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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 1934 / Number of Pages: 8
... Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current (Woodberry 20). At 15 Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe’s grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted to become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct" (Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at the professors. ...
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Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
Number of Words: 2350 / Number of Pages: 9
... and secretly tap out the popular tunes of the day (Peyser 21). One day his parents purchased a piano for Ira, the eldest, and as soon as it was moved in George sat down and began to play. The family was flabbergasted! They had no idea he was interested in music or where he learned how to play the piano (Adam 12:08).
George’s parents immediately sought a teacher for him. They found a lady named Ms. Green from the neighborhood who, for fifty cents an hour, taught him all of the scales and modes. He then moved on to Mr. Goldberg who, for one dollar and fifty cents an hour, had him progress to op ...
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Robert Edward Lee
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... was suposed to be the help that Lee needed
in the experance of commanding troops.
After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to
supervise the construction of Fort Carrol for nearly four years.
In 1852 the United States military academy at West Point became Lees
home when he was appointed superintendent. During his three year stint he
raised acidemic standards, lengthened the program from four to five years, and
improved facilities.
In 1859 in Arlington, Texas Lee was given command of Federal forces
which were there to make sure Mexicans did not invade Texas. T ...
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The Life And Death Of Tupac Amaru Shakur
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... considered
eastcoast. If you are from Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland,
Portland, Compton, Watts, Fresno, Long Beach or Sacramento you are
considered westcoast. Why people talk bad bout each other because of their
preference on where to live will never be defined. Just prejudice acts
among people. Tupac was raised in the city of New York before he had rape
charges against him. Then after that he was shot 6 times, somehow living.
After that happened he moved off to the westcoast and signed a deal with
Death Row Records. Suge Knight signed him hoping to make multi millions of
dollars o ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 527 / Number of Pages: 2
... theories forth in his book called, "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" or "The Origin of the Species" for short. After publication of Origin of Species, Darwin continued to write about botany, geology, biology and zoology until his death.
Darwin's work had a tremendous impact on religious thought. Many people strongly opposed the idea of evolution because it conflicted with their religious convictions. Other people understood the scientific foundation of it and realized it was weak and malformed. smartly avoide ...
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Biography Of Ogden Nash
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... the
greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of
Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse:
"Hard Lines" and "Free Wheeling." Contemporary American Poets made an
interesting statement on these first two books by Nash: "These two books show
poetry of remarkable freedom of scansion (rhythm pattern) and uncoventional
feelings of thoughts." Contemporary American Poets showed clearly that Nash
"paved" the way for authors of free verse with absolutely no pattern.
After working on other poetry books such as Happy Days (1933), The Bad
Parent's ...
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Viete
Number of Words: 436 / Number of Pages: 2
... notation in his book In artem analyticam isagoge (1591). He demonstrated the value of symbols by using plus + and minus - signs for operations, and letters to represent unknowns. He suggested using letters as symbols for quantities, both known and unknown. He used vowels for the unknowns and consonants for known quantities. The convention where letters near the beginning of the alphabet represent known quantities while letters near the end represent unknown quantities was introduced later by Descartes in La Gèometrie . This convention is used today, often without people realising that a convent ...
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Walt Disney
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... American people" (Bullock 49) . Disney was a true genius for innovation. He became one of the entertainment industry's most prominent and influential figures. "Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do."
At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do after he was done with school ...
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Number of Words: 323 / Number of Pages: 2
... few of her published works include, “Justice and Efficiency in Dispute Systems” in 1990, “Bargaining and the Ethic Process” 1989, and “Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds” in 1988.
Some of her numerous leadership positions include service as chair of the ACLU National Advisory Council, the Workplace Health Fund, and the Women’s Law and Policy Fellowship. In addition she serves on the Boards of Martin Luther King Jr., Center for Social Change, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Washington, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...
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Pompey The Great
Number of Words: 800 / Number of Pages: 3
... at Crassus
hands (71 B.C.). For his victory, Pompey celebrated his second triumph although
he still held public office. He got a spot in office by moving into the highest
office of all, the consulship with Crassus as his colleague (70 B.C.). Together
they overthrew Sulla's constitution by giving the plebian tribunes their former
powers and the knights partial control of the law courts.
In 67 B.C., the tribune Aulus Gabinius, by a bill gave extraordinary
military powers to Pompey. His objective was to deal with Piracy throughout the
Mediterranean. Pompey needed only three months to finish ...
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