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James Baldwin
Number of Words: 1941 / Number of Pages: 8
... become a personal question, and the answer was to be found in me.” He found the answer to who he was in being a novelist. Between 1948 and 1957, he lived in both France and Switzerland, returning to the United States in 1952 and 1956.
Over the span of Baldwin’s life, he was honored with many awards and recognitions. In 1953, he published Go Tell it On a Mountain, and a year later, in 1954; he received the Guggenheim Fellowship and wrote The Amen Corner, a play that was produced at Howard University. Go Tell it On a Mountain, paint a picture similar to that which Baldwin faced in Harlem. In 195 ...
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Daniel Webster
Number of Words: 691 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was elected senator from Massachusetts.
New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National
Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing
federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had
shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster
decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new
manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the tariff,
and South Carolina's John C. Calhoun argued that South C ...
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Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, And Harrison
Number of Words: 472 / Number of Pages: 2
... to move
west to escape this growing inflation.
Martin Van Buren
Van Buren was the next president who had to face the horrible economic
conditions began during Jackson's presidency. In 1836 Van Buren was
elected president, this time I think voters used their heads and knew Van
Buren was the only candidate really ready to face the economic conditions.
Soon after Van Buren took over there a depression began, This was a
time when virtually everyone was poorer. Many people blamed Van Buren for
the Depression because he was president at the time, but it wasn't really
h ...
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Pierre De Fermat
Number of Words: 839 / Number of Pages: 4
... things in his lifetime. Some things that he did include: -If p is a prime and a is a prime to p then ap-1-1 is divisible by p, that is, ap-1-1=0 (mod p). The proof of this, first given by Euler, was known quite well. A more general theorem is that a0-(n)-1=0 (mod n), where a is prime to n and p(n) is the number of integers less than n and prime to it. -An odd prime number can be expressed as the difference of two square integers in only one way. Fermat's proof is as follows. Let n be prime, and suppose it is equal to x2 -y2 that is, to (x+y)(x-y). Now, by hypothesis, the only basic, integral factors of ...
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Mark Twain
Number of Words: 2304 / Number of Pages: 9
... born and the family moved to Pall Mall, a rural county in Tennessee. After Henry’s birth in 1832, the value of their farmland greatly depreciated and sent the Clemenses on the road again. Now they would stay with Jane’s sister in Florida, Missouri where she ran a successful business with her husband. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the small remote town of Florida, Missouri. Samuel’s parents, John Marshall and Jane Cohen 2 Lampton Clemens never gave up on their child, who was two months premature with little hope of survival. This was coincidentally the same night as the return of Halley’s ...
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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... relates to the
social organization of arrest, which suggest that police arrest blacks at a
higher rate than whites.
While Malcolm was in jail, he was well known to the guards. One
time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his
number. The guards beat the hell out of him and sent him to the darkroom.
In the darkroom he met Brother Baines. Baines was a man everyone respected
including the guards. He was know as the real man and gave speeches about
Islam. Malcolm didn't want to listen to him at first, but Baines's cool
style helped Malcolm realize that Islam is for him and ...
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Charles Dickens: Biography
Number of Words: 1070 / Number of Pages: 4
... the child is at a party, genuinely delighted, delightful, affectionate and
happy, and in some strange way fundamentally sad and dangerously close to tears.
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At the age of 12 Charles worked in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of
shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the
experience remain with him all his life. 3
Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He
enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and
novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare,
Tobias Smol ...
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Levi
Number of Words: 651 / Number of Pages: 3
... a full-time writer.
His prison recollections wrote in the form of memoir, Se questo è un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity, and brought about annihilation of the internees. 's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors, in spite of the brutality to which he was subjected. LA TREGUA (1963) was its sequel, and portrayed the wanderings that an ...
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Dylan Thomas
Number of Words: 1164 / Number of Pages: 5
... was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98)
During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39th birthday. He died on Noovenber 9th, 1953 at St. Vincents Hospital, New York. His alcoholism was legendary and no doubt played a significant role in his demise. His Body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, w ...
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Abraham Of Chaldea
Number of Words: 3057 / Number of Pages: 12
... your country, and from your relatives and from your father's
house, to the land which I will show you." 3 He obeyed and left Haran
with his brother Nahor's family and his Nephew Lot without really knowing
where he was going. At this time, God did not reveal to him he was going
to Canaan. God only told him "the land which I will show you." 4 When he
did arrive in Canaan, he camped in the plains of Moreh, between the
mountains of Ebal and Cerizim. It was here he was given the second
promise from God that his seed would possess this land. Abram built "an
altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him ...
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