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Ernest Hemmingway
... beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old f ...
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Sammy Davis Jr.
... for the first time.
Sammy wanted to be a big star and he realized this major difference between most black artists and the famous white artists. Most black artists came on stage played some songs, joked at or to each other, and left. The white artists talked with the audience. It was as if the black artists were not fit to talk to the audience. Sammy changed this at a nightclub in Hollywood. He "touched the audience". This got him a record deal with Decca.
When Sammy was a rising star, he was driving from Las Vegas to L.A. He had an accident that took away his left eye. This gave him publicity and boosted his career. After this, he convert ...
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Fiction Authors
... New World. Written late in his career, Brave
New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers
to look at the role of science and literature in the future world, scared
that it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxley
includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society,
a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer
part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with
his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is
the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approa ...
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Jean De La Fontaine
... on July 8, 1621. Most take this as his actual birth date, but according to the custom of the period, it probably means that La Fontaine was born a day or two earlier. (Mackay, pg.4) He was the son of Charles de la Fontaine, a royal government official who inspected forests and waterways. His mother Françoise Pidoux, who came from a nobler family from Poitou. He also had a younger brother who was born two years after La Fontaine. He also had an older step sister named Anne de Jouy on his mothers side of the family. (Carter, pg. 46)
Burns 2
The education and formative years of young la Fontaine are not documented. Most biographers state that, in all likeliho ...
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Sagan
... in topic that it is difficult at times to find a unifying factor. Nor does the book reach any sort of conclusion as to the direction of man and things around him. In this we can understand the true sadness of 's death, he was a child who was overwhelmed by the beauty of the universe around him and had not the time needed to express all of it in words.
The book is split into three parts; "The Power and Beauty of Quantification", "What are the Conservatives Conserving?" and "Where Hearts and Minds Collide". In the first section begins by teaches the reader about large numbers and what innovations in the past allowed us to use them. moves slowly and tactfu ...
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Albert Einstein
... unimaginative spirit of school in Munich. ('s Early Life) His parents wisely thought to transfer him out of that environment.
Although Einstein's family was Jewish, he was sent to a Catholic elementary school from 1884 to 1889. He was then enrolled at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. In 1894, Hermann Einstein's business failed and the family moved to Pavia, near Milan, Italy. Einstein was left behind in Munich to allow him to finish school. Such was not to be the case, however, since he left the gymnasium after only six more months. Einstein's biographer, Philip Frank, explains that Einstein so thoroughly despised formal schooling that he devised a scheme by w ...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
... School Times and president of
Philomathean Literary Society in his senior year. Despite Dunbar's growing
reputation in the then small town of Dayton, writing jobs were closed to black
applicants and the money to further his education was scarce. In 1891, Dunbar
graduated from Central High School and was unable to find a decent job.
Desperate for employment, he settled for a job as an elevator operator in the
Callahan Building in Dayton.
The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to
1938 labeled him as an American poet. Dunbar had two poetic identities. He was
first a Victorian poet writing in a comparatively formal style of literary ...
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B. F. Skinner
... things. One of his inventions included a device that
automatically reminded him to hang up his pajamas in the morning. He played the
saxophone in a jazz band during high school and played piano until his failing
eyesight made it hard for him to read the music. In college, he was very
independent, and sometimes even a prankster. He graduated from Hamilton College
in 1926 and later received his P.h.D. in psychology at Harvard University.
(Ulrich, 1997)
John B. Watson
John Broadus Watson was born in Greenville, South Carolina on January
9th 1878. He went to college at Furman University and the University of Chicago.
Watson created "Psychological behaviorism" in ...
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Nevil Shute
... for the famous airship R100. During this time is when he
completed his first novel, Marazan. When the R100 disaster occurred, the
company ended the building of airships and Nevil Norway turned his devotion
to the manufacturing of airplanes and created his own business, Airspeed
Limited. His second novel, So Disdained, was published in 1926 and
released in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz
and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under the Christian
name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer
would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many
years, up until Wor ...
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Hillary Clinton
... as honorary President of the Girls Scouts of America.
After graduating from Wellesley College in 1969, Hillary enrolled in Yale Law School, where she developed her strong concern for protecting the interests of children and families, and served on the Board of Editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. While she was there, she also met Bill Clinton, a fellow law student. In 1973 Hillary became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund. A year later she was recruited by the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. Hillary left Washington and "followed her heart to Arkansas," marrying Bill Clinton i ...
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