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- 2951: Romantic Sonnet
- ... whose lives, ideally, should be the most simple. Also included in this simplicity are the innocence of the children and the simplicity of the tone, metaphors, and images in the works. In Blake's "The School Boy," the character of the poem is a young boy whose joy in life should be rising on a summer morning when the birds are singing and when he, in his happiness, can sing with them. Here, there is simplicity in the pleasure of the child and also in the life of the child himself. The boy's biggest problem in his life is having to go to school and having to curb his "youthful spring," which Blake compares to the cutting of a plant's blossoms (l. 20). In this poem, the simplicity and the innocence are not only key factors, but they ...
- 2952: Charles Dickens: Biography
- ... lower class. His works are still widely read, taught, and performed in modern dramatizations. Dickens was born into a poor family. When he was 12 his father was imprisoned for debt. Dickens was removed from school and put to work in a blacking factory. He lived alone in a lodging house in North London. His father received inheritance after a few months and Charles finally returned to school, but his money troubles were not over. When he was 15 he went to work as a clerk in a law firm and later became a reporter. He was also a quick stenographer. In (1837 ...
- 2953: Microsoft The Company
- Microsoft: THE COMPANY The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a very successful corporation. Beginning with a revenue of sixteen thousand dollars, and three employees, Microsoft ... Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. Gates' father was a lawyer, and his mother was a teacher (Cusumano and Selby 23). Much of Gates' programming started while he was a thirteen year old, from Lakeside School (tripod 1). He learned BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction) programming with, then sophomore, Paul Allen. By 1973, Gates was a student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Allen had enrolled at the University of ...
- 2954: A Reflection Of Egypt In The 2
- ... merchant family. His mother, Fatimah Kahisha, the daughter of a shiekh from Al-Azhar, instilled in him a love of Egyptian history by taking him to monuments and museums as a boy. During his high school years he began to read the Arabic classics as well as those Western ones he could find in translation. He majored in philosophy at Cairo University and later became Minister of Waqf (Charitable Foundations). He ... Ahmad's sons. He is the only member of the family to participate in the 1919 revolution and is killed during its course. Fahmy is a romantic youth of eighteen, a student in the law school where many of the earliest manifestations of the 1919 revolution were a source of constant unrest. He has received a modern education, influenced by the West, which included political and philosophical literature. His religious faith ...
- 2955: Catcher in the Rye: Theme of the World Having An Outward Appearance
- ... Catcher in the Rye." The title of the book is a mystery all the way until chapter 21 when he sneaked back home to see Phoebe. When Phoebe fronted him about getting kicked out of school again saying "you don't like anything" Holden was forced to come up with something he would enjoy to be or do. After minutes of pondering Holden said "I'd just be the catcher in ... story Salinger used Holden as the catcher on the rye to protect or try to protect the innocents of kids. The biggest and most memorial of this protection is when he went to Phoebe elementary school to talk to her before he had to leave. Anyway he saw the word fuck you on the hall walls and "it drove him dam near crazy." He couldn't stand the idea that Phoebe ...
- 2956: Samuel Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
- ... my low-burnt fire." In this first paragraph, Coleridge is talking about winter and how everything is peaceful and there is "extreme silentness." In the second paragraph, Coleridge begins reminiscing about a certain day in school, when he was fairly young, "How oft, at school, with most believing mind…have I gazed upon the bars." At first, it appears he was very happy, "So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me with a wild pleasure…" But as this paragraph progresses ...
- 2957: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Symbolism
- ... Huck. Since Pap has neither quality, he does not want Huck to accelerate him in anyway. His father’s frantic activities show him as a person to always avoid and Huck now intentionally goes to school “to spite Pap”(Pg.27). “School is everything Pap is not, and everything he will never be.”(Mrs. Hunsaker) Huck had reached a point where he “was getting sort of used to the Widow’s ways, too, and they warn’t ...
- 2958: Joseph Hyden
- ... regarded as one of the greatest composers of the classical period. He is often called the father of both the symphony and the string quartet, and he founded what is known as the Viennese classical school, which consisted of himself, his friend, Wolfgang Mozart, and his pupil, Ludwig van Beethoven. During his lifetime, he produced a mind-boggling amount of music. He lived from the end of the baroque period to ... brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool. At age seven, young Joseph entered the choir school at St. Steven's Cathedral in Vienna, where he was to remain for the next nine years. During his early years, he became interested in composing music, but he had no formal training until his ...
- 2959: My Antiona
- ... committed suicide. This hurt the family tremendously. Antonia was given the responsibilities that her father had and growing up for her changed in a matter of seconds. She could not join her fellow classmates in school because she had to tend to the work around the house. She became the head of the house. After time, the Shimerdas had a new log home built for them by the neighbors. The family ... Antonia became closer and Jim begins to like Antonia more. But the feelings were not mutual. Then, Jim and Antonia started to go their separate ways. Jim started working extremely hard in his studies at school and ended up going to Harvard to finish his pre-law studies. Much time has passed, and when Jim returned to Black Hawk, he learned that Antonia had become pregnant and returned home from Denver ...
- 2960: To Kill A Mockingbird -x
- ... a friend named Dill try to invent ways to lure a mysterious neighbor, whom they have never seen, to come out of his house. Then when summer is over Scout begins her first year of school. She then recalls he hard times at school. Ultimately summer comes and Scout, Dill, and Jem continue their scheme for attempting to encounter Boo Radley, the mysterious neighbor. In the upcoming fall the children learn that their father, atticus, is being called a ...
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