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- 751: Franz Kafka
- ... 139), the family In the course of the very first day, father laid out their overall financial circumstances and prospects to both the mother and the sister (148). The family prospers during Gregor s forced employment and then nearly perishes after Gregor s Metamorphosis. Instead of worrying about Gregor s physical status, they talk of financial status after their money machine has broken down. This kind of behavior is eventually seen ...
- 752: Einstein
- ... in a college in Switzerland. Even though he was enrolled in college, Einstein usually stayed in his room and did studies on his own. Einstein graduated from college in 1900 and from there looked for employment. Although it was hard to find, he finally got a job in the post in Bern, Switzerland. His duty there was to put applicants for patents in a clear form. This is probably where he ...
- 753: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... apart. Poe wrote, I ve heard you say. . . that you have no affection for me" (qtd. in Nilsson). Edgar moved out and while on the streets developed a problem with alcohol. Before long he obtained employment with a small newspaper and provided the printer with some of his early manuscripts. This resulted in a booklet entitled, Tamerlane and Other Poems. The main poem is a story about a warrior who returns ...
- 754: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... entitled, Poems. Poe was now in great difficulty. He went to New York, but could find no job there. Eventually he took refuge with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, in Baltimore. There he decided to seek employment and make his living by writing. Failing to get attention with his poems, he decided to start writing short stories. Poe competed in a contest for the best short story in 1831. The prize was ...
- 755: Charlie Chaplin
- ... him and hurled their money onto the stage. By the age of ten, Charles was a skilled singer, acrobat, juggler, pantomime, and comic improvisor. From the ages of twelve to fourteen, Charlie's places of employment included a barbershop, stationary store, doctor's office, glass factory and printing plant. Many average boys his age didn't even have a job. Charlie's big escape from poverty was through theatre, whereby the ...
- 756: Bach
- ... worked as an organist in churches, since that was the skill he had perfected the best from his young training. However, a master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a violinist in a court orchestra in Weimar. Although he did not remain there terribly long, he was able to make good money playing for the king. He soon ...
- 757: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian Dissident
- ... I, and his mother was a typist and stenographer. Aleksandr never knew his father, because he died in a hunting accident before Aleksandr was born. After his father died, the Soviet government only allowed menial employment to his mother, so his family lived in relative poverty. Other than that, Aleksandr's childhood was relatively normal. He was a member of the Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent to Boy Scouts, and later joined ...
- 758: Adolf Hitler
- ... control. One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex-soldiers including Hitler managed to hold them back. 3.The Nazi Party Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler stayed in the army. Hitler was assigned the job of going go to various meetings of groups which sprang up like mushrooms and to report on them. One day September 12, 1919 - a fateful ...
- 759: George Washington Carver
- ... Carvers Hybrid. Carvers many achievements made him easily promotable to high salary jobs but he refused a raise and he stayed with the 1500 dollar annual salary he started with during his first year of employment. Carver published a total of 44 books and received countless numbers of awards, metals, and honors. In 1940, the Carver Research Foundation was formed at Tuskegee. He volunteered almost all of his life savings to ...
- 760: Bartleby
- ... isolate Bartleby, becomes affected by it, so much so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning ...
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