.... to school. When he was twelve, he was taken out of school and sent to work in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish for a mere six shillings per week, paying for part of the debt of the family. This job lasted only a few months, but for Dickens, it felt like an eternity. Until he was fifteen, he attended school off and on, and then dropped out. In 1934, after studying shorthand for 18 months, Dickens got a job as a newspaper reporter for the Evening Chronicle. Two years later, Dickens had his first work published named Sketches by Boz, which consisted of his works from the Evening Chronicle and Monthly Magazine. The 24 ye .....

.... and a telephone "blue box", getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first "killing" when the Byte Shop in Mountain View bought their first fifty fully assembled computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo. Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing the computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a friend, Wozniak, built a personel computer called the Apple. The Apple changed people's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscr .....

.... one of the leaders of the Romantic movement. Year's later, he turned all his attention to writing vivid historical novels. His best known novels are The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. However, He became famous not for his novels, but for his plays. Having been regarded as the most important playwright, one of the most prolific writers ever, and the most famous novelist in France, Dumas soon found his luck failing him. He made a fortune and quickly lost it due to his lavish life-style, and generosity. His reputation became tarnished because he often collaborated with people who supplied ideas and minor works, to which Dumas gave his .....

.... the church. Franklin progressed quickly and was transferred to a school for writing and arithmetic. Due to his progress in writing but failure in arithmetic, Franklin was withdrawn and engaged in his father's business as a tallow chandler and soap boiler. Disliking the business and loving the nature of the sea, Franklin spent his leisure time in association with it, on the contrary to his father's wishes. His leadership among the boys on boats was a foretelling of his future progress and his great sociability. The deaths of Franklin's parents has left him with positive memories and values , instilled by them. They were greatly reputed by the communi .....

.... sun and moon are gods, as is the general belief of all of mankind?" (57). The fact that Socrates did not publicly speak about the gods attributed to the fact that the charge was heresy. Socrates maintains that he is not like other philosohers. He is a free-thinker, and his beliefs are those of private and intimate thoughts of Gods. Socrates also states that he is not a teacher, however he was not at all happy with the analogy, but took it as a compliment and used it in his defense. He used these accusations to his advantage by saying that he never charged charged anyone for believing or listening to them. The combination of these arguments should .....

.... well that Mozart ran out into the adjacent room and commented to his friends, “keep an eye on this one. Some day, he will give the world something to talk about.� He was supposed to stay for some more instruction from Mozart, but unfortunately his mothers sudden ill health prompted his return to Germany. By the time he returned to Vienna in 1792, Mozart had already passed away. Beethoven soon earned a good living being a musician. He completed his first symphony in 1800, and many other piano, cello, and violin sonatas. Beethoven was Vienna’s first successful “freelance� musician. Instead of depending on the support of the aristo .....

.... He took part in an expedition to Colombia in 1510, and three years later, he accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in a journey that ended in the discovery of the Pacific Ocean. From 1519 to 1523 he served as mayor of the town of Panama. In 1523, hearing of a vast and wealthy Indian empire to the south, Pizarro enlisted the help of two friends to form an expedition to explore and conquer the land. A soldier named Diego de Almagro provided the equipment, and the vicar of Panama, Hernando de Luque, furnished the funds. A first expedition resulted in disaster after two years of suffering and hardship. When a second expedition in 1526 fared .....

.... in the mind of the characters. In “The Tell-Tale Heart� the narrator is compelled to kill and then is forced to confess because of his conscience. Poe also made use of the idea that if you destroy one part of yourself, then you will wholly be destroyed. In “William Wilson� the hero, by killing his conscience (in the story it is his double), destroys himself. In “The Cask of the Amontillado� the reason for murder is revenge. The Critical Survey of Short Fiction states that some of Poe’s stories deal with bewitching female characters (Magill 2103-2109). He titles the stories with the women’s names in order to stress the power of .....

.... tragic events happened to Picasso during the month of January 1939. On January 13, Picasso's mother died. On the 26th, Franco's army completed its victory over the Spanish republic and set up its fascist regime. These two events had a profound effect on Picasso. He thereafter openly expressed his negative feelings towards Franco's regime and used his paintings, especially his great mural Guernica to "clearly express [his] abhorrence of the military caste which", he believed, had "sunk Spain [into] an ocean of pain and death� (Finke 52). When the German air force bombed Guernica on April 36, 1937, Picasso was so moved by this tragedy that in jus .....

.... Another reason why his hypothesis was not recognized was because of the fact that his work was published in obscure journals and maybe because he was very isolated from the mainstream of chemistry done in his time. Avogadro's work was recognized nearly fifty years after he had made his hypothesis. Two years after his death, his colleague, Cannizzaro, showed how the use of Avogadro's number could solve many of the problems in chemistry. This time Avogadro's paper was looked at more carefully over a wider and more distinguished group of scientists, thus his work was finally recognized. Avogadro's work helped other scientists to solve more problems and .....