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Walt Whitman 3
<view this essay>.... in all of Whitman’s poetry is his use of the Divine Soul (god), which tends to explicate that Whitman was a very strong believer in his religion. Whitman use of themes discusses his own individuality and personality; he wanted to explain the democracy of America, and its achievements, while giving poetical thought to the great mysteries that plagued mankind of his generation.
The human self was comprised of physical and spiritual annex which both contained a self and soul as was characterized by Whitman.
The self that Whitman spoke of was a man’s own individual identity, which has a distinct quality and being, different from the selves of other .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
<view this essay>.... three years in Boston. Then in 1825 he entered Harvard Divinity School and preached for three years. At the age of 29 he resigned for ministry, partly because of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and started to lecture. Then in 1836, he helped to start the Transcendental Club. The Transcendental Club was formed for authors that were part of this historical movement. Emerson was a big part of this and practically initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the .....
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The Life Of George Armstrong Custer
<view this essay>.... of the time felt that the conquest of the continent added to the
strength of the nation, and it allowed for more opportunities to become
rich.
At the age of seventeen, George Armstrong Custer entered the United
States Military Academy at West Point. At the Academy, Custer learned the
meaning of institutional discipline and the importance of selective
obedience. He was always on the brink of dismissal, but he was able to
control himself when it was necessary. Custer knew what he could get away
with without being dismissed from the academy, and he enjoyed going to the
edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving
and jok .....
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Charlie Chaplin
<view this essay>.... of alcoholism in 1901 and his mother became ill, constantly going in and out of mental institutions. Chaplin lived his childhood in and out of run-down furnished rooms, state poorhouses, and an orphanage. His childhood was marked by poverty, cruelty, hunger, and loneliness- subjects which became major themes in his silent comedies.
was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would become the most famous person in the world. A sign of this was when he was five years old and sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken for crazy. The audience apparently loved .....
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Michelangelo
<view this essay>.... the poet Politian, who were frequent visitors. produced at least two sculptures by the time he was 16 years old, the Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs. This shows that he had achieved a personal style at a very early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492, two years later fled Florence, when the Medici family was temporarily expelled. He settled for a time in Bologna where he sculpted several marble statuettes.
then went to Rome, where he was able to look at many newly discovered classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous w .....
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Paul L. Dunbar
<view this essay>.... for. She loved poetry and encouraged her children to read poetry as well. Dunbar began writing and reciting poetry as early as age six.
Paul was one of the most popular poets of his time and was the first black American writer to achieve national and international reputation. He was not only a poet, but also a novelist, short story writer, writer of articles and dramatic sketches, plays and lyrics for musical compositions. His first volume of poetry, “Oak and Ivy” was published in 1893. Many of his poems and stories were written in Afro-American dialect, of which he was initially most noted for (Martin and Hudson 16).
His second volume, “Majors and Mi .....
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Isaac Newton And Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... The he found out that his family had moved to Paliva. His dad worked with his dad in a factory. In 1898 Einstein met Molava and it was love at first sight. While Newton was discovering hypothesis and experimenting, so was Albert but he didn’t start until later. In collage Albert was considered lazy and stupid. Newton and Albert practically studied the same thing, but just at different times. Such as light and its colors, motion, science in general, space and the universe, gravity was a really big one. They also studied orbit and calculus. Einstein studied about being a teacher, electricity and how things worked. Newton studied telescopes, ligh .....
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Walt Disney
<view this essay>.... He realized at a young age how much he enjoyed it. Because the presence of the animals on the farm influenced him, he would sit down with no formal schooling and draw animals such as pigs, ducks, dogs, and even mice. This was the beginning of one of the greatest cartoon animators of all time.
One of the most important reasons why Disney succeeded was because of his great personality. "There was undeniably some almost mystic bond between him and the moods and styles and attitudes of the American people" (Bullock 49) . Disney was a true genius for innovation. He became one of the entertainment industry's most prominent and influential figures. "Someti .....
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