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Emily Dickinson
Number of words: 575 - Number of pages: 3

.... had so Many people at one of her parties that she never got a chance to speak with her. In addition, Dickinson kept up a voluminous correspondence with friends, family, and one of her spiritual mentors, Minister Charles Wadsworth. Although it has long been believed that various correspondents, including Higginson and editor Samuel Bowles, served as literary guides, there is no evidence that they influenced her writing. Now, biographers are increasingly recognizing the vital role of Dickinson’s sister-in-law Susan Dickinson in her writing. For more than 35 years the two women lives next d .....

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Tiger Woods
Number of words: 630 - Number of pages: 3

.... but most of it. Tiger was 11-months old when he first started swinging a sawed off golf club in his garage. Some sources say he was actually 10-months old. Tiger's Education: In the 7th grade Tiger had a GPA of 3.86! (Now there's the real important stuff.) Tiger spent 2 years at Stanford University in California majoring in Business. Tiger has 2 half brothers and 1 half sister from his fathers first marriage. Tiger loves McDonalds (CheeseBurgers) and Taco Bell. Tiger's Caddy (Guy who carries Tiger's clubs for him): Mike "Fluff" Cowan, used to caddy for another pro, Peter Jacobsen. Ti .....

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Adam Smith
Number of words: 814 - Number of pages: 3

.... he encouraged it. He observed that if everyone acted in his or her own best interests the market would automatically produce what the people demand. He knew this would work be more effective and efficient than any governing body or groups of planners to decide the Three Economic Problems: What to produce? How to produce it? For whom to produce? He knew because the people, the consumers would be making those decisions for themselves. Smith also noticed that self-interest lead to increased trade and bargaining. “It is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far great .....

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Mark Twain
Number of words: 2304 - Number of pages: 9

.... three months, due to illness. In 1830 Margaret was born and the family moved to Pall Mall, a rural county in Tennessee. After Henry’s birth in 1832, the value of their farmland greatly depreciated and sent the Clemenses on the road again. Now they would stay with Jane’s sister in Florida, Missouri where she ran a successful business with her husband. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the small remote town of Florida, Missouri. Samuel’s parents, John Marshall and Jane Cohen 2 Lampton Clemens never gave up on their child, who was two months premature with little hope of survival. .....

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The Life And Work Of Washington Irving
Number of words: 758 - Number of pages: 3

.... of Launcelot Langstaff", and others, a series of essays and poems on New York society. Irving's contributions to this thing established his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this reputation was enhanced by his next work, "A History of New York " (1809), evidently written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The work is a account of New York State during the period of Dutch occupation which was from (1609-1664). Irving's mocking tone and funny descriptions of early American life offset the nationalism in much American writing of the .....

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Wilhelm Roentgen
Number of words: 2002 - Number of pages: 8

.... called "Placet hic requiescere Musis" (May the Muses rest here) selected him as a member of their fraternity. Then on May 9 he joined a scientific society called "Natura Dux nobis et auspex" (Nature is our leader and protector). Wilhelm didn’t like keeping house so, he found a room with the family of a cabinetmaker. There he started writing his first book, called "Question for the Inorganic Part of the Chemistry Textbook", under the pen name of Dr J. W. Gunning. As you probably figured out that was the name of the man he had lived with in the pa .....

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Albert Einstien
Number of words: 1773 - Number of pages: 7

.... but while employed (1902-1909) there, he completed an astonishing range of publications in theoretical physics. For the most part these texts were written in his spare time and without the benefit of close contact with either the scientific literature or theoretician colleagues. Einstein submitted one of his scientific papers to the University of Zurich to obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there. The next year Einstein received a regular appointment as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By 190 .....

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Harper Lee: The Author And Her Times
Number of words: 1235 - Number of pages: 5

.... to take pride in its ancestry. Finally, Lee's mother's maiden name was Frances Finch. As a child Lee was called by her first name, Nelle, a name she dropped in her adult years. She was only seven years old when she decided she wanted to become a writer, but it was many years before her dream was fulfilled. In the meantime Miss Lee studied law, following in the footsteps of her father and older sister. She attended the University of Alabama, and spent a year in England as an exchange student at Oxford University. In 1950 Lee left the university without completing the requirements for a law deg .....

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Confucius Life Philosiphy
Number of words: 1518 - Number of pages: 6

.... set rituals, and acting in a manner proper and befitting one’s social class became the state followed ideology during the Han dynasty.1 When studying the religion and philosophy of Confucius, one must have a clear understanding of the books he wrote. The Five Classics were from the period preceding the Warring States Period. They were brought together and edited by the members of Confucius’ original school. Once Confucianism was made China’s official philosophy, a person had to study these five books in order to gain a prized governmental position. Saying that t .....

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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Number of words: 736 - Number of pages: 3

.... women who was affected most of her life by an addiction to morphine. During his childhood Eugene attended the Mount Vincent Catholic Boarding School between the years 1895 and 1900. After leaving Mount Vincent Eugene attended Bett's Academy in Stanford Connecticut from 1900 to 1906. In 1906 Eugene was accepted to Princeton University but before completing one year he got expelled. After getting expelled from Princeton he spent 5 or 6 years as a drifter and a sailor traveling on journeys to the Honduras, South America and Europe. (Strecker,“Eugene O'Neill”,p.1535.)By 1912 O'Neil .....

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