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- 3101: William Faulkner
- ... persons. Jefferson has an actual jail, town square, old houses, and Old Frenchman's Place, even a railroad. Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha County" is in reality Lafayette County, and "Jefferson" is actually Oxford. The Faulkner family lived there since before the Civil War. This is where most of his stories take place. He pondered the family history and his own personal history; and he used both in writing his stories. (American Writers ...
- 3102: Werner Heisenberg
- One cannot fully appreciate the work of unless one examines his contributions in the context of the time in which he lived. Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in Wuerzburg, Germany, on December 5, 1901, and grew up in academic surroundings, in a household devoted to the humanities. His father was a professor at the University of Munich ...
- 3103: Orson Welles
- ... was already well on his way to becoming a legend. Everybody seemed to be convinced that he was extraordinary, and quite possibly a genius in the making. But for all his outward reassurance, the child lived in a constant fear of not living up to his parent's expectations. "I always felt I was letting them down. That's why I worked so hard. That's the stuff that turned the ...
- 3104: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... 1885-86 Van Gogh studied at the academy in Antwerp, where he was forced to draw from plaster casts and to adopt academic principles that did not suit him. He moved to Paris, where he lived with Theo his brother. The Paris period (March 1886-February 1888) is extremely important because it enabled Vincent to see and to hear discussed work of virtually every major artist there. Although van Gogh admired ...
- 3105: Stephen King: The King Of Terror
- ... would immediately write down his experiences and observations. Frequently King would place his friends and family into childhood fantasy tales. And one would always know how Stephen felt about them because of how long they lived in the story. It was not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned ...
- 3106: Tennessee Williams
- was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. As a child, he lived with his mother and grandfather. When he was fourteen, Williams too first place in an essay contest sponsored by a national magazine, The Smart Set. At the age of seventeen, his first published story appeared ...
- 3107: The Art Of Rock And Roll By Charles Brown
- ... Some rockabilly musicians include Johnny Cash, who was more influential in folk music as he developed his style, Buddy Holly, who could have contributed to rock just as much as Presley did if he had lived longer, Jerry Lee Lewis, who was one of the first rock and roll piano players, and Carl Perkins. Chapter seven talks about the broadening of the music style and the performers who came out of ...
- 3108: A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
- "As an author Melville both courted failure and scorned success."(pg. 613, A Companion to Melville Studies). How many famous legends in time have existed to know no fame. How many remarkable artist have lived and died never receiving due credit for there work. Herman Melville is clearly an artist of words. Herman Melville is certainly a prodigy when it comes to writing. Herman Melville never received hardly any credit ...
- 3109: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Properly Acknowledged by certainly took his place in the history of American Literature . He lived in a time when romanticism was becoming a way of thinking and beginning to bloom in America, the time period known as The Romantic Age. Romantic thinking stressed on human imagination and emotion rather than ...
- 3110: Dinner With Bill Gates
- ... the restroom. With Bill's absence the tension quickly dissipated. Giton, Ascyltus, and I conversed with several of the other guests about our host and the incident earlier to this evening. Our relief was short lived, however, Bill shortly returned to dinner, now sporting a pair of khakis and a light green blazer. He quickly cracked a joke about the size of his bladder and sat down. At this point, another ...
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