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- 6421: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan 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 ...
- 6422: The Life of Claude Monet
- ... life. Enforcing this impression, Monet showed no interest in inheriting his father's wholesale grocery. The only subject which seemed to spark any interest in the child was painting. He developed a decent reputation in school for the caricatures he was fond of creating. By the age of fifteen, he was receiving commission for his work. It was at Le Havre that Monet met the painter Eugθne Boudin. While Boudin's ...
- 6423: 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 ...
- 6424: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... disciplinarians. His parents were no exception. In fact he spent much of his life trying to escape the "repressive code of behavior" (CLC, 177) that was pushed upon him as a child. After graduating high school in 1977 he chose not to go to college and instead became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he remained for seven months. His oppurtunity to break away came when he volunteered as ...
- 6425: 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 ...
- 6426: 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 ...
- 6427: 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 ...
- 6428: William Christopher Handy
- ... 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a school teacher and bandmaster. In 1893, during an economic depression, he formed a quartet to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. For several years afterward he drifted around the country working at different ...
- 6429: R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer
- ... he meet him at day camp when he was about 10. His first book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. Stine ...
- 6430: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer: Biography of R. L. Stine
- ... he meet him at day camp when he was about 10. His first book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. Stine ...
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