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Francesco Petrarch
1993 Words - 8 Pages.... in his life, later became a monk and throughout his life stayed in contact with Francesco. Petrarch had another brother, who died at a very young age. His mother died when he was 15 years old, which was consequently when some of his earliest works have been recorded. At the age of 22, Francesco's father passed away, which caused Francesco to attain a career. Giovanni, his son, was born illegitimately in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as:
"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he hates books"
He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to liv ....
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Frederick Douglass And Slavery
663 Words - 3 Pages.... the teaching of Douglass to read would, "Spoil the best
nigger in the world... forever unfitting him for the duties of a slave."
As a slave child some experiences were hard to describe. Douglass
witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived
with his Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane
slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
Douglass was often times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be
tied and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was
literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory
victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its ....
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Jules Verne
1035 Words - 4 Pages.... young 20s, he wrote operettas librettos for about 2
years while continuing to practice law. He was appointed as the Secretary of the
Theatre Lyrique in Paris. He made some letters to his mother commenting on his
shabby clothes compared to the clothes poets there. He started to become a very
busy people.
Verne was married on January 10, 1857 to Honorine de Viane. He only had 1
child, a boy named Michel, who was born on August 3, 1861. Verne also had 2
stepdaughters, Valentine, and Suzanne. Michel grew up to be a very disobedient
child. Verne tried many means of stopping this delinquency. He put Michel in
jail in an attempt to stop the "madness". He was really unhappy ov ....
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Wyatt Earp
365 Words - 2 Pages.... Later, he became a stagecoach driver and traveled to Los Angeles, Ca and Prescott, Arizona. Wyatt also hunted buffalo for so me time. There are rumors that it was during this tiem that Wyatt met Bat Masterson.
In 1876 he became chief deputy marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, a lawless frontier town. Within a year, having brought relative peace to Dodge City, he moved on to Deadwood in the Dakota Territoy.
In the fall of 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Ear ....
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Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, And Humanist
2078 Words - 8 Pages.... (The 1995 Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was
interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show
interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the
tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy (Derleth 4).
In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard
University, but his parents could not afford the cost of tuition so his
sister, Helen, who had begun to teach, and his aunts offered to help. With
the assistance of his family and the beneficiary funds of Harvard he went
to Cambridge in August 1833 and entered Harvard on September first. "He
[Thoreau] sto ....
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Dorothy Parker
935 Words - 4 Pages.... sexual relationships. It seemed that infidelity was included among these "rights." Her admirers culled quotations from her poetry that, while seeming to be among the most clever, were also among the least sincere. These epitomize the apparent lack of emotional range displayed in her verse.
The techniques and topics that many of her verses tackle are as follows: "bitterness, humor, wit, and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play ....
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Mao Zedong
1817 Words - 7 Pages.... principle architect of the New China (McHenry 1992).
was born in 1893, in the village of Sao-Shan, Hunan Province. He was the son of a poor man who had become affluent as a farmer and grain dealer,(McHenry 1992).
He grew up in a time and place where education was only considererd necessary for keeping records and accounts. He was educated at a primary school and there he learned the basic knowledge of the classics of Confusous. Continuing with his education, he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992).
Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Ch ....
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Charles Darwin: His Life Story Of Dicovery
922 Words - 4 Pages.... the credit as being the first in all time
to explain some of the disagreements between geologists. Some of these where how
some rock layers were higher than others in some are but in other areas they
were lower.
Early Years
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809. He
was the son of Robert Warren Darwin, a family doctor and of Susannah Wedgewood
Darwin daughter of a porcelain manufacturer. His grandfather, infact, was the
great English poet Erasmus Darwin. His early school training was at a small
school house in Shrewsbury. After which his father put him into Edinburgh
University in 1825 to 1827 for medical studies. Darwin showed no interest in ....
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