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- 7451: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt. Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death. Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom ...
- 7452: Book Report On Thomas Jefferson
- ... on New Year's Day, 1772. With the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1779, Jefferson formed the groundwork for abolition of entail and primogeniture, for the establishment of religious freedom, and not for the public school system. Jefferson was of course the author of the Declaration of Independence, and because he had set this document in motion, he waited out the Revolutionary War to see if the colonies would win. If ...
- 7453: Antony And Cleopatra
- ... to show their devotion to Caesar). Along with being introduced to Antony and Cleopatra's strange love affair, we are introduced to some interesting secondary characters. One of these characters is Enobarbus. Enobarbus is a high-ranking soldier in Antony's army who it seems is very close to his commander. We know this by the way Enobarbus is permitted to speak freely (at least in private) with Antony, and often ...
- 7454: Frank Sinatra
- ... singing performance in From Here to Eternity. He also won an Oscar award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1953 movie From Here to Eternity. He also appeared in classic films like, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Manchurian Candidate and Ocean's 11, which teamed him with the other members of the "Rat Pack," which included Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra recorded with the big ...
- 7455: Frank Sinatra
- ... then became a copy boy where he found a passion to strive for, journalism. However, the editor at the newspaper said, “copy boys don’t know enough to be reporters.” So, Sinatra went to secretarial school. He studied English, typing, and shorthand. The newspaper’s editor eventually promoted him to cub sports reporter After achieving his goal to be a journalist, Frank had another passion to strive for, singing. In his ...
- 7456: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... the Lloyd-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. His aunts Nell and Jane opened a school of their own, pressing the philosophies of the 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 ...
- 7457: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... the reader and explains the enigma in his literature. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. A small town close to Chicago where Hemingway’s parent’s were members of high society. His father, Clarence Edmunds Hemingway, was a busy doctor who enjoyed hunting and fishing. He took more pride in the animals he killed than in the patients he saved. Ernest’s mother, Grace, was ...
- 7458: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... for her achivements, her strugel and her vision of a United world. For someone who never held elective office, Eleanor Roosevelt wielded a great deal of political power. She wrote now laws and appointed no high officials, yet the self-knowledge and profound humility that invested her regard for every human being has made the story of her life a morality play that brightens the American memory. "There is no human ...
- 7459: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... Britannica 540). This was a magnificent feat for him, because Poe was only seventeen at the time while the normal age for attendance was nineteen (Quinn 130). For the first time, life had hit a high note and provided for him what seemed to be a path paved with gold. Upon entering college, Poe realized his path of gold was really a mountain of grief and disappointment. In no more time ...
- 7460: Dr. Spock
- ... The book has also been translated into 39 different languages. Not only is Spock known for being a great pediatrician and author, but he is known as a political activist as well. Spock was a high-profile political activist in the 1960’s. Spock came under fire from critics like Vice president Spiro Agnew in the 1960’s who branded him “The father of permissiveness” responsible for a generation of hippies ...
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