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Alexandre Dumas
... who became a writer himself, was born. A few years later, after many failures, wrote Henry III, which was a great success. Dumas became prominent as one of the leaders of the Romantic movement. Year's later, he turned all his attention to writing vivid historical novels. His best known novels are The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. However, He became famous not for his novels, but for his plays. Having been regarded as the most important playwright, one of the most prolific writers ever, and the most famous novelist in France, Dumas soon found his luck failing him. He made a fortune and quickly los ...
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Bruce Lee
... who died as a baby. The Chinese blamed this on evil spirits or demons
who take the lives of male babies to destroy the family's name. So they dressed
Bruce in little girls clothing and called him Sai Fon.
When they returned to Hong Kong, the Lee household consisted of Mr. Lee,
his wife Grace Lee, Bruce's two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother
Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert.
Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat.
Upon the death of Mr. Lee's brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in
his whole brother's Family and had to be the ...
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Essay On Christopher Columbus
... the Europeans who followed him
brought civilization to two immense sparsely populated continents, in the
process of enhancing and altering the Old World from where they had came
from. The 19th century, was a period whereby soceity of the Europeans
altered the Western culture of the Native Americans. The Europeans had
brought many new changes to the "New World", such as pigs, horses. Columbus
had opened the seeds of change. The European society as a whole, had
thought that the Europeans were doing a favor, by changing their primitive
ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more
superior to wh ...
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The Work Of Stephen King
... fears that are kept deep
down in our souls. He knows that we have been set down in a frightening
universe, full of real demons like death and disease, and perhaps the most
frightening thing is the human mind. Horror is "one of the ways we walk
our imagination" (King 218). King takes ordinary emotional situations and
translates them into violent tales of vampires and ghosts. "You never
have to ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro
220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own ...
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
... then at age six moved to England where
he attended private schools.
As a teen Poe was very gifted in foreign language. He wrote some of his
early works in both French an Latin. At age fifteen Poe had already written
enough works to publish a book but John would not allow it. Poe was also very
fit as a teen. Poe was supposedly a very fast swimmer and runner. It is
reported that Poe once as a teen swam the James river from Lundhams Wharf to
Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current (Woodberry 20). At 15
Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen. Poe was then reviewed by
the famous Ma ...
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Paul L. Dunbar
... children to read poetry as well. Dunbar began writing and reciting poetry as early as age six.
Paul was one of the most popular poets of his time and was the first black American writer to achieve national and international reputation. He was not only a poet, but also a novelist, short story writer, writer of articles and dramatic sketches, plays and lyrics for musical compositions. His first volume of poetry, "Oak and Ivy" was published in 1893. Many of his poems and stories were written in Afro-American dialect, of which he was initially most noted for (Martin and Hudson 16).
His second ...
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Ferdinand Prosche: Life And Achievements Of A Pioneer
... of the event, and later obtained
positive results in several races.
Other less important events happened between 1900 and 1923, when he was
hired by the most important carmaker of the time, Daimler Motoren A.G. (Which in
1926 would join Benz to form Daimler-Benz A.G.) During this time, first with
Daimler and then with Daimler-Benz, he became member of the board of directors,
and designed the famed S (Sportlich) and SS (Super Sportlich). Prizes and
university degrees did not take long to appear, and in the same year he joined
Daimler, 1923, he was named Sir Ferdinand Porsche by the Italian government and
rec ...
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Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
... movies. Everyone liked
her movies because the movies made them feel really good inside. Shirley made
alot of money making movies and she loved acting.
When Shirley started getting older, the movies became more serious.
The audiences didn't like Shirley in these kinds of movies and she became less
popular.
Shirley liked to be competitive in everything. She decided to be
the first person in her class to become engaged. On September 19, 1945 Shirley
married John Black and 12,000 people waited outside the church to see her.
When Shirley stopped making movies, she got busy wit ...
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Clara Barton
... and geography. Her brother even guided her in athletics. Growing up one trait, which Clara possessed, was her extreme shyness.
’s adult life was filled with success. Barton had a long career of public service. At age seventeen Barton became a teacher in Massachusetts. She taught many years and then decided that it was time to establish her own school in North Oxford where she was born. Eventually teaching began to loose its zest and she wanted more from life. She decided to further her education and attend the Liberal Institute. The Liberal Institute was located in Clinton, New York; it was an advanced scho ...
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The Style And Influences Of Lewis Carroll
... book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. He used the alter ego of Lewis Carroll as a release for his creativity (Bassett 10). Peter Heath compares this idea to a schizophrenic, in that Carroll is "a rebellious escapee from the tedious sobrieties of Dodgson . . .". If this is so, then the nonsensical aspects of his writings are the product of a quest to cast away the constraints of ordinary logic (46).
Nevertheless, his obligation towards the science of logic did influence his novels. Heath explains this by pointing out that his works are not actually nonsense, but rather absurdi ...
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