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- 1211: Ernest Hemingway
- ... of suicide was repeated by two of Ernest's siblings, and later himself. When he was 18 he was put on a mentorship with the Kansas City Star. It is said that much of his writing style was learned there. Later in his life he wanted to be in the Army, but his eyesight was bad and the American Army rejected him. He than went to Italy to be an ambulance ... a correspondent that covered World War II. After the war Hemingway went to live in Havana, Cuba and then in Ketchum, Idaho. He developed an interest in bull fighting and used this them in his writing of his book Death in the Afternoon in 1932. Hemingway and Pauline were divorced in 1940. His third wife was Martha Gelhorn. This marriage only lasted for four years. In 1944 Hemingway married this fourth ... have a great skill which in a way counters there defect. Usually the book is resolved by this. This does not always stand. For example in The Sun Also Rises, Jake's great skills at writing do not solve the conflict Grace Under Pressure Grace under pressure is a very important trait of a code hero. The code hero can act as usual or better while stress or pressure is ...
- 1212: John Steinbeck
- ... an experience he generally disliked, but one bright spot in his high school carrer was his ninth grade English teacher, Miss Cupp. She admired the compositions he wrote and encouraged him to continue with his writing. Throughout high school, John spent most of his free time writing stories in his room. John graduated from HS in 1919 and then went to Stanford University. John wanted to study to be a writer, but his mother wanted him to be something practical, like a ... He studied literature, history, and classical Greek. He convinced university officials to let him learn human anatomy alongside the medical students. Dissecting cadavers would help him “know more about people”, he explained. Steinbeck’s creative writing teacher taught him to write stories that were “true.” She didn’t mean the events in the story had to have actually happened, but instead the story and characters must reflect real human feelings ...
- 1213: Thomas Paine
- ... a political philosopher and writer. He encouraged people to fight for American independence from Britain. He is one of the more creative figures of his period. Paine talked about American revolutionary ideas with his 1776 writing, Common Sense. In the writing, Paine made a point that Great Britain was trying to corrupt the American colonies and that they contributed nothing to America’s well being. Summary Paine published this 50-page story, Common Sense, on January ... right to represent them in the current government. Thomas believed there was no reason for the Colonies to stay dependent on England. He had an awesome way of persuading people to take action through his writing. Paine says that sooner or later independence from England must come, because America had lost touch with the mother country. All the arguments for separation of England are based on nothing more than the ...
- 1214: Economic Espionage
- ... agent recruitment is an intelligence collectors best source. This method provides a trusted member inside a company or organization who the collector cans task to provide classified information. An information collector's interest in recruiting personal is not limited to a high ranking personal in a company or organization. It is true that researchers, key business managers, and corporate executives are a good target for industrial spies, but support personal such as secretaries, computer operators, technicians, and maintenance personal are also targeted. The latter may behave the best access to competitive information, and their low pay may provide good ground for manipulation by intelligence ...
- 1215: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... to compose verse almost as soon as she could write it" (Friedman, 18). As a child, Shirley was interested in sports and literature. In 1930, a year before she attended Burlingame High School, Shirley began writing poetry and short stories. Jackson enrolled in the liberal arts program at the University of Rochester in 1934. But after periods of unhappiness and questioning the loyalty of her friends, she withdrew from the university. For the next year Shirley worked night and day on her writing. In doing so she established work habits, which she maintained for the rest of her life. After a year of becoming conscientious and disciplined writer, Jackson thought she better return to college for more schooling ... was raising four children while her husband went to work, she still found time to write. Sometimes when a story idea would come to her, she would bolt off to her typewriter. Instead of fighting writing, as other writers do, she found the opposite; that writing was relaxing. In 1949, the Hymans moved to Westport, Connecticut. As usual she worked hard. Six of her stories were published in various magazines ...
