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Thomas Edison
Number of words: 2091 - Number of pages: 8

.... not like math. And he asked too many questions. The story goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. “She took Thomas out of school and decided to home-school him.”(Allen pg. 34) It appears he briefly attended two more schools. However, his school attendance was not very good. So nearly all his .....

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Paul Revere
Number of words: 1168 - Number of pages: 5

.... know this yet but his honorable duty lay within that revolution. On the twenty-second day of July, 1754 Reveres father died in his sleep. He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like friends than father and son. After his fathers death Paul became the man of the house. He had to take on more responsibilities and work harder to support his large family. After a while the stress was weighing him down and it was probably some sort relief when he went to fight the French. In 1756 he returned. On August 4, 1757 married Sara Orne, .....

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Madonna
Number of words: 1058 - Number of pages: 4

.... she began to get bored with her college education and her stay in college was brief. Within the next two years she dropped out of the University of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted to either continue in the field of dance or somewhere in the music industry. She believed that she had greater opportunities in these careers in a large, diversified metropolitan city like New York City. Once in New York City, she joined a band and began writing musical notes, lyrics, and songs. This was the start of her music career. However, she still wanted to p .....

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Poe
Number of words: 817 - Number of pages: 3

.... and respect for ’s ms, there is also negative critism. A critic named John Neal stated If Edgar Allan of Baltimore whose lines About “ Heaven” , though he professes to r- Egard them as all together superior to any thing in the whole range of American try, Save two or three trifles referred to, are non- sense, rather exquisite nonsense- would but do himself justice (he) might make a beautiful and perhaps a magnificent poem. (Neal, p. 35). This is not exactly negative critisim, but it is not rec .....

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The Nomination OfAndrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
Number of words: 1817 - Number of pages: 7

.... and becoming a member of the Bar in North Carolina later he moved to Nashville Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794. Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge .....

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Ramses II: Magnificence On The Nile
Number of words: 1528 - Number of pages: 6

.... young Ramses learned to read and write and received instruction in the nation’s theology, literature, and history. Careful attention was paid to his physical development too. Pharaohs were expected to excel in the military skills of chariotry and archery. Ramses was still only in his midteens when his father, with the thoughts of past disputed successions very much in mind, decided to install him as prince regement. Shortly after his father’s Seti’s I accession the boy had been given the official title of “Eldest King’s Son” and accorded the nominal rank of commander in chief .....

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Thomas Sterns Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Number of words: 1228 - Number of pages: 5

.... frankly though his own “waste land”steps in half way through. This is his only poetic work I like. But it will never be at the top of any of my lists. In this “song” , JAP (J. Alfred Prufrock) is writing a letter to his honey, the girl he is in love with. In this poem Eliot uses a lot of visual imagery, he is very good with his adjectives and brings such a happy correlation of thought into a grim reality he would call his “Waste Land”. He talks of how : In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. - TLSJAP stanza 13 and 14 It has been my thought .....

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Neve Cambell
Number of words: 693 - Number of pages: 3

.... was when Neve was involved in the theatre. After her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in "The Phantom of the Opera". She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in "The Phantom of the Opera" Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star. Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her .....

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Sigmund Freud
Number of words: 2614 - Number of pages: 10

.... Freud attended high school at Leopoldstadter Communal-Real- und Obergymnasium. While in high school he got the idea of becoming a scientist when he heard, a lecture delivered about Goethe. In 1873 he registered at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna. (Jones,1957) In 1878 he changed his name from Sigismund to Sigmund. He obtained his doctorate in medicine in March of 1881, and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Physiology under Ernst Brucke, with neurology as his main focus. In 1882 Freud did his clinical practical at the "Allgemeines Krankenhaus." At the depa .....

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Robert Edward Lee
Number of words: 486 - Number of pages: 2

.... Storming of Chapultepec in 1847. The Mexican war was suposed to be the help that Lee needed in the experance of commanding troops. After the Mexican war Lee was assigned to Baltimore in 1848, he was to supervise the construction of Fort Carrol for nearly four years. In 1852 the United States military academy at West Point became Lees home when he was appointed superintendent. During his three year stint he raised acidemic standards, lengthened the program from four to five years, and improved facilities. In 1859 in Arlington, Texas Lee was given command of Federal forces whi .....

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