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The Work Of J.D. Salinger
<view this essay>.... generally start out as in bad conditions, through the end of his
works they undergone changes that change them for the better. The works of
J.D. Salinger show the quest for happiness through religion, loneliness,
and symbolism.
Salinger's works often use religion in order to portray comfort. In
Salinger's Nine Stories Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to
cope with the suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and
Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for
Franny. The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
<view this essay>.... hold it well. He would easily become ill from
the alcohol. Allan angrily withdrew Poe from school, and a few months later Poe
left home.
For the next four years Poe struggled to earn a living as a writer. He
returned to Mrs. Clemm's home and submitted stories to magazines. His first
success came in 1833, when he entered a short-story contest and won a prize of
50 dollars for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle." By 1835 he was the editor of
the Southern Literary Messenger. He married his cousin Virginia, who was only 13,
and Mrs. Clemm stayed with the couple. The Poes had no children.
This success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in t .....
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Cleopatra
<view this essay>.... of the few manipulations that nobody could take away from her, and it was a very convincing form of persuasion.
’s family had been ruling Egypt since 305 BC, when Ptolemy I declared himself King of Egypt sometime after Alexander the Great’s death. The Ptolemy family was of Macedonian decent, not Egyptian.
, more precisely, VII, was the third daughter of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos "Auletes", who began his rule of Egypt in 80 BC. VII’s mother could possibly have been V Tryphaena, who either died or disappeared in 68 BC, right after VII’s birth in 69 BC. VII had two older sisters, VI and Berenice IV, and one younger sister, Arsinoe IV. S .....
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Roald Dahl
<view this essay>.... he planned a way to get back at him. Dahl was in kindergarten from 1922-1923. The school's name was Elmtree House. From 1923-1925, Dahl went to Llandaff Cathedral School. He started to go to that school from seven years of age until he was nine. He went to St. Peter's from age nine to thirteen (1925-1929). His final school was Repton and Shell. He went there from age 13-20 (1929-1936). It may seem odd he Dahl went to the school until he was twenty, but you have to keep in mind this was an English school. Each day on the way to and from school, seven years old Dahl and his friends passed by a sweet shop. Unable to resist the lure of "Bootlace Liquorice" and .....
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John Muir
<view this essay>.... much of his time exploring the land and animals around his home.
John wanted an education so he worked and saved his money to go to the University of Wisconsin. He studied about plants and geology. When John left the University he started traveling across the country. He walked thousands of miles. He traveled to California to see Yosemite Valley. He worked at a hotel there in the winter. He wrote magizine articles about mountains, glaciers, trees, flowers, birds, animals and insects. People that read the articles came to see the mountains.
While visiting friends in Oakland, California, he met Louise Wanda Strentzel. They married in the spring of 1880 .....
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Constantine The Great
<view this essay>.... the religious foundation of his domain, he set the religious course for the future of Europe which remains in place to this very day. Because he replaced Rome with Constantinople as the center of imperial power, he made it clear that the city of Rome was no longer the center of power and he also set the stage for the Middle Ages. His view of monarchy became the foundation for the concept of the divine right of kings.
Constantine, the son of Constantius Chlorus and Helena, seems to have been born in Naissus in Serbia on 27 February ca. 272 or 273 C.E. When his father had become Caesar in 293 A.D., Constantius had sent his son to the Emperor Galerius as hos .....
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Raoul Wallenberg
<view this essay>.... was six years old. Mr. Von Dardel treated him as his own but Raoul knew he would always be a Wallenberg. Raoul's grand father Gustav Wallenberg, which he called Farfar, was Sweden's ambassador to Turkey. Farfar told Raoul of his plans to open a world bank and that he would like his help. Farfar told Raoul exiting stories of the Wallenergs in the past. Jacob Wallenberg helped open trade routes to China and Japan. His great grand father, Andre Oscar, went to sea at the age of fifteen and became a steam boat captain not long after. Raoul dreamed of being one of the "Big Men" like the men in his family. He looked at them as fearless Vikings (Linne'a 7,8).
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Marilyn Monroe
<view this essay>.... to care for me. Grace married a man named Goddard, and they wanted to move away with his daughter. They could not afford to take me, so they married me off to a family friend, Jim Dougherty. Jim went into the service during World War II, and I took a job folding parachutes. Photographers came to take pictures of us to send to the soldiers. One, David Conover, took a particular interest in me, and directed me to Snively's Modeling School. From there I met Anaré de Dienes. He and I took many photo trips together, and Jim was rightly jealous, so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months) with Ben Lyon who worked for Twentie .....
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