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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 575 / Number of Pages: 3
... got a chance to speak with her. In addition, Dickinson kept up a voluminous correspondence with friends, family, and one of her spiritual mentors, Minister Charles Wadsworth. Although it has long been believed that various correspondents, including Higginson and editor Samuel Bowles, served as literary guides, there is no evidence that they influenced her writing.
Now, biographers are increasingly recognizing the vital role of Dickinson’s sister-in-law Susan Dickinson in her writing. For more than 35 years the two women lives next door to each other, sharing mutual passions for literature, music, co ...
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Emily Dickinson 4
Number of Words: 2858 / Number of Pages: 11
... success-oriented, work-oriented citizen of expansionist America,” in Richard Sewall’s characterization. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, he soon became the leading lawyer in town. For thirty-seven years he was the treasurer of the college that his father helped establish in 1821. Besides this, Edward had accomplished much success in his life but biographers of Emily’s life believe that he paid for his public success through his emotional destitution. Emily’s father was a rigorous Calvinist and dominated the Dickinson family. His concept of life was rigid religious ...
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Burton Freund
Number of Words: 871 / Number of Pages: 4
... pieces did not receive the exposure or notoriety that they deserved. For instance, “Lynch No More” is the wood carving of a Negro man with an executioner's noose around his neck; the noose has been severed about six inches up the rope. When the piece was finished in 1948 Burton wanted to show it in a traveling exhibition, but the exhibition director would not allow it to be shown on the southern portion of the tour. Freund withdrew all of his work from the show. This sculpture (Lynch No More) was exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute in 1959 almost ten years later , needless to say it was not rec ...
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Dorothea Lange
Number of Words: 335 / Number of Pages: 2
... However, much conflict arose and in 1940
she was dismissed for the last time.
In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six months
photographing developing countries and Asia. Dorothea began having
reoccurring ulcers. She was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. When
she was in the Near East she caught malaria.
Ansel Adams described her as a difficult woman who was
opinionated, impatient, and willful. A woman who defied the social gender
expectations. Her last project was entitled, “Dorothea Lange Looks at the
American Country Woman.” ...
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Charlie Chaplin 3
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... Film Company, and Charlie was thus introduced
into the medium of film. His first film, in 1914, was aptly titled Making A
Living, and it was directed by Henry Lehrman. He starred in many of his
Keystones along side Mabel Normand, who also directed three of his films,
but it wasn't until Twenty Minutes of Love that he had a taste of directing
himself, and this quickly became the only way he worked.
His success was such that he was able to move from one company to
another, each time into a better deal. In 1915, after thirty-five films, he
moved to Essanay, and it was here he really found his ...
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Jimi Hendrix
Number of Words: 306 / Number of Pages: 2
... to America and toured with the monkeys. But
unfortunatley, this was not a good idea because both bands styles were TOTALLY
diffrerent. When Jimi returned to England, he joined up with "Band of Gypsies"
and recorded one album. On september 18, 1970, James Marshal Hendrix was
pronounced dead at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in Kennsington England. His cause
of death was: He took an offbrand of sleeping pills to get some rest, but they
were not his usual brand, and he overdosed, although he overdosed, he was really
killed by choking on his own vomit on the way to the hospital. ...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Number of Words: 1101 / Number of Pages: 5
... which, "The Land of Romance" received a gold badge of the St. Nicholas League and later was reprinted in Current Literature (April 1907). In 1912 "Renascence" one of Millays poems was anthologized in The Lyric Year and met with critical acclaim.
When Millay’s poems were published she gained literary recognition and earned a scholarship to Vassar. At Vassar she continued to write poetry and became involved in the theater. In 1922 one of her plays The Harp Weaver was awarded the Palitzer Prize. Millay also published a book of poems in 1922 called "A Few Figs from Thistles& ...
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Picasso - Life Stile
Number of Words: 1466 / Number of Pages: 6
... In order to better hone his prodigious abilities, Picasso attended the Academy in Barcelona for a brief period of time. He spent most of his early years painting in Paris, where he progressed through various periods - including a Blue period from 1900 to 1904 and a Rose period in 1904 - before creating the Cubist movement that lasted until the beginning of the First World War.
Picasso initiated Cubism at the age of twenty-six after he already had established himself as a successful painter. According to Souch‚re, Picasso led the evolution towards cubism in order to "escape the tyranny of the la ...
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Hannibal
Number of Words: 1021 / Number of Pages: 4
... way was a single General and his men. The way in which the Romans were unconsciously straying from “mos maiorum” to manipulate the course of events was disturbing. Though these actions were not entirely the “evil” work of Rome. from his earliest memories could recall nothing but hatred for Rome. ’s Father had instilled a horrifically self-destructive desire within to see the fall of Rome.
This desire manifested itself during The Second Punic War, which was the ultimate fight for supremacy in the Ancient World. The victor would have control over the entire Mediterranean Sea and all of the trade ro ...
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Accountants
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... use the reports to choose a company to invest in. Because a financial accountant is employed by an individual company, she is considered a private accountant. Another type of accountant is a tax accountant. A tax accountant prepares yearly tax returns for individual clients. The accountants have to use constant data such as rates of pay and other information to determine the proper amount of taxes to be paid. These accountants have to take a class once a year to catch up on yearly changes in tax laws and regulations. If a tax accountant has met state experience requirements, she may want to take exam ...
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