.... of Naples his preceptors were Pietro Martini and Petrus Hibernus. There he soon surpassed Martini at grammar, and he was then given over to Peter of Ireland, who trained him in logic and the natural sciences. Thomas could repeat his lessons with more depth and lucidity than his masters displayed. While at the University Thomas came under the influence of the Dominicans, an order of mendicant preaching friars. Thomas decided to join the order, even though his family opposed the idea. His brothers captured him and imprisoned him at Roccasecca. There he was imprisoned for nearly two years. His parents, brothers, and sisters attempted to force him to .....

.... own, I couldn't work that way. My books are tightly plotted and carefully constructed; every sentence is there for a reason. Personally, I can't imagine writing a book without knowing exactly how it's going to end. It would be like setting out on a cross-country trip without a road map." Strangely, however, the story closest to Lois Duncan's heart still doesn't have an ending. Who Killed My Daughter? The account of her search for the truth behind the murder of her 18-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, was written in real time as the horror unfolded. When the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the co .....

.... to receive his degree from Howard University. Baraka served in the military for three years before settling in Greenwich Village in New York, at the heart of the Beat scene. Baraka began writing seriously and with first wife, Hettie Cohen, founded the influential Beat literary journal, Yugen. Baraka then grew in notority when he won the Obie, awarded by the Village Voice newspaper, an off-Broadway award, for his play, Dutchman. With his new found reputation, Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory School in 1964. The institution became one of the most influential theatre/schools within the BAM and brought music, art, poetry and drama to the street co .....

.... December 10, 1830 and is recognized as one of America’s greatest poets. She had an older brother, William Austin Dickinson, born on April 16, 1829, and a younger sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, born on February 28, 1833. She was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, which was a small and tradition-bound town in the nineteenth century. Emily’s father, Edward Dickinson, was a grand figure in Amherst. In his letters, he comes across as a remarkably ambitious man—“a typical success-oriented, work-oriented citizen of expansionist America,” in Richard Sewall’s characterization. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, he soon b .....

.... much more meaningful. was born at 24 Moorfields Pavement Row London, on October 31st, 1795 to his father, Thomas Keats, and his mother, Frances Jennings. John was the first of five children to be born in his family. Hid father, Thomas, worked as a manager at a livery stable and an Inn near Moorgate London. He married his boss’s daughter, Frances Jennings in 1794. After the marriage the father’s job seemed to have improved and he was being well paid. Soon after John other children followed: George in 1797, Thomas Jr. in 1799, Edward in 1891 (who died in infancy), and the only daughter Frances in 1803. Not a lot is known about the early years if the .....

.... a lawyer only to be discouraged by his teachers. After leaving school, in the eighth grade, he lived with a relative in Boston, Mass. He shined shoes, worked in a restaurant and on a railroad kitchen crew. In 1942 he moved to a section in New York called Harlem. Where he lived as a hustler, cheating people to make money for himself. He also sold drugs and became a drug addict himself. A rival drug dealer named "West Indian Archie" ran him out of New York. And he ended up back in Boston. Where he started a burglary ring, which consisted of friend named Shorty, a pretty boy type of fellow named Rudy, a woman that Malcolm dealt with named Sophia an .....

.... and Russia in the late 1800s. His works include music to The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. He wrote such works as the 1812 Overture and the First Piano Concerto in b flat minor. All during his life Tchaikovsky wrote detailed letters to his brother and close friends, including Madame Von Meck, the patroness he never met in person. His letters give us insight on how he felt about his music and life. This biography includes many exerts from such letters. Tchaikovsky was married to Atonina Milyuka, one of his students, in July of 1877. He made it clear however, that they were married due to her threat of suicide if they were not marr .....

.... remaining in office for at least 12 years? He does not, it is merely an impossible act in a desperate attempt to get himself elected. As a tradition, the "Grand old Party" has always benefited the rich more than the middle and working class people of America. Bob Dole promises a plan which will avoid business tax cuts and combine a marginal rate cut with a $500 per child tax credit, targeted towards low and middle income tax payers. The result, a plan that while still benefiting the rich more than the middle class, more evenly distributes between all income groups (Duffy 1996). Under Dole's tax cut plan, a family of four with an annual income of 31, .....