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- 621: Biography of Karl Marx
- ... critiques other social ideas of the modern day. The final and fourth part discussed the differences between his political issues as apposed to those of the other oppositonal parties. This part ends in bold capital letters "WORKINGMEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" The days of November 1850 fall almost exactly in the middle of Marx's life and they represent, not only externally, an important turning point in his life's work ...
- 622: The Life of Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- ... enjoyable pastime for Gauss, his works in this area produced many concrete results. After Weber was forced to leave Gottingen due to a political dispute, Gauss's activity gradually began to decrease. He still produced letters in response to fellow scientists' discoveries ususally remarking that he had known the methods for years but had never felt the need to publish. Sometimes he seemed extremely pleased with advances made by other mathematicians ...
- 623: The Works of Sinclair Lewis
- ... with the American playwright Sidney Howard and did his own dramatization of It Can't Happen Here (1936). Lewis died near Rome on January 10, 1951. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his letters, was published posthumously in 1952. His reputation was international. Although he generally scoffed at prizes and refused the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for Arrowsmith, Lewis accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize in literature. He was the ...
- 624: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... Conroy desperately wants her to come back, or even see him. He says he did the worst thing he could do as a father by getting "a little bit famous." He has written over 100 letters, including a love letter in the book. Leah in Beach Music is based on her (Castro 1). Jack McCall is a travel writer, who goes to Rome after his wife's suicide, but returns to ...
- 625: J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
- ... alone, and who can blame him? If you were in his place, would you want hundreds (maybe thousands) of people tramping up your front steps to talk to you every year? How about a thousand letters from people who expect you to respond and then get angry when you don't? Even if every letter and every person just said "thanks for everything you gave me", I suspect it would get ...
- 626: Bill Gates
- ... not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates 15). While at Harvard, the cool thing to do was to ...
- 627: Benjamin Franklin
- ... felt that the colonies were capable of writing their own legislation. The colonies had their own parliaments and Franklin was confidant that these assemblies could properly legislate for the colony. In one of Franklin's letters he writes that possibly an extreme case would be best. “ Either Parliament could make all the laws for the colonies on it could make none, and he preferred to latter view.” (Aldrige 1965, page 195 ...
- 628: Alfred Nobel
- ... After working for Nobel for about two months she decided to return to Austria to marry Count Arthur on Suture. In spite of this Alfred Nobel and Bertha von Suttner remained friends and kept writing letters to each other for decades. Over the years Bertha von Suttner became increasingly critical of the arms race. She wrote a famous book, titled, "Lay Down Arms" and became a prominent figure in the peace ...
- 629: Thomas Jefferson
- ... leaving politics and returning to Monticello (Mclaughlin 376). Jefferson's daughter Martha said that in retirement her father never abandon a friend or principle. He and John Adams, their earlier political differences reconciled, wrote many letters. Jefferson frequently complained about the time consumed in maintaining his ever increasing correspondence but he could not resist an intellectual challenge or turn down an appeal for his opinion, advice, or help, and continued to ...
- 630: Abigail Adams
- ... lived. Soon they learned of the British losses and how greater they were, but Abigail knew someone named Dr. Warren who died. He helped John Quincy from the loss of his finger. Abigail wrote many letters to her husband and it became a way of life for her. She was always keeping John up to date with what's happening at the immediate point in time. Abigail sometimes called herself 'Mrs ...
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