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- 6661: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... 500 dollars. He was nervous and unstable, and he began to drink. Despite his frequenting liquor, he could never hold it well. He would easily become ill from the alcohol. Allan angrily withdrew Poe from school, and a few months later Poe left home. For the next four years Poe struggled to earn a living as a writer. He returned to Mrs. Clemm's home and submitted stories to magazines. His ...
- 6662: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... following lines from "Beat! Beat! Drums! ," include parallel phrases, sentence structures and meaning: Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow! Make no parely - stop for no expostulation, Mind not the timid -mind not the weeper or prayer Mind not the old man beseeching the youngman. In nearly all of Emily Dickinson's poetry there is the use of quatrains of three iambic feet, that is four lines of poetry to a stanza ...
- 6663: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ... from Prudential motives, the power of Sulla being at that time paramount, he traveled for two years under pretense of his health. At Athens he met with Pomponius Atticus, whom he had formerly known at school, and attended the lectures of Antiochus, who, under the name of an Academic, taught the dogmatic doctrines of Plato and the Stoics. Though Cicero at first showed considerable dislike, for his philosophical views, he seems ...
- 6664: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... work in the naval dockyard at Chatman. It was here that Charles Dickens' earliest and clearest memories were formed (Mankowitz 9-14). Charles' education included being taught at home by his mother, attending a Dame School at Chatman for a short time, and Wellington Academy in London. He was further educated by reading widely in the British Museum (Huffam). In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so ...
- 6665: A Biography on Carl Sandburg
- ... His life was an interesting one. His parents immigrated to the US from Sweden. His parents moved to Galesburg, Illinois. He attended public schools. At the age of thirteen, he had to give up public school and go to work to help earn money for his family. First, he drove a milk truck. Next he worked in a barber shop Then he went on to change sets in theater, operated a ...
- 6666: Biography of Ogden Nash
- ... Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years, Nash was educated at several private schools. At these schools, he enjoyed writing his own comical and dramatic free verse poems. After graduating out of grammar school, Nash moved on to one of the best private high schools in the east: St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island. Moving on in his life, he enrolled at Harvard at the age of 18 ...
- 6667: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... on Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at Chateau de Miromesnil in France. He was a descendent of a very old French family. As a boy, Maupassant went to school at Yvetot in Normandy, and then attended Lycee at Rouen. During his childhood and youth in Normandy, he picked up a great deal of experiences that he later put to use in many of his ...
- 6668: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that Rivers cannot quench (Blair 231- 232). The only reference to religion is to pray the heavens reward her husband, hardly a Puritan prayer. "Anne Bradstreet loved Simon Bradstreet and her children and God with a troubled realization that she fell short of God's, 'Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heard'"(Blair 229). Anne ...
- 6669: Mark Twain 2
- ... He was of ambiguous emotions. He had dreaded his father, yet at the same time respected him. The onus of taking care of the family was now on Samuel and Orion s shoulders. He attended school and for additional cash delivered newspapers and aided storekeepers. His expertise was with Joseph Ament, editor of the Missouri Courier, where he was an apprentice. In the fall of 1850, Samuel s brother Orion purchased ...
- 6670: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- ... gas continues to flow from it, and is set on fire, when a passer-by drops a match on the ground causing a immense damage. In a later scene the children are trapped in the school, and as the teacher attempts to lead them to their homes, believing the birds have flow away, they turn a corner and are suddenly surrounded. The birds come together and strike, while the children run ...
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