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Henry Charles Carey
Number of Words: 3358 / Number of Pages: 13
... born in 1793 in Philadelphia. He was the son of a self-made Irish immigrant, Mathew Carey. His father, whom was a leader in early American economic thinking, emigrated from Ireland on account of the political upheaval during the time. Henry Carey was also self taught and in 1821 at the age of twenty-eight assumed ownership of his fathers printing press. Carey who was a largely self-educated man, retired from active business at forty-two in order to devote the rest of his life to his literary career. Carey was known for his enormous published output. Many believe his quantity took away from the me ...
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Interview With Karl Marx
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... The result of that was capitalism, which only led to destruction. The increasing number of workers (thesis) were being exploited by the owners of the means of production (antithesis) who were only allowing the wealth to concentrate amongst few through competition. To increase their own profits, the wages were as low as possible. Economic crises would prevail until the workers would unite and overthrow the centers of the wealth. Then in this intermediary stage (synthesis) capitalism would be destroyed. Once the workers could control their own fate, exploitation would end and the state would become a ...
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Walt Whitman And His Poetry
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... life's work and
contained 400 poems. He is known as a poet for the Leaves of Grass. An
interesting fact: his opening poem in the Leaves of Grass tells about how
he knows he will die soon. It says that “I have walked the roads you will
walk” which is telling about how he once was alive just like us. It is a
peom that remembers him and speaks to future generations.
Indeed, Walt Whitman is a very interesting poet, and his style is
the best in the world.
Sample Peom
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
In cabin'd ships at sea,
The boundless blue on every side expanding,
With whistling winds and music ...
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Grace Murray Hopper
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... at Harvard University. That is when she was introduced to and assigned to work on Mark I -- the first large-scale U.S. computer and precursor of electronic computers. Her first assignment with Mark I was to "have the coefficients for the interpolation of the arc tangents completed [in about one week]"… not a problem for Grace. She would then be the third person ever to program the Mark I. At that same time, the Mark I was being used to calculate the angles at which naval guns were to be aimed. Shortly after that a machine called BINAC was being developed which used the C-10 language. ...
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... discuss the three major ways that Dr. King talks about. We will also reveal the one method that King supports.
He first characteristic that King mentions in his writing is acquiescence. In this characteristic, King explains how people give up to oppression and become accustomed to it. He believes that this form is not the way to solve the grief that the Negroes were being put through. In fact, he criticizes the people who utilize this method. The following line proves my statement, "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the op ...
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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... poems throughout
the future . She adopted her ideas on poetry from her personal life, her
fondness of nature, death, and her dislike of organized religion. War is
occasionally pulled into Emily's poems also.
Emily seemed truly concerned over happenings in her personal life. So
she mainly focused her writings on the loss of her lover. In "I Never Saw A
Moor," she describes things that she had never seen or experienced before but
she knows what they are about. Here, Emily is trying to express herself on why
she thinks Charles left her. She is desperately searching for answers. Emily
attempted to ...
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Lizzie Borden 2
Number of Words: 1961 / Number of Pages: 8
... much is described of Lizzie Andrew Borden's childhood. On March 1, 1851, Emma Lenora Borden was born to Andrew and Sarah Borden, and on July 19, 1860, Lizzie had arrived. While Lizzie was at the young age of two, Sarah died of uterine congestion. In 1865, Andrew Borden wed Abby Durfee-a short, shy, obese woman who had been a spinster until the age of 36. Abby's family were not as well off as the Bordens.
Lizzie suffered from psychomotor epilepsy, a strange seizure of the temporal lobe that has one distinct symptom: a "black-out" in which the patients carry out their actions in a dream ...
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Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 2011 / Number of Pages: 8
... was carried our by Marius' enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter's return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter memory that long survived.
Caesar left Rome for the province of Asia on the condition that he divorce his wife because Sulla would only allow him to leave on that condition. When he heard the news that Sulla had been killed he returned to Rome. He ...
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Thomas Edison
Number of Words: 2330 / Number of Pages: 9
... Thomas back to school to talk to Reverend Engle. He told her that Thomas couldn’t learn. His mother became so angry at the strict Reverend that she decided to home-school him.(minot 1) After a while his mother, a former teacher herself, recognized his un usual abilities to reason. She quickly got him interested in History and Classic books. Thomas however was strangely attracted to the subject of science. By the age of ten had already been experimenting and by now owned a sizable quantity of chemicals. Unfortunately his experiments were often quite expensive and he found it his duty to pay for th ...
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Stephen King
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... for English in 1970. He married Tabitha, also a writer, the same year. After graduation, he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same.
Today, is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and that number is climbing rapidly as he is translated into more languages and as he continues to release new books at a rate of almost one per year. At one point, he had an unprecedented five books on the New York Times Best Sellers List at ...
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