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Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 1485 / Number of Pages: 6
... to was a thing of the past. Although not extravagant with Poe, John Allan ensured that he had a Brassfield 2 quality education. While in living in England with the Allans, he attended private academies and continued his education in private schools when they returned to the states. Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia in 1826. While there, he accumulated a large debt. He appealed to John Allan to repay the debts but Allan refused. He believed that Poe was in debt due to gambling and his addiction to alcohol (Silverman 29-38). The greatest contributor to Poe's despair would have to be his self- ...
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Jesse Jackson: A Brief Biography
Number of Words: 277 / Number of Pages: 2
... and
registered over one million new voters. In 1988 he received over seven million
votes, and registered over two million new voters.He never got one electoral
vote. He sees himself as the leader of African-Americans, women, unionists, the
homeless, the unemployed, and the underemployed. He is offended that Bill
Clinton has a large amount of minority supporters. He has been known to get
overly excited and emotional when speaking, and sometimes offends people. In one
speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of "Nazis, slave owners,
and segregationists." Another time he publicly remar ...
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 2368 / Number of Pages: 9
... Poe babies. She
had no children of her own and so was the more attracted to handsome little
Edgar. She took him home with her, and another family took Rosalie. This
was in 1811, long before Juvenile Courts and official custody of orphaned
children.
Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was
unwilling to commit himself to a step of such permanence. The acting
profession was despised at that time and even considered immoral. John
Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a
questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy
accumulating ...
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Mark Twain
Number of Words: 554 / Number of Pages: 3
... how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until
the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and
it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mississippi."
In 1861, Twain traveled to Carson City, Nevada, with his brother Orion.
After attempts for silver and gold mining had failed, he continued to write for
newspapers. It was in 1863 when Samuel Clemens adopted the name "Mark Twain", a
riverman's term for "two fathoms" deep.
In 1884 Twain went to San Francisco and reached national fame with his
story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." He then to ...
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Benjamin Franklin
Number of Words: 1497 / Number of Pages: 6
... by comparing the original essay and his and finding the mistakes. Franklin loved to read. When he was 16, he tried to save money to buy more books by only eating vegetables to cut food costs.
Ben's brother treated him harsh and tyrannical. Franklin later attributed his love of independence to the years he spent as an apprentice and his aversion to the power of his brother. When he was 17, Franklin left home and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He arrived there almost penniless. He also essentially cut his ties with his family in Boston. He gained attention of the Pennsylvania Governor, a ...
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Kazimir Malevich
Number of Words: 2481 / Number of Pages: 10
... precise form, and Malevich had to search it out from within the visible expression of what he felt.
Malevich described Suprematism at its moment of birth as a 'purely pictorial art'. From his point of view it represented the highest manifestation of inherent value of art. It may be wrong to approach Suprematism as painting in the ordinary, traditional sense of the word. Despite its geometric simplicity -- the source is of very contemporary appeal, because it reduces what is complex to its elementary form. Suprematism embodies a fundamentally different approach to the entire concept of artistic creat ...
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Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... His sister and her
husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick.
Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel
Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He
entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war.
Vonnegut was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany.
He witnessed first-hand the bombing of Dresden by the British and Americans.
He uses Slaughterhouse-Five to show that the human race has a tendency to
inflict destruction on itself(World Book Encyclopedia).
Before he ...
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Thomas Jefferson And Patrick Henry As Heads Of Their Countries
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... previous ideas of another person, while Patrick Henry was driven on sheer hatred. Using some ideas from Jonathan Edwards, Jefferson derived ideas and statements based on the Enlightenment and Edwards’ sermon. Edwards frightened people into conversion, as Jefferson frightened the King with the consequences that could be suffered. The King and government were in debt as much as it was, so refusing another political battle in this way was a wise choice. Henry stated in regards to the president, “Sir, we have done everything that could be done to advent the storm which is now coming on.” Using the peo ...
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Edgar De Gas
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... Degas eventually ended his efforts at history painting and devoted more attention to portraiture, turning images of relatives and friends into complex psychological studies.
His oils and pastels depict the inhabitants of the world of sports, business, ballet, and the cafes in their self-conscious posturing and characteristic gestures. He has numerous paintings of jockeys, dancers, laundresses and prostitutes. Another favorite subject was a model at her bath. Degas' observation of movement resulted in the radical compositions that preserved the character of his subjects. As Degas' subject matter beca ...
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Thomas_Jefferson
Number of Words: 814 / Number of Pages: 3
... and Summary View was published anonymously as a pamphlet. As Jefferson's authorship became widely known, however, he moved suddenly into the front rank of American political theorists. In the pamphlet, Jefferson argued that the original settlers of the colonies came as individuals rather than as agents of the British government. The colonial governments they formed therefore embodied the natural right of expatriates from one country to select the terms of their subjection a new ruler. Colonial legislatures and the British Parliament, he asserted, shared power, and both were responsible for protecting ...
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