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Henry VII
Number of words: 1662 - Number of pages: 7.... I am almost 200 centimetres tall with pink and white cheeks. My hair is auburn and I have the beginnings of a red beard. I tower over others, which helps with authority. I am clean-shaven, and my hair is combed short and straight in the French fashion. I have a round face. I keep myself trim at the moment with exercise. I enjoy shooting, singing, dancing, wrestling, casting of the bar, playing the recorder, flute and virginals, setting of
songs, making ballads, hunting and hawking. I also like to live life to the full, enjoying gambling, eating and drinking with little restraint. .....
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Lord Kelvin
Number of words: 988 - Number of pages: 4.... of Cambridge, graduating with a B.A honors degree four years later. Kelvin then went on to Paris to carry out work in a laboratory in order to gain practical experience and competence in experimental work.
At the age of only 22 Kelvin was elected to professor of physics (the 'chair of natural philosophy') as a result of a very well organized campaign run by his father, who was still a professor of mathematics. Kelvin remained at the University of Glasgow for the rest of his working life. He was a practical man, and on occasion during lectures on the conservation of momentum he would giv .....
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Style Of J.D Salinger
Number of words: 1940 - Number of pages: 8.... Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69).
Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny.
The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick
71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden
Caufield, the protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his
girlfriend, so Caufield reads a passage in the Bible. This helps
Holden change his outlook on life (Salzberg 75). Holden was all alone
at this point and had no one to turn back on, until he found the .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of words: 702 - Number of pages: 3.... years later she signed with Columbia pictures, only to be released once again. She did not however, leave without making a few low-budget musicals with the likes of the Marx Brothers in Love Happy, which was made in 1949, and Ladies of the Chorus also made in 1949.
Finally, in 1950, got the break she was waiting for. She once again signed with 20th Century Fox and made several movies including Asphalt Jungle(1950), All About Eve(1950),Love Nest(1951),Clash By Night(1952),Monkey Business(1952), and her first lead role in Don’t Bother to Knock(1952), where she played a psychotic babysit .....
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 2368 - Number of pages: 9.... in Richmond, learned of the plight of the Poe babies. She
had no children of her own and so was the more attracted to handsome little
Edgar. She took him home with her, and another family took Rosalie. This
was in 1811, long before Juvenile Courts and official custody of orphaned
children.
Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was
unwilling to commit himself to a step of such permanence. The acting
profession was despised at that time and even considered immoral. John
Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a
questionable person .....
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Frost, Robert
Number of words: 1230 - Number of pages: 5.... had been in search of (ExpLit 1). One of Frost's most famous poems is "The Road Not Taken." This poem is about someone who comes to a fork in a path. One path is well beaten and treaded, while the other is less traveled and more difficult. Is the traveler happy with the decision he has made to take the road less traveled? Many critics think he may have had second thoughts. Magill's Survey of American Literature states that there are many contradictions throughout the poem, "…He seems to contradict his own judgment. The poet appears to imply that the decision is based on evidence that is, or .....
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Robert Browning
Number of words: 2151 - Number of pages: 8.... 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 early on. 's first deviation from his faith was at the age of fifteen or sixteen. His primary influences were the Flower family and the writing of P.B Shelley. Browning often traveled to the .....
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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
Number of words: 820 - Number of pages: 3.... another physician and
physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of
Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on.
Breuer discovered that if he hypnotized her, she would talk of things she
did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were
relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Pa .....
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The Works And Influence Of Christopher Marlowe
Number of words: 2065 - Number of pages: 8.... of his good
service to the Queen as a government agent”(“Christopher Marlowe (1564-
1593)” par. 2).
“After receiving his degree in 1587, he moved to London to begin
his career as a playwright. All of his plays were believed to be written
between 1587 and 1593. His works include Tamburlaine, parts one and two,
the Jew of Malta, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Queen
of Carthage, and the Massacre at Paris. He also wrote the great poems, Hero
and Leander and the Passionate Sherherd”(“Christopher Marlowe(1564- 1593)”
par. 3,4).
“In the plays that he wrote, .....
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Patrick Henry's Speech
Number of words: 633 - Number of pages: 3.... and that no one is forcing him to say the things he is going to say. Henry knows that if he
does not speak what he thinks he could be held guilty of treason. Henry shows that he is self-
confident because he is going to follow through with his beliefs. Henry knows that if he is self
confident he can do anything, Henry states; “I have one lamp by which my feet are
guided and that is the lamp of experience”(88). What Henry is really trying to say is, “I know
of no way of judging of the future but by the past, I wish to know what there has been of the
British ministry for th .....
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