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Marie Curie
2645 Words - 10 Pages.... Manya was only eleven, her mother died.
Manya learned to respect education at an early age and by the age of four, Manya could read. She was an excellent student who could remember things easy and concentrate well. At the age of 15, Manya graduated high school at the top of her class. That s ame year, Manya left for the countryside in order to relax.
A year later, Manya returned home ready to return to school. Since girls were not permitted to attend university in Russian Poland, Manya and her sister Bronya, decided to study at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. However, they face one major p roblem, they had no money. In order to save money, the sisters decided to ....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
794 Words - 3 Pages.... exploration and examination.
Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to
Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left
her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she
rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved
sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her
a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps
increased her interest in death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the
New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents w ....
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Was Jimmy Hoffa A Hero Or A Criminal?
1330 Words - 5 Pages.... to really get to know his father. Hoffa has
described his mother as a "warm and loving" but no-nonsense "frontier-type
woman" who believed that "Duty and Discipline were spelled with capital
D's." The children were expected to hurry home from school, change t heir
clothes quickly, and do their allotted chores expeditiously. Hoffa's tasks
were taking care of the stove and the clothes boiler and picking up and
delivering laundry. The family worshiped at the Christian Seaboard
Congregational churches, and Hoffa attended Sunday school there.(Current
Bio) In 1922 the Hoffas moved to Clinton Indiana, two years later they
settled in Detroit, Michigan, in an apartment on Merrit ....
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Alexander Ghram Bell
913 Words - 4 Pages.... at Edinburgh's Royal High School (from which he graduated at 14), and attended a few lectures at Edinburgh University and at University College in London, but he was largely family-trained and self-taught. He moved to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. With each passing year, Alexander Graham Bell's intellectual horizons broadened. By the time he was 16, he was teaching music and elocution at a boy's boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by their father but he ....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Greatest Anti-Transcendentalist Writer
883 Words - 4 Pages.... Transcendentalist writers of the period -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He also taught the only other Anti-
Transcendentalist writer of his period -- Herman Melville. His most
popular book, The Scarlet Letter, earned Hawthorne international fame. He
died in his sleep while on a walking tour in New Hampshire.
The period of time during which Hawthorne wrote was the New England
Renaissance in America. By the year 1840, it was clear that the American
experiment in Democracy had succeeded. England, trying again to retake
their old land in ‘The Second American War for Independence', was no
longer a threat to the survival of the republic. Andrew Jackson, the ....
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Margaret Sanger
5022 Words - 19 Pages.... a hypocrite; a rags to riches story that involves a complete withdrawal from her commitment to the poorer classes. My research indicates that this is not the case; in fact, by all accounts was a brave crusader who recognized freedom and choice in a woman's reproductive life as vital to the issue of the liberation of women as a gender. Moreover, after years of being blocked by opposition, Sanger also recognized the need to shift political strategies in order to keep the movement alive. Unfortunately, misjudgments made by her in this area have left 's legacy open to criticism. In this paper, I would like to explore 's life and career as well as become aware of some of ....
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William DeKooning
1596 Words - 6 Pages.... school. In 1926, de Kooning secured a passage on a streamer to the United States, illegally entering and settling in New Jersey. He quickly moved to Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New York City. Then in 1935, he landed a job with the Works Progress Administration, a government agency that put artists to work during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in the downtown art scene among his fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shi ....
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Galileo Galilei
928 Words - 4 Pages.... of a swinging lamp in the cathedral of Pisa led him to the discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum, which theory he utilized fifty years later in the construction of an astronomical clock. In 1588, an essay on the center of gravity in solids obtained for him the title of the Archimedes of his time, and secured him a teaching spot in the University of Pisa. During the years immediately following, taking advantage of the celebrated leaning tower, he laid the foundation experimentally of the theory of falling bodies and demonstrated the falsity of the peripatetic maxim, which is that an objects rate of descent is proportional to its weight. When he challenged thi ....
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