... and in the fiercely competitive commercial and political life of the new country. One grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, was a member of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and also had worked as a New York importer. The other, General Peter Gansevoort, was a friend of James Fenimore Cooper and famous for leading the defense of Fort Stanwix, in upstate New York, against the British. Herman was silent and slow. His mother regarded him as a dull boy. (http://www.comptons.com) In 1826 Allan Melvill wrote of his son: "He is very backward in speech & somewhat slow in comprehension, but you will find him as far as he understands men and things both solid and profound, an ...

... caste system, which divided the poor from the wealthy. Being a bastard child, Eva and her four sisters were seen as 'brats,' and were stopped from associating with the other village children. Rejection, thrown upon young Eva through no fault of her own, would not be forgotten nor forgiven.3 At age fifteen, Eva Duarte set out to become a radio actress. She knew she could be like the women in the movie magazines she either stole or borrowed from her friends. Eva met singer Agustin Magaldi, and, packed her bags and sneaked out of her mother's boarding house to the city of Buenos Aires. Once Eva learned the rules of the 'casting couch,' she dropped Magaldi and bega ...

... that without the people, the ruler or leader is worthless and will be overcome. One must have support of the people, while constantly keeping them in check with the rules and regulations that he has set. These thoughts today would be looked at as dictatorial and likened with the beliefs and felling of such hated groups as the Nazis. In today's system, societies that have been lead by rulers with such a mentality have not lasted very long. It seems that these days the general populace have much less tolerance for those rulers that believe in doing anything for the sake of themselves and supposedly the society at large. I believe that such rulers today ...

... boys in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. You know the kind. Mouthy, mean-spirited bullies who pick on someone just because they have nothing better to do. To this day, Gagnon has not forgotten the worst bully of all. Sean Gagnon said that it was usually "himself". He never was the one to keep his mouth shut. He was the one who liked to stir the pot....a lot. He used to get his nose dirty all the time. The problem was he was smaller than everybody else. Then in turn he was the one that had gotten in the end. But by looking at Gagnon (gon- yoe) he is definately all grown up. The skinny kid who once stood 180 cm as a junior in high school is now a 189 cm, 96 ...

... he graduated at 14), and attended a few lectures at Edinburgh University and at University College in London, but he was largely family-trained and self-taught. He moved to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. With each passing year, Alexander Graham Bell's intellectual horizons broadened. By the time he was 16, he was teaching music and elocution at a boy's boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by their father but he didn’t have much luck with it. It is a ...

... all other action movies are judged. More importantly, along with the bloodshed, Woo has proven that he can create real characters with real emotions that the audience can sympathize with. Perhaps that is his greatest talent, and perhaps that is why he will become known as one of the greatest directors in the years to come. John Woo’s style is definitely fast paced an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo’s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team bre ...

... places them into his unique stories. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn't see a great deal of her over ...

... old. Remember, he's not "the writer", he's a regular person who happens to have a talent for writing. The same goes for dishing the dirt on his life. He's a private person who wrote very personal stories. I feel that, even if there is not enough on the pages to satisfy, what is there is filling enough. He gave the world one novel and 35 short stories and that's all. He has actively resisted surrenderring his whole life to public scrutiny, and that is not an easy thing to do. I refuse to chip away at that shell. Besides, who cares about his old loves and trips to Europe and family problems and all? That's what fiction is for, after all! So, some ask, why do I rev ...

... Overture and the First Piano Concerto in b flat minor. All during his life Tchaikovsky wrote detailed letters to his brother and close friends, including Madame Von Meck, the patroness he never met in person. His letters give us insight on how he felt about his music and life. This biography includes many exerts from such letters. Tchaikovsky was married to Atonina Milyuka, one of his students, in July of 1877. He made it clear however, that they were married due to her threat of suicide if they were not married. During their brief marriage Tchaikovsky was extremely unhappy. In his letters he described her as having an empty heart as well as an empty head. A ...

... including himself. His father died when he was 12, and the boy was apprenticed to a printer. An apprentice works for someone in order to learn a trade. This was the first step toward his career as a writer. In 1857 he apprenticed himself to a riverboat pilot. He became a licensed pilot and spent two and a half years at his new trade. The river swarmed with traffic, and the pilot was the most important man aboard the boat. He wrote of these years in 'Life on the Mississippi'. The Civil War ended his career as a pilot. Clemens went west to Nevada and soon became a reporter on the Virginia City newspaper. Here he began using the pen name Mark Twa ...