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The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
<view this essay>.... for gambling and the like and my father refused to send me money, so I was out on the streets. I enlisted in the United States Army and there authored another book called Tamerlane and other Poems by a Bostonian. This book included “Tamerlane,” as well as “Song,” “Dreams,” “Visit of the Dead,” “Spirits of the Dead,” “Evening Star,” “Imitation,” “Stanzas,” A Dream,” “The Happiest Day,” and “The Lake”. A while later I was appointed company clerk, but I wanted to leave the army. In order to do this; I had to find a replacement. Finally, I found a man, who wanted to reenlist anyhow, if I paid him seventy-five dollars.
After leaving the army, I drafted a po .....
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Jane Addams
<view this essay>.... the amount of freedom and authority the teachers were able to use in their classrooms. On several different occasions the "Dunne" members of the board attempted to lower the restriction on the teachers side but were warned-off with tales of the politicians and the difficulties previous attempts encountered. Addams' describes the situation between the superintendent and the Teachers' Federation as "an epitome of the struggle between efficiency and democracy" (171). She clearly understood both standpoints and why they both felt compelled to make their argument, although she does mention that they both "inevitably exaggerated the difficulties of the si .....
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Tupac Shakur
<view this essay>.... rap ensemble (u.a., "original area," n.p.). He started as a tour dancer but then started rapping live (u.a., "original area," n.p.). From there he released a couple albums and then was offered to be in some movies. He became friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre (Placid n.p.). He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t., n.p. letter code D) More people were influenced to buy his CD. People listened to the music and did what he sa .....
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Watching Payton Was Pure Sweetness
<view this essay>.... 202-pound body had wasted away to nearly half his playing weight. It is an image many find difficult to assimilate today.
I chose to see him, to remember him, this way:
It is the early '80s and Payton is in a place as comfortable to him
as the womb. He is floating six inches above the frozen turf at
Soldier Field, hovering really, splay-legged and open to suggestion.
Payton's eyes are wide, deer-caught-in-the-headlights wide. But this
wild creature, crackling with that quirky, impulsive energy, is very
much in control of the moment.
The safety, whose job it is to decide which way Payton will go when he finally comes down, is the one wh .....
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Allen Ginsburg In America
<view this essay>.... inside him, because he was consumed by lust for other boys his age. He discovered the poetry of Walt Whitman (the original Beatnik) in high school, despite his interest in poetry he followed his father's advice and planned on a career as a lawyer. This was what he had in mind when he began his freshman year at Columbia University, but what he ended up doing was running around with a bunch of poets and the like, including fellow students Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac and friends William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspende .....
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A Memorable Experience In Photography
<view this essay>.... 3. Images of calamity(Photographs,Introduction).
His work also had a swift understanding and sympathy for the people who
suffer from being caught in war. This type of suffering made it
impossible for him to ignore the events which affected their lives(Images
of War 9). Robert's belief on photography is "If your pictures are not
good enough, your not close enough"(Photographs Foreword).
Robert's breakthrough in the field of photography came during the Spanish
Civil War. His most famous picture was a snapshot of a courageous man in
the act of falling(Capa18). His own special talents and course of world
happenings, led him into a role as a professi .....
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Henrik Ibsen
<view this essay>.... education. From 1851 to 1857, Ibsen was playwright in residence and director of the theatre in Bergen.
While there, he wrote St. John’s Night (written in 1852), Lady Inger of Osteraad (written in 1854, published in 1857), The Feast at Solhaug (written in 1855, published in 1856), and Olaf Liljekrans (written in 1856). All these plays were inspired by folk songs, folklore or history, all of which are leitmotifs that run through Ibsen’s works. Ibsen became creative director of The Norwegian Theater in Christiania in 1858. The next year, he wrote the historical play The Vikings at Helgeland. The Pretenders was written in 1863. Beside Bjornstjerne Bj .....
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Leonard Bernstein
<view this essay>.... knew of Leonard’s love for music, but I doubt she knew what a great impact this gift would have, not only on Leonard, but also on the world of music.
After the young boy began to show an interest in the instrument, a neighbor offered to give him lessons, which lasted for about a year. After that year, Bernstein was no longer satisfied with his teacher, so he went out to find another one. He was referred to a teacher by the name of Miss Susan Williams and despite his father’s protest, this teaching relationship with Miss Williams lasted for two years.
When Bernstein decided that he needed a more professional teacher, he went under the education of Helen Coate .....
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