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- 3571: Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
- ... taught his fathers trade in his early teens. While he was still a young man he got a great reputation as a designer and a elegant silverware maker. Paul went to the North Writing (Grammar) School. At the school he learned to read well enough to understand a book and also understand the newspaper. He learned to write reasonably well. Paul was 19 when his father died and the year was 1754. Paul Revere ...
- 3572: Maya Angelou 5
- ... family s just to get peanut butter, as a treat. Maya and Bailey move to San Francisco to rejoin with their mother. May gave birth to her son Guy, at age 17. When in high school, she received a two- year scholarship to study dance and drama at the California Labor School. Maya became the first black San Francisco streetcar conductor. She moved to Laurel Canyon in Hollywood, where she sang and raised her son. She didn t like the fame, so she moved to Washington, where ...
- 3573: Men And Women
- ... preparing their outward appearance than the men. All my sisters learned at a young age how to do their hair nicely and wear matching clothes. They wake up hours before they need to leave for school just so that they can prepare their hair and make-up. My sisters spend more money on their clothes than they do on anything else. I wasn't at all concerned with my clothes or hair until about sixth grade. I don't buy shoes until there are holes in the pair that I own and my dad still sometimes wears clothes that he wore in high school. It can be said that the Jones men are concerned with their outward appearance, but our concern doesn't stand in the way of an extra hours sleep every morning. If I have a bad ...
- 3574: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Theme of Nature In His Works
- ... his first publication, Nature, and two years after addressing Phi Beta Kappa Society with “The American Scholar,” Emerson addressed a class of six seniors about to enter the world of ministry. Known as the “Divinity School Address,” this lecture on a Sunday evening in July resulted in Emerson’s being banned from speaking at Harvard for the next thirty years. What was considered an attack on the Unitarian establishment, and formal historical Christianity as well, was an oration that filled the needed gap within the students; a gap never filled by the faculty at the Harvard Divinity School.3 Often referred to as New England Transcendentalism, this philosophy made famous by Emerson did not change American thought as a whole, but it did, however, and continues to change the lives of individual Americans ...
- 3575: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... the word Moloch is almost every line, which is a god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents offered their children to be burnt in sacrifice. Perhaps this is some sort of litany or prayer to this god, Ginsberg feels that society is offering their children, the outcasts, to be sacrificed. Part three begins like a peptalk or a get well card: "Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland ... breakthrough" (Shapiro, Page 86). Different than many of his other causes, Naomi Ginsberg was perhaps the only thing that Allen truly loved in the world. This poem really in fact is a Kaddish (a Jewish prayer recited by mourners). Even though Ginsberg may portray his mother in very vulgar terms he is still paying homage to her and expressing his sorrow at her death. "He lets the appalling story speak for ...
- 3576: Chances
- ... to her, and wouldn’t pass her by. He was shy, known to keep to himself, and never went with the crowd. At first she hardly noticed him. He was a speck in an overcrowded school. Until he casually bumped into her arm of books and assignments. With papers flying everywhere she tried to hurriedly recollect them with her self-consciousness glowing into the redness of her cheeks. He shined his ... deeper in love. She felt like she wanted him more than life itself, and it was evident that the agony of longing was tearing her apart. When she returned to her empty desolate domicile after school she dreamt of him. It was the way he put a smile on every girls’ frowning face. He was definitely a catch. He saw beauty where others only found ugly. She didn’t want to ...
- 3577: Hemingway's Soldier's Home: Hemingway's Personal Experiences
- ... changed him after the war was over. The short story “Soldier’s Home” is more like a biography of that time in Hemingway’s life than it is a short story. After graduation from high school, Ernest Hemingway joined the war in 1918. He was unable to be a soldier because he had bad vision in his left eye, so instead he became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. His ... going on, it was exiting in a way. When they come home there is nothing for them to do. They do not want to go find jobs and neither one of them goes back to school to get a higher education. Neither one seems to have any interest in anything, all they do is sit back and reflect about how things were while at war. They both come home after the ...
- 3578: Chronicle - Life And Times Of Sula And Nel
- ... her realize her selfness and look at things around her in a different light, eventually sowing the seeds that initiated the friendship between herself and Sula. The two girls met each other at Garfield Primary School after knowing each other at a distance for over five years. Nel s mother had told her that she could not interact with Sula because of Sula s mother sooty ways. The intense and sudden ... my Nel. The period in history and the mentality of the people in their immediate surroundings played an impressive part in the formulation of the friendship between Sula and Nel. When they first met at school, it was as if they were always destined to be friends. Each one complimented the other and it was as if they were two halves of one whole. Like many things in life, they each ...
- 3579: The Life and Work of Nemerov
- ... was born on March 1, 1920, in New York City. Until he moved to Vermont in 1948, New York influenced most of his poems. Nemerov's wealthy and culturally refined parents sent him to Fieldston School. At this private school, Nemerov was an impeccable student and a strong athlete. After graduating in 1937, he went to Harvard, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. At the start of World War II, Nemerov became attracted ...
- 3580: Bill Gates: Biography
- ... up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13. In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's ...
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