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David Belasco
Number of Words: 571 / Number of Pages: 3
... manager of the Madison Square Theater, for which he wrote plays, Achieving popularity with May Blossom (1884), a Civil War love story. It was followed by Lord Chumbley (1888), a domestic drama featuring a comic Englishmen. In 1893, written with Franklyn Fyles, was The Girl I Left Behind Me, a popular Indian melodrama.
In 1895, Belasco had his first smash hit as a playwright , director, and independent manager. His Civil War melodrama, The Heart of Maryland, became a runaway success in New York, in London, and on tour across the U.S.. Belasco wrote the play as a showcase for the particular talents ...
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Ramses
Number of Words: 969 / Number of Pages: 4
... wife Nefertari in 1267 B.C., even before he took the throne. She was his first and greatest love.
appointed Nefertari, after his father's death, as the "Great Royal Wife" and the "Mistress of Upper and Lower Nile". She had born his first son. went as far as to construct an enormous statue of his beloved wife next to his statue in Abu Simbel. Unfortunately, Nefertari died when was only 48 years old. He then married one of their daughters, Meryt-Amun and then continued to marry other wives including a Babylonian princess, a Syrian princess, a Hittite princess, one of his sisters, and several daughter ...
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Galileo
Number of Words: 1066 / Number of Pages: 4
... taking advantage of the celebrated leaning tower, he laid the foundation experimentally of the theory of falling bodies and demonstrated the falsity of the peripatetic maxim, which is that an objects rate of descent is proportional to its weight. When he challenged this it made all of the followers of Aristotle extremely angry, they would not except the fact that their leader could have been wrong. , in result of this and other troubles, found it prudent to quit Pisa and move to Florence, the original home of his family. In Florence he was nominated by the Venetian Senate in 1592 to the chair of mathe ...
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The Work Of Robert Frost
Number of Words: 2840 / Number of Pages: 11
... solid, so humorous,
and so satisfying.
His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are
the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like,
America, or better yet, the world. He has been able to believe, as any good
artist must, that the things he knows best because they are his own will
turn out to be true for other people. He trusts his own feelings, his own
doubts, his own certainties, his own excitements. And there is absolutely
no end to these, given the skill he needs to state them and the strength
never to be wearied by his subject matter. "The ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of Words: 1425 / Number of Pages: 6
... conscience(_______). Leaving Princeton for the army during World War 1, Fitzgerald spent his weekends in camp writing the earliest draft of his first novel.
Demobilized in 1919, Fitzgerald worked briefly in New York for an adversing agency. His first story, 'Babes in the Wood,' was published in The Smart Set. The turning point in his life was when he met Zelda Sayre, herself as aspiring writed, and married her in 1920. In the same year appeared Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, originally entitled The Romantic Egoist, which he had started while in the army. Its hero, Armory Blaine, ...
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History Of Willian Shakespeare
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... a substantial Warwickshire
farmer. He had a spacious house and owned large amounts of farm land. Anne's father Richard called her Agnes which was interchangeably in the sixteenth century. The Hathaway farm house has now become known to the tourist industry as "Anne Hathaway's cottage." William and his wife Anne had three children. Susanna was born on May 26, 1583. The other two children, Judith and Hamnet were twins, born in 1585. Susanna married Doctor John Hall in 1607. Their home Hall's Croft, is today preserved as one of Shakespeare's properties. Judith Shakespeare married Thomas ...
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George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... children. In addition to the impact his father had on him, Shaw was also influenced in other ways. When he was young, a servant took him to the slums. From that experience he acquired a lifelong hatred of poverty (Collier's 649).
Shaw was a poor student at the Wesleyan Connexional School despite private tutoring (Kunitz 1268). However, most of his education was gained at home through a thorough background in music, art, and extensive reading. He always had the eagerness and determination to write. His writings would be returned often by local newspapers but he kept on sending them in anyways. As a y ...
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Emile Durkheim
Number of Words: 1395 / Number of Pages: 6
... part of science.
Durkheim was born ‹pinal, France, he was an outgrowth of a distinguished line of rabbinical scholar (Rothschild; 1999). He graduated from the ‹cole Normale Sup¾rieure in Paris in 1882, then taught law and philosophy. However, in 1887 he began teaching sociology, first at the University of Bordeaux and later at the University of Paris. His knowledge of law and religion helped him to come up with a new theory, which concerned him with the basis of social stability. For example, the common values shared by a society, such as morality and religion. In his view, these values, or the c ...
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Andrew Jackson
Number of Words: 438 / Number of Pages: 2
... Jackson as a touchy, irascible man.
As the oldest man ever elected to the presidency, he was sixty-one
and perhaps the most unhealthy. He had two bullets permanently lodged in
him, and often spat up blood because of them. Many missions of Andrew
Jackson's were self-righteous and stubborn. By his victory at the Battle
of New Orleans, where he killed many Native Americans, he gained enough
momentum for the American people to adore him. With this momentum as "Old
Hickory," "Old Chieftain," and "Old Hero," people felt forever indebted to
his military value, therefore staying aboard his zany politica ...
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Herman Melville
Number of Words: 2935 / Number of Pages: 11
... New York, against the British. Herman was silent and slow. His mother regarded him as a dull boy. (http://www.comptons.com) In 1826 Allan Melvill wrote of his son:
"He is very backward in speech & somewhat slow in comprehension, but you will find him as far as he understands men and things both solid and profound, and of a docile and amiable disposition."
("Concerning " http://www.melville.org/others.html)
In that same year, scarlet fever left the boy with permanently weakened eyesight, but he attended Male High School. When the family import business collapsed in 1830, the family returned to Alb ...
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