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- 2471: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... His mother was the sister of a close friend of Flaubert, one of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. She turned to Flaubert for advice on him. Flaubert began tutoring him on various subjects, mainly writing. Maupassant's association with Flaubert brought him into the French literary circles. Even though Maupassant was often a member of gatherings which included such famous writers such as Flaubert, Turgenev, Zola, and Daudet, he had little interest at the time for a career of writing for himself. As an adolescent he was much more interested in sports than writing, especially rowing. Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he entered the French civil service. He ...
- 2472: The Life of Anne Frank
- ... her, and her hopes for the future. When she filled up her original diary, Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of the family's helpers,brought her ledgers and loose sheets of paper to continue writing. She kept these in a briefcase that belonged to her father. In 1944, the Dutch government, which had been in exile in London for most of the occupation,broadcast a request over the radio for ... carry the family's valuables. After the residents were taken away, Miep and Bep went to the Annex, and attempted to salvage all that they could. They found Anne's papers, as well as other personal belongings of the residents, which they took away for safe-keeping. Miep put Anne's diary in her desk drawer, to await Anne's return. Anne Frank did not survive the Holocaust. Her father, Otto ...
- 2473: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... Advocate (editor) , Glee Club , and in the Class Committee. After he graduating from Harvard in 1880 , he married Alice Hathaway Lee of Boston. In the same year he entered Columbia University Law School. But historical writing and politics lured him away from a legal career. His yearning for public acknowledge plus the corrupt state of New York led him to join a local Republican Reform Club. In 1881 he was elected ... Territory. In 1886 he came back to New York. He ran for mayor when he came back.He was third. For the next three years he stayed out of public affairs, and attending to his personal affairs . In those three years he married Edith Kermit Carow and built a home near Oyster Bay, Long Island. He had been appointed to the U.S. Civil Service by President Harrison . His defeats in ...
- 2474: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... in "The Mountain Whippoorwill" (Griffith 13). In John Brown's Body, the content of poetry remains the same as in short stories. He was a historically brought up person who reflected his past in historical writing and poetry. The theme of Benet's poetry ranged widely. The most successful poem is the novel-length John Brown's Body, whose theme is American victory. Being paid for at such a high level, this poem had been well worth it's wait. He won a Pulitzer Prize for it and gave his personal version of history center stage (Magill 1: 170,174). Stephen Vincent Benet wrote books as well as poems, radio scripts, and plays. His editing and contributions to American literature and his family of Americans may ...
- 2475: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... been depicted as a leading figure in American thought and literature, or at least ranks up there with the very best. But there is so much more to Ralph Waldo Emerson when we consider the personal hardships that he had to endure during the course of his life and when we see the type of man that he becomes. He certainly was a man of inspiration who knew how to express himself by writing the best of poems and philosophical ideas with inspiration. To get an idea of how Ralph Waldo Emerson might have become such an inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can ...
- 2476: Andrew Jackson
- ... dying suddenly before his son's birth, left Andrew to grow up without a male parental figure. Living in the Crawfords gave young Andrew little rewards; he was given very little schooling of basic reading, writing, and figuring. So, how, in fact, does a man that receives less education than the average American at that time, not to mention the likes of John Adams or Thomas Jefferson, be, in the many ... formed the Democratic Party. With men such as Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun campaigning and propagandizing on his behalf, he found Campaign '28 to be an easy victory, despite vast accusations about his personal life from opponents that led to the saddest day in Andrew Jackson's life when Rachel, reacting to pamphlets about her alleged affair with Andrew, and other assorted gossip, grows ill and dies. This event ...
- 2477: Kurt Cobain
- ... Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer/songwriter of the band Nirvana, until April 5 1994 when he committed suicide. Troubled by depression, chronic stomach problems, and an addiction to heroin, his ailments in his personal life showed through in his music. His music evolved from the hard "punk" sound of their first album, to the intelligent "tell all" tales of his fourth and final album In Utero. Through his music ... to clean himself up in re-hab, to no avail(Wilson 11). I am using all of these resources to find out the common thread that ties together his depression, to his sarcasm in his writing, and if the sarcasm was his way of making fun of himself for feeling the way he did. I want to put all of these questions about his depression and the hidden meaning of his ...
- 2478: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- ... the characters around the land he loved and the experiences he encountered. He lived in Salians until 1919, when he left for Stanford University, he only enrolled in the courses that pleased him - literature, creative writing and majoring in Marine Biology. He left in 1925, without a degree. Even though he didn't graduate his books showed the results of his five years spent there. His books display a considerable reading ... up the despair of the early 1930's. The Joads experience: love, brotherhood, integrity, class fear, power, violence, and suspension, the same as every other migrant. Their conflict was a national epic, instead of a personal one ( George et al. 1013). The parable of the tortoise crossing the road represents the people of the 1930's, he is beaten by the sun, knocked around, and struggles, but probably reaches his destination ...
- 2479: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... his father's financial collapse and his tragic death only slightly more than a year later took its toll on Herman's emotions. He was to draw upon this memory two decades later in his writing of Pierre. In order to support the family, Herman took a position as an assistant clerk at a local bank, and his brothers Gansevoort and Allan took over their late father's fur business. Possibly ... house to write his first novel, Melville turned to the part of his South Seas adventure about which everyone was most curious: his stay among the cannibals. The story was his own, certainly, but in writing Typee, Melville established a habit that would follow throughout his career. Hi used his own experiences as the skeleton of the book and fleshed out the details with his own imagination. In Typee, he wrote ... universally recognized as both Melville's crowning achievement and a towering classic of American literature. The very thing that bothered so many people when it was published - the fact that it broke the rules of writing and did so with such gusto - is now seen as the source of its power. Today, writers who mix genres or who create unique voices and styles are admired. Thus Moby Dick is now ...
- 2480: Hayden Carruth
- ... is Hayden Carruth's most recent collection of works. Published in 1996, it reflects a dark, boozed washed view of the world throw the eyes of a 76- year-old man. His works reflect his personal experiences and his opinion on world events. Despite technical merit Carruth works have become depressing. Hayden Carruth is a child of the depression born in Vermont in 1921 where he lived for many tears. He now lives in upstate New York, where he taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University, until his recent retierment. He has published twenty-nine books, mostly of poetry but also a novel, four books of criticism, and anthologies as well. Four of his most recent books ...
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