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Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
Number of words: 2445 - Number of pages: 9.... the “Lost Generation”. This phrase is attributed to Gertrude Stein, a friend of Hemingway’s, who meant youth, angry with life itself after the war; drowning themselves in alcohol; sleeping away the days and sharing their beds with a new partner each night. Thus, Hemingway depicts America as a society with a profuse amount of twisted values. A constant theme runs through all of Hemingway’s work. That man can be defeated but not destroyed. Once such novel that depicts this, as well as American values, is A Farewell to Arms. During the course of the story, the two main characters lieute .....
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Benedict Arnold
Number of words: 6671 - Number of pages: 25.... one hundred fifty men into Canada to overtake Quebec. They left on September 16th from Washington's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On September 19th, they sailed for the Kennebec River from Newburyport on eleven schooners, and on the twentieth, they camped on Swan Island in Merrymeeting Bay. Some of the men, along with the supplies, continued up the Kennebec in a bateaux, and the rest continued along on foot (Encarta).
By September 23rd, they had arrived at Fort Western. They continued marching to Fort Halifax in Winslow, where today there is a rock in Lithgow Street, marki .....
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Rosa Parks
Number of words: 286 - Number of pages: 2.... Jr. leading the movement.
In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated seating was challenged in a federal law suit. Parks' personal history has been lost in the retelling of the event. Prior to her arrest, Mrs. Parks had a firm and quiet strength to change things that were unjust. She served as secretary of the NAACP and later Advisor to the NAACP Youth Council, and tried to register to vote on several occasions when it was still nearly impossible to do so. She had run-ins with bus drivers and was evicted from buses.
Forty years later, despite tremendous gains, .....
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Andrew Johnson
Number of words: 263 - Number of pages: 1.... He married Eliza McCardle, who was a school-teacher and was a big part of Johnson’s education, she helped him learn how to write and do arithmetic. He had three sons and two daughters.
was a democratic and had served in the Senate from 1857- 1862. In the early months of the Civil War, Johnson was forced to flee his own state to avoid arrest. When federal troops conquered Nashville, he resigned his Senate seat in March 1862 to accept President Lincoln’s appointment as military governor of Tennessee. He served as vice president for a month in 1865, and as president for th .....
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Ferdinand Magellan
Number of words: 1057 - Number of pages: 4.... as Ferdinand did. At court Ferdinand learned music, dance, horsemanship and how to handle weapons, in addition to academic subjects such as reading, writing and religion. Also he learned algebra, geometry, astronomy and navigation.
After he had worked at court for a few years, he started checking the supplies for the ships going to India. This was work for the India House, run by the monarchy. India house was the agency for overseas trade. Magellan heard reports of new discoveries brought back by returning ships. It was here that Magellan learned practical aspects of navigation from the .....
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Orwell's "Such, Such Were The Joys....": Alienation And Other Such Joys
Number of words: 1660 - Number of pages: 7.... ‘This is reality, this is what you
are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it was a
place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be
perpetually taken out of this warm nest and flung into a world of force and
fraud and secrecy, like a goldfish into a tank full of pike. (23)
Young Orwell, impacted by this, “hard,” disorienting situation, realizes he is
alone in a hostile, harsh environment. Orwell uses the image of the “warm nest,”
a womb, from which the child is thrown, then innocently forced into a
destructive reality. This realit .....
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Kurt Cobain
Number of words: 925 - Number of pages: 4.... in 1975 when Kurt's parents got divorced. Kurt was ashamed. He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead he lived in a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he had few friends, and was beat up alot.
On his 14th birthday Kurt recieved his first guitar. He had been writing poetry since he was 13, so he started using his poetry to write songs. He was in several bands throughout highschool, some of them were named Fecal Matter, Skid Row, Brown Cow, The Sellouts, and Pencap Chew.
Around the time of Kurts senoir year he formed Ni .....
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The Writing Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 390 - Number of pages: 2.... 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 a lady’s influence. In “Ligeia” the narrator is obsessed with the woman; he is even scared by her powers that are beyond human. After she dies, he remarries, but is unhappy. He is .....
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John DeLorean And His Acomplishments
Number of words: 5137 - Number of pages: 19.... was
where his best friend was going. Since his grades at the time weren't of
the highest caliber, he was entered as a probationary student. He excelled
at Cass, and won a scholarship to Lawrence Institute of Technology in
Detroit. Two years later, he was drafted and spent three years in the Army.
After that, John worked as a draftsman for the Detroit Public Lighting
Commission to save up enough money to continue at Lawrence. During this
time, he also had to partially support his mother and brothers, and did so
by directing an evening dance band. In the summers, he worked at the
Chrysler .....
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Lucas: King Of Film
Number of words: 1263 - Number of pages: 5.... and barely made it through (Moritz 258). Soon after high school,
Lucas attended Modesto Junior College in California and continued to work on
cars as his main interest (Moritz 258). In Smith, Lucas is quoted saying, "I
was a hell-raiser; lived, ate, breathed cars! That was everything for me"(84).
Lucas even worked on pit crews for race cars when he met Haskell Wexler, who
introduced him to film (Moritz 258). Eventually Lucas realized his new passion
was film. Mr. Wexler helped Lucas gain admission into the University of
Southern California's film department (Moritz 260). In co .....
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