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- 5891: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- ... money for his family. First, he drove a milk truck. Next he worked in a barber shop Then he went on to change sets in theater, operated a brick kiln, and worked as a carpenter, house 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 ...
- 5892: William Christopher Handy
- ... began his musical career as a cornet soloist and bandmaster with minstrel shows; one of his earislst engagements was with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Handy also founded a music publishing house and edited and wrote several books , including the autobiographical Father of the Blues (1941). Originally, the blues were a type of black folk song little known beyond the southern United States. Handy's songs brought ...
- 5893: Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass On an unknown date in 1817, on a slave plantation in Tuckahoe Maryland, Frederick August Washington Bailey was born. 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 ...
- 5894: Henry David Thoreau
- ... he lived at the Pond. He had frequent dinners with family and friends. Henry also had friends and the occasional curious neighbor visit him at his cabin. Henry explains, "I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." In late July of 1846, a little more than one year into Henry's excursion to Walden Pond, Henry needed to get his shoe repaired. He ...
- 5895: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... His writings are reflections of this life he received so long ago. He was born into a traditional Catholic family. His father was a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother was a socially eager house wife (Disc. Auth. 1-2). Pat was the first of seven children and 6 miscarriages. Family life was so bad that his sister once said, "The miscarriages were the lucky ones." Pat says he served ...
- 5896: J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
- ... be swamped with publicity, but that wouldn't have to stop him. He could have published under a different name, something which (though others think he has) I sincerely doubt. In the Salinger v. Random House case, it was made public that he has prepared two full-length manuscripts. It's a pity that they're not done. I would love to see them, but not unfinished. We'll get them ...
- 5897: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... Emily Dickinson returned home after receiving schooling to be with her family and never really had a job. Walt Whitman spent most of his time observing people and New York City. Dickinson rarely left her house and she didn't associate with many people other than her family. In this essay I will be comparing Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson's life differs greatly from the life of Walt ...
- 5898: Charles Darwin: His Life Story of Dicovery
- ... Robert Warren Darwin, a family doctor and of Susannah Wedgewood Darwin daughter of a porcelain manufacturer. His grandfather, infact, was the great English poet Erasmus Darwin. His early school training was at a small school house in Shrewsbury. After which his father put him into Edinburgh University in 1825 to 1827 for medical studies. Darwin showed no interest in being a physician after witnessing several major operations without anesthesia. He was ...
- 5899: Charles Darwin
- ... credit Alfred Lord Wallace) had the insight and boldness to conceive and develop a theory so controversial to his time and culture. Bibliography Clark, R.W. (1984). The Survial of Charles Darwin. New York: Random House Sproule, Anna (1990). Charles Darwin. Concord:Irwin Warburton, Lois (1992). Human Origins-Tracing Humanity's Evolution. San Diego:Lucent Books Howell, F.C. (1980). Early Man. Virginia:Time-Life Books Nouvelle, C (1885). The First ...
- 5900: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... the formative years of the women's movement. One result was that I learned to use my pen instead of my presence. A second result was that Susan Anthony spent so much time at our house that the children called her "Aunt Susan." After Henry passed the bar, we lived briefly in Boston before settling permanently at Seneca Falls, New York. From my home in the small town near the Canadian ...
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