- 1216: George Orwell
- ... in Gregorian style 1. A few patriotic poems a. He is printed in local paper 2. A few nature poems C. His hatred for authority begins D. Very large negative effect on life. III. Non-writing years A. 1918-27 B. Worked as a policeman in Burma C. Wrote a few thoughts on paper but no real work completed IV. Major production years A.1930-45 1. Wrote almost all of ... Spanish Civil War “It can be indeed argued that socialism as such was always secondary, in his mind, to the struggle against fascism and imperialism and inequality,” (Williams 55). Into the 1940's Orwell’s writing became more and more political. He tried to make political writing into and are (Reily 1). His book “Animal Farm tried to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one (Atkins 47). Orwell had four things that he felt is why all writers including himself ...
- 1217: Stephen King
- ... cinematically. I write down everything I see. What I see, it seems like a movie to me (Beaham 17). During this year the biggest event that probably had the biggest impact on Stephen King s writing style was the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer ... writer on their hands. From then until he graduated with a bachelors degree in English from University of Maine at Orono in the Spring of 1970, King concentrated on rounding off the edges of his writing technique. One short story that best shows the type and technique of Stephen King s writing is The Body. The Body , which has been adapted into to a Hollywood movie, was first published in the collection of short stories called Different Seasons. The story is a tale of four twelve ...
- 1218: COMPUTER CRIME Hackers And Security Measures
- ... is true that computers and telecommunication networks have become a growing aspect of our society and of course of our lives. This type of technology is used to support unlawful as well as legal activities. Personal computers and especially the Internet consist of a collection of tools, which attract people from all social classes. People like housewives, workers and chief executives. Nowadays criminals are a group of people that are also ... and is connected to the Internet is a potential target. There are no exceptions in cyber world. The main reason that this happened is anyone can do it. Any person who is equipped with a personal computer and has some knowledge on computer hardware and software could become a computer criminal. 2) Briefly history of computer crime People think that computer crime is a fact that started around of 1980s that ... materialFinancial crimesTheft of money Hackers in cyber world 1) What is hacker? The term "hacker" of course has various meanings. Sometimes it implies a computer programmer who spends a lot of hours working on a personal computer, working on different types of coding and creating technological fixes and patches for existing software. This kind of activity is not illegal and is encourage by the employers. In a different sense, the ...
- 1219: Mark Twain
- ... little hope of survival. This was coincidentally the same night as the return of Halley’s Comet. The Clemenses were a superstitious family and believed that Halley’s Comet was a portent of good fortune. Writing as Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens would claim that Florida,Missouri “contained 100 people and I increased the population by one percent. It is more than the best man in history ever did for any ... with works both original and copied from other sources. This was acceptable in a society without copyrights. When the Journal gained success, Orion refused to print some of Samuel’s works. He, however took his writing elsewhere. He wrote for the Carpet-Bag and the Philadelphia American Courier, berating his old town and the Hannibal natives. He signed each work with the initials “S.L.C.” Orion left town for awhile ... typesetter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Clemens wrote about the sights of Philadelphia which he copied from a guidebook, but altered the descriptions into a style much more mature than in previous writings. Clemens’ well-known writing style had a loose rhythm of speech and he wrote as if he were telling an unbelievable story which he expected his listeners and readers to believe. He was a master of the “tall ...
- 1220: Virginia Woolf
- ... imaginary place where here audience can feel comfortable and open their minds to what she is saying. In this imaginary setting with imaginary people Woolf can live out and see the problems women faced in writing. Woolf also goes farther by breaking many of the rules of writing in her essay. She may do this to show that the standards can be broken, and to encourage more women to write. An example of this is in the very first line when Woolf writes ... 731)." And even if the women could make money it would be dispensed at the discretion of their husbands, because women were not allowed to own property. So what does money have to do with writing? Woolf believes that intellectual freedom depends on material things and poetry depends on intellectual freedom. She even quotes Sir Arthur Quiler-couch who wrote, "The poor poet has not in theses days, nor has ...
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