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Pablo Casals
<view this essay>.... study on the playing and the designing of the
instrument at the Madrid Conservatory, Casals decided to improve the sound
of the cello by making important modifications on the techniques of playing
it. For this first accomplishment Casals made, which he thought of simply
as "necessary to my performance", Pablo Casals was widely acclaimed as a
master. He received even more acclaim just after his first performance in
Paris on 1898, this sparked his long and monuments career.
Soon Casals began a great deal of touring across Europe and the
Americas, making his fresh, new style increasingly more and more popular.
Because of his popularity, at the time, the so .....
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Frost
<view this essay>.... later would enter Dartmouth College, but would remain there less that one semester. Later he returned to Massachusetts where he would be a school teacher along with two other jobs he held as a mill worker and a newspaper reporter.
Then in 1895 married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school. Then between 1897 and 1899 felt the need to go back to college he attended Harvard as a special student only to leave without a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten .....
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Richard Wright
<view this essay>.... farm much in the same manner that his hero, Bigger Thomas, began his
life. Deprived, poor, and segregated against, Wright spent much of his
early childhood in pain, fear, and shame. He was repeatedly beaten by his
mother and grandmother for trying to fight back at the segregation imposed
upon him. He was also beaten by whites to whom he had to turn for jobs and
he was resentful of the Jim Crow rules by which he had to live. In Black
Boy, Wright's autobiography, he recalls a familiar childhood event: "I
would feel hunger nudging my ribs, twisting my empty guts until they ached.
I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim."
In Black Boy, Wright used hi .....
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Biography Of Emily Bronte
<view this essay>.... Charlotte became a teacher at the school at Roe Head and Emily joined her as a student. After three months Charlotte sent her home again, afraid that Emily was extremely homesick from her beloved moors. For a short time in 1837 Emily moved to Halifax in order to teach at the Law Hill School. She returned to Haworth when her health again began to fail. After this agonizing experience, Emily remained at home for five years. During this period, she wrote poetry and short stories to fill her time. In 1842,
she attended school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. There they studied music and foreign language. Emily also wrote her French essays at this ti .....
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Benjamin Harrison
<view this essay>.... was complete, the governor commissioned him a colonel, and Harrison set off with his troops. By day he drilled his men; at night he studied tactics. Always he looked after his soldiers' needs. They called him Little Ben.
General Harrison went back to his work at the Supreme Court and his law practice. He also took over again his large Bible class in the Presbyterian church, where his wife taught Sunday school.
In 1876 Harrison ran for governor of Indiana. The Democrats called him "cold as an iceberg" and nicknamed him Kid-Glove Harrison. The Democratic candidate, nicknamed Blue Jeans, won the election.
Four years later the Indiana legisla .....
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Jeffrey Dalhmer
<view this essay>.... child a good upbringing and discovering to their horror that their child has built a high wall around himself from which their influence is progressively shut out. While fortunately, most parents do not have a Jeffrey Dahmer to raise, too many have seen their children succumb to drugs, alcohol, crime despite their very best and, often frantic, efforts to intervene.
"It is a portrayal of parental dread... the terrible sense that your child has slipped beyond your grasp, that your little boy is spinning in the void, swirling in the maelstrom, lost, lost, lost."
Lionel seems to be fairly straightforward in recognising the negative influences in Jeff's life .....
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Saint Francis Of Assisi
<view this essay>.... a man who put money above all else. Francis then gave all of his possessions to his father and devoted his time to caring for outcasts and lepers of Mount Subasio. Francis also restored the ruined church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. He held mass there for the outcasts that were not allowed in the other churche! s. one day, during mass, Francis heard a voice telling him to go into the world and to possess nothing, but do good everywhere.
Doing just that, Francis found himself preaching in Assisi later in the year. He gathered about him twelve disciples who became the brothers of the First Order of Franciscans, with Francis as their superior. Francis late .....
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Serial Murderer Ed Gein
<view this essay>.... on August 21, 1906 But his
family soon moved to a farm outside Plainfield(Woods8). Plainfield being
located in Waushara County near the intersection of hwy 51 and hwy 73.
This was a very small and quiet town of about 700 in population (Milwaukee
Journal). This was a town where every body knew each other or thought they
did. Plainfield was soon to be a town that would soon rock the nation.
His father George Gein held jobs as a tanner and carpenter when he
wasn't working the farm. When he was not working he would often visit the
local bars and drink himself drunk(Hotvedt). He was often a coward to his
wife and cowered in fear of her. This led him .....
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