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- 6331: Rachel Carson
- ... the increased numbers of children suffering from leukemia around the year 1979, when state investigators discovered that the two municipal wells that supplied drinking water to certain neighborhoods were contaminated with industrial solvents. Harvard Medical Schools research showed a clear relationship between contaminated water and Woburns elevated leukemia rate. An audacious proposal by a young lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann to make the companies presumed responsible for the contamination pay ...
- 6332: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... challenge that the burdens of everyday slavery could not give. Learning to read and write was a challenge simply because the resources were not there. He used wit and good natured cunning to trick local school boys into teaching him the alphabet. If he had never sought knowledge, he would never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without ...
- 6333: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... Death is perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left ...
- 6334: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality. We slowly drove-He knew no haste And I had away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility- We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess-in the ring- We passed the fields of Gazing Grain- We passed the Setting Sun Or rather- He passed Us- The Dews drew quivering and chill- For only Gossamer, my ...
- 6335: Elie Wiesel
- ... He was a cultured man concerned about his community yet, he was not an emotional man. His parents were owners of a shop and his two oldest sisters worked for his parents. Elie was a school boy and interested in studying the Zohar the cabbalistic books, the secrets of Jewish mysticism(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe the Beadle, a poor barefoot of Signet(Wiesel 3). He was Elie ...
- 6336: 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 ...
- 6337: Isaac Newton And Albert Einstein
- ... his closest friend was a young man named Edmund Glaley. Isaac and Albert where both living in the 1600 are in this time period. King George was the king at this time. Einstein hated his school and all of the German studies. In 1894 Albert family left him alone in the Army and to finished his studies. At the age of only 15 he had all of his independence. The he ...
- 6338: 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 ...
- 6339: 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 ...
- 6340: 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 ...
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