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Papers on People and Biographies
Kate Chopin
Number of words: 1066 | Number of pages: 4.... a prosperous cotton farmer. The two were married one June 9, 1870, after a yearlong courtship. Kate and Oscar had six children, five boys and one girl. Jean was born in 1871, Oscar Jr. in 1873, George in 1874, Frederick in 1876, Felix in 1878 and Lelia in 1879(Hoffman 1-2). When his cotton business failed they moved to Cloutierville, a small town in Louisiana. They were married for 12 ½ years. In 1882 Oscar died of Malaria, and Kate raised the children on her own. Two years after Oscar died Kate and her children moved in with her mother. Less than a year later her mother died and she was on her own again. Kate received a form .....
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Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
Number of words: 1237 | Number of pages: 5.... of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into unconciousness, he is
still unable to disengage himself from the physical and temperal world. The
physical oppreses him in the shape of lurid graveyard visions; the temporal
oppreses him in the shape of an enormous and deadly pendulum. It is altogether
appropriate, then, that this chamber should be constricting and cruelly angular"
(63).
Setting is also an important characteristic is Poe's "The Fall of the
House of Usher". The images he gives us such as how both the Usher family and
the Usher mansion are crumbling from inside waiting to collapse, help us to
connect the .....
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Mark Twain And Racism
Number of words: 665 | Number of pages: 3.... 15% of the United States population. Every
character in the book is racist, even Huckleberry himself. With such lines
as: "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming
right out flatfooted and saying he would steal his children-children that
belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no
harm"(Twain, P133), he illustrates this.
Additionally, the character of Jim is not a well-developed
character like Huckleberry or even Aunt Sally, but is flat, and is never
the instigator of actions. Instead, he is acted upon and is often the
center of attention, treated as a problem throughout t .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 384 | Number of pages: 2.... with the couple. The Poes
had no children.
This success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in
the magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and
he looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he
tried free-lance writing in New York City and Philadelphia but earned very
little. Again he tried editing. His work was praised, but he was still paid
little. His efforts to organize his own magazine were unsuccessful. For the
next two years he turned again to free-lance writing.
For one of the most well-known and talented writers of our time,
Poe had to struggle for .....
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Robert Frost: Biography And Review
Number of words: 712 | Number of pages: 3.... a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move.
In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish himself quickly and would reap the awards of immediate success. In 1894 at the age of twenty Frost sold and published his first poem “My Butte .....
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James Wilson
Number of words: 598 | Number of pages: 3.... about those needs and the importance of the agency's mission to those who can support the agency. The executives are also responsible to translate political and value concerns in the agency's environment into direction, mission, goals, objects that the agency can fulfill as a way of inserting the agency into politically important context. The goal is to link the world of influence outside the agency into support for the agency and its mission.
* The managers are responsible for making the operators life easier by providing the operators with the resources they need and by protecting them from political or other outside influen .....
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Henry David Thoreau
Number of words: 2069 | Number of pages: 8.... 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] stood close to the top of his class, but he went his own way too much to reach the top" (5).
In December 1835, Thoreau decided to leave Harvard and attempt to earn a living by teaching, but that only lasted about a month and a half (8). He returned to college in the fall of 1836 and graduated on August 16, 1837 (12). Thoreau's years at Harvard University gave him one great gift, an introduction to the world of books.
Upon his return from college, Thoreau's family found him to .....
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Stephen Crane
Number of words: 1465 | Number of pages: 6.... Then a series of huge waves comes tumbling towards the men in the dinghy; it capsizes. Now all the men are in the water, and one pictures them desperately trying to swim ashore. When they all had swum like crazy for a while, every body was saved, except the sailor Billy. He had been struggling the most out of everybody, even though a life jacket past him he still kept on struggling and trying. The odds were against him. Even if he really wanted to reach ashore he could not make it, because his fate was waiting for him. has written not one but many short fiction stories like this one and as one keeps reading them you get a .....
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Clara Barton
Number of words: 615 | Number of pages: 3.... education and attend the Liberal Institute. The Liberal Institute was located in Clinton, New York; it was an advanced school for female teachers. yearned to teach once again and accepted a job in New Jersey. Following this she opened a free school in Bordentown. The schools attendance topped six hundred students. Retiring from teaching for good Barton headed for Washington DC. A new chapter in her life opened and she worked as a clerk in the U.S Patent Office. At age forty and at the outbreak of the Civil War Clara decided to dedicate her life to volunteer service. Throughout the war she served as an independent volunteer .....
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Ray Charles Robinson
Number of words: 528 | Number of pages: 2.... of months, a record producer noticed him and
Charles had his first album: "Confession Blues." Afterward Charles went on
the road for a few years. He played at bars around the country. It was
known by musicians as the chitlin' circuit.
Soon Charles stopped imitating other musicians, as he had been doing up
until this point, and began to combine gospel and rhythm and blues, and, in
doing so, created soul. He is still called the "Genius of Soul" today. In
1955 Charles made recorded "I've Got a Women", and made history. It helped
pave the way for soul for years to come.
In the 1960's Charles recorded "I Can't Stop Loving You" (a .....
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