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Sir Wilfrid Laurier Of Canada
<view this essay>.... to learn the english language and ways.
When Wilfrid was ten years old he got sent to an Anglo-Protestant family
who were Scottish immigrants. Here he learned the english language and the
Protestant faith. Later on in his life he recalled "how I fought with the
Scotch boys and made schoolboy love to the Scotch girls, with more success
in the latter than in the former." Remembering the past Laurier would
carefully develop the politics of reconciliation rather than conflict.
In the year 1854 the young lad went to college, De L'assomption. In
his studies he took subjects such as Latin, Latin classics, pre-
revolutionary French literature, Greek, English .....
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Cooper, James F.
<view this essay>.... moved to Cooperstown. The rest of his brothers had died and Cooper was the head of the household; he took on the responsibility of caring for his family. In 1803 he entered Yale and was expelled in 1805 for a prank. After serving on the Veruvius for three and a half years, he left the navy and married Susan Delancey. They had five daughters and two sons. In 1826, he added the Fenimore to his name. But it was by accident that James Fenimore Cooper became a writer.
He took a dare from his wife to write a better book than the English one he had been reading to her. Precaution was published in 1820. Thoug .....
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Norman Rockwell
<view this essay>.... high school Rockwell left high school to attend classes at the National Academy of Design and later on the Art Students League in New York. Here Rockwell was recognized as an above average illustrator with good potential. Rockwell then after developing his skills and contributing many illustrations to children’s magazines, managed to muster up the courage to show his work to a bigger periodical, the Saturday Evening Post. Happy with the quality of Rockwell’s work the Post gave Rockwell a job creating illustrations and cover art for its periodicals. This would be his arena, revealing his works to thousands of people, for over forty years. During this pe .....
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E.E. Cummings
<view this essay>.... to convey messages visually as well as verbally. Although one may think of l(a as a poem of sadness and loneliness, Cummings probably did not intend that. This poem is about individuality - oneness (Kid 200-1). The theme of oneness can be derived from the numerous instances and forms of the number '1' throughout the poem. First, 'l(a' contains both the number 1 and the singular indefinite article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the s .....
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Thomas Jefferson
<view this essay>.... and had slaves working for him throughout his life. Jefferson had tolerated while he didn't accept others who owned slaves. Jefferson denounced the slave owners, while he was owning and using slaves. Although Jefferson was supposedly a good slave owner, his hypocritical nature made him accuse others not to own slaves while he, himself was owning slaves. Another part of the hypocrisy was that Jefferson believed that the slaves were dependent upon the white man, while he, himself was dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large expansive governments were bad, and small .....
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David Letterman
<view this essay>.... around. . . with the
other losers, watching all the athletes play sports. All we could do is make
fun and ridicule them." He was never good at anything until high school. "All
I ever knew how to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the class
clown, making fun of everything and everyone." This personality trait was what
gave him his thousands of faithful fans, watching his show every night to see
Dave rip to shreds anyone who dare challenge him. Another thing that was
important to him was his mother and father. His father, Joseph Letterman, and
Dave went fishing quite often when he was young. Dave looked up to his father
tremendously. .....
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Donatello
<view this essay>.... of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a Florentine wool carder. It is not known how he started his career but probably learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the cathedral of Florence about 1400. Some time between 1404 and 1407 he became a member of the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti who was a sculptor in bronze. 's earliest work was a marble statue of David. The "David" was originally made for the cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio, a city hall where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on, the gigantic "David" of Michelangelo, which served the same purpose, eclipsed it. More of .....
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Blaise Pascal
<view this essay>.... on his own at the age of 12. He discovered that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is equivalent to two right angles. When his father discovered this he then allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid. At the age of 14 Blaise began accompanying his father to Mersenne's meetings. Mersenne was a member of a religious order of Minims. His cell held many meetings for the likes of Gassendi, Roberval, Carcavi, Auzout, Mydorge, Mylon, Desargues and others. By the time he was 15 Blaise admired the work of Desargues greatly. At 16 Pascal presented a single piece of paper at a Mersenne's meeting in June 1639. It held many of his geometry theorems, including his mystic h .....
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