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James Joyce
<view this essay>.... a collection of fifteen short stories, Joyce dealt with episodes of his childhood and adolescence and with family and public life in Dublin, Ireland” (Encarta, 1). “Joyce employed symbols to create what he called an “epiphany”, the revelation of an emotional or personal truth” (Encarta, 1). “Using experimental techniques to convey the essential nature of realistic
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situations, Joyce merged in his greatest works the literary traditions of realism, naturalism, and symbolism” (Encarta, 1). “In 1941, suffering from a perforated ulcer, Joyce dies in Zurich on January thirteenth” (Encarta, 1). .....
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Jonathan Edwards
<view this essay>.... teens. He entered Yale when he was thirteen.
A few years later he was made senior tutor of the college. In 1726, At the
age of twenty-three, he became his grandfather's co-pastor. When Stoddard
died three years later, his grandson took his position. At the age of
twenty-four, he married Sarah Pierrepont who was seventeen. He found her
when she was thirteen and decided that he liked her calmness and strong
religious beliefs. They had a daughter, Esther, who died in 1755 when she
was only twenty-three. Her son, Aaron Burr, became the Vice President of
the United States.
Edward was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bri .....
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Napolean
<view this essay>.... fled to France with his family. He was assigned, as a captain, to an army besieging Toulon, a naval base that, aided by a British fleet, was in revolt against the republic. Replacing wounded artillery general, he seized ground where his guns could drive the British fleet from the harbor, and the port fell. As a result Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general at the age of 24. In 1795 he saved the revolutionary government by dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. Also in 1796, Napoleon was made commander of the French army in Italy. He defeated four Austrian generals, each with superior numbers, and forced Austria and its allies to make peace. In northern .....
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Rockefeller
<view this essay>.... but the U. S. Supreme Court ordered this holding company dissolved on antitrust grounds, and the subsidiaries became independent corporations. He retired in 1911 with a fabulous fortune.
was an entrepreneur or better known as a "Robber Baron", and was also called the "oil baron," exercised his genius in devising ways to circumvent competition. came to dominate the oil industry by brining a new energy and overwhelming strategy into his business. With one upward stride after another he organized the Standard Oil Company, which was the nucleus of the great trust that was formed. showed little mercy in his business dealings. He believe primitive savagery .....
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Charles Darwin
<view this essay>.... of Cambridge to prepare to become a cler-gyman of the Church of England. There he met two stellar figures, Adam Sedg-wick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Henslow not only helped build Darwin’s self-confidence, but also taught his student to be a meticulous and painstaking observer of natural phenomena and collector of specimens. After Char-les had graduated from Cambridge he was taken aboard the English survey ship HMS Beagle, largely on Henslow’s recommendation, as an unpaid naturalist on a scientific expedition around the world.
Now Charles Darwin was around the age twenty-two while he was on the HMS Beagle. Darwin’s job as .....
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The Works Of William Faulkner
<view this essay>.... back by her status in society, and is left alone with only the crumbling remains of that gentility to support her. One of the most powerful devices used in this story is that the narrator is the town as a whole. Faulkner used this abstract view to supply the reader with unsympathetic emotions towards Emily. This unreceptive view is shown after Emily purchases arsenic, ”So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by this narration allows readers only to see the town’s point of view. In criticizing Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that F .....
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Bill Gates
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spent long periods in his room in deep thought. He loved science and showed
great skill in the area of math. In fact he scored a perfect on the math
section of the SAT. His high school English teacher Anne Stephens was amazed at
Gates' memory. She commented on how Gates had remembered a 3-page soliloquy for
a school play in one reading. He read often, tried to take up the trombone, had
no interest in philosophy but rather thought of himself as a "scientist." His
science teacher, William Dougall, remembers if the teacher wasn't going fast
enough, "Bill always seemed on the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates
once said to a teacher that som .....
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Socrates
<view this essay>.... for asking many questions as a child, because he was very curious about things, what they were, what importance they had? Crito noticed that in a way was beginning to think as a philosopher, always looking for the meaning of things.
As gradually began to mature and grow older, he did not see much of his friends. They would always be down at the gymnasium working seriously at the outdoor exercises. He did not like to work out like his friends or be a stonecutter like his father because he knew that sort of thing was not for him. He thought about everything in a more abstract way.
The Gods during time seemed to be further away from humanity, they did not di .....
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