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- 1821: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left slightly ajar. This seclusion gave her a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in death (Whicher 26). Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, the New England mystic, by some. Her only contact to her few friends and correspondents was through a series of ...
- 1822: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... It was written in monthly installments. Dickens had become the most popular author in England by the time the fourth installment was done. This period is now known as Dickens' early period because of the interest he was gaining for his novels. During this period, he wrote Sketches by Boz, Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Oliver Twist (1838), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839), and The Old Curiosity ...
- 1823: Review of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
- ... due to the strive for truth and justice obtained by Franklin, the people were salvaged from the suppression of the unjust government. Since Franklin did not live to complete his autobiography, many facts were of interest for what they reveal of his plans for the rest of the book. This' book teaches to abide by the rules of history. History is full of frequently reoccuring events. If mistakes or mishaps have ...
- 1824: The Life and Work of Ronald Dahl
- ... a bitter lesson in injustice (Dahl, Boy 108-122). One bright spot during this stage of his schooling, however, were the Saturday visits by a teacher named Mrs. O'Connor who sparked Dahl's lifelong interest in literature when he was about thirteen (West 4). It was near that time, though, that Dahl graduated from St. Peter's and began his final stage of formal schooling at Repton, a reputable public ...
- 1825: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... serving as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance during the Spanish Civil War. Other stories of his, while not based as directly on events in his life, were still of subjects he took interest in and was quite knowledgeable about. Upon review of Hemingway's writings, it can be concluded that his works, on the whole, reflect the themes and attitudes of his own life, and tend to be ...
- 1826: The Life of Richard Feynman
- ... s Plenty of Room at the Bottom . In this lecture Feynman explored the ideas of miniaturization of information and machines, something that had received very little attention before that. He sparked a great deal of interest in the field and, made many very accurate predictions about the future of nanotechnology. He also offered two thousand dollar prizes, one for the first person able to create a microscope-readable book, shrunk 25 ...
- 1827: A Memorable Experience in Photography
- A Memorable Experience in Photography To experience photography, one must have a certain style of photographs to really appreciate or admire. Photographs are picturesque images and views that really catch the interest of the photographer. For me to experience and admire photography, it took me only one photographer to really appreciate the power it has his name is Robert Capa. Robert grew up in Hungary he experienced ...
- 1828: Charles Darwin
- ... of breeders could produce varieties as markedly different from the root stock as the varieties found in nature. Deliberate selection through breeding was obviously a much faster and "efficient" process than natural selection through differential rates of survival in the face of environmental pressures, but the end result would be essentially the same, the variety of a given species that was most adapted to a given environment would gradually replace the ...
- 1829: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- ... working on my book, The History of Woman Suffrage. After Henry's death in 1887, I spent increasing amounts of time in England with my daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch. This, in turn, helped spark my interest in the International Council of Women that formed in 1888. My speech there celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. In that same year, I also attempted to cast a ballot in a ...
- 1830: Albert Einstein
- ... 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 take place because Mileva, his fiance, thought he had an affair. Einstein decided to go to America to tell ...
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