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Biography Of William Shakespeare
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playwright in London. He joined the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594, working as
a leading actor and dramatist. By 1599 this all-male company of experienced and
talented players - no women appeared on the stage until the Restoration - had
built their own theatre, the Globe. Its owners were seven member of the company,
including Shakespeare himself, who shared in its profits. For the next decade
the Globe, on the Thames at Bankside, was to be London's chief theatre, and the
home of Shakespeare's work. Many of his greatest plays were written during
these ten years, and were acted there. Both Queen Elizabeth, and after her
James I, showed the company .....
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Eli Whitney
<view this essay>.... contract to make 10,000 muskets. In 1812 he
was given another contract for 15,000 muskets .He built the first firearms
factory to use mass production methods. When Eli Whitney built his first
factory in 1798, he allocated a great deal of his precious resources to
providing housing for his workers as well as ensuring that they were well
off financially. This consideration marked his entire career as an
industrialist. He wanted to "employ steady sober people,"tied to his
factory and part of a community of industry. He intended to create a sel
-sufficient village, producing goods, and populated by well educated,
happy workers,Whitneyville. He also affected th .....
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James Watt
<view this essay>.... to become known as a jack-of-all-trades. He sold and mended spectacles, fixed fiddles and constructed fishing rods and tackle. Watt met his first loss in 1753 when his mother unsuspectedly died. It was at this point that Watt decided to pursue his career and try and qualify himself to become a mathematical instrument maker. After James spoke to Professor Muirhead at the Glasgow University, he was introduced to several scientists who at the time encouraged him later to travel to London to further himself in instrument making.
In 1755 he set out on horseback and arrived in London after either twelve days or two weeks. He tried to get a job in the instrumentation .....
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
<view this essay>.... survived. One was his sister Cornelia and the other was the first born. He began writing at an early age and wrote abundantly. As C.P. Magill points out, "his writings are of daunting bulk and diversity. He is the national poet of a most industrious people and the quantity of information about him is correspondingly enormous." His poetry is of numerous styles, ranging from the Renaissance to his own times.
At the age of sixteen he was sent to study law at a university, but would have more gladly read classics at another university. After ten years he was invited by Duke Karl August to come to Weimar (this city would be his actual home until his death .....
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Emily Dickinson: Life And Her Works
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found. She also spent a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley,
but had left because she did not like the religious environment. For a woman of
this time, this much education was very rare.1
Emily Dickinson was a very mysterious person as she got older she became
more and more reclusive too the point that by her thirties, she would not leave
her house and would withdraw from visitors. Emily was known to give fruit and
treats to children by lowering them out her window in a basket with a rope to
avoid actually seeing them face to face. She developed a reputation as a myth,
because she was almost never seen and whe .....
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Mantle Vs. Mays
<view this essay>.... field, Mantle started at Short Stop, and moved to right field before taking over center field from the retiring Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle named after the hall of fame catcher Mickey Cochrane, his father’s favorite player. What made Mantle unique from the beginning was the fact that he was a switch hitter. Mantle broke into the major leagues before he turned twenty. Mantle had a .298 career batting average, and 536 career home runs. He led the American League in home runs for four years. Mantle hit over fifty home runs in two of those four years.
Mantle was moved around a lot early in the career from short stop, where he had a short error filled sea .....
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Edgar Allan Poe - Life And Works
<view this essay>.... mother died at the young age of twenty-one and his father disappeared from his life soon after, Poe was only two. He was given to the care of John and Francis Allen in Baltimore. Poe was a bright and very intelligent young boy who impressed his teachers and made John Allen a proud foster father. He went to school in Richmond where he received praises from his master. His parents spoiled him and this is what supposedly ruined him. His parents allowed him to carry extravagant amounts of money, which enabled him to get into all manner of mischief, according to his masters.
John Allan took his family and moved to Great Britain to set up business in 1815. .....
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The Works And Influence Of Christopher Marlowe
<view this essay>.... left his
studies to work for the government as some sort of secret agent or spy.
When he returned to receive his Masters degree three years later, he was
not granted it at first. The members of the university thought that Marlowe
intended to go aboard Reims, the center of Catholic intrigue, and stay
there. If this was true, then it would be an action against the Queen. The
Privy Council then ruled to give Marlowe his degree because 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 w .....
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