Edna St. Vincent Millay
.... 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" in this volume, she described female sexuality in a way that gained her much attention, as she put fourth the idea that a women has every right to sexual pleasure and no obligation to fidelity.
Following her successes in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, Mill .....
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Eileen Gray
.... and there is storage places concealed in the walls of the stairs to add storage place. The façade of the house is free and white, while the plan of the house is open.
E-1027 at Menton (1926-29)
Further more, Eileen Gray proposed four problems that the great architects of the time, like Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe all thought about, but did not incorporate them into there work. Eileen proposed the problem of the windows. There were thr .....
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Eleanor Roosevelt
.... became more independent towards herself and work.
Eleanor Roosevelt became very involved in women issues, being that she also joined the newly organized Women’s division of the New York State Democratic party and moved swiftly into positions of leadership. Not only was she responsible among organizations and people, she later became her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s eyes and ears, dedicating her life to his purposes, and being a trusted and tireless reporter. One of the reasons she did become so he .....
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Eli Whitney
.... settled in Savannah after the war. When Whitney arrived in South Carolina, he found that the promised salary was going to be halved. He not only refused to take the position, but decided to give up teaching all together. Coming to his aid, Mrs. Greene invited him to her plantation where he could read law, and also help out the plantation manager, Phineas Miller. Miller, a few years older than Whitney, was a Yale alumnus and the fiancee of Mrs. Greene. Whitney accepted the offer.
Over time Whitney got .....
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Eliot Ness
.... eventually drove him to civic duty.
Young Eliot Ness attended the University of Chicago and earned a degree in business and law. When he graduated in 1925 he greatly upset those he loved by choosing a career in credit investigation rather that his planned path of business. During his short lived credit investigator career he studied criminology at night. Two years later Ness managed to be transferred to the Prohibition Bureau with some help from his brother in law. Here the staggering level of corr .....
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.... not want any of his children to marry. In 1846, the couple eloped and settled in Florence, Italy, where Elizabeth\'s health improved and she had a son, Robert Wideman Browning. Her father never spoke to her again. Elizabeth\'s Sonnets from the Portuguese, dedicated to her husband and written in secret before her marriage, was published in 1850. Critics generally consider the Sonnets one of the most widely known collections of love lyrics. Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in Florence on June 29, 1861.
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Elizabeth Bishop Roosters
.... in Brazil. Brazil (1967) was a travel book of poems about Brazil\'s surroundings. An Anthology of 20th Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) is exactly what it labels, Brazilian poetry. Geography III (1976) was her last collection of poems that earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bishop died from a cerebral aneurysm in Boston on October 6, 1979.
Due to Bishop\'s magnificent following of readers, her poems have survived over twenty years after her death. There are many poems that carry .....
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Elizabeth Blackwell
.... studied very hard. She read every book in her house and was the teacher\'s best pupil. She never got bored of learning or trying new things; and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.
For a long time the Blackwell\'s ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August .....
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Ellen Foster
.... the childish perception of life’s greatest tragedies. For example, Gibbons uses the simple diction and stream of consciousness as Ellen searches herself for the true person she is. Gibbons uses this to show the reader how Ellen is an average girl who enjoys all of the things normal children relish and to contrast the naive lucidity of the sentences to the depth of the conceptions which Ellen has such a simplistic way of explaining.
Gibbons’ and Ellen’s harrowing past is related in the novel .....
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Elvis
.... to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, "Memphis Recording Service-Make Your Own Records. Four Dollars for Two Songs." This sign would change his life forever.
II. Career
Elvis decided he was going to record some songs for his mother as a birthday gift. Upon doing this, he impressed the studio manager with his unique vocal style. He demonstrated outstanding range and influences of African American music. This experi .....
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Emily DIckinson
.... the two ( ). Emily’s letters to Susan have contained lines that have proved to be controversial when interpreted.
"Susie, will you indeed come home next Saturday, and be my own again, and kiss me like you used to?"- Emily Dickinson
Some historians describe Emily’s letters to Susan Gilbert as representative of the writing style during the Victorian era. Others, including Dickinson’s biographer Rebecca Patterson, saw the letters as evidence of Emily’s homosexuality (Sullivan, 1). It is .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... of parting, separation and loss. This is supported by the experiences she felt with Wadsworth and Otis P. Lord. Not with a club the heart is broken, nor with a stone; A whip so small you could not see it, I\'ve known This seems to be an actual account of the emotions she experienced during her relationship with Otis Lord. Individuality played a pervasive role in her life as a result of her bout with separation. Emily did not conform to society. She did not believe it was society\'s place to dictate to he .....
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Eminem
.... 23, 1999, Eminem released his huge album, The Slim Shady LP. After a few weeks, the album quickly went to number two on the Billboard charts. With this release, Eminem became a huge success and has sold almost 3 million copies so far. It spent 38 weeks on the Billboard charts. Once Eminem got going again, and was successful, Kim came running back with Hailie in her arms. She just wants his money and fame, and if I were he, she would be sitting on the doorstep, and not getting inside! However, he was .....
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Emperor Constantine I
.... was married at least twice and had four sons: Crispus, Constantine II, Constantius, and Constans.
Constantius, his father, was in charge of the Roman Province of Britannia. When Constantius died Constantine he was immediately proclaimed emperor by the army. However, it took many years of political struggle and actual civil war before he could consolidate his power. Constantine finally became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire in 323 CE when he defeated the eastern Emperor Licinius.
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Ernest Che Guevara
.... "Che" (Italian origin meaning chum or buddy), first experienced the depth of poverty and suffering of his fellows. In 1951, after taking his exams, he made a much longer journey. He visited southern Argentina, Chile, where he met Salvador Allende, and Peru, where he worked for several weeks in the San Pablo leprosarium. He then was in Colombia at the time of La Violencia, and Venezuela and Miami where he was arrested but soon released.
He returned home for his finals sure of only one t .....
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