Work Of Robert Frost
.... alike. They are
the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like,
America, or better yet, the world. He has been able to believe, as any good
artist must, that the things he knows best because they are his own will
turn out to be true for other people. He trusts his own feelings, his own
doubts, his own certainties, his own excitements. And there is absolutely
no end to these, given the skill he needs to state them and the strength
never to be wearied by his subject matter. "The object in writing poetry"
Frost has said, "is to make all poems sound as different as possible from
each other." But for this, i .....
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The Life And Work Of Robert Browning
.... Some of his early poetry was influenced by
his unusual education. The poet also had an anxious desire to avoid
exposing himself explicitly to his readers. The first poem he wrote
called Pauline, was written in 1883 at the age of twenty-one, but he did
not sign it because of his fear of exposing himself to the public too much.
Since Browning did not want to expose himself too personally, he
decided to try his hand at writing plays. He was encouraged by the actor
W.C. Macready. Browning began work on his first play, Strafford, a
historical tragedy. Unfortunately, the play only lasted four nights when
it was first put on .....
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Colt: A Man And His Guns
.... watching the revolving wheel of the ship, turning
and locking. While on board ship, Colt must have seen other revolving firearms
in London or India. He carved a wooden model of his ideal gun while he was at
sea. None of what Colt may have previously seen on revolving guns could have
led to his invention. His ideas were not copied from any source, even though the
revolving idea was not unique.
When Colt arrived home from sea, he showed the wooden model to his
father and a family friend. This friend was Henry Ellsworth, Commissioner of
the United States Patent Office. Both Colt's father and Mr. Ellsworth were
greatl .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
.... B. Johnson of Texas. However, Johnson was strong only among
Southern delegates. Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot and then
persuaded Johnson to become his running mate.
Two weeks later the Republicans nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for
president and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the United
Nations and whom Kennedy had defeated for the Senate in 1952, for vice
president. In the fast-paced campaign that followed, Kennedy made stops in
46 states and 273 cities and towns, while Nixon visited every state and 170
urban areas.
Another important element of the campaign was the support Ke .....
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The Life And Works Of Samual Clemens
.... the Morning Call, which is when he met Bret Harte, the first purely
literary figure he had ever known. The next year he wrote The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. After his publishment he was sent around
the world by the Sacromento Union. Later in Twains life he faced many inner
struggles which probale be viewed as a good thing, but it did inspire some
of Twain's best work such as, Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, and
Huckleberry Finn. Twain led a life that few ever get the chance to live,
he truly was a glorious writer.
II. Major themes
Mark Twain used a consistent theme throughout many of his stories
and .....
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Biograhy Of Arnold Schwarzenegger
.... Thal-By-Graz , Austria, young Arnold
Schwarzenegger did not seem destined for grandeur. "In the beginning
Arnold seemed an unlikely figure to become a cultural icon" (Flynn 10).
Living in poor, medieval-like conditions, Schwarzenegger was raised
alongside his older brother Meinhard in a strict, Catholic household. His
father, a police chief, often put his two sons through rigorous physical
tests, as well as mental. Schwarzenegger credits these tests and his
father's strictness as a contribution to his strong self-discipline. As a
child, Schwarzenegger often spent many hours in a movie theater watching
Hercules films portrayed .....
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The Works Of Sinclair Lewis
.... upper-middle-class circles.
Among his later works are It Can't Happen Here (1935), the chilling story
of a future revolution leading to Fascist control of the U.S., and
Kingsblood Royal (1947), a novel on racial intolerance. Lewis was
fascinated by the theater. He collaborated on a dramatization of Dodsworth
(1934) with the American playwright Sidney Howard and did his own
dramatization of It Can't Happen Here (1936). Lewis died near Rome on
January 10, 1951. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his
letters, was published posthumously in 1952. His reputation was
international. Although he generally scoffed at priz .....
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The Work Of Stephen King
.... to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else,
others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles),
closed in places, rats, snakes, deformity, squishy things, and his number
one fear is fear of the dark. "At night, when I go to bed I am still at
pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets, after the lights go
out. I'm not a child anymore...I don't like to sleep with one leg sticking
out. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and
grabbed my ankle, I might scream. Yes, I might .....
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
.... and never returned. His fathers leaving had a
big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse
Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my
father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My
brother and I didn't see a great deal of her over the next nine years.
She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.” Stephen's first
outlooks on life were influenced by his older brother and what he figured
out on his own. While young Stephen and his family moved around the North
Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven years old, they .....
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Robert Boyle
.... to study it
in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists
as John Wilkins and John Wallis, and together in 1660, they founded the Royal
Society of London for the Advancement of Science.
From this point onwards, Boyle seriously undertook the reformation of
science. For centuries scientists had been explaining the unknown with the
simple explanation that god made it that way. Though Boyle did not argue with
this, he did believe that there was a scientific explanation for god's doings.
Boyle's point of view can be seen by his dealings with the elements. At this
time it was thought that a .....
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The Nomination OfAndrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
.... led by
William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later
remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794.
Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional
convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator
in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in
less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge for six
years starting in 1798. In 1804 he retired from the bench and moved to
Nashville and devoted time to business ventures and his plantation. At this
time his political career looke .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
.... their children that their country had
been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the
country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the
country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and
their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, and Kathleen. Joe, Jr.,
was a significant figure in young John's life as he was the figure for most
of John's admiration. His older brother was much bigger and stronger than
John and took it upon himself to be John's coach and protector. John's
childhood was full of sports, fun and activity. This all ended when John
grew old en .....
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