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The Works And Influence Of Christopher Marlowe
Number of Words: 2065 / Number of Pages: 8
... Marlowe (1564-
1593)� par. 2).
�After receiving his degree in 1587, he moved to London to begin
his career as a playwright. All of his plays were believed to be written
between 1587 and 1593. His works include Tamburlaine, parts one and two,
the Jew of Malta, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Queen
of Carthage, and the Massacre at Paris. He also wrote the great poems, Hero
and Leander and the Passionate Sherherd�(�Christopher Marlowe(1564- 1593)�
par. 3,4).
�In the plays that he wrote, he established blank verse as the
predominant form in English Drama�(�Marlowe Christopher�, E ...
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Ida B. Wells
Number of Words: 751 / Number of Pages: 3
... Both parents provided Ida with strong role models. They worked hard and held places of respect in the community as forward-looking people. James and Elizabeth (mother) Wells instilled their daughter a keen sense of duty to God, family, and community.
Ida’s background was strengthened when she became part owner, editor, and writer for a weekly paper, The Free Speech. This paper based in Memphis, Tennessee allowed Ida to learn, by research, the details of lynching. Her energetic campaign for truth and justice gave her a lot of attention to fuel her crusade. All these factors suppor ...
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David Livingstone
Number of Words: 3810 / Number of Pages: 14
... were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factory as a piecer to aid in the earnings of the family. He purchased Rudiments of Latin, which he used to help himself study that language at evening school. His hours at the factory were long, from 6 a.m. till 6 or 8 p.m. He attended evening school from ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... Cyrano believes himself ugly and unworthy, he falls in love. The recipient of this gift is his cousin, Roxane. He writes her many poems, but does not let her know. She tells him that she loves Christian, one of the Gascons of the Carbon de Castel Jaloux. Christian has the looks, but no creativity, and since Cyrano has the creativity and not the looks, he decides to love Roxane through Christian. He supplies Christian with the words to say and the letters to send to Roxane, and she never knows. Cyrano gets so caught up in the �game� that he forgets that it is Christian, and not him, who is winni ...
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The Life Of Edvard Munch
Number of Words: 1803 / Number of Pages: 7
... of Drawing. There Munch studied the old masters, attended courses in painting of the nude, and he learned the skills of freehand and modeling. He was instructed by Norway's leading and finest artist, (at that time) Christian Krohg.
Munch rented a studio apartment with six other young artists, in 1882. Their work was supervised by Munch's teacher Christian Krohg. In May of 1885, Munch was awarded a state grant which enabled him to study in Paris. Munch stayed in Paris for three weeks, then he spent the summer at Borre and returned to Oslo to begin three of his major art works. That was the ti ...
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Eric "Eazy-E" Wright
Number of Words: 604 / Number of Pages: 3
... In the early `90's, he joined other West Coast rappers,
including M.C. Hammer, Ice T, Tone-Loc, and Young MC, in a stop the violence
campaign led by the single "We're All In The Same Gang". With N.W.A, Eazy broke
down all the doors of mass exposure previously closed to rap music.
Attempts to rock the young musician's foundation were generally useless.
Arrests for performing N.W.A's biggest hit "F*** The Police", and other attempts
at censorship only helped pave the way for his success. By the time the group
had released its last album, Efil4zaggin, in 1991, they had sold more than six
million recor ...
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Marco Polo
Number of Words: 1846 / Number of Pages: 7
... fear everywhere by
their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure
of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as
the famous Silk Road. Eventually,the Mongols discovered that it was more
profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and
this policy too stimulated trade(Hull 23).
Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders
ventured, including the family of Marco Polo. The Polos had long-
established ties in the Levant and around the Black Sea: for example, they
owned property in onstantinople, and Marco's u ...
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Emily Dickinson: Life And Her Works
Number of Words: 1827 / Number of Pages: 7
... them out her window in a basket with a rope to
avoid actually seeing them face to face. She developed a reputation as a myth,
because she was almost never seen and when people did catch a glimpse of her she
was always wearing white. Emily Dickinson never got married but is thought to
have had a relationship with Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she met in the
spring of 1854 in Philadelphia. He was a famous preacher and was married. Many
scholars believe that he was the subject of her love poems. Emily probably only
saw Wadsworth an additional three times after their first encounter which was
only d ...
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Ray Bradbury
Number of Words: 1235 / Number of Pages: 5
... to choose his own reading
materials, he chose books by Edger Rice Burroughs and the comic book heroes
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant. When Bradbury was in Waukegan he
developed his interest in acting and Drama. After seeing a magician, known as
Blackstone, he became fascinated with magic also.
In 1932, his family moved to Tucson Arizona. With his talents he learned
in Waukegan (amateur magician) he got a job at the local radio station. "I was
on the radio every Saturday night reading comic strips to the kiddies and being
paid in free tickets, to the local cinema, where I saw 'The Mumm ...
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Euclid
Number of Words: 803 / Number of Pages: 3
... he learns." Another story relates that Ptolemy asked the mathematician if there was some easier way to learn geometry than by learning all the theorems. Euclid replied, "There is no royal road to geometry" and sent the king to study. Euclid's fame comes from his writings, especially his masterpiece Elements. This 13 volume work is a compilation of Greek mathematics and geometry.
It is unknown how much if any of the work included in Elements is Euclid's original work; many of the theorems found can be traced to previous thinkers including Euxodus, Thales, Hippocrates and Pythagoras. However, the format ...
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