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5821: Ernest Hemingway: ... Hemingway did not like his mother and when he grew up he would call her "the old bitch". He grew up in a somewhat religious environment. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School, which is where he realized his writing gift. Besides writing, other activities that he loved included swimming, and boxing. When he was18 years old he had an important decision to make he could either move ...

5822: Emma: ... pleased with her match-making skills, which turn out to be disastrous for her friend Harriet. Harriet Smith is a young girl of an unknown background, but she was a student at Mrs. GoddardТs School. Emma challenges herself to reform and refine Harriet. She becomes to aspire to see Harriet marry a person in a higher social station. Harriet is very pretty. She was "short, plump, and fair, with blue ...

5823: Emma: ... the now-wealthy Mr. Weston could not at that time provide for the boy. Without Miss Taylor as a companion, Emma adopts the orphan Harriet Smith as a protщgщ. Harriet lives at a nearby boarding school where she was raised, and knows nothing of her parents. Emma advises the innocent Harriet in virtually all things, including the people with whom she should interact. She suggests that Harriet not spend time with ...

5824: Emily Dickenson: ... had a greater impact and seriousness to an audience from the period Dickinson lived in. Dickinson was raised in a strict Calvinist household and received most of her education in her youth at a boarding school. In this short, witty piece Dickinson addresses two of the main obsessions of her generation: The pursuit of empirical knowledge through science, faith in an all-knowing, all-powerful Christian god and the debate on ...

5825: Eleven: ... she wanted to be as far away from eleven as possible. A birthday is a special time, particularly during youth. That day should be perfect but for Rachel, unfortunately, her birthday was devastated by this school experience. Everyone has an embarrassing moment from childhood that they want to forget aboutЧbeing yelled at for something that was not your fault or having a classmate you cannot stand. Who has not had ...

5826: Edgar Allen Poe: ... At the age of three, PoeТs mother gave him up to a prosperous merchant by the name of John Allan who took care of him until he began running into gambling problems at the school which he attended in Virginia. He only attended for one year due to these troubles. Poe than began to continue his studies in England and began to write. After Poe had finished his studies in ...

5827: Edgar Allen Poe: ... enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried, continued in not providing Poe with enough money. Poe decided to have himself kicked out of school. Cutting classes and disregarding orders were his solutions. He was court-martialed for neglect of duties in January, 1831, and left West Point the following month (Asselineau 411). "Poe was great in three different fields ...

5828: Edgar Allen Poe: ... wealthy merchant of tobacco, and his wife Frances in Richmond, VA but they never legally adopted him. Taken by the Allan family to England at the age of six, Poe was placed in a private school. In 1826 Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. where he acquired gambling debts that John Allan refused to pay. Eventually, Poe was forced to withdraw from the university, and Allan prevented his ...

5829: East Of Eden: ... Aron begins to hate Adam and Caleb begins to really love him. When the Trask family move to Salinas, Adam tries to have an iceberg lettuce traveling company. His idea fails and so everyone at school calls Aron Lettuce Head; Aron never forgave Adam. "Suddenly Aron broke down. СI want to go away. ItТs a dirty town.ТЕ СI donТt belong here. I wish we hadnТt ever come here ...

5830: Francios Rabelias: ... a monastery of the Franciscan order at Fontenay-le-Comte 1525 Passes to the Benedictine Order with the hope that he can pursue more freely his humanistic studies. 1530 September 17-- Rablelais registers at the school of medicine of the University of Montpellier. 1531 April 17 to June 24 gives lectures on Hippocrates and Galen. Towards the end of the years goes to Lyons. 1532 Publication of Pantagruel and the Pantagrueline ...

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