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Socrates
Words: 2031 / Pages: 8 .... express his philosophy, spent his days in the marketplace of Athens, telling people of his ideas. His voice was heard, and he was soon declared to be the wisest of all men. ’ was skilled in the art of arguing. He developed a method by which he would win every debate. His favorite hobby was going to the marketplace and debating philosophical issues with other men in front of an audience. The result of these debates was that embarrassed the wise men in front of the crowd. This caused many to dislike him. After being named the wisest man, attempted to prove that this was not true. He debated with many men in the streets. These debates are some of hi .....
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Shakespeare
Words: 554 / Pages: 3 .... married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a farmer. He was thought to have left Stratford after he was caught poaching in the deer park of Sir Thomas Lucy. He was a local justice of the peace. and Anne Hathaway had a daughter in 1583 and twins- a boy and a girl- in 1585. The boy however, eventually did not live.
apparently arrived in London around 1588 and by 1592 had gained success as an actor and a playwright. Shortly after that, he secured the business of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton. The publication of 's two poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594) and some of his Sonnets (published 1609), established a reputatio .....
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Ansel Adams
Words: 1006 / Pages: 4 .... exhibition that took Ansel's interest. Ansel took his first photograph in 1916 at age 19, when he and his parents went on a trip to Yosemite National Park. He took his picture with a Kodak Box Brownie camera. His images were of the park, and nature, but his major interest were the High Sierra Mountains. From that time on, Ansel returned to Yosemite National Park every summer. While he was there in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club. The purpose of this club was to explore and protect the wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada. Ansel eventually worked in the park for four summers as the caretaker of the club's headquarters. While his time the .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words: 1027 / Pages: 4 .... died of fever when Hawthorne was only four. Shortly after his father’s death, his mother was forced to move her three children into her parent’s home and then into her brother’s home in Maine. Hawthorne’s childhood was not particularly abnormal, as many famous authors have claimed to have. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated after four years. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Contrary to his family’s expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother’s house to turn himself into a writer. Hawthorne wrote his mother, “I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s di .....
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T.S. Eliot
Words: 1974 / Pages: 8 .... The Hollow Men, was published when Eliot was experiencing extreme personal difficulty in his work and with his first wife’s poor health. Writing himself about an even earlier work, The Waste Land (1922), Eliot concluded that ‘some forms of illness are extremely favourable to religious illumination’. I have not had personal experience of this but I am aware that serious illness and death can often make people focus sharply on the meaning of life. This could be said of the circumstances surrounding the writing of The Hollow Men, even if the ‘illumination’ simply highlighted a very dark time in Eliot’s life. The overriding image of humankind .....
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Roald Dahl
Words: 568 / Pages: 3 .... school from seven years of age until he was nine. He went to St. Peter's from age nine to thirteen (1925-1929). His final school was Repton and Shell. He went there from age 13-20 (1929-1936). It may seem odd he Dahl went to the school until he was twenty, but you have to keep in mind this was an English school. Each day on the way to and from school, seven years old Dahl and his friends passed by a sweet shop. Unable to resist the lure of "Bootlace Liquorice" and "Gobstoppers"- the children would pile into the store and buy as much candy as they could with their allowance. It is memories like this that contribute to Dahl's work. This specific memory .....
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Sammy Davis Jr.
Words: 512 / Pages: 2 .... this major difference between most black artists and the famous white artists. Most black artists came on stage played some songs, joked at or to each other, and left. The white artists talked with the audience. It was as if the black artists were not fit to talk to the audience. Sammy changed this at a nightclub in Hollywood. He “touched the audience”. This got him a record deal with Decca.
When Sammy was a rising star, he was driving from Las Vegas to L.A. He had an accident that took away his left eye. This gave him publicity and boosted his career. After this, he converted to Judaism and started to refer to God as “The Cat Upstair .....
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John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
Words: 494 / Pages: 2 .... of
Canada." Yes, we can say that the first Prime Minister was very devoted to
Canada and her people, and helped direct Canada to become what it is now.
John A. Macdonald became well known for the way he treated people. He was kind
and courteous. And because of his humor and consideration of others, people
enjoyed being around the Prime Minister. He left a good impression on the people
of Canada because he cared for not only the English, but also the French and
Natives. One example is when he visited the Council House of the Six Nation
Indians near Brantford. Mr. Macdonald met more than thirty farmers and after
only thirty minutes of chattin .....
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Political Momentum
Words: 770 / Pages: 3 .... My answer is that the chances of this are slim to none, however, this answer is somewhat incomplete. Allow me to expand upon this by first, citing past evidence of questionable campaign fund raisers. Second, I will use the examples to explain WHY we need a reform. And finally, I will describe how the recent take off on this large issue has ensured its eventual resolution.
First, allow me to cite examples of corrupt campaign financing. The campaiging 'business' is not a cheap enterprise. The money that is required to publish and distribute phamplets, hire campaign workers, and buy airtime from the media is enourmous! It has always been a concern of c .....
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Rudyard Kipling
Words: 454 / Pages: 2 .... change in environment and the evil treatment he received, he suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. This played an important part in his literary imagination. His parents removed him from the Calvinistic foster home and placed him in a private school at the age of twelve. The English schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team.
Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he later presented in his stories and poems. In 1886 he published his first vol .....
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