Edgar Allan Poe
.... so he ran up extremely
large gambling debts to trying make more money. Then he could not afford to go
to school anymore. John Allan refused to pay off Poe's debts, and broke off his
engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster. Since Poe had no other means of support, he
enlisted in the army. By this time however, he had written and printed his
first book, Tammerlane, and Minor Poems (1829).2
After a few months though, John Allan and Poe were reconciled. Allan
arranged for Poe to be released from the army and enrolled him at West Point.
During this time, his fellow cadets helped him publish another book of poetry.
However, John Al .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few months at the
academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned
him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following
year he moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her 11-year-old
daughter, Virginia Clemm. The following year his tale “A MS. Found in a Bottle”
won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visitor. From 1835 to 1837 Poe
was an editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. In 1836 he married his young
cousin. Throughout the next decade, much of which was marred by his wife's long
illn .....
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Albert Einstein
.... reporters and camera-men who wanted to
know about his theories. He went around to different areas and gave speeches
and lectures. When he appeared at Union Station to lecture, there was almost a
riot because so many people wanted to see him.
Einstein's most famous theory was the theory of relativity. "Einstein
started his theory of relativity at the age of sixteen" (Encyclopedia 511). He
received the Nobel prize for his famous theory. Another famous scientific
theory he discovered was E=MC2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light
squared). That theory made the atomic bomb possible. "At dawn on July 16, the
atomic str .....
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
.... and philosophy. I
devoured the books in my father's extensive law library and debated the fine
points of the law with his clerks. It was while reading my father's law books
that I first discovered the cruelty of the laws regarding women, and I resolved
to get scissors and snip out every unfair law. But my father stopped me,
explaining that only the legislature could change or remove them. This was the
key moment in my career as a women's rights reformer.
As I grew older, my intellectual interests and masculine activities
embarrassed my father. He told me they were inappropriate in a young lady,
especially the daughter o .....
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Giorgione
.... unrivaled in the portrayal of mood. He chose not to rely heavily on sketching his work before he executed it, rather, he preferred to compose directly on the canvas to give his paintings a more atmospheric rendering and more striking color.
His subject matter was revolutionary in this time period. Giorgione chose to paint mainly landscapes and the female nude. Most landscapes had previously been classical, allegorical, or biblical, and used as a narrative. However, The Tempest fits none of these categories and is, therefore, a purely imaginative work, rebelling against the need for a story in landscapes.
Giorgione’s i .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers.
Literary Information
Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his best writing is found in his essays. Even though he is noted for his essays, he was also a strong force in poetry. Emerson was known for presenting ideas in an expressive style. He wrote about numerous issues including nature, society, cons .....
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Herman Melville Defined
.... reputation that is gratifying to me, can possibly be achieved by this book. This is a job, which I have done for money-being forced to do it, as other men are to sawing wood…So far as I am concerned, and independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to fail” (17).
Seeking more excitement and material to write about, Melville joined another whaling ship and went to England. When he returned home he completed his most famous piece, Moby Dick. He dedicated this novel to his closest friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne praised his work, this was very important to Melville. “Yo .....
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Alexander The Great
.... that Alexander faced at the start of his career was one of civil action. The people in Thebes had heard little of their new ruler, Alexander, and were worried there was no one to lead them. In response, they revolted. Alexander immediately responded and crushed the rebellion in one swift blow. Although he massacred much of the Thebian forces, he did not punish the town or any of the rest of Greece. In fact, he gave a speech telling of how in the future he would bring great things to the Grecian nation. The people no longer doubted that they were in good hands. Next, Alexander set off to conquer Persia. The great enemy o .....
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Andrew Carnegie: "Capt. Of Industry" Or "Robber Baron"?
.... days and told his partner to stop the strike by any means. Whether it was a misunderstanding or not, but his partner called for armed forces. The former workers were imprisoned, injured or killed, and definitely fired. Though after the unsuccessful strike, Carnegie rehired many of those people upon his return.
Carnegie's biggest contribution was the development of the steel production process; he was the first to produce it on such a large scale. Even though he cut down on his workers' salaries to keep the consumer costs down, he always generously invested in a new technology opportunity. If he found out of a new improved machine .....
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Siddhartha
.... eighth grade I made the choice to attend a private school that was 30 miles away from where I lived. This was a school that none of my current friends were going to attend. I chose to leave all my friends and thrust myself into a new experience for my own good. My friends didn’t want me to leave, just like Siddhartha’s. The second crisis experience happened four years later when I chose to leave my town and attend college here at the University of Portland. Most of my good friends were staying and going to school in the town that we lived in.
These two experiences bear resemblance to Siddhartha’s because they contain simil .....
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Oral Roberts
.... try and heal the child. She promised God that she would give her child to him if he would heal the sick child. The child was healed and she knew God had promised her a "little preacher".
As a child Oral was mischievous and lively. But also shy, self-conscious, extrovert and poor. His self-consciousness came from his stutter and the fact that the kids made fun of him. To try and make him feel better his mom would tell him that she gave him to God. He was God’s property and one day he would preach the gospel. His father always said that Oral would have the greatest revivals of his time. Oral tried to put those thoughts o .....
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William Wordsworth Biography
.... and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour that year, Wordsworth journeyed across the Salisbury Plain and to Tintern Abbey, both of which are subjects of later poems. By 1794, he was finally reunited with his sister Dorothy, and in 1775, he met the philosopher William Godwin and the poets Southey and Coleridge. By the end of that year, William and Dorothy went to Racedown Lodge, a place to which Coleridge would become a regular visitor in 1797. Eventually, the Wordsworth's moved that same year to Alfoxden, which was only three miles from Coleridge's place at Nether Stowey.
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