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- 10081: 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 ...
- 10082: 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 ...
- 10083: William Christopher Handy
- ... 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a school teacher and bandmaster. In 1893, during an economic depression, he formed a quartet to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. For several years afterward he drifted around the country working at different ...
- 10084: The Life of Richard Feynman
- ... nanotechnology and although his idea of billions of tiny factories operated by nanorobots has proved unfeasible because friction does not scale down as well as robots, he is the spiritual father of the nanotechnology and high-density information storage fields. Bibliography Gleick, James. 1992. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Pantheon Books. Schweber, S. 1994. QED and the Men who Made It. Princeton. Feynman, Richard. There's Plenty of ...
- 10085: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... 500 dollars. He was nervous and unstable, and he began to drink. Despite his frequenting liquor, he could never hold it well. He would easily become ill from the alcohol. Allan angrily withdrew Poe from school, and a few months later Poe left home. For the next four years Poe struggled to earn a living as a writer. He returned to Mrs. Clemm's home and submitted stories to magazines. His ...
- 10086: Albert Einstein
- ... Brian 1). Einstein had a very bad temper when he was young; he got mad and hit his sister Maja in the head with a garden hoe and cracked her skull. When he was in school, his teachers thought he was mentally retarded because he ignored whatever bored him and attacked anything he had interest in. Einstein was twenty-one years old when he got married. His marriage almost didn't ...
- 10087: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... orphaned in his early childhood and was raised by John Allan, a successful businessman of Richmond, Virginia. Taken by the Allan family to England at the age of six, Poe was placed in a private school. Upon returning to the United States in 1820, he continued to study in private schools. He attended the University of Virginia for a year, but in 1827 his foster father, displeased by the young man ...
- 10088: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... stayed for a year. He did not have enough money to make ends meet, so he ran up extremely large gambling debts to trying make more money. Then he could not afford to go to school anymore. John Allan refused to pay off Poe's debts, and broke off his engagement to Sarah Elmira Royster. Since Poe had no other means of support, he enlisted in the army. By this time ...
- 10089: Daniel Webster
- ... party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C. Calhoun argued that South Carolina had the right to nullify ...
- 10090: Charles Dickens
- ... in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish. He held the job only for a few months, but the misery of the experience remain with him all his life. 3 Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as ...
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