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E.E. Cummings
Number of words: 1417 - Number of pages: 6.... singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). Cummings could have simplified this poem drastically ("a leaf falls:/loneliness"), and still conveyed the same verbal message, but he has altered the normal syntax in order that each line should show a 'one' and highlight the theme of oneness. In f .....
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Joan Of Arc
Number of words: 1059 - Number of pages: 4.... and hearing what she believed were voices of saints. They started occuring once a week and as she got older they happened daily. She said the voices told her to always behave, obey her parents, pray, etc. She claimed they were the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She was said to be a Clair Voyant,
a person who has knowledge of events happening far away or in the futures without using any of the five senses. The visions and voices never left her.
Finally, four years later she was convinced that God had chosen her to help King Charles VII clear the Eng .....
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The Life Of Hitler
Number of words: 1929 - Number of pages: 8.... and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.
He could not apply to the school of architecture, as he had no high-school
diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot
the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians
like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town
boy would have had .....
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Byron's Don Juan
Number of words: 795 - Number of pages: 3.... the
title of 6th Baron Byron and the estate of Newstead Abbey. Once hearing
this news, he and his mother quickly removed to England.
All of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). He soon had another affair with a woman named Mary Gray.
Soon hereafter he was involved with many liaisons with such women as Lady
Caroline Lamb and then Lady Oxford.
Then just as Byron was beginning to live his life the way .....
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Kobe Bryant
Number of words: 5263 - Number of pages: 20.... by Harris for waving off the coach's instructions, screaming vulgarities as Harris waved an admonishing finger in his face. Tonight, however, Van Exel is having a hell of a game, hitting key jumpers from all over the floor. His hot hand has saved them in clutch situations before, but now the ball is about to go to someone else for the game-winning shot.
The 18-year-old rookie, . The Golden Child.
A lanky, charismatic, 6-6, 200-pound prodigy, Kobe had led little-known Lower Merion High School to the Pennsylvania state title the year before. This year, he was being asked to carry an NBA tea .....
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Booker T. Washington
Number of words: 553 - Number of pages: 3.... in West Virginia where they joined his step father who worked in the salt furnaces and coal mines. Booker had to workin the mines until nine at night, but his intense desire to learn enabled him to master a Webster spelling book, and even led him to more ahead the hands of the clock at work so he could get to his night school by nine. While playing marbles with other boys, an old colored man told Booker about the meaning of Sunday school. He gave up his marble game for regular Sunday School attendanceand later became thee teacher and superintendent of the school where he had learned to read. .....
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
Number of words: 393 - Number of pages: 2.... than writing, especially rowing.
Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War,
in which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was
finished, he entered the French civil service. He first served with the
Ministry of Navy and later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During
the between 1873 and 1880 he also served as a literary apprentice under
Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and
concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction.
Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published .....
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George Berkeley
Number of words: 575 - Number of pages: 3.... He thought that you could not truly know something without first perceiving it in some way.
It was an easy step from that ideology for him to adopt the phrase – Esse Est Percipi, which means, “To be is to be perceived.” There is a crippling problem that arises in this mode of thinking that can best be demonstrated by the following limerick:
who said “God,
must find it extremely odd
to think that this tree will continue to be
when there is no one
about in the quad.”
Dear Sir,
I’m always about
in the quad
and that’s why
this tree
wil .....
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Malcom X
Number of words: 368 - Number of pages: 2.... separation but the Black Muslims group of that time did). When Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a Black Muslim temple in Detroit, and took the well known name of Malcolm X. In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and together they had six
daughters.
By the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most known and popular speaker. In 1963, however, the Black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the .....
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Biography And History: Harriet Jacob's The Life Of A Slave Girl
Number of words: 1005 - Number of pages: 4.... to the condition of the general female slave. She accomplishes this
in two ways, through her writing style, and the writing content.
The style that the novel is written varies from a dialogue to a narrative,
depending on the subject matter being written about. For example, the dialogue
where Mrs. Flint confronts Linda (Jocobs) and asks her what has been going on
with her husband is handled very effectively, because as a conversation between
two people, we are able to pick up on the nuances of meaning. Also, it makes the
situation seem to the reader as very exhilarating, beca .....
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