Herman Melville
.... Ships for boston aboard the native vessel for the U.S. White-Jacket
was based upon this experience.
1846 Publishes typee.
1847 Publishes Omoo
1849 Feb. 16: His son, Malcom melvelle is born.
1850 Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg,
massachustettes.
1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born.
1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made a headline
"herman melville crazy".
1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.
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Autobiography On Ernest Hemingway
.... made famous by Hemingway himself.
In post-war years, Hemingway spent most of his time writing books. But,
when his first marriage failed, and produced a son, John, he had married
Pauline Pfeiffer, who had his next 2 children. Based in Paris, he had
travelled for skiing, bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had
become what most of his work was all about. Hemingway, started writing
short stories, among them was "Men Without Women" in 1927, and "A Farewell
to Arms" in 1929. This story (" .....
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John Dos Passos
.... January 14, 1896. His father, John Randalph Dos Passos, was a
prominent attorney and his mother, Lucy Addison Sprigg, a housewife and an
excellent mother. Because his parents were not officially married until in
1910, he was considered "illegitimate" for about 14 years; this theme of
alienation is found in many of his writings. Most of the time spent during
his childhood was with his mother, who travelled abundantly, and this was
the time where he grew closer to his mother and started to drift away from
th .....
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A Comparison Of Alfred Hitchcock And Edgar Allan Poe
.... suffers from
schizophrenia — he acts as both himself and his dead mother. Roderick
Usher appears strange from the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his
"cadaverousness of complexion" — however, he is not a murderer. He suffers
from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the
past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors
he had anticipated."
The way in which madness is projected in both stories is quite
similar as well. The short story and the .....
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The Life And Work Of Nemerov
.... to Harvard, where he received his
Bachelor of Arts degree. At the start of World War II, Nemerov became
attracted to the air force. However, like all poets, this attraction
gradually grew into terror at the reality of war ("Nemerov" 249). Nemerov
first served as a flying officer with the RAF Coastal Command, attacking
German ships over the North Sea. Then in 1944, he was transferred to the
Eighth United States Army Air Force, based in Lincolnshire. Later he
served in a unit of the Royal Canadian Air .....
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Shakespeare And His Plays
.... arrived in London about 1588 and by 1592 had
attained success as a playwright. The publication of Venus and Adonis, The
Rape of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in
the Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on
the 38 plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked by a number of
financially advantageous arrangements that permitted him to share in the
profits of his acting company, t .....
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Richard Wright
.... Jim Crow rules by which he had to live. In Black
Boy, Wright's autobiography, he recalls a familiar childhood event: "I
would feel hunger nudging my ribs, twisting my empty guts until they ached.
I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim."
In Black Boy, Wright used his own life to exemplify what qualities of
imagination and intellect are necessary of a southern African-American in
order to understand the meaning of his life in the United States. Black
Boy also reveals it's 'author hero' as a man co .....
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Abigail Adams
.... no fortune. Abigail's father often worked with his own hands, planting
corn and potatoes, gathering hay, sowing barley, or making sure that his
sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a
very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship.
Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she
learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it
to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richar .....
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Marilyn Monroe
.... sex symbol, where the cultural phenomena she creates,
instigates her immortal and legendary status. The first ever issue of
Playboy magazine features Marilyn Monroe as the covergirl. By decoding
meaning from this magazine cover, the visual and written text becomes a
communicator for both obvious and subtle meaning conveyed through her image.
Marilyn Monroe's image is communicated through signs and their codes. The
paradigm (her facial expression, gesture, body language, positioni .....
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The Divorce Of Michael Jackson And Lisa Marie Presley
.... of his time at the facility even though he
servers no major function in the day care process (which is another mystery
in itself).
Now another issue that should be raised due to all this hype is,
does America find this behavior wrong? If we look back over our past and
think back to when a person might actually be punished for such behavior.
Back in puritan times one might even be branded with a symbol for easy
recognition. Now your just acknowleged and forgotten, with no repercutions
of any kind. I .....
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Henry Ford: A Life In Brief
.... he finished his studies at the district school.
Against his father's will, Henry moved to Detroit, ten miles away.
In Detroit, Henry worked eleven hours a day at James Flower &
Brothers' Machine Shop for only $2.50 a week. As this was not enough to
pay for board and room, Henry got an evening job at Magill's Jewelry Shop
for $2 each week, at first only cleaning and winding the shop's large stock
of clocks. Soon though, he was repairing them also.
After three years in Detroit, and ceaseless pe .....
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Alfred Nobel
.... designed by Immanuel Nobel were simple
devices consisting of submerged wooden casks filled with gun powder. Anchored
below the surface of the Gulf of Finland they effectively deterred the British
Royal Navy from moving into firing range of St. Petersburg during the Crimean
war (1853-1856).
Immanuel Nobel was also a pioneer in arms manufacture and in designing steam
engines. Successful in his industrial and business ventures, Immanuel Nobel was
able, in 1842, to bring his family to St. Petersburg. Ther .....
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Hubert H. Humphrey
.... to the U.S. Senate that same year and gave him the
reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal. Humphrey had a good
Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson
administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents
during this term, Johnson was the White colored type President and Humphrey
was the President that went and got things done, the blue colored worker,
he was the guy that was willing to get his hands dirty. Humphrey later died
at his home i .....
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Malcolm X
.... An ideological split developed between Malcolm and the more
conservative Elijah Muhammad, and in 1963 Malcolm was suspended as a
minister of the Black Muslims. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he announced
(1964) that he had become an orthodox Muslim and founded the rival
Organization for Afro-American Unity. His travel in the Middle East and
Africa gave him a more optimistic view regarding potential brotherhood
between black and white Americans; he no longer preached racial separation,
but rather a sociali .....
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Charles Manson
.... who testified at his trial, testified to some very
incriminating admissions by Manson. Barbara Holt, a "Family" member, fled
the group before a raid. She later showed up as a prosecution witness, a
potential danger to Manson, so faithful members of the "Family" tried to
kill her with a hamburger laced with LSD. Before her testimony, another
"Family" member, Gary Hinman, who had also fled he group, was killed
because he had betrayed the "Family." As you can see, the punishment for
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