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Ernest Hemingway 4
Number of Words: 1155 / Number of Pages: 5
... away from
home several times when he was still in high school (Lesniak 23). After Hemingway graduated from Oak Park High School, he went to work, in 1917, as a reporter at the Kansas City Star. In 1918 he enlisted as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy. In 1920 he starts working as a reporter and
a foreign correspondent for Toronto. After being an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I, he converted to Catholicism and he often referred to himself for the rest of his life as “a rotten Catholic” (Lesnaik 20). Hemingway
married four times during his life, each time to a Midwest ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of Words: 770 / Number of Pages: 3
... won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so he left his brother's tutoring.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon after, he took the job of organist at a church in Arnstadt. Here, as in times before, his perfectionism and high expectations of other musicians - for example, the church choir - rubbed his friends the wrong way, and he was caught up in a number of quarrels during his short stay. In 1707, at the age of 22, Bach got fed up with t ...
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Socrates
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... his enemies by going on a search to find someone wiser than he was. went on this search because the Oracle at Delphi said he was the wisest man there was but believed that to be false (5). This lead to a futile search for a person who did have wisdom so could prove the oracle wrong. went to people who had a reputation of wisdom and then he would question and talk to them to find out if they in fact were wise. When he met someone who thought they were wise, would come "to the assistance of the god" and show him that he is not (6). When he found out that they were not wise he would tell them that t ...
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Billy The Kid: The True Story
Number of Words: 642 / Number of Pages: 3
... Billy showed no signs prophesying his desperate and disastrous future ahead. He was a favorite with all classes and ages, especially the old and the young. And he most loved his mother. He loved and honored her more than anything else on earth. But what was to come in the next few years were not for the best. Billy had been known to say that his home was not a happy one. He often said that the controlling discipline and cruelty of his stepfather drove him from home and his mother, to going to the bad.
This was only one side of Billy the Kid; he had another side, which was much more terribl ...
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Biography Of Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of Words: 1022 / Number of Pages: 4
... there they found a house and furniture. They had asked a
friend back home to sell their house and send them the money, but the
friend sold the house and disappeared with the money. Suddenly,
Elizabeth's father died leaving the family with debts, bills, and only
twenty-five dollars in cash. The family had to make money quick, so the
girls opened a school and the boys got jobs. The boys made so much money
the girls were able to close their school.
Elizabeth walked around the house for days wondering what to do
with her life.
One day, she was visiting her mother's sick friend when the lady
said th ...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Number of Words: 1184 / Number of Pages: 5
... included the “Pieta” and the “David.” At the age of 24 he completed a
statue called the “Pieta,” showing the dead Jesus Christ in his mother's arms.
In 1501 Michelangelo returned to Florence, Italy to sculpt the famous nude
sculpture called the “David.” The “David” measures 18 feet tall, and is so
massive that it took 40 men to move it from Michelangelo's workshop(World Book
5016)
The second period of Michelangelo's career was based upon his
imagination. In 1505 Michelangelo was summoned by Pope Julius II to fabricate
his tomb. Michelangelo was so excited about making the tomb for the P ...
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Henry Ford: A Life In Brief
Number of Words: 1442 / Number of Pages: 6
... away.
In Detroit, Henry worked eleven hours a day at James Flower &
Brothers' Machine Shop for only $2.50 a week. As this was not enough to
pay for board and room, Henry got an evening job at Magill's Jewelry Shop
for $2 each week, at first only cleaning and winding the shop's large stock
of clocks. Soon though, he was repairing them also.
After three years in Detroit, and ceaseless persuasion from his father,
Henry moved back to the farm at the age of nineteen. Farm work was no more
appealing than before. Henry did enjoy the birds and the wildlife in the
country, and he liked operatin ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 1122 / Number of Pages: 5
... forms that exist on earth today? (Question formed by
scholars in an attempt to stump Darwin)
Darwin in his "Origin of Species" published an answer to this
question in 1859. Darwin wrote:
"As many more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there
must be in every case, a struggle for existence, either one individual with
another of the same species, or with individuals of distinct species, or
with physical conditions of life. Can it be thought improbable, seeing
that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other
variations useful in some way to each being in the g ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1945 / Number of Pages: 8
... In fact the Dean of the academy was not 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 worl ...
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Herbert Spencer
Number of Words: 1610 / Number of Pages: 6
... and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer expresses in The Proper Sphere of Government his belief that "everything in nature has its laws," organic as well as inorganic matter. Man is subject to laws bot in his physical and spiritual essence, and "as with man individually, so with man socially." Concerning the evils of society, Spencer postulates a "self-adjusting principle" under which evils rectify themselves, provided that no one interferes with the inherent law of society.
In discussing the function ...
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