.... his emotions and innermost feelings. His life was full of pain and agony. From the beginning when he lost his mother to the end when reality and the dream-world became intertwined. The loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some reality and scientific truth within his writing. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher the main character suffers from a strange mental disorder that was actually a real prov .....

.... personal goal. He made friends with poor white children he met on errands and paid them bread for lessons. Little by little Frederick learned to read and write (T.S.Y.,2). In 1833 when Frederick was fifteen he was given up to another member of the Auld family, Thomas. The good days of Frederick's slave life were over. He was now forced to labor in the field and was starved and beaten frequently. There he organized religious services for the slaves. Thomas had a difficult time controlling Frederick and was sent to Edward Covey, a poor farmer known as the "Slave Breaker". After a severe beating Frederick received when he was sixteen he deci .....

.... in the individual. Emerson set the tone for the era when he said, "Who so would be a human, must be a non-conformist." believed and practiced this philosophy. When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from the others. Like all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also puttin .....

.... ridiculing the times by using it, but saying, "this is how it is." He conveys the idea that whites are superior to blacks in different ways. While he might criticize white people's actions, he never lumps them together, attributing similar characteristics to all of them by the use of a term like "nigger." By doing this, he is also offending about 15% of the United States population. Every character in the book is racist, even Huckleberry himself. With such lines as: "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming right out flatfooted and saying he would steal his children-children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a ma .....

.... picture of the universe and man.” (Communist Manifesto, Marx (Francis B. Randal), page 15)In October of 1842, Marx became the editor of the paper Rheinische Zeitung, and as editor, wrote editorials on socio-economic issues such as poverty, etc. He soon made editor-in-chief, but was quickly forced to step down due to his radical writings and social views. In 1843, he married Jenny Von Westphalen. In 1844, Marx met the man who would change his life forever. Both Engles and Marx had gone through the German Philosophic school and had come to the same conclusions but while Marx arrived at an understanding of the struggles an demands of the age b .....

.... in World War II. During the war, Vonnegut served in the American army in Europe and was captured by German soldiers. As a prisoner of war, he witnessed the Allied bombing of the city of Dresden, in which more than 135,000 people died due to the resulting fires (Draper, 3785). This experience had a profound impact on Vonnegut. From it, he developed his existential personal philosophy and his ideas about the evils of technology. He states, "I am the enemy of all technological progress that threatens mankind" (Nuwer, 39). The influence of Dresden shows up in each of the novels. In Cat's Cradle, one element of his experience at Dresden that Vonnegut .....

.... (Falkner 22).The people who taught him how to play the game were his father and grandfather. He practiced with them for at least 2 hours a day (Falkner 23). Mickey played sports and games whenever he could. He just could not stay away from the game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because swimming almost cost him hislifeOnce him and his friends were swimming in a river,and they were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not like school . He looked forward t .....

.... Greek. He was an expert mathematician who was even able to calculate when eclipses of the sun and moon would occur. He could design buildings, perform medical operations like an experienced surgeon, survey land, and play the violin. Despite his thinness, he was strong enough to tame a wild horse and chop wood like a lumberjack. Most important of all, he was know to be a superb writer. Though surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson was not a man of many words. Not known for his speaking abilities, he was shy and seldom spoke in public. When delegates at the Congress gave long speeches, Thomas Jefferson oftentimes just listened. John Adams said of Jeffer .....

.... World War I. He suffered from polio from 1921 but returned to politics, winning the governorship of New York State in 1929. When he first became president 1933, Roosevelt inculcated a new spirit of hope by his skillful "fireside chats" on the radio and his inaugural-address statement: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Surrounding himself by a "Brain Trust" of experts, he immediately launched his reform program. Banks were reopened, federal credit was restored, the gold standard was abandoned, and the dollar devalued. During the first hundred days of his administration, major legislation to facilitate industrial and agricultural recovery .....

.... career, Duke would have the extreme fortune of working and learning from musicians that would initialize their career by playing in Duke’s orchestra, and eventully gain historic jazz notoriety from their times with Duke (Holmes). Such players as Jimmy Blanton, the “doomed young virtouoso of the stringed bass”, and Ben Webster, adding to the sax section that already housed Jonny Hodges, Harry Carney, and Barney Bigard (Holmes). The trumpet section during this time in Duke’s orchestra comprised such legends as Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams. Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence Brown comprised the monster trombone section, an .....