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Margaret Sanger
Number of Words: 5022 / Number of Pages: 19
... also recognized the need to shift political strategies in order to keep the movement alive. Unfortunately, misjudgments made by her in this area have left 's legacy open to criticism. In this paper, I would like to explore 's life and career as well as become aware of some of the missteps that she made and how they reflect on both.
was not born a crusader, she became one. A great deal of her early life contributed to the shaping of her views in regards to birth, death, and women. Born Margaret Louise Higgins on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York to Michael and Anne Higgins, she was the sixth ...
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Prophet Muhammad
Number of Words: 5285 / Number of Pages: 20
... time agreed upon. When three days later the merchant passed from the place of their meeting he found the Prophet (s) standing there to fulfill his part of the promise.
When Muhammad (s) was twenty-five years old, a rich merchant widow asked him to take a caravan of merchandise for trade to Syria. Soon after this trip, she proposed to Muhammad (s) through a relative for marriage. Muhammad (s) accepted after he had thought about the situation.
Some western writers who are not familiar with the social set-up of the pre-Islamic Arabs write that after marrying Khadijah r.a., Muhammad (s) living stand ...
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Jedediah Hotchkiss
Number of Words: 521 / Number of Pages: 2
... when the Confederate Generals stationed in Swoope received word that Sheridans troops were leaving Winchester head for Staunton. Confederate Generals Rosser and Early had to decide what to do. Knowing that there would be a fight on his hands Early withdrew to Waynesboro leaving General Rosser and a handful of men in Staunton. (Bowman, V1 178)
Early made his post on Florence Avenue in Waynesboro on March 2, 1865. Early's men (Whartons Division) stretched out from Florence Avenue to Pine Avenue. This is about where Waynesboro High School stands now. Soon after Sheridan arrived in Waynesboro and establi ...
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Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
Number of Words: 363 / Number of Pages: 2
... it's annual Tom Sawyer days. No mention is made that this was a slave holding community. Twain's early experiences here provided him with the material for his anti-racist novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" and "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". Hannibal is a benchmark for the American societys' views of Twain's writings. Tom Sawyer's antics are preferred over stories of slavery and racial strife. It further demonstrates an unwillingness, by design, to address racism past or present. We have a similar aversion to acknowledging the bloody origins of our "shared History" with the Philippi ...
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Biography Of Ogden Nash
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... was 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' ...
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Andy Warhol
Number of Words: 1053 / Number of Pages: 4
... at the surface of his works often meant seeing and understanding so much more about the society in which we live.
Warhol's Campbell's soup cans are arguably some of his most famous works. Warhol wanted us to look at the simple image of the can for what it represented to our culture. He challenged "old fashioned" critics to overcome their ideas of art as complex and incomprehensible by using simple, common images. Warhol's selection of the soup can may be the most important part of the work he did with them. He wanted to display his view of America and to him eating Campbell's soup represe ...
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Jean Toomer
Number of Words: 1042 / Number of Pages: 4
... crisis. Toomer writes in Wayward and Seeking, "I had an attitude towards myself that I was superior to wrong-doing and above criticism and reproach ... I seemed to induce, in the grownups, an attitude which made them keep their hands off me; keep, as it were, a respectable distance." Eugene and Nina and a new husband moved to New York in 1906; however, upon Nina's death in 1909, Nathan moved back to Washington and his grandparents.
When graduated from high school he began traveling. He studied at five places of higher education in a period of less than four years. At the University of Wisconsi ...
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Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... silversmith and a American Revolutionary Patriot.
He also made artificial teeth, surgical instruments, and engraved printing
plates. Paul also made printed money for Massachusetts Congress and he
designed the first official seal for the United colonies as well as the
seal which is used by Massachusetts. He established a gun powder mill at
Canton, Massachusetts.. The year of his most famous engraving was the year
of the Boston Massacre.
Paul got married to Sarah Orne in the summer of 1757(August 17,1757).
They had 8 lovely children. They were boys and girls. When she died in 1773,
Paul married Rac ...
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Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" And His Life
Number of Words: 967 / Number of Pages: 4
... where he saw many disturbing sights which probably had a hand in
shaping his character.
After extensive injuries from the war, Hemingway returned unhappily to
Oak Park. The impression left on him by his participation in the war had
greatly changed him. He began living at home again but refused to get a job,
even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he moved to
Chicago. Here he made a living writing for the Toronto Star and working as a
sparring partner for boxers. While he was in Chicago he met his first wife, the
young and innocent Elizabeth Hadley Richardson.
Soon the yo ...
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The Identity Of Thomas Pynchon
Number of Words: 1788 / Number of Pages: 7
... nicely as the ghostly moderator of
a tired world, leading his main character Oedipa Maas on a quest for
meaning while blindly groping for clues about a conspiratorial mail system
known only as the Trystero. Oedipa's quest echos the quest of everyone; she
wishes for an identity that makes some sense within the framework of her
world. Thomas Pynchon, by erasing himself from the public sphere, is
questing for identity in his own right through his writings, letting Mrs.
Maas do the searching for him.
Little is known about Pynchon's life, and no one who knows him seems to be
willing to add to the miniscu ...
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