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Biography Of Aaron Montgomery Ward
... at the
princely salary of $6 per month and a place to live. Aaron rose to become
head clerk and general manager and remained at this store for three years
before accepting a better job in a competing store, where he worked another
two years. In this period, Aaron Montgomery Ward learned the mechanics and
customs of retailing.
Aaron the moved to Chicago, which was the center of the wholesale
dry goods trade. The Chicago City Directories for 1868 through 1870 listed
him as a salesman for Wills, Greg & Co. and later for Stetthauers & Wineman,
both dry goods houses.
Aaron Montgomery Ward felt that a way of doing business must be
found that would bring relief fro ...
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Byron's Don Juan
... soon
followed, but it wouldn't be long before he would disappear to France and
end up dying in 1791. It was just as well because his parents never got
along very well.
In Lord Byron's early years he experienced poverty, the ill-temper
of his mother, and the absence of his father. By 1798 he had inherited the
title of 6th Baron Byron and the estate of Newstead Abbey. Once hearing
this news, he and his mother quickly removed to England.
All of Byron's passions developed early. In 1803 he had his first
serious and abortive romance with Mary Chaworth. At the age of15 he fell
platonically but violently in love with a young distant cousin, Mary Duff
(Parker 10). H ...
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Frank Liszt
... lived in Switzerland and Italy and had three children.
He gave concerts in Paris, maintaining his legendary reputation, and published some essays, but was active chiefly as a composer (Annees de pèlerinage). To help raise funds for the Bonn Beethoven monument, he resumed the life of a travelling virtuoso (1839-1847); he was admired everywhere, from Ireland to Turkey, Portugal to Russia. In 1848, he took up a full-time job conducting post at the Weimar court. Living with Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, he wrote or revised most of the major works for which he is known, conducted new operas by Wagner, Berlioz and Verdi and, as the teacher of Hans von B&uum ...
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Walt Whitman And His Poetry
... words.
When he traveled to the New Orleans, he witnessed slavery which in
turn “helped him write his poems” according to Walt Whitman. Between 1848
and 1855 he developed the style of poetry he is known for. In 1891 he
finished the 30 years of contant writing it took him to write the book
Leaves of Grass. The Leaves of Grass basically was his life's work and
contained 400 poems. He is known as a poet for the Leaves of Grass. An
interesting fact: his opening poem in the Leaves of Grass tells about how
he knows he will die soon. It says that “I have walked the roads you will
walk” which is telling about how he once was alive just like us. It is a
peom that reme ...
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Tim Paterson
... programmers of our time.
After college, Paterson landed a job as a computer technician at a Seattle area retail computer store. Because of his experience with computers, Paterson stared designing his own peripheral boards on the side. Through his job and his computer experience, Paterson was hired into a better job. "I got to know Rod Brock of Seattle Computer when he came into the store periodically. We were selling his boards. Eventually he asked me to consult for Seattle Computer." After helping the company fix there memory boards at fifty dollars a day, they offered him a full time position and Paterson quit his job at the retail store.
The first maj ...
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Wilson, Woodrow
... law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The Johns Hopkins University
for graduate study in political science. His widely acclaimed book,
Congressional Government (1885), was published a year before he received
the doctoral degree. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three
daughters.
Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University
in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as
professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer,
Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division
and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People
(1902). In 190 ...
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Julius Caesar And His Accomplishments
... on the way. He then stopped at a very poor village and he said
that he should rather choose to be first in such a village as than second
at Rome (Rogers, Bruce, 1870,p.70). Caeser was so successful in the
administration of his province that he returned in a short time with
military glory and with money enough to pay all his debts. Every hero has
its background; Ceaser was a Roman hero by millions and lived through many
important events and accomplished many things that no other person has ever
come close to.
Julius Caesar could be described as one of the greatest men in the
history of the world. Caesar was always interested in public affairs, and
trie ...
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A Comparison Of Alfred Hitchcock And Edgar Allan Poe
... both insane. They have many common
traits although they are also quite different. They are victims of their
fears and their obsessions. Norman who seems agreeable and shy is, in
reality, a homicidal maniac who has committed matricide. He suffers from
schizophrenia — he acts as both himself and his dead mother. Roderick
Usher appears strange from the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his
"cadaverousness of complexion" — however, he is not a murderer. He suffers
from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the
past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors
he had anticipated."
The way in which madness is ...
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Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
... job to fulfill his dream. He moved to Provincetown,
Massachusetts so he could concentrate on his writing.
For the next seven years Vonnegut worked on novel titled "Upstairs and
Downstairs." He never did finish this novel. He received income by
starting a Saab dealership and writing short stories.
In 1957, his father died of lung cancer. His sister and her
husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick.
Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel
Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He
entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war.
Vonnegut w ...
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Yasir Arafat
... and the UN then organized the PLO as the
representative of the Arabs of Palestine.
In 1983, fighting broke out between PLO supporters of Arafat anti
those who opposed him. The rebels forced Arafat and his supporters to
leave their in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO.
The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's pres ...
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