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- 1141: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid and to forget things. He became obsessed with ...
- 1142: Caesar
- ... place as dictator. Besides being a great leader, he was also an accomplished orator and writer. His two surviving works On the Gallic War and On the Civil War introduced personal war commentaries into our literature. To sum things up, Gaius Julius Caesar was a powerful leader in our history. Caesar struggled to make Rome a good place and he did a fine job at doing it. Julius Caesar will always ...
- 1143: Alexander the Great
- ... he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip. Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrior's career. His favorite literature, the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Aristotle, made him an amazing strategist. This later helped him immensely when faced with insurmountable odds. Aristotle ...
- 1144: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... Ralph Waldo." Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. 1998 ed. "Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Lkd. Columbia University Homepage, at "ILT Web." http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/acedemic/digitexts/emerson/bio_emerson.html Hodgins, Francis. ed. Adventures in American Literature. Orlando: Harcourt, 1989. Myerson, Joel. "Ralph Waldo Emerson." Grolier Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1993 ed.
- 1145: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... attend West Point and as I was waiting to get in I concentrated on my poetry. I sent some of my poems to a very prominent critic and he regarded them as good works of literature. After that, I had Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, published. I was only twenty-one and most of these poems had been written before I was fifteen. Finally I got into the Military Academy ...
- 1146: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid and to forget things. He became obsessed with ...
- 1147: Van Gogh
- ... school. That next year he was sent to The Hague to work for an uncle who was an art dealer, but van Gogh was unsuited for a business career. Actually, his early interests were in literature and religion. Very dissatisfied with the way people made money and imbued with a strong sense of mission, he worked for a while as a lay preacher among proverty-stricken miners. Van Gogh represented the ...
- 1148: Albert Einstein
- ... uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. He was fortunate to have an excellent family with which he held a strong relationship. Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. Also, he was very close with his younger sister, Maja, and they could often be ...
- 1149: The Autobiography of Malcom X
- ... early death, Malcolm X would regularly tell Alex Haley his life and thoughts, who ordered it and wrote it down. After "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Alex Haley completed his own contribution to Afro-American literature, "Roots". Historical and Political Setting In the years around 1960, the American Negroes became increasingly active in the struggle for civil rights. The liberal, intellectual Afro-American leaders such as Martin Luther King and their ...
- 1150: Rachel Carson
- ... done....Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.1 Rachel Louis Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, PA. Her childhood was characterized by a love of nature and literature. Her family said she was born with a seashell in her ear. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 with a degree in Marine Biology and from John Hopkins University in 1932 ...
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