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- 10141: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... his best work. He did not shine in his other subjects. It was the pride in his literary work that put him in his real bent." Recalls his St. Paul Academy teacher. From that prestigious school he then traveled and began attendance in Princeton University. Not a promising student he was often late to his classes. His excuse was once "Sir-it's absurd to expect me to be on time ...
- 10142: Frank Lincoln Wright
- ... Jones family included education, religion, and nature. Wright's family spent many evenings listening to William Lincoln Wright read the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Blake outloud. Also his aunts Nell and Jane opened a school of their own pressing the philosophies of German educator, Froebel. Wright was brought up in a comfortable, but certainly not warm household. His father, William Carey Wright who worked as a preacher and a musician ...
- 10143: Emily Jane Bronte
- ... know about her comes from her sister, Charlotte, who is another well known author. From what is known, it would appear that Emily led an ordinary life of a nineteenth century female. She attended boarding school and learned domestic skills at home. In other ways her life was unusual and even eccentric, contributing to the originality of her great novel. Emily Jane Bront was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton ...
- 10144: Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
- ... Japan's sovereignty in Korea. That same year, in an action that earned Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize, he mediated the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Then, in 1907, he forced the San Francisco school board to rescind an order segregating Japanese schoolchildren in return for a Japanese curb on emigration of peasants and laborers to the United States. This was called the famous "Gentleman's Agreement." Roosevelt believed that ...
- 10145: The Work of Cormac McCarthy
- ... condition of the human and almost no vision of the subtler complexities of human feeling and thought. These deficiencies began to be evident in the early fiction but were to a degree camouflaged by the high elegance of the prose and the idiosyncratic originality of the fictional forms. In the first two books of the [Border] trilogy they have become more clearly visible, because the prose is no longer elegant and ...
- 10146: Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
- ... telling them that “We have to be there for the American people.”. This is a way of showing his loyalty to the American people. He is a loving father, and is currently putting Chelsea through school. He supports her in every way a father can. This shows the young person that he is a loving father and they can look up to him for that. Finally, everybody complains about our President ...
- 10147: Joan of Arc
- ... to surrender to the Burgundian soldiers who caught her and put her in prison where she was badly treated. She tried to escape two times. The second time Joan tried escaping by jumping from a high tower, which caused many injuries. Joan was later bought back by some English allies. During her trial in Rouen, Joan was accused of wearing men's clothes and doing the work of the devil. The ...
- 10148: Frederick Douglass
- ... expanded his view of the struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry, women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal peace. In 1846 he wrote to Garrison, "I cannot allow myself to be insensitive to the wrongs and sufferings of any part of the great family of man." Douglass would eventually split ...
- 10149: The Life and Works of Samual Clemens
- ... s father was John Marshall Clemens, a visionary lawyer and landowner from virginia and his mother was Jane Lampton Clemens. When Clemens was twelve his father passed away. After his fathers death Samual Clemens left school to find work, and boy did he find it. Before his father's death Clemens was apprenticed to his brother Orion, who ran the Missouri Courier, which was a country paper. In 1853 Clemens set ...
- 10150: Aristotle
- ... Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and was born in 348 B.C. He studied under another philopsopher Plato and later tutored Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court. In 335 B.C. he opened a school in the Athenian Lyceum. During the anti-macedonian agitation after Alexander's death Aristotle fled to Chalcis where he later died in 322 B.C. His extant writings, largely in the form of lecture notes ...
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