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Thomas Jefferson Biography
725 Words - 3 Pages.... age of 16, Jefferson entered the Collage of William and Mary. After graduating, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1767. Soon after, in 1769, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. Jefferson married Martha Skelton in 1772 and had one son and five daughters.
Being the poor speaker that he was, Jefferson used his literary talents to express his ideas. It is well known that he wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he also wrote many other documents dealing with the colonial protest of British rule. (3) A Summary View of the Rights of British America was a pamphlet denying right of Parliament to rule over the colonies. Jefferson proved to be ....
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The Identity Of Thomas Pynchon
1788 Words - 7 Pages.... of identity and meaning are shrouded beneath a veil of conspiracy
in The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon's second novel and his shortest.
Throughout the novel there are snatches of hidden agendas and mysterious
plans; it is a world run by Pierce Inverarity, a character who is dead when
the novel opens yet remains an active presence throughout the work. This
seems to fit Pynchon's situation rather nicely as the ghostly moderator of
a tired world, leading his main character Oedipa Maas on a quest for
meaning while blindly groping for clues about a conspiratorial mail system
known only as the Trystero. Oedipa's quest echos the quest of everyone; she
wishes for an identity that ....
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Elvis Presley
1395 Words - 6 Pages.... worked as a sewing machine operator while his father was farm hand. When Elvis was 3 years old, his father was convicted of forgery, along with two other men, for a hog they had sold. Vernon was sent to Parchman Prison where he served 9 months. Due to family hardships, Elvis and his family had to move to Memphis, Tennessee.
Elvis was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enroll ....
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William Faulkner 2
1228 Words - 5 Pages.... population by race. Faulkner’s work also includes stories from the past and present. David Minter says, “His works take us into regions and spaces we can never directly know, and also back in the time to worlds lost before we were born” (Preface X). Of course, Faulkner’s personal life has added a certain amount of excitement to his audiences. Faulkner’s stories are known to reflect experiences from his own familiar life. William Faulkner should be mentioned along with any collection of classic authors because of his remarkable use of the past and present, as well as for his meticulous detail and comprehensive knowledge of the South in his w ....
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Daniel Webster
691 Words - 3 Pages.... Over the
next 6 years, Webster won major constitutional cases in front of the
Supreme Court making him almost famous. Some of his most notable cases
were Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v.
Maryland. He made himself the nations leading lawyer and an outstanding
skilled public speaker or an orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to
Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts.
New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National
Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing
federal aid for roads ....
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Agatha Christie
1345 Words - 5 Pages.... in Oxfordshire (Prichard www.mysteries.com/birthday/). Agatha Miller was born the third child to her parents, Fred and Mary Miller. She grew up in Torquay, Devon, England. She was taught at home by her mother and several tutors and governesses, never attending a real school. As a child, Miller kept herself occupied by inventing games to play with her siblings. Not being around other children besides her siblings made Miller a shy child. She was not outspoken in her thoughts, so she expressed her feelings in music. Later in life, she would turn to writing as a means of expression (Yaffe BKYaffe@nltl.columbia.edu). Agatha Miller’s first husband was Archibald Christie, w ....
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Martin Luther King Jr. 3
2593 Words - 10 Pages.... maternal grandfather. King, Jr. was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18.
King attended local segregated public schools, where he excelled. He entered nearby Morehouse College at age 15 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1948. After graduating with honors from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology in 1955.
King’s public-speaking abilities—which would become renowned as his stature grew in the civil rights movement—developed slowly during his collegiate years. He won a second-place prize in a speech contest while an undergr ....
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Dorothea Lange
335 Words - 2 Pages.... also photographed Mormon communities.
During her years in photography, she traveled to Asia, South America,
Egypt, and India.
She married Maynard Dixon in 1920. Her marriage lasted fifteen
years and in 1935 she divorced him. However, while on assignment in New
Mexico, she remarried to Paul Taylor.
In 1939, she began her first major project. Later, she worked for the
Farm Security Administration. However, much conflict arose and in 1940
she was dismissed for the last time.
In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six months
photographing developing countries and Asia. Dorothea began having
reoccurring ulcers. She was diagnosed w ....
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