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Walt Whitman
Number of Words: 980 / Number of Pages: 4
... these encounters ultimately embodying as well as comprising his personal identity. However, the true excellence of Whitman's writings lies in the realization that through Whitman's effective use of the catalogue, the reader is able to explore and recognize his own identity as well. In section 15 of the poem, Whitman catalogues together many random thoughts, which evoke great imagery for the reader,
The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
The deacons are ordain'd with cross'd hands at the altar,
The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
The farmer stops by ...
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Salvatore “The Bull” Gravano
Number of Words: 355 / Number of Pages: 2
... This self-confessed mafia underboss helped to put away 36 fellow
mobsters. Among these 36 men one really stuck out. That man was Gambino
crime boss John "The Teflon Don" Gotti. The feds have been after Gotti
since he orchestrated the hit on former boss Paul Castellano also known as
"Big Pauly". That’s when John Gotti came into power. Gotti and the Bull
were responsible for over twenty-six murders . Gravano confessed to as
many as nineteen of those twenty-six murders including the one of his
brother-in-law. In return for turning his back on the oath he once believed
in , he had his sentenced reduc ...
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Ozzy Osbourne
Number of Words: 1630 / Number of Pages: 6
... him. What happened is Ozzy had drank and smoked and done all kinds of drugs and he didn’t like the cats to begin with so he shot and stabbed every one of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking heavily, and decided to take a trip down to the bottom floor on the elevator. Well on the way down he must have had to go to the bathroom because he ended up taking a crap in the corner of the elevator. When it got to the bottom ...
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Christopher Marlowe
Number of Words: 1886 / Number of Pages: 7
... and five p.m. respectively. In addition to daily instruction in religion and music, they also sang the morning mass in the Cathedral. The boys were allowed to speak solely in Latin, even while at play. He was granted a scholarship, established by Matthew Perry, to attend Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. (Gale
Research) After receiving his BA in 1584, he became known as “Dominus” Marlowe(. At age twenty-one, his motto was “That which nourishes me, destroys me” (Kunitz 823). This statement foretold and shaped his writing style. From thereafter, many absences from the uni ...
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Terry Fox
Number of Words: 2106 / Number of Pages: 8
... problem from playing sports was actually a fatal tumor. Terry received the test results, and sadly, he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma: a rare bone cancer. With his parents by his side, Terry cried. This marked the beginning of the battle for his life, yet the start of a new hope. Eventually, since the cancer had spread, Terry was forced to have his leg amputated. The night before his operation Terry's former basketball coach visited him at the hospital, his coach spoke to him about the amazing things Terry could do and learn from his horrible tragedy (Brown 13). As a result of very suppor ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1081 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Poe's so called "college fees." Poe and John had a big dispute and Poe decided to run away and join the army( under the name Edgar A. Perry).
Poe spent three years in the army, during this time he began experimenting with writing. In his last three months in the army, Poe decided he did not desire to be a professional soldier. He left the army set on becoming a professional writer. In 1833 Poe had written three books of poems, a few short stories, and became a literary critic. His criticism was excellent, and full of sharp wit. Poe could never keep a job as a critic for long though because he w ...
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Martin Luther
Number of Words: 598 / Number of Pages: 3
... study. He was the first to bring personal Bible study to the life of the "common people". Because Luther had found the true way of salvation by studying the Bible, he wanted all the people to have the same opportunity. However, the Bible was not written in German, thus the people had to rely on what the Catholic Church thought about its content and doctrine. Thus, Luther's believes of role of the Catholic Church and a personal Bible study increased the urgency for education.
Although the education reform had its premises on the ability to be able to read the bible, Luther also believed that educat ...
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The Life Of Chief Seattle
Number of Words: 1596 / Number of Pages: 6
... his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and various islands across the Puget Sound. Seattle was married twice, his first wife Ladaila, died after bearing one daughter, Kiksomlo, known as "Angeline". His second wife, Oiahl, had three daughters ...
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Johann Sabastian Bach
Number of Words: 872 / Number of Pages: 4
... - for example, the church choir - rubbed his colleagues the wrong way, and he was embroiled in a number of hot disputes during his short tenure. In 1707, at the age of 22, Bach became fed up with the lousy musical standards of Arnstadt (and the working conditions) and moved on to another organist job, this time at the St. Blasius Church in Muhlhausen. The same year, he married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach.
Again caught up in a running conflict between factions of his church, Bach fled to Weimar after one year in Muhlhausen. In Weimar, he assumed the post of organist and concertmaster in the d ...
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William Wordsworth Biography
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... with whom he had an illegitimate child, Caroline.
Wordsworth returned to England in 1793 and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour that year, Wordsworth journeyed across the Salisbury Plain and to Tintern Abbey, both of which are subjects of later poems. By 1794, he was finally reunited with his sister Dorothy, and in 1775, he met the philosopher William Godwin and the poets Southey and Coleridge. By the end of that year, William and Dorothy went to Racedown Lodge, a place to which Coleridge would become a regular visitor in 1797. Eventually, the Wordsworth's mov ...
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