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HG Wells
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels.
Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay,
attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through,
depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I
Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History.
Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote
voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was
a member of the Fabian Society. He envisioned a utopia in which the vast
and frightening material force ...
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Charlie Chaplin
Number of Words: 1173 / Number of Pages: 5
... into a cabin where the villainous Black Larson lives. Black Larson doesn’t like this new guest and tells him to leave, rifle in hand. Charlie tries to leave, but a hilarious wind keeps blowing him back into the cabin. During this escapade in blows another luckier prospector, Big Jim McKay. Jim and Larson fight, and Larson goes off to find food for the trio. Meanwhile, the starving Charlie and Jim have the trademark meal of Charlie’s cooked boot. In this scene, Charlie eats the boot like it were a fine meal at a fine restaurant, twirling the laces around a fork like spaghetti. Later on they ...
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Thomas Jefferson Biography
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... he wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he also wrote many other documents dealing with the colonial protest of British rule. (3) A Summary View of the Rights of British America was a pamphlet denying right of Parliament to rule over the colonies. Jefferson proved to be an able writer of laws and resolutions because he was very concise and straight the point. (4) Jefferson was often turned to when skill with a pen was needed, as in the Declaration of Independence, but he also used his talent when his wished to voice his own opinions of what the principles of the nation should be.
Most of Jeff ...
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Frank Sinatra
Number of Words: 751 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the “bobby-soxers”. They were teenage girls who swooned over his crooning, soft-voiced singing. During this time period he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949). Sinatra is also well respected as a jazz singer. During the 1950s and 1960s Sinatra also teamed with a number of talented jazz arrangers, including Nelson Riddle, Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones, and Billy May. He produced a number of albums that are now regarded as classic recordings. These recordings include Swing Easy (1955), In the Wee Small Hours (1955), M ...
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Joseph Stalin
Number of Words: 1232 / Number of Pages: 5
... Democratic Party in 1899. He started as the distributor of propaganda.(Red Tsar) This is the start of Stalin’s political career.
Stalin had many political jobs that helped him to assume the position of dictator. In 1902 Stalin was arrested and spent one year in prison and then was exiled to Siberia. He escaped the prison camp two years later. In 1902-1913 Stalin was arrested eight times was exiled seven and escaped six. The only time the government could hold him in exile was his last time which he served completely from 1913 to 1917.(Red Tsar) In 1903 Stalin joined the Marxist movement when it ...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... turned to other teachers when Haydn went to London for the second time. He studied with Albrechtsberger, famous as a choir director at St. Stephens in Vienna and the best-known counterpoint teacher in Vienna. He then studied Salieri, famous in Mozart's biography. Salieri helped Beethoven in setting Italian words to music. IV. Establishment as pianist and composer His first task in Vienna was to establish himself as pianist and composer. He achieved both rapidly. A. Aristocracy He had worked for a court in Bonn so his first contacts were in aristocratic circles. He needed financial support fro ...
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John Adams
Number of Words: 1598 / Number of Pages: 6
... to his original cabinet; Thomas
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson, a veteran politician became the
Secretary of State and Hamiliton, a young, outspoken New Yorker lawyer, became
the Secretary of the Treasury (Ferling, 1992). Jefferson, like Adams, had also
signed the Declaration of Independence. Hamilton, however, was the only cabinet
member relatively unknown to Adams (Ferling, 1992). It was Hamilton, nonetheless,
who excelled during this new administration by initiating numerous, innovative,
and often controversial programs, many of which were quite successful. Adams and
Hamil ton we ...
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Thomas Paine
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... the co-editor for the
Pennsylvania Magazine. When he arrived in Philadelphia, Paine noticed the
tension, and the rebellious attitude, that was continually getting larger, after
the Boston Tea Party.
In Paine's opinion, the Colonies had all the right to revolt against a
government that imposed taxes on them, and which did not give them the right of
representation in the Parliament at Westminster. Then he went one massive step
further, he decided there was no reason for the Colonies to stay dependent on
England. He published his opinions in the American independence pamphlet Common
Sense.
In Commo ...
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Dickinson
Number of Words: 792 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Air-am I-
And Debauchee of Dew-
Reeling-thro endless summer days-
From inns of Molten Blue-"
"When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee
Out of the Foxglove's door-
When Butterflies-renounce their "drams"-
I shall but drink the more!" -214
This Poem by Dickinson demonstrates her universal spirit and beleif that nature is not only a source of comfort but also Gods greatest reflection. Beleifs that are identical to those exhibited by many Romanticists. She speaks of being high on nature, a feeling of intoxication that not even the "Frankfort berries" could provide, and every bee, but ...
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Cark Gauss
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication followed and the answer could b ...
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