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Emily Dickinson 2
Number of Words: 1365 / Number of Pages: 5
... friend of the family where she would get help in editing and publishing the poems. Lavinia’s friend, Mabel Loomis Todd and a friend of hers, Thomas Wentworth Higginson began to put a lot of
effort of getting the poems published. In the year 1890 they accomplished in getting 115 of Emily’s poems published. After their first success of publishing the poems they began to get more involved with Emily’s poems. Along with publishing the poems Mabel and Thomas began practicing the revision of the poems. When Emily wrote the poems some of the English written was incorrect and some of ...
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The Romanovs
Number of Words: 1770 / Number of Pages: 7
... a ruler of the country, even though there were successful female-emperors before. Katherine the Great is one of them.
Russians are very religious people. However, they also have faith in magicians. As a Russian citizen I have to admit that many Russians do believe in these people who supposedly have healing powers and can treat any disease with out surgical invasions. This faith is so strong that it can become a problem. Sometimes people chose magicians over the real physicians. Alexandra believed that one of these people, with powers like that, could help them. They invited a priest who was popular ...
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A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explination
Number of Words: 918 / Number of Pages: 4
... a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks in the first half of the 1900ís. In much of Hughes' poetry, a theme that runs throughout is that of a "dream deferred." The recurrence of a "dream deferred" in several Hughes poems, especially this one, paint a clear picture of the disappointment and dismay that blacks in America faced in Harlem. Furthermore, as the poem develops, so does the feeling behind "A Dream Deferred," growing more serious and angrier with each new line.
To understand Hughes' idea of the "dream deferred," one must have an understanding of the history o ...
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Leonhard Euler
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... 5 survived their infancy. He claimed that he made
some of his greatest discoveries while holding a baby on his arm with
other children playing round his feet.
The publication of many articles and his book Mechanica (1736-37), which
extensively presented Newtonian dynamics in the form of mathematical
analysis for the first time, started Euler on the way to major
mathematical work.
In 1741, at the invitation of Frederick the Great, Euler joined the
Berlin Academy of Science, where he remained for 25 years. Even while in
Berlin he received part of his salary from Russia and never ...
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Heinrich Schliemann
Number of Words: 4640 / Number of Pages: 17
... when it came to business dealings, and his shady methods pervaded both his life and his archaeology (Burg, 15-31). Schliemann had a habit of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be grossly untrue are his tales of being entertained by the American president Millard Fillmore and his wife in 1851, and his narrow escape from the San Francisco fire of that same year (Traill 9-13). More disturbing is when he applies these tactics to his archaeology. In December of 1981 Professor David Traill, a Latinist, co ...
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Biography Of Karl Marx
Number of Words: 940 / Number of Pages: 4
... and was “ the opium of the masses)
In October 1835 Marx matriculated at the University of Bonn. The courses he attended were exclusively in the humanities, in subjects such as Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. He participated in the usual student activities got involved in a fight and spent a day in jail for being drunk and disorderly.
Mark left the University and enrolled at the Berlin University to start a law degree. Here Marx joined a Hegelian club these clubs followed the teachings of a philosopher called Hegel. The club denounced religion particularly Christianity. ...
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William Bradford
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... this ensuing history will declare.
But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these, which now came upon them. For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the most were fain to flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelihood.
Yet these and many other sharper things which afterward befell them, were no other than th ...
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Nostradamus - The Man
Number of Words: 1083 / Number of Pages: 4
... A few years later Nostradamus's grandfather died and he went to Avignon to
finish his schooling. Whilst at Avignon he also believed as did Galileo
that the Earth was round and circled the sun.
Nostradamus used his ability to help people through harsh times and did not
even fear for his own life. In 1525 he received his Bachelor's degree for
Medicine and went to help the fight against the 'Black Death' that was
feared throughout the Renaissance period.
After traveling for almost four years helping the sufferers of the Plague,
he returned to Avignon and won fame for his eagerness for le ...
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Anne Boleyn
Number of Words: 375 / Number of Pages: 2
... this decision that she had no say in.
Anne's second love was the love of being queen. Being queen seems to be
one of her childhood dreams, which is understandable, because many girls
dream of being a princess or a queen when they get older. Anne's final and
strongest love was the love for her daughter. Elizabeth was the most
important thing in Anne's life, and she would have done anything that she
could for her daughter. For instance, she fought with Henry many times for
the sake of Elizabeth, and the most important is that she chose death so
that her daughter would have a better life.
Anne was a ...
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Oliver Cromwell
Number of Words: 4169 / Number of Pages: 16
... to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's Inn in London, where gentlemen could acquire a smattering of law. In 1620 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Bourchier, a merchant in London. They had five sons and four daughters. (Kathe, 1984)
Both his father and mother were Protestants who had profited from the destruction of the monasteries during the reign of King Henry VIII, and they probably ...
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