Helen Keller
.... she could use the manual alphabet and lip reading to prove her intelligence. The manual alphabet is a system that contains 26 hand symbols, one for each letter of the alphabet. It is used to finger spell words. After a couple months of practice, she learned hundreds of new words. In the middle of July, just four months after Sullivan's arrival, Helen was able to write her very first letter to her mother. People around the world were so amazed by her accomplishments that her first biography was writte .....
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Hemingway
.... in Milan. It is there that he met and fell for a thirty year-old nurse called Agnes Hannah. To Ernest's disappointment, Agnes was not willing to embark in a relationship. Ernest, who had not yet turned twenty, who was a war hero, a journalist and a wounded soldier, was too young for beautiful Agnes . With the will to write fiction, he moved to Chicago where most of his work was refused. He lived by writing for the Toronto Star and working as a sparing partner for boxers. It was in Chicago that He .....
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Henri Matisse
.... significance of instinct and intuition on the construction of a work of art. Matisse did not merely see with his eyes. He let his eyes absorb what was around him and that is how he learned. His eyes were the brains behind his art and he put his hands to work in order to create the masterpieces. Like Louise Nevelson, Matisse let the energy force his feelings to become what they artistically were inclined to be. The unimaginable could always be imagined with him. He just had to simply "marinate" his .....
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Henrik Ibsen
.... around everyday realism or polemics, but rather converge on more psychological, existential problems which are expressed through symbols. The first of these dramas was The Wild Duck (1884), followed by Rosmersholm (1886) and The Lady from the Sea (1888). Hedda Gabler (1890) was the last work Ibsen wrote while still in exile . In July 1891, Ibsen decided to move back to Norway and settle in Christiania. The artist’s creative ambitions, introspection and defeats came to the fore during the last p .....
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Henry Adams
.... religion. The dynamo, to Adams, has become a symbol of the unknown, of the future without God and religion. This was Adams’s greatest uncertainty; going against all of his past and beliefs and moving on into the unpredictable future.
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Henry Charles Carey
.... of the man's life and career, and writings should first be examined.
The Life of Henry Carey
He was born in 1793 in Philadelphia. He was the son of a self-made Irish immigrant, Mathew Carey. His father, whom was a leader in early American economic thinking, emigrated from Ireland on account of the political upheaval during the time. Henry Carey was also self taught and in 1821 at the age of twenty-eight assumed ownership of his fathers printing press. Carey who was a largely self-educated .....
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Henry David Thoreau
.... worked for pay intermittently, he made relationships with many of the towns outcasts, he never married, he signed off from the First Parish Church rather than be taxed automatically to support it every year, and he lived alone in the woods for two years, in seclusion. His nearest neighbor was at least a mile away. While he was living independently in the woods, he thought of many new ideas for his literature. Thoreau even tried to encourage others to assert their individuality, each in his or her own way .....
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Henry Ford
.... success came expansion, and in 1910 he established another assembly plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Through interchangeable parts, standard manufacturing, and a division labor, the demand greatly increased for the Model T. It was at this time in 1913 that Ford introduced the assembly line and forever changed our economy, our industry, and our culture.
Ford’s concept of an assembly line sprang from the thought that a car could be produced much quicker if each person did one, single task. He .....
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Henry Ford
.... lived. Chiefly because he changed the entire tone of the era in which he lived, making his career a transitional period. We will begin with the world before Ford.
In the mid-latter part of the eighteen hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United States was still tending its wounds from the aftermath of the civil war. It was a time of rebuilding, reorganizing and a time to accept change. The country’s figureheads were also changing. When the most respected of men were generals, soldiers, presidents, an .....
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Henry Ford 2
.... where he began to develop and put together his first engine. He began putting together a one-cylinder engine and as soon as he got that working he moved on to building a two-cylinder engine. He began working on a horseless carriage. Upon completion of it he realized that it was too big to fit out of the doors of the shed. So without hesitation he picked up an axe and chopped out enough of the shed to get it out. He began driving his four-cylinder "car" around town and attracted the interest of a group .....
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Henry James And William Dean Howells
.... stage; he found no greater success there. (Matthiessen 15)
The period of James' life recognized as the final phase, the one which Matthiessen calls the "Major Phase", revolves around three novels with which James assured himself a place in American Literature. Released in 1902, The Wings of the Dove contrasts a rich young American with European fortune hunters that are ultimately shamed by the dying heroine's tragedy. A year later, "The Ambassadors, which James' called ‘the best, ‘al .....
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Henry T. Ford
.... out around the family farm in summer and in winter attended a one-room school. From the young age he was fascinating my moving mechanical things. Form the young age he was fascinated by watches and clocks. He went around the countryside doing repair work without pay, for him all mattered was to play with the machinery of the watch. From his personal experience on the farm he was fascinated my farm machines that reduced the drudgery of farm chores. We can notice there was a lot of a kid in him, and to g .....
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Herman Melville
.... but you will find him as far as he understands men and things both solid and profound, and of a docile and amiable disposition."
("Concerning Herman Melville" http://www.melville.org/others.html)
In that same year, scarlet fever left the boy with permanently weakened eyesight, but he attended Male High School. When the family import business collapsed in 1830, the family returned to Albany, where Herman enrolled briefly in Albany Academy. Allan Melvill died in 1832, leaving his family in a v .....
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Herman Melville 2
.... portrays in his writing is passive resistance. By Melville not changing his writing style to please society he is passively resisting. Melville portrayed this theme in his characters Bartleby and Billy Budd. Bartleby used passive resistance when he refused to do the work he was asked to do. The character Billy Budd also resisted when the crew wanted to have a mutiny against the master at arms, Claggart. This way of thinking is not restricted to just Herman Melville’s writing, it can be s .....
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Hieronymus Bosch
.... with booted legs. Bosch creates a juxtaposition of harsh, dark feelings painted in a smooth and almost transparent way.
The element of fantasy in his work gives it an inexhaustable fascination. Who knows what induced these dreamlike apocalyptic compositions. The Black Death?, the idea of the alluring and deceptive pleasures of sin?, or just the devil’s lock on human life? Whatever it was that inspired him, helped him inspire thousands throughout the history of art and into contemporary times .....
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