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William Shakespeare
<view this essay>.... what he was doing during 1585-1592.
By 1592 he had become known in London as an actor and playwright; his rise was
rapid.
Queen Elizabeth 1 supported the arts and the theater.
In 1592 a plague closed the theaters(Shakespeare wrote poetry during this time
to support himself). In 1593 a brief reopening of the theater happened. In 1594
theaters reopened.
The troupe became the Lord Chamberlain's Men set up on a servant co-op structure.
Requirements for actors:
1. loud voice 2. sing and play instruments 3. good swordsman 4. good memories
During this time he wrote many comedies: Comedy of Errors first of any status.
Histories were written in support of th .....
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William Mackenzie King
<view this essay>.... and succeeded Laurier as a leader of the liberal Party in 1919. King also became a Prime Minister when the liberals won the general Election on Dec. 6, 1921. Even though the Meighen’s won the most sets in the general Election of Oct. 29, 1925, King stayed in the office with the help of progressive and Labor members who supported his proposed tariff reductions and an old-age pension Legislation. William had lost his York North seat in the 1925 election but returned to the House of Commons as the member for Prince Albert, following a by- Election on Feb.15, 1926. William’s government was shaken in 1926 by the Revelation that the Customs Departm .....
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Stephen Biko
<view this essay>.... although he was later ejected for his political
activities. After leaving university, Mr. Biko did many things to help the
black people fight against apartheid, like setting up many organizations
for the people. His hunger for getting blacks equality caused Biko many
difficulties. First, Stephen was banned, which meant he could only see one
person at a time, and he could not leave the country for at least five
years. During his ban, Biko was caught going to a white area and he was
arrested. While in prison, Stephen was severely beaten to death, but the
police said that his death took place because he went on a hunger strike.
Stephen Biko achieved many .....
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John F. Kennedy
<view this essay>.... 1945, After hurting his back and catching malaria.
In 1946 Kennedy was voted into the US. House of Representatives. As a congressman Kennedy went for the bills that went to help the working class people. And he sided with Truman's foreign policies except for America's weak stand against communist's. later Kennedy ran for a seat in the Senate and won. During a stint with sickness Kennedy wrote a Politzer price winning book about military heroes.
In 1960 Kennedy ran for president against Nixon, and because Kennedy looked good on TV he won the vote. But by less then 115,000 popular votes.
For Kennedy the most important part of his presidency came on October .....
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Dickinson Vs. Whitman
<view this essay>.... Dickinson only
published seven of her poems during her lifetime. Actually, her poetry wasn't
published until after her death. Both Whitman and Dickinson were poetic
pioneers because of the new ideas they used in their poetry. Emily Dickinson
did not write for an audience, but Walt Whitman wrote for an audience about
several national events. The forms each poet used are different as well. The
rhyme in the poetry by Whitman is drastically different from the poetry written
by Dickinson, because Whitman didn't use any rhyme.
Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Mass, and Walt Whitman grew up in
New York City, New York; this is one way that these p .....
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Susan B Anthony
<view this essay>.... school, when the teacher refused to teach Susan long division, she was taken out of school and taught in home school set up by her father. A woman teacher, Mary Perkins, ran the school. Perkins offered a new image of womanhood to Susan and her sisters.
She was independent, educated, and held a position that had been traditionally been reserved to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on beh .....
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John Updike
<view this essay>.... an 80-acre farmhouse in Plowville, Pennsylvania eleven miles from Shillington. In 1950 graduated president and co-valedictorian from Shillington High School. During the summer he worked as a copy boy for the Reading Eagle. As a copy boy, he wrote a few feature stories for the newspaper ("Updike,John 414). That fall he began to attend Harvard and started writing for the Harvard Lampoon a funny magazine where he was later elected the president of the magazine. On June 26, 1953 he married his wife Mary E, Pennington a fine arts major from Radcliffe, she was two years older than . In 1954 he wrote his senior paper on Robert Herrick, who was a 17th century po .....
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Jean De La Fontaine
<view this essay>.... a small town in the province of Champagne some fifty miles northeast of Paris. His baptism was entered in the parish of Saint-Crépin register on July 8, 1621. Most take this as his actual birth date, but according to the custom of the period, it probably means that La Fontaine was born a day or two earlier. (Mackay, pg.4) He was the son of Charles de la Fontaine, a royal government official who inspected forests and waterways. His mother Françoise Pidoux, who came from a nobler family from Poitou. He also had a younger brother who was born two years after La Fontaine. He also had an older step sister named Anne de Jouy on his mothers side of t .....
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