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- 5881: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... was one of strict disciplinarians. His parents were no exception. In fact he spent much of his life trying to escape the "repressive code of behavior" (CLC, 177) that was pushed upon him as a child. After graduating high school in 1977 he chose not to go to college and instead became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he remained for seven months. His oppurtunity to break away came ...
- 5882: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... a teenager and making movies up until his death in 1980, while working on the 54th of his career (Sterrit 3). Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1889 in London, England. As a child his parents were very strict with him and they imposed severe and unusual punishments upon him, as what they considered to be discipline. One of these incidents scarred him for life. As punishment for arriving ...
- 5883: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- ... thought of someone stealing his ideas and thoughts. "I know why the caged bird beats his wing till its blood is red on the cruel bars" expresses rage the caged bird feels and the physical abuse the caged bird endures trying to escape. During this period in Dunbar's life, he met George Washington Carver in Dayton, James Whitcomb Riley in Indianapolis, and he became lifelong friends with Dr. H.A ...
- 5884: Frederick Douglass
- ... Frederick was raised in a house on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven, like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a young child he would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In 1836, Frederick had finally ...
- 5885: Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. He truly believed in his philosophy till his death. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 19, 1929, to Albert and Martin Luther King Sr. He was the second child in the family, with an older sister, and a younger brother coming later. As a boy, Martin was extremely smart, and could read before the age of six. He had already set academic standards for ...
- 5886: Marie Curie
- ... one for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and studying its chemical properties. Even Einstein once said of her, Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted. As a child she always wanted to be left alone to finish her work. But after she won the Nobel prize she could not concentrate on her work as much, as she was famous. Her laboratory was a ...
- 5887: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... I was born in Johnstown, New York, on the 12th of November, 1815. My father is the prominent attorney and judge Daniel Cady and my mother is Margaret Livingston Cady. I was born the seventh child and middle daughter. Although my mother gave birth to eleven children- five boys and six girls- six of her children died. Only one of my brothers survived to adulthood, and he died unexpectedly when he ...
- 5888: Albert Einstein
- ... It read in part: "What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice at the risk of pleasing no one." (Encyclopedia 513). Albert Einstein was smart as a child, but no one understood him, and he was punished for it. Albert Einstein discovered the theories of relativity, and motion as well as the atomic bomb. Einstein was one of the most important people in ...
- 5889: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Freud's friends and disciples, all the disorders Poe suffered from can be explained by the Oedipus Complex and the trauma he suffered when his mother died. The Oedipus Complex is best described as a child's unconscious desire for the exclusive love of the parent of the opposite sex. The desire includes jealousy toward the parent of the same sex and the unconscious wish for that parent's death. In ...
- 5890: Donatello
- ... made works of pure sculpture, including several works of bronze. The earliest and most important of these was the "Feast of Herod" (1423-1427). He also made two statuettes of Virtues and then three nude child angels (one which was stolen and is now in the Berlin museum). These statues prepared the way for the bronze statue of David, the first large scale, free-standing nude statue of the Renaissance. It ...
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