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Louis Pasteur 2
<view this essay>.... his ambition to make France great through science.
Scholar and Scientist
Louis Pasteur was born on Dec. 27, 1822, in Dôle, France. His father was a tanner. In 1827 the family moved to nearby Arbois, where Louis went to school. He was a hard-working pupil but not an especially brilliant one.
When he was 17 he received a degree of bachelor of letters at the Collège Royal de Besançon. For the next three years he tutored younger students and prepared for the École Normale Supérieure, a noted teacher-training college in Paris. As part of his studies he investigated the crystallographic, chemical, and optical properties of various forms of tartaric acid. His work .....
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Emily Jane Bronte
<view this essay>.... in Thornton, Yorkshire. She
was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Reverend Patrick Bront and Maria
Branwell Bront . When she was two years old, the family moved to Haworth. This
remained her home until she passed away in December of 1848 at the age of thirty.
Both of Emily's parents influenced her literary education. Her mother
published one essay, and her father published four books and a little poetry. In
1821, Maria died of cancer, leaving Emily and her four siblings motherless. Her
sister, Elizabeth, came to live as a housekeeper and was responsible for
training the girls in the household arts.
While at home doing housework, Emily secretly worked .....
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The Life And Career Of Babe Ruth
<view this essay>.... to an orphanage.
Babe was educated at Saint Mary's Industrial School. He drank in
the orphanage with his friends. In 1913, Babe was playing baseball with
kids older than he was.
He began his career in 1914 as a left-handed pitcher for
Baltimore's team of the International League. Later, in the same year he
played for the Providence team and the International League. He then became
a member of the Boston Red Sox in the American League. Babe pitched for
Boston until the 1919 season, when his unusual ability as a batter and a
fielder caused the Boston management to convert him into an outfielder.
From 1920 to 1935 he played the outfield for the .....
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Nathanial Hawthorne
<view this essay>.... experiences and where he lived influenced
his writing greatly.
Hawthorne had a cousin, Susannah Ingersoll. When he was young, in
Salem, he would frequently visit her in her mansion, she lived there alone.
The house had a secret staircase and once had seven gables. This house,
Nathanial visited in his youth, was his inspiration for the house in his
book " The House Of The Seven Gables". The story of The House Of The Seven
Gables streches over two centuries. It's the classic scenario of two rival
families, in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and
the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, .....
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
<view this essay>.... 1910, he and his
cousin Fred Hipwell began their studies at Victoria College.
However, Banting's mind was still on medicine. After several
arguments with his parents, he entered the University of Toronto Medical
School in the fall of 1912. His cousin quoted, "He was a steady,
industrious student. He had no top marks or even honor standing, but there
never was any doubt that he would pass."
World War I
While he was still in school, World War I started. In the spring of
1915, his name was enlisted in the Canadian Army. However, his commanding
officer, arranged him for his education. Hours after the successful
completion of his final exams in Decem .....
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Francios Rabelias
<view this essay>.... argument), poetry, history, and moral philosophy. It was designed to make the Christian well-rounded and virtuous. "
People like Michangelo, Leonardo da Vinchi, Lorenzo de Medici, Raphael,and St. Thomas More were humanists. They were concerned with human welfare, this is the reason why it is represented in there works. The one I am going to focus on is .
Rabelias was a writer. Over time many of the information we have about him as been lost or destroyed. "We have most of his works, but it is believed there is more. " Below I have listed a believed chronology of Rabelias, it may have inaccurate due the lack of information on Rabelias. .....
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Lucille Ball
<view this essay>.... wacky physical comedy made her the queen of TV. . ." (Dziemianowicz 54). Her hit television show, I Love Lucy, was one of the most watched television shows of all time. The success of I Love Lucy was due mostly to Ball's comic brilliance (Zoglin 188). "With near perfect timing, and a genius for sightgags, red-haired Ball careened through nineteen episodes of the original sitcom as a ditzy housewife" (Biography 1). Her show was so successful and popular that, "the 1953 episode on which she gave birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so gre .....
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Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
<view this essay>.... to their permanent residence in Florence. He came from a family that had for several generations been small-scale bankers in Florence; his father failed to maintain this status. He had only occasional government jobs.
At an early age his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to the school of a master, who taught grammar. His mind however, was on art not his studies. Painters and sculptors at work fascinated Michelangelo. He made friends with a student who encouraged him to follow his own artistic vocation. When Michelangelo was thirteen, his father was a minor Florentine official with connections to the Medici family. At this time his father .....
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