Biography Of Ogden Nash
.... he started to compose works of free verse.
Mindscape Complete Reference Library CD stated that 1931 was the
greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of
Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse:
"Hard Lines" and "Free Wheeling." Contemporary American Poets made an
interesting statement on these first two books by Nash: "These two books show
poetry of remarkable freedom of scansion (rhythm pattern) and uncoventional
feelings of thoughts." Con .....
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
.... As an adolescent he was much more interested in
sports than writing, especially rowing.
Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and
later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880
he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time,
Maupassant realized his weakness as a po .....
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The Life And Death Of 2Pac
.... incident is not a scene from a DeNiro/Pacino mobster movie. Nor is
it an episode from an Oliver Stone or Quentin Tarrantino film. In fact, it is
not a scene from any movie, although the story will likely wind up as a made-
for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of the life of
rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times during this escapade
while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby club on September 7th. He
later died of the wounds, after six days of int .....
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Abraham Lincoln
.... constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and
independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our
army and our navy . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the
heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book
Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during t .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
.... music includes his six Brandenburg Concertos, other
concertos for clavier and for violin, and four orchestral suites. Bach's
keyboard music for clavier and for organ is of equal importance and
includes the collection of 48 preludes and fugures known as THE WELL-
TEMPERED CLAVIER, the GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, and the FRENCH and ENGLISH
SUITES.
Of his organ music, the most imporant examples are the choral preludes. He
also wrote chamber music and songs. Two important works written in the
later years il .....
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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
.... went on to the
city of Chicago. There, he wrote for the two newspapers, the Daily News and the
Daybook. He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew. In
the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems.
Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public
loved these two ma .....
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Rosa Parks
.... Luther King, Jr. and JoAnn Robinson
looked out of their windows, and stood on street corners watching all of the
yellow buses drive by. There were hardly any black riders since Rosa Park's
arrest. It was a miracle. People stopped riding the buses all because of Rosa
Parks.
Soon, the police were informed of the people standing on the street corners
watching the buses drive by. The police watched the streets to make sure that
the black people were not bothering the other bus riders. They tried guarding
t .....
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The Life And Work Of Chaim Potok
.... Publication Society of
America 1965 to 1974. He is currently the chairman of the Publication Committee
at The Jewish Publications Society. Chaim Potok also served his people and
religion through all of his writings which are all in some way related to or
involve Judaism.
Now, to go in-depth into his writings. First, his novels. The first
novel Potok wrote was The Chosen, which won him the Edward Lewis Wallant award,
in 1969, here is a quotation about that book:
"So why did Potok's book make such a .....
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Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
.... Garrison who published it in his newspaper The Liberator. The
following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised by other
abolitionists in the free states, officials in So .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... Academy in
London. He was further educated by reading widely in the British Museum
(Huffam).
In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so they had to
move to London. This gave Charles opportunities to walk around the town with his
father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the area. This gave him
early inspiration that he would use later on in his life when he started to
write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of a boot-blacking factory, saw the conditions
that .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
.... his mother and rented a
room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His
mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys
Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total
of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria,
Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys
School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before
he was caught and se .....
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Stephen Bantu Biko
.... the best solution. "His mind was a tool to chisel
out sense and truth and order" (Woods 78). Biko was thoughtful, sensitive and
had a good sense of humor. He was motivated by the search for good and truth.
At the University of Natal Medicine in 1968, he became involved in the
multiracial National Union of South African Students. He was known by peers and
adults as a student leader This organization fought for black rights, except he
claimed that, "the white [were] doing all the talking and the bla .....
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Adolf Hitler
.... hair and blue eyes. Next, I
don’t think that you should judge anyone by the way they look or what they do;
that is very wrong. Hitler’s idea of one dominate race was a very bad one.
Adolf Hitler was born in an Austrian town known as Braunau am Inn.
Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler’s father was a Custom
official’s, and his mother was named Klara. Alois was illegitimate, first of all
he used his mother’s name, Schicklgruber until 1876, when he adopted the name
Hitler. Adolf’s father .....
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The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
.... art and ability, states in his
Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the
development of his heroic style.
By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style.
Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend
it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello
which in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classic-Romantic
cello sonata. In addition, his sonatas for violin and piano became the
corner .....
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
.... learning on his
own. He seemed to be influenced greatly by Brunetto Latini, who has a large
part in The Divine Comedy. His early writings attracted the attention of Guido
Cavalcanti, a popular Italian poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more
defined the two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the Guelphs,
as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle an .....
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