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- 3821: Fredrick Douglass 2
- ... be horrified that slave families were regularly torn apart for no apparent reason. Northerners would be upset by this because the family was the basis for their close-knit communities. Multiple generations and extended families lived together or within close proximity to each other. It would be unimaginable to the readers that a society existed that took children away from their mothers without a reason. Anyone who was part of such ...
- 3822: Ernest Hemingway 5
- ... Jake meets Count Mippipopolous whose comments about values stir a conversation between the two men and Brett. The count shares his values with both of them: You see, Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well. Don t you find it like that? Yes. Absolutely. I know, said the count. That is the secret. You must get to know values. Doesn ...
- 3823: Empress Wu
- ... and raised in China during the Tang dynasty. was the daughter of Wu Shih-Huo, a rich and noble merchant at the time. The Tang Dynasty was a time of relative freedom for woman. Since lived during that period of time, she was well educated at home. Like most other rich and noble people of her time, she was taught to play music, write, and read the Chinese classics. started out ...
- 3824: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... was born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England. The oldest of twelve children, Elizabeth was the first in her family born in England in over two hundred years. For centuries, the Barrett family had lived in Jamaica, where they owned sugar plantations and had slave labor to run them. Elizabeth's father was Edward Barrett Moulton Barrett, who chose to raise his family in England, while his fortune grew in ...
- 3825: Edgar Allan Poe - Life And Works
- ... more mysterious. Some people say that Poe had psychological mental problems, but others have praised him as a genius of human fear and confusion. Poe died on October 7, 1849 as mysterious as how he lived.
- 3826: Ernest Hemingway Vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... begin too.) The opening paragraphs of Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" and Hemingway's "Indian Camp" epitomize the basic difference between their writing styles. "Winter Dreams" begins, "Some of the caddies were poor as sin and lived in one-room houses with a neurasthenic cow in the front yard, but Dexter Green's father owned the second best grocery-store in Black Bear-the best one was 'The Hub,' patronized by the ...
- 3827: Eliot Ness
- ... earned a degree in business and law. When he graduated in 1925 he greatly upset those he loved by choosing a career in credit investigation rather that his planned path of business. During his short lived credit investigator career he studied criminology at night. Two years later Ness managed to be transferred to the Prohibition Bureau with some help from his brother in law. Here the staggering level of corruption stunned ...
- 3828: Edgar Allan Poe 3
- ... didn t attend church on January 23, 1831; and refused to attend class on January 25, 1831. He was not dismissed for drunkenness or rowdyism, as is often alleged (Anderson 32). After West Point, Poe lived in obscurity in Baltimore and New York from 1831 to 1834. On March 15, 1835, Poe pleaded with Mr. Kennedy for help in obtaining a position as schoolmaster. Mr. Kennedy replied to Poe s request ...
- 3829: Eva Peron
- ... Ibarguen children his last name and would visit them once in a while. When Eva was seven her father died living them in very poor conditions, all the family, her mother and the five children lived in a tiny one room and in order to pay the rent and have something to eat Eva s mother her sisters and herself had to work as cook s for a rich and powerful ...
- 3830: Escher
- ... artist. His art work were confusing pictures of mainly buildings and architecture. He was born in Leeuwarden on the 17 th of June 1898 and died in holland on the 27th of march 1972. Echer lived in Italy in 1922 and settled in Rome in 1924. He stayed in Rome for 10 years but went on many tours to such places as Calabria, Sicily, Corsica and spain. In 1934 he moved ...
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