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- 3871: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... moving with his family to Macon County, Illinois, he struck out on his own, taking cargo on a flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana. He then returned to Illinois and settled in New Salem, a short-lived community on the Sangamon River, where he split rails and clerked in a store. He gained the respect of his fellow townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to physical ...
- 3872: Artist: Turner: Outline
- ... his career. It is very apparent that he was a man not set by limits but by the limitless reaches of his mind and the changing world around him. 1. Understand the era that Turner lived. a) Turners life span was a period of tremendous change and development. b) He is the only British painter of the time whose work truly reflected the spirit of progress of these years. c) In ...
- 3873: Archibald Macleish
- ... revolutionary movement in poetry, these three were William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. MacLeish believed their poetry to be a revolt against the neurotic nineteenth-century idea of poetry. (MacLeish 165). MacLeish lived through two World Wars, serving in the first, and the Great Depression. The wars only effected his poetry a little while he wrote about the Depression quite a lot. The poem Panic expresses the many ...
- 3874: Anne Tyler
- ... isolation, human interactions of eccentric middle-class people living in disunited families. was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but grew up in North Carolina, as the daughter of an industrial chemist and social worker. The family lived among various Quaker communities in the rural south before settling in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the age of 19 Tyler graduated from Duke University, Raleigh, where she won the Anne Flexner Award for creative writing ...
- 3875: Ann Frank
- was a bright happy 13-year-old Jewish girl. She was born in Germany. Ann lived with her Father, Mother and Sister. Her father owned his own business. He sold herbs and spices until 1940, when Hitler came into power. Ann s father Mr. Frank was a kind man. He did ...
- 3876: Amadeus
- ... the twenty one year old student, which he previously has vowed to keep his hands off of, Katherina. In addition to no longer living a chaste life, Salieri also surrounds himself with splendor. The successful lived with gold, and so would I!... (2,4). He no longer settled for plain things, he grew shining, giving parties, and worshipped refinement instead of God. The ultimate act that Salieri performs exemplifies the animosity ...
- 3877: Albert Einstein
- was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. He revolutionized and reshaped scientific thinking in the modern world. By general consent he is acknowledged as the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived. Best known as the creator of the Theory of Relativity, Einstein would still rank among the greatest scientists for his part in the idea of quantum mechanics, for his contribution to statistical physics, and for ...
- 3878: Abe Lincoln
- ... splitter". A year later Thomas Lincoln moved again, but his time Abe stayed behind. He was 21 now, and ready to live his own life, so he moved to New Salem in Illinois where he lived for six years. When the Black Hawk war broke out in 1832, Lincoln enlisted. He was elected leader of his rifle company, and this honor pleased him though he knew very little about military life ...
- 3879: Elvis Presley
- ... coffin, a white Cadillac hearse, 17 white Cadillac limousines, and over 50,000 mourners who all took home a single flower at the wish of the Presley family. Although he was dead, his legend still lived on. III. Impact on History Elvis wasn t just a musician; he starred in 33 successful films including Love Me Tender, King Creole (playing the role James Dean was slated to play), and Jail House ...
- 3880: Ann Hutchinson
- ... and an American Jezebel. She defended herself by quoting from the Bible. She was then forced out of the church and excommunicated from Massachusetts. She and her family then moved to Rhode Island, were they lived for awhile till Indians killed her and her family. One might say, that was a very brave and independent woman who fought for what she believed in no matter what the consequences were. To me ...
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