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- 2531: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... 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 when he volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July ...
- 2532: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... that she was a truly dedicated writer. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10,1830 to a prominent family, her father Edward Dickinson was both a lawyer and the Treasurer of Amherst College. Emily's mother was Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily had one older brother, William Austin and a little sister, Lavinia. She was educated at the Amerherst Academy, the institute that her grandfather helped found. She also ...
- 2533: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- ... painter and dishwasher. When he was older, he joined the fight against the Spanish in the Spanish-American War. He spent a long eight months in Puerto Rico. After the war, he went to Lombard College. Afterwards , he went on to work as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party in Wisconsin, during 1907 through 1908. That was also the year he got married. He also wrote for the Leader, a ...
- 2534: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... it is presumed that she had access to the large Library there, and used it. Unlike most young women, Anne Bradstreet was well educated. At age 16 she married Simon Bradstreet, a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and steward of the Countess of Warwick. Two years later, the Bradstreets and Dudleys came to Massachusetts with John Winthrop and other prominent settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Anne's husband became a ...
- 2535: Stephen Bantu Biko
- ... he got expelled from Lovedale High School and his brother was arrested in a nationwide police crackdown on political activists. He ended up graduating in 1966 at a boarding school in Natal named St. Francis College. By then, his mind and character were those of a leader. He had a quick brain with huge mental force and ideas. He had the gift to cut through to the core of a problem ...
- 2536: William Mosby Is A Hero
- ... and he would burn down the town or take some much-needed supplies. Also one must be intelligent. An idiot doesn't make a good hero. The Confederate States Army educated Mosby. He had a college degree. He knew the southern terrain like the back of his hand. He would scout and study the area so he would always have the upper hand on his enemy. He would always check on ...
- 2537: Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
- ... of Youth? Until the Day We Meet Again Woman of Tokyo(1933) Dragnet Girl Passing Fancy A Mother Should be Loved(1934) Story of Floating Weeds An Innocent Maid(1935) Kagamishiji An Inn in Tokyo College Is a Nice Place(1936) The Only Son What Did the Lady Forget(1937) The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice(1939) Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family(1941) There Was a Father(1942 ...
- 2538: Charles Darwin: His Life Story of Dicovery
- ... for medical studies. Darwin showed no interest in being a physician after witnessing several major operations without anesthesia. He was then sent to be a pastor in the Church of England. He studied at Christ College at Cambridge University in 1828. He lost his interest in Holy order by the and became interested in something never before, Natural History. In 1831 he graduated from Cambridge with a B.A. He met ...
- 2539: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... from Germany. Theodor Jr. was a wealthy brewer and tavern owner until the Prohibition. Then he worked as the manager of the Springfield Zoo. Ted also had an older sister named Marnie. He went to college at Dartmouth and graduate school at Oxford. While at Dartmouth he got into a bit of trouble when the police arrested him for drinking. (This was during the Prohibition.) As punishment he was kicked off ...
- 2540: David Letterman
- ... feel toward Letterman, you have to look at some of the main points in his life. First of all, Dave was exactly an A student. He struggled all of his life through grade school to college. He also wasn't very popular. He stated, " I remember standing around. . . with the other losers, watching all the athletes play sports. All we could do is make fun and ridicule them." He was never ...
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