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William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
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.... an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, with ancestry from the French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish sides, Williams had an interesting mix of culture from birth (Bloom 4338). As he grew older in his middle class household, his father provided him with a fertile background in the arts and literature, introducing him to Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bible (DISC 1). To further elevate his level of knowledge, Williams attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine, and later visited the University of Leipzig, for post-graduate study (Bloom 4338). Williams fulfilled his parents' lofty standards by becoming a ge .....


Napoleon And Caesar
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.... Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies (Duggan 117). Julius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of Gaul. In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years, Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman legions and tribes in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire (Duggan 84). Caesar's principles were to ke .....


William Wordsworth Biography
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.... Robert Jones, a Cambridge student, over the French and Swiss Alps in 1790 and another such tour in 1791. In 1792, Wordsworth went to France, amidst the tumult of the French Revolution, where he met Michel Beaupuy, a French officer who is spoken of in The Prelude. In France, he also met Annette Vallon, with whom he had an illegitimate child, Caroline. Wordsworth returned to England in 1793 and published An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. During a walking tour that year, Wordsworth journeyed across the Salisbury Plain and to Tintern Abbey, both of which are subjects of later poems. By 1794, he was finally reunited with his sister Dorothy, and in .....


Abraham Lincoln
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.... lost in 1832 as an Illinois legislator. Two years later he made it as a Whig. As a Whig, he supported the Second Bank of the United States (The Illinois State Bank). Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926. Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871. In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in the Northeast, when he addressed a rally at .....


Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
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.... or at least ranks up there with the very best. There is so much more to Ralph Waldo Emerson when we consider the personal hardships that he had to endure during the course of his life and when we see the type of man that he becomes. He certainly was a man of inspiration who knew how to express himself by writing the best of poems and philosophical ideas with inspiration. To get an idea of how Ralph Waldo Emerson might have become such an inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can you imagine living a life with all your loved ones passing away one by one? A persons life could collapse into severe depression, it co .....


Important People In History
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.... Adler believed that a persons goals and values is what guided them.Adler later on introduced the concept of the inferiority complex. He believed that everyone once in their life feels inferior, espically children.He also said the people who feel inferior would try to do things to make them feel better like trying to seek out power or maybe going out and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams revealed more about a person's se .....


Helen Of Troy: The Face That Launched One Thousand Ships
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.... possession of an Egyptian drug which removes all sorrow. Helen's role in the War is ambiguous. In the Iliad she is critical of herself and of Paris (and of Aphrodite), while the Trojan horse episode seems like an attempt to trick the Greeks and save the Trojans. After Homer the tradition becomes even more complicated. The 6th century poet Stesichoros was said to have been blinded for saying that Helen went to Troy and only recovered his sight when he wrote the following Palinode (recantation): No, that story is not true You did not sail in the well-decked ships Nor did you reach the citadel of Troy.... The alternative story was that Paris took a p .....


Bootleggers Boy
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.... family moved to Long Beach, California. They moved there so his dad could work on ships during the war. When the war ended he moved back to Crossett, Barry just finished the third grade. His dad went through many jobs but didn’t gain any money. Then he decided to go to Louisiana and buy a few cases of whiskey. He brought the cases back to the dry county of Crossett and made a good profit. After this he became a bootlegger. Barry grew up as a poor kid and didn’t have electricity or running water until his senior in college. He attended the University of Arkansas to play football. He was more homesick than he thought he would, bu .....


Robert Browning
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.... His often indulgent parents gave him the freedom to explore new literary and philosophical ideas of the time period, yet he was also instructed to believe the unexplained mysteries of the Christian faith(Miller, 1953). His mother, who had strong ties to the congregational church, took great time to instruct Robert in his religious studies. With this open atmosphere, however, Browning exhibited signs of disinterest in religion during his early childhood. The town preacher, in fact , found it necessary to publicly scold "for restlessness and inattention Master "(as cited in,Miller, 1953, p.9). 's tendency toward skepticism was recorded e .....


Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.... In 1953, King met and married Coretta Scott in Boston. They had four children named Yolanda, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice. In 1954, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, in 1959, he became co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King’s serious behavior and positive requests to a Christian relationship that will end discrimination between black an .....



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