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Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
... failed to maintain this status. He had only occasional government jobs.
At an early age his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to the school of a master, who taught grammar. His mind however, was on art not his studies. Painters and sculptors at work fascinated Michelangelo. He made friends with a student who encouraged him to follow his own artistic vocation. When Michelangelo was thirteen, his father was a minor Florentine official with connections to the Medici family. At this time his father reluctantly agreed to apprentice him to the city's most prominent painters, the Ghirlandajo brothers (Compton's, 1998). Unsatisfied, because the brothers ...
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Peter The Great 3
... in 1682 (4:89). It was then that a truce was made that Peter and his half-brother Ivan (also son of Maria), who was also slightly retarded, would be joint czars (4:89). He spent most of his young childhood life in the Kremlin, which he grew to hate, due to the dusky rooms, the labyrinthine corridors, and the bloody memories of terror and danger (4:89). When Peter was 10 years old, the palace guards revolted, and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Cza ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
... he was born to be educated. Mary always
expressed her greatest joy that Ralph would be a scholar or orator of some
kind. Emerson credits Mary with being able to stimulate his intelligence
in that direction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was always placed in the best scholastic
environment available to him, which is ironic because later Emerson says
education comes from personal experience rather than what a text book says.
After several independent private schools and college prepatory schools,
Emerson entered Harvard. Emerson later says of Harvard, “ It has done
little for me on the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he
says his, “...mind commenced its charac ...
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Walt Whitman 2
... the inhabitants as the battles in the South became more frequent.
One poem written by Whitman, O Captain, My Captain was written in retrospect to the death of one of our nation’s greatest leaders, Abraham Lincoln (Whitman, 2). This act of violence was just an outcome of the war. A young man by the name of John Wilkes Booth killed one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States after the war just as something to revolt about due to the loss by the South. It’s hard to imagine how someone could do something like this to such a great man, especially after all he had done to help, and encourage the rights, and goodness for the people ...
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Sir Isaac Newton
... way slowly up the “social ladder”. The Newton’s were one of the few families to prosper in Lincolnshire (Westfall 1). At the age of three Isaac’s life would take a drastic turn. When Isaac was three his mother, Hannah Ayscough, remarried to the Reverend Barnabas Smith (Internet-newtonia). Isaac and the Reverend never got along and the Reverend would not have a child that was not his living with him. Isaac stayed with his grandparents when his mother went to live with the Reverend in North Witham. His maternal grandmother raised Isaac until he was ten. It is believed that his mother’s second marriage and her leaving caused many problems for Isaac as a child. While ...
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George Brenard Shaw
... Grove, a middle class area in London. Shaw found work at Edison’s Telephone Company at a wage of two shillings and a sixpence, and in his spare time taught himself to write. After a while he was promoted to head of his department with a wage of 80 pounds. Soon enough Shaw admitted that he was not a working man, and he wanted to be a writer. December 23rd 1880, the family moved to Fitzroy Street. This enabled Shaw to visit the museum library, where he learned the most for his education. Unemployed, he could not afford to eat at the local restaurants and ate instead at the vegetarian eatery where he could buy a good and nourishing meal. He became a vegetarian in ...
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David Livingstone
... other rivers, was the first white man to see Victoria Falls, and probably the first individual to traverse the entire length of Lake Tanganyika. Had his health not failed he would surely have succeeded in also discovering the source of the Nile. He never lost sight of one of his great objectsbringing Christ to Africaalthough healing and exploring were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put i ...
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Benjamin Franklin Autobiography Analytical Essay
... of the New World. Franklin mentions his almanac numerous times throughout his autobiography. He calls it a “proper vehicle for conveying instructions among the common people.” This book had Whig ideals spread throughout it. This was a way for him to spread information about anything he wanted to the common people. He also published a newspaper. He also used this as a vehicle to send information to people. He solicited out the bad things, “IN the conduct of my newspaper I carefully all libeling and personal abuse….” He tried to display just the good in society. But in the same right he mentions his newspaper as a stagecoach, saying, “in which anyone who would pa ...
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Lizzie Borden 2
... is found not guilty for the violent and bloody murders of two people. There were the unusual circumstances considering that it was an era of swift justice, of vast newspaper coverage, evidence that was almost entirely circumstantial, passionately divided public opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, incompetent prosecution, and acquittal.
Not much is described of Lizzie Andrew Borden's childhood. On March 1, 1851, Emma Lenora Borden was born to Andrew and Sarah Borden, and on July 19, 1860, Lizzie had arrived. While Lizzie was at the young age of two, Sarah died of uterine congestion. In 1865, Andrew Borden wed Abby Durfee-a short, shy, obese wo ...
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Lena Horne
... where blacks entertained a strictly all white crowd. At that time she was making about $25 a week. It was here that Lena got to meet and observe now famous artists such as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Ethal Waters, and Billie Holiday. At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and also the musical revue “Blackbirds of 1939." W ...
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