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James Watt
Number of Words: 1292 / Number of Pages: 5
... himself in instrument making.
In 1755 he set out on horseback and arrived in London after either twelve days or two weeks. He tried to get a job in the instrumentation field although the shopkeepers could not give him a job as he did not do an apprenticeship and was too old. Finally though he found John Morgan of a company called Cornhill who agreed to bend the rules and offer an apprenticeship for a year. knuckled down and wanted to learn everything he wanted in one year that would have normally taken three or four years. After six weeks Watt learned that much he outstripped another apprentice who ...
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Patrick Henry's Speech
Number of Words: 633 / Number of Pages: 3
... is going to say. Henry knows that if he
does not speak what he thinks he could be held guilty of treason. Henry shows that he is self-
confident because he is going to follow through with his beliefs. Henry knows that if he is self
confident he can do anything, Henry states; “I have one lamp by which my feet are
guided and that is the lamp of experience”(88). What Henry is really trying to say is, “I know
of no way of judging of the future but by the past, I wish to know what there has been of the
British ministry for the last ten years”(90). Henry states, “I repeat it, sir, we must fight”(9 ...
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
Number of Words: 412 / Number of Pages: 2
... for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that
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 i ...
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
Number of Words: 1653 / Number of Pages: 7
... Divine Comedy. His early writings attracted the attention of Guido
Cavalcanti, a popular Italian poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more
defined the two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the Guelphs,
as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle and emerged
victorious. It was around this time, 1290, that Beatrice died, after she died
he began studying philosophy, he read the works of Boethius and Cicero. He soon
after married Gemma Donati, a mem ...
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James Joyce
Number of Words: 1091 / Number of Pages: 4
... of his short stories and novels. The two central preoccupations of his work are a sense of betrayal. Ireland, dominated both political and economically by Britain and religiously by the Catholic Church caused Joyce to regard them as "the two imperialisms" (Attridge P. 34). Roman Catholicism is an integral aspect of the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In 1917, the English novelist H.G. Wells in a review of the novel in the New Republic wrote, "by far the most living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing." Joyce's focus on betrayal was a consequen ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of Words: 1599 / Number of Pages: 6
... was definitely a most terrifying moment for the young Hemingway. After being seriously injured weeks later, Hemingway found himself recovering at a hospital in Milan. After his stay at the American Hospital in Milan, Hemingway was relieved of duty (Mitran 1). Having no other purpose in Europe, he returned unhappily to Oak Park, Illinois. The impression left on Hemingway by his stay in Italy had changed him profoundly. He never really returned to America as an America(Meyer 115).
When Hemingway returned home from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park dull compared to the adventures of war, the ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1971 / Number of Pages: 8
... his
second book "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems" but this time under the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other
cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a
second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel".
These poems show the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems.
Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his ant. There he married his cousin
who was only 13 years old. Then Poe moved to New York to become famous, but with
almost no success. Poe had after 1 ...
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Czar Nicholas II
Number of Words: 711 / Number of Pages: 3
... the sun had reached out and stroked it with a kindly finger. The Czar had a nervous habit of brushing his mustache up with the back of his hand. In time, this gesture would become his distinct signature.
Because of his sheltered life under the fear of terrorists, Nicholas grew up secluded from the world. Unfortunately, this caused him to never had the self-confidence and self-reliance he would need later in his life as the last czar of Russia. Though seemingly weak, his first love was Russia and the second his family. He refused to have secretaries, in the belief that this would help bring him closer ...
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William Wallace
Number of Words: 1794 / Number of Pages: 7
... written history in order to support my thesis. I will conclude with the fact that William Wallace was truly a worthy patriot of his native country Scotland. He fearlessly led his fellow patriots into battle, and gained freedom for Scotland from the tyrannical rule of the English King, Edward I.
In May of 1995 the film Braveheart came out in theaters. Braveheart is mainly a biographical movie about William Wallace. It portrays Wallace as a tall, strong, and brilliant man and military soldier. On many occasions, it shows Wallace defeating the English Army, which always outnumbered his troops. His ...
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Desiderius Erasmus
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... Pope Julius II is made out to be more of
a Muslim than a Catholic. Writing this had to take considerable courage,
for, though the Church was in decline, it still had considerable power. He
also published the Greek version of the New Testament in Latin, so
Europeans could read it.
Erasmus was a traveller. He lived in many places in Europe at different
times. He had lived in Rome, Paris, England, and many other European
countries. His worked as a writer, but was dependant on gifts of nobles as
most writers of the time were. In his travels he befriended many humanists.
Erasmus became a huma ...
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