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James Buchanan
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... British Had just
burned down Washingto D.C. James volunteered to serve his country so he joined a
calvary company. Buchanan returned for the election and won a seat in
legislature in 1814. He served another term and returnd to Lancaster.
James Buchanan became a popular person in Lancaster and was invited
to many partys and dinners. At one party he met a girl named Ann Coleman. They
later got engaged. In the spring of 1819 there were rumors that James was seeing
another girl. Ann got upset and went to stay with her sister in Philadelphia.
Later she died over an overdose of landuam. James p ...
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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
Number of Words: 1486 / Number of Pages: 6
... and philosophy
have felt the need to justify themselves to laymen. The belief that nature is
something to be vexed and tortured to the compliance of man will not satisfy
man nor laymen. Natural science finds its proper method when the 'scientist'
puts Nature to the question, tortures her by experiment and wrings from her
answers to his questions. The House of Solomon is directly related to these
thoughts. "It is dedicated to the study of Works and the Creatures of God"
(Bacon, 436). Wonder at religious questions was natural, but, permitted free
reign, would destroy science by absorbing the minds and c ...
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Dizzy Gelespie
Number of Words: 2871 / Number of Pages: 11
... (Kerfeld, 137). This fast tempo music was pioneered by saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Max Roach, pianist Thelonious Monk and trumpeter "Dizzy" Gillespie. Gillespie was one of the chief innovators of this new style of music as well as an important figure to all musicians to follow him and international figure for the United States.(Kerfeld, 137)
John Birks was born in Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21, 1917. The young prodigy was first introduced to music by his father, a weekend bandleader. Gillespie's father was not as talented as John was to become, he relied on a more stable inco ...
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Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
Number of Words: 1676 / Number of Pages: 7
... his own artistic vocation. When Michelangelo was thirteen, his father was a minor Florentine official with connections to the Medici family. At this time his father reluctantly agreed to apprentice him to the city's most prominent painters, the Ghirlandajo brothers (Compton's, 1998). Unsatisfied, because the brothers refused to teach him their art secrets, he played hooky and discovered the gardens of the Monastery of San Marco. Lorenzo the Magnificent, head of the Medici family had brought many ancient Greek and Roman statues to these gardens. These works and those commissioned, were intended ...
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Grace Kelly
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... hard to understand a daughter who enjoyed sitting still, reading or writing. Grace begged him to enroll her in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and he reluctantly agreed. Her mother also disapproved of sending her to New York. She worried about the dangers lurking in wait for an innocent girl in New York City, but Sending Grace to the Academy proved to be a valuable decision. Grace loved the Academy and worked hard there, modeling in her spare time. She faced many rejections before she landed her first film role, Fourteen Hours in 1951. She also starred in many other films such ...
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The Life And Times Of Peter Straub
Number of Words: 1877 / Number of Pages: 7
... he developed certain emotional quirks. Because of the long hours sitting, Peter read even more so than ever. And once able to walk again, his misfortune did not leave him alone. Straub soon developed a severe stutter which accompanied his speech into his twenties, and even now, at 57, still puts in an appearance. Another very unfortunate incident occurred to Peter as a child, which he refrains from speaking about almost entirely; he was sexually abused. He has never spoken of the details, or who had done the reprehensible deed.3
Because of his exceptional learning abilities, Peter Straub went on ...
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Eileen Gray
Number of Words: 792 / Number of Pages: 3
... the volume of the house. The windows of the house open with a completely different system than the one Le Corbusier proposed. Some of E.1027's windows are vertical rather than horizontal bands, but still they are continuous and add flow to the interior rooms. The interior stairways are free, and there is storage places concealed in the walls of the stairs to add storage place. The façade of the house is free and white, while the plan of the house is open.
E-1027 at Menton (1926-29)
Further more, Eileen Gray proposed four problems that the great architects of the ...
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Abigail Adams: Her Contributions
Number of Words: 317 / Number of Pages: 2
... in Congress. As members drafted laws to guarantee the independence for which the colonist were fighting, Abigail wrote to John begging him to remember that women also needed to be given the right of independence. She sensed the struggles that were to come and understood the unfairness of making one group subject to the will of another.
She supported her husband through every phase of his rise to power and fame. His dependency and reliance on her as his partner was apparent. He considered her advice and assistance as critical to his success as a president. Ultimately, Abigail brought about no ...
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Review Of Ernest Hemingway And Writings
Number of Words: 1492 / Number of Pages: 6
... to break away came when he
volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July of 1918 while
serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and
forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left
him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he
began as a result "a quest for psychological and artistic freedom that was
to lead him first to the secluded woods of Northern Michigan, where he had
spent his most pleasant childhood moments, and then to Europe, where his
literary talents began to take shape." (CLC, 177) First he t ...
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The Life Of Sid Vicious
Number of Words: 1230 / Number of Pages: 5
... though, Chris died of ill
health. John later changed his name from John Ritchie to John Beverly.
John attended the Soho Primary School where he horrified his
teachers when he told them that he no longer believed in God. John left
this school with two zero levels in English Literature and English Language
and absolutely no ambition to pursue his academic studies.
John went back into education by taking a photography class at
Hackney. During his time at Hackney his life changed in many ways. He had
come out of his shell somewhat. He had developed a passion for David Bowie
and he had discovered the joy ...
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