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Hawthorne
<view this essay>.... too modern for the times, but eventually he was understood.
was known for his ability to create such a compelling story in just a few pages. Within these few pages, flows an elaborate and complex story. These stories flow so steadily and with such complexity that seems to create his own romantic style. He does this by incooperateing many different situations that keep the reader intuned to the story.
In many of his short stories there seems to be a character that is infatuated with a person or an object. The reason for creating stories like this could stem from his own experience with infactuation. was a very lonley person. He lived by himself for .....
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William Shakespeare
<view this essay>.... family of considerable wealth and social standing. Mary Arden and John Shakespeare were married in 1557.
was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also hel .....
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Queen Elizabeth I
<view this essay>.... Spenser who wrote a very detailed piece about
a feast for Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh who wrote poems about Elizabeth,
and William Shakesphere (Elizabethan Writers). The Gothic period preceding
the Elizabethan age was based very much on religion. Secular buildings,
sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, and other decorative
arts were produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages.
Since then the term Gothic has been restricted to the last major medieval
period, immediately following the Romanesque (Gothic Period). The
Renaissance, following the Elizabethan age was a rebirth of scholarly
interests. It was based on the classics of .....
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Albert Einstein 5
<view this essay>.... family in Ulm, Germany. He came into this world on March 14, 1879, born to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Early in life, he showed a great interest in mathematics and the sciences. When he was about eight years old, his father gave him a compass. Einstein wondered why it always pointed north. Einstein lay awake that night in bed wondering how an invisible force could pass through space (Strathern 13). His uncle gave him his first mathematics book and Einstein read it until he could do every problem in the book. In school, Einstein wasn’t exactly a teacher’s pet. The teachers at German school during his childhood “prided themselves on behaving .....
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The Life Of Chief Seattle
<view this essay>.... known may be Chief Seattle. Chief Seattle (more correctly known as Seathl or Sealth) was born sometime between 1786-1790 on Blake Island at the campsite of his ancestors. Blake Island lies south and a little east of Bainbridge Island and west and a little south of Seattle. Seattle was the son of Suquamish leader named Schweabe and a Duwamish woman named Scholitza. He became Chief of the Suquamish, Duwamish, and allied Salish speaking tribes by proving his leadership qualities in a war that pitted his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief .....
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Booker T. Washington
<view this essay>.... his school, Tuskegee Institute, he gained great respect from both the white and black communities. Many of the country's white leaders agreed with his principals, and so he had a great deal of support. was a great man. He put his own needs aside in order to build the reputation of an entire race. He didn't do it by accusing and putting blame on others, but instead through hard work. cleared the way for the black community to fully enter the American society. Washington was born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Virginia, on a small tobacco plantation. His only true relative was his mother, Jane, who was the plantation's cook. His fathe .....
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Biography And History: Harriet Jacob's The Life Of A Slave Girl
<view this essay>.... understood slavery from a woman's perspective. The
hardships she had to endure not only entailed the work and the punishments, but
also the sexual aspect of being a slave-girl. Her task is difficult, because in
order for the reader to really understand her position as a woman and a slave,
she must make the story extremely personal. If it is too personal, however, the
reader looses sight of the bigger picture, and does not relate all these
hardships to the condition of the general female slave. She accomplishes this
in two ways, through her writing style, and the writing content.
The style that the novel is written varies from a dialogue to a narra .....
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Andrew Jackson
<view this essay>.... is no different. Born with no idea as to
what his father looks like, Andrew Jackson Jr., third son from Elizabeth and
Andrew Jackson Sr., will be raised at the home of Elizabeth's sister and
brother-in-law, the Crawfords in the state of South Carolina. Andrew Jackson Sr.
descended from a long line Ulster families that were thrown out of Ireland,
seeking refuge in the United States, made their home in South Carolina. Jackson
Sr., dying suddenly before his son's birth, left Andrew to grow up without a
male parental figure. Living in the Crawfords gave young Andrew little rewards;
he was given very little schooling of basic reading, writing, and figuring. So,
h .....
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