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- 10021: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... work in the naval dockyard at Chatman. It was here that Charles Dickens' earliest and clearest memories were formed (Mankowitz 9-14). Charles' education included being taught at home by his mother, attending a Dame School at Chatman for a short time, and Wellington Academy in London. He was further educated by reading widely in the British Museum (Huffam). In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so ...
- 10022: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- ... His life was an interesting one. His parents immigrated to the US from Sweden. His parents moved to Galesburg, Illinois. He attended public schools. At the age of thirteen, he had to give up public school and go to work to help earn 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 ...
- 10023: The Work of Poet and Philosoher Archibald Lampman
- ... dreams", he is suggesting that the imagination that shapes our lives has gone awry. The city is a projection fo current impulises (to that time). "Its roofs and iron towers have grown/None knowth how high within the night, shrowed in darkness, this shows death fulmost grasp on the city and its former hosts. The tower, mentioned three times in the poem, is its most preminent symbol. As an image of ...
- 10024: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... Instead, Bradstreet uses the personal loss to reconcile it with her belief in the wisdom of God's will. There are two homes referred to in the poem, "my dwelling place," and the "house on high erect/Fram'd by that mighty Architect." In the poem, Bradstreet states that both homes are God's. The first five stanzas of the poem relate the pleasant objects--a trunk, a chest, a table ...
- 10025: Alfred Tennyson and His Work
- ... appreciated perhaps for the sheer beauty of his writing, his descriptions of the natural world and of the landscape-most often the Lincolnshire countryside which he grew up in: Calm and deep peace on this high wold, And on these dews that drench the furze, And all the silvery gossamers That twinkle into green and gold (Culler, A. Dwight, pg. 39) The public' side of Tennyson's work is now valued ...
- 10026: Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... background of war, made possible the rise of a military dictator. Since childhood, Napoleon was taught stratagies and tactics to help him succeed through battles. At the age of fifteen, he entered the advance military school, the Ecole Militaire in Paris. Napoleon was promoted to a general at the age of twenty four, where he was put in charge of the Italian campaigns. After conquering most of the Italian Penninsula, Napoleon ...
- 10027: Lyndon Johnson
- ... mark in history. If it were not for him, many civil rights would not exist. He added on two whole cabinet departments and appointed two of the first Negro government officials. These accomplishments kept him high on the list. Many people would consider him last in foreign affairs because the people of the country did not always agree with his involvements in Vietnam. This most likely brought his rating down. References ...
- 10028: Ernesto Guevara
- ... influenced by the war and refugees. He began to hate military politicians, the U.S. dollar, and parliamentary democracy. Ernesto's parents were both anti Franco activists. In Buenos Aires, Mr. Guevara went to medical school. He graduated in l953. After several years, Ernesto went to Guatemala writing articles on the Inca and Myan ruins. During his stay in Guatemala, he had the chance to become a government medical personnel. He ...
- 10029: Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
- ... it had already produced a rash there anyways. So I joined the marines and fought in the Veit Nam war 42 regiment. I was a mechanical engineer and after years of study I developed a high intensity materializing lazer death ray beam gun. they did not put the weapon into use though. There was a glitch in it. You see, it took fourteen pounds of crack, in order for it to ...
- 10030: Abraham Lincoln: Biography
- ... Lincoln rose to greatness from a humble beginning. Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky, Lincoln spent most of his childhood working on the family farm. He had less than a year of school but managed to educate himself by studying and reading books on his own. He believed that slavery and democracy were fundamentally incompatible. In an 1858 speech, he said: What constitutes the bulwark of our own ...
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