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Hitler
Number of Words: 1951 / Number of Pages: 8
... failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.
He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school
diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot
the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians
like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town
boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little
less critic ...
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Bill Gates: Biography
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... to
Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a
belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office
desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal
computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to
the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved
in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft, and plays an important
role in the technical development of new products. A significant portion of his
time is devoted to meeting with customers ...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Number of Words: 1830 / Number of Pages: 7
... and play chess, and
study such manly subjects as Latin, Greek, mathematics, and philosophy. I
devoured the books in my father's extensive law library and debated the fine
points of the law with his clerks. It was while reading my father's law books
that I first discovered the cruelty of the laws regarding women, and I resolved
to get scissors and snip out every unfair law. But my father stopped me,
explaining that only the legislature could change or remove them. This was the
key moment in my career as a women's rights reformer.
As I grew older, my intellectual interests and masculine activit ...
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Frank Lincoln Wright
Number of Words: 1425 / Number of Pages: 6
... job to job, dragging his family across the United
States. His parents divorced when Wright was still young. His mother Anna
(Lloyd-Jones) Wright, relied heavily on upon her many brothers sisters and
uncles, and was intellectually guided by his aunts and his mother.
Before her son was born, Anna Wright had decided that her son was gong
to be a great architect. Using Froebel's geometric blocks to entertain and
educate her son, Mrs. Wright must have struck genius her son possessed. Use of
the imagination was encouraged and Wright was given free run of the playroom
filled with paste, paper, and card ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1567 / Number of Pages: 6
... stayed for a
year. He did not have enough money to make ends meet, so he ran up extremely
large gambling debts to trying make more money. Then he could not afford to go
to school anymore. John Allan refused to pay off Poe's debts, and broke off his
engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster. Since Poe had no other means of support, he
enlisted in the army. By this time however, he had written and printed his
first book, Tammerlane, and Minor Poems (1829).2
After a few months though, John Allan and Poe were reconciled. Allan
arranged for Poe to be released from the army and enrolled him at West Point ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... incident occured, that was to occur many times
throughout Einstern's life; he had forgotten his key. A year later, in 1904 they
had a child, Hans Albert. In that same year, he recieved a job at the swiss
patent office.
In 1905, three of Einstein's 4 famous papers; "about a 'heuristical'
perspective about the creation and modulation of light, about the movement of in
still liquids mixed objects supported by the molecularkinetical theory of heat
and about the electrodynamics of moving objects". In autumn of 1922 Einstein
received the Nobel Prize for Physics, for his work on the photoelectric effec ...
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Joseph Stalin 2
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... In addition, he was given various commands and was appointed to the position of people’s commissar for nationalities. After proving himself at this position, he was assigned the position of commissar of workers’ and peasants’ inspection. He finally gained the power he desired most in 1922, when he became general secretary of the Central Committee. With this position Stalin was able to control appointments, set agendas, and transfer officials and increase his own power. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin used the current power he attained and crushed his opponents to become the dic ...
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Health
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... but never succeed in keeping them alive due to his different habits.
What made Edgar Allen Poe? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now associate as the father of modern diabolic fiction. (Internet source) The first of the tragedies to plague him would be the abandonment by his father. He would grow never knowing who his real father was. His father had left his family when Edgar was only an infant. The next misfortune would be the death of his mother when he was three. There was yet another factor that ...
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Roy Lichtenstein
Number of Words: 864 / Number of Pages: 4
... York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibitions where Roy was represented in the sixties was the Venice Biennale in 1966, 1968, and 1970. In 1967-1968 he had a retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, this was also shown throughout the world including Minneapolis. In 1969 he was given a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
His career as an artist ...
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Ernest Hemingway 5
Number of Words: 2220 / Number of Pages: 9
... dignity) out of these encounters” (Rovit 92). In advance, a character knows what is expected of him in the game of life, although he does not know what combination of challenges will be imposed on him at any one given time (91). Hemingway’s belief in the freedom of the individual to make responsible choices was paid for at the painful expense of having to constantly wage battle with the unpredictable future. Because a character does not know what will happen to him, he must endure whatever challenges are thrown upon him. This ability to react to a variety of differing challenges is o ...
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