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Cynthia Ozick
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... in the Holocaust, and therefore was an actual survivor. Elie Wiesel asked to wait a few years until there was no more witnesses to find fault with her representation of the Shoah. The Shoah is also known as Holocaust Day. This is the remembrance of all the Jews that were murdered during the Holocaust. The reason for that was because falsified the event and mocked a sacred text. At all cost, the Shoal had to be secured. was upset and hurt, not because she was reprimanded for making a minor historical error, but because she was treated as a stranger. was an American Jew, not just an American. ...
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond
in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger and married
Virginia who was not yet 14 years old. In January 1837 Poe annouced his
withdrawl as editor in the Messenger.
He stayed in New York City then in Philadelphia and again in New
York to establish himself as a force of literary jouranalism. Over the
years he discovered new forms of poetry. He exemplifies a form in Ligeia
(1838), he conidered his best piece of work The Fall Of The House Of Usher
(1839). The Murders In The Rue Morgue (1841) was his first detective story,
his musical mellif ...
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John Lennon
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... projected the
sweet image and who was underneath an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things in 1965-1966 such as psychedelia,
marijuana, and Bob Dylan. Many felt that these years were the best song writing
years of John Lennon's life.
1966---The Beatles had been touring for over four years, and they ...
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Henry David Thoreau
Number of Words: 670 / Number of Pages: 3
... experiment. His experiment was based on him leaving the town to find a place where he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the industrial revolution of America. He wanted to be alone and being able to concentrate on nature and his spiritual side. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.” I think the reason for him being in love with himself and being by himself is that he thinks you have to be alone to be able to appreciate nature. You have to imagine and go into a spiritual world to beco ...
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King Tut
Number of Words: 1998 / Number of Pages: 8
... however the Egyptians had a flair for playing games and telling stories. All Egyptians enjoyed contests and stories, but the wealthy pursued those pastimes with an elegant flourish. Royalty such as Tut, was portrayed on the walls of his tomb playing the game senet, which reenacted the quest for eternal fulfillment after death. This game is played on a checkerboard table with thirty squares arranged in three parallel rows. Each of two players has an equal number of counters (ranging from five to seven) in two series of different shapes. The counters are moved with sticks or small bones.
Th ...
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Catherine The Great
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the
military, and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of
the Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter
I--westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she
did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but
rather encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She
succeeded to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the
overwhelming majority of the population--the enserfed peasantry.
To learn the needs of the country and to gai ...
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George Orwell
Number of Words: 2773 / Number of Pages: 11
... by his English heritage but also by his many life experiences.
It was August 1914, right after the start of World War One. Three children were playing in a garden at the end of the summer holidays, on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames River. The children saw a young boy about their age standing on his head from across the street. The children asked the boy why he was on his head. The boy responded “you are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are right way up.” This young boy was Eric Blair who later in life adopted the name George Orwell, the famous author of “1984” and many o ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was building forts out of hay and mud. In 1882, at the age of 15, he entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Wright left Madison in 1887 to work as a draftsman in Chicago. Wright worked for several architectural offices until he finally found a job with the most skillful architect of the Mid-West, Louis Sullivan, soon becoming Sullivan's chief assistant. Wr ...
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Charles Manson
Number of Words: 2772 / Number of Pages: 11
... away from and put in foster homes. Kathleen had the habit of disappearing for days and weeks at a time, leaving Charlie with his grandmother or aunt. Kathleen Maddox was sentenced to a penitentiary for armed robbery, Charlie was sent to live with his aunt and uncle; who were going to try to straighten him out. When Kathleen was released from jail she didn't want Charlie as her responsibility, preferring her life of drinking. At this point in time she was willing to trade Charlie for a glass of beer. Charlie was adapted to a life of violence and loneliness. He kept to himself and didn't have any fr ...
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Emily Dickenson
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... her poetry in this home. Emily only left home to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for two semesters.
Though her stay there was brief, she impressed her teachers with her courage and directness. They felt her writing was sensational.
At the age of twenty-one, Emily and her family moved to the Dickinson Homestead on Main Street. This move proved to be very difficult for Emily. This was difficult for Emily because she became very attached to her old house, which shaped her writing and personality for fifteen years. They now lived next door to her brother Austin and his wife Susan and their daughter ...
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