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Essays on People

George Orwell
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... 442). In 1990-4, Orwell, his mother, and his older sister moved to England leaving Orwell's father on his own in India until he retired in 1911. Orwell continued his education at "St. Cyprian's Preparatory School under the regime of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes," which he later brutally portrayed in his novel Such, Such Were the Joys" ("Orwell," The Oxford Companiion 516). After leaving school, he joined the "Imperial Indian Police," and after five years in Burma, resigned in 1928 ("," The Oxford Anthology 2140). Burma left him with a "lifelong distaste" for power ("," St. Martin's Anthologies 398). Orwell remained living a "life of poverty" in England and Europe un ...



Napolean Bonopart
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... Napoleon was nine, his father decided he should go to school in France to get an education befitting their birth. But he didn’t have the money to pay for his schooling. He petitioned the king, Louis XIV, for a scholarship for Napoleon. The king had set up a special fund for the sons of French nobles, granting them money to attend military school. Now that Corsica belonged to France, the Bonapartes were French citizens and were eligible for this scholarship. Napoleon was excited about his future. Still, he was apprehensive. He had never left the island before, and he didn’t know how to speak French. So before he could further his training, he would hav ...



Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
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... for a nervous breakdown. In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot ...



My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
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... asked me to go to Chicago and work with his uncle who controlled the city’s largest prostitution and gambling ring at the time, and boy did I like that idea. Later that year the Prohibition act came into affect and I became interested in selling illegal whiskey and other alcoholic beverages. Torrio’s uncle did not agree with this idea but within the next month he was shot and killed. Torrio and I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which left me to run the empire alone. At the age of 26, I was man ...



Comparing Adolf Hitler And Saddam Hussein
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... force known as the sturmabteilung (storm troopers). “He soon became a key figure in Bavarian politics, aided by high officials and businessmen” (Dorpalen 1). In November 1923, a time of political and economic chaos, he led an uprising known as the Putsch in Munich against the postwar weimenrepub proclaiming himself chancellor of a new authorization regime. Without military support, however, the Putsch collapsed. As leader of the plot, Hitler was sentenced five years imprisonment and served nine months writing his book Mein Kampf (my struggle). “The failure of the uprising taught Hitler that the Nazi party must use legal means to assume power” (Dorpanlen ...



Shel Silverstein
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... So, I started to draw and to write.” Because of his rejection by some of his peers, he found his own hobby: entertaining others. During the 1950’s, Silverstein even served as a member of the United States Armed Forces. While in this position, he was employed as a cartoonist to help cheer up the troops during the Korean War. In 1956, the writer worked again as a cartoonist, but this time for a little-known magazine called Playboy. Despite this wide range of literary audiences, Silverstein’s main purpose was to entertain. Two of his major collections of works of literature are the critically acclaimed Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. They ...



Lincoln
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... Ky.” Early on in life had religious reasons for disliking slavery. His family was Separate Baptists who adhered to a strict code of morality that condemned profanity, intoxication, gossip, horse racing, dancing, and slavery. October 5, a little over a year after living in Indiana, ’s mother died of a devastating outbreak of what was called “milk sickