Hedda Gabler
.... the woman with the more control. She also had an unhappy marriage because of Eilert’s work. Aunt Julia is different; she likes to help people, she raised George and took care Rina. As far as Berda is concerned, there is not much to say because she is the servant of the house and she just takes care of everybody and obeys to orders from her bosses. Hedda is a powerful woman, who on the surface appeared to be confined by a dress, imprisoned in man’s house, and smothered by a male-dominated society. Hedda was .....
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Hemmingway
.... 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 Hemingway met .....
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Henry James And William Dean H
.... 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, ‘all round' of .....
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Howard Hughes-A Flying Life
.... same year he got his first pilots license.
Howard had two careers that made him very successful in life. He started a company called Hughes Aircraft Company. The reason he started this was his love of aviation. In 1927 he started his career in acting. Some of his movies were “Hells
Angels” in 1930, “Scarface” in 1932, and “The Outlaw” in 1941.
Howard’s great achievements broke records. His world speed record of 352 mph, in 1935 ended in a crash. It took him several tries to get that speed. .....
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Edgar Allen Poe
.... own a magazine or paper of his own. He would come close twice but never succeed in keeping them alive due to his different habits.
What made Edgar Allen Poe? Through his lifetime many different misfortunes and disasters would strike him. All of these would shape him and his writing to what we now associate as the father of modern diabolic fiction. (Internet source) The first of the tragedies to plague him would be the abandonment by his father. He would grow never knowing who his real father was. Hi .....
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Hannibal
.... Second Punic War was a turning point in Roman history, with profound implications for the Republic. The most immediate and obvious effect was the acquisition of territory; in the space of fifty years Rome had acquired most of the western Mediterranean. In doing this, the Romans viewed the war with Hannibal, and Hannibal himself, in nearly mythic terms. Later Romans saw this as Rome's heroic age, a time when the villains were most villainous and the heroes most heroic. It was an age when “all Romans were v .....
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Henry Ford Essay
.... 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 applied this in hi .....
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History Of Mozart
.... Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first opera, La Finta Semplice, for Vienna, but intrigues prevented its performance, and it was first presented a year later at Salzburg. In 1769-70, Leopold and Wolfgang undertook a tour through Italy. This first Italian trip culminated in a new opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto, composed for Milan. In two further .....
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Henry Adams, Virgin And The Dy
.... 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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Ted Bundy
.... over their breakup, and to make matters worse Bundy learned the true about his "sister", that she was really his mother. This was in an addition to turning point in Bundy's behavior. "During this time in his life Bundy became possessed of a kind of icy resolve"(Duijndam.) Bundy went from a shy, sweet, and naive individual, to a dominant, focused, and revengeful person. Although, Stephanie and Bundy kept close contact after their breakup and they visited often. Around 1972 Ted's life seemed to emer .....
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The Life And Times Of Karl Mar
.... take him to London where he would live for the rest of his life.
Marx lived a hard life in London. If it had not been for the financial help from his good friend Engels, he would have not been able to continue his lifelong struggle.
Marx re-involved himself in political activity in the 1850's and 1860's with the revival of democratic activities. Marx became the core of the International Working Men's Association, for whom he wrote the first address, and made many resolutions and manifest .....
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The Life Of Chief Seattle
.... 60' x 900' feet easily the largest Indian made wooden structure in the region". (4) When settlers first came to America they were meet by Indians. Once the settlers were able to make it on there own, they no longer needed Indian help. Then they began to try to change the ways and beliefs of the Indian. One of the aspects that the settlers spent much time on trying to change of the Indians was their religion. Influenced by missionaries, Seattle decided to convert to Christianity and was later baptized in 18 .....
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The Time Period And People Of
.... nun would not take typical oaths and feed animals over people. For “She used to weep if she saw a mouse Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding.” The Monk was also not a typical Monk. He wore gold jewelry and had classy attire. The Host “saw his sleeves were garnished at the hand With fine gray fur, the finest in the land.” The three rioters in the Pardoner’s Tale were also condemned. They became greedy stopped and were willing to stop at nothing to .....
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Tim Paterson
.... to create the "the world's most widely used computer program."
By the spring of 1980, Paterson had created a program called QDOS.10 (stands for Quick and Dirty). After finding bugs in the program, he fixed the problem and named it QDOS.11. By the end of August 1980, the program was working well and being shipped. Not knowing the great potential of his new program, Paterson was not expecting much from it. "I was aghast," says Paterson, "When I heard that IBM was using it (QDOS.11) and not throwi .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... many months). Had he not become President, he would be remembered for his contributions in both of these fields.
In between these busy enterprises, he found time to ranch in the West, hunt on several continents, raise a family of six rambunctious children, read a remarkable number of books (often one a day), write more than thirty-five himself, and develop an extraordinary network of friends and contacts, which he maintained mostly by mail, writing well over 150,000 letters.
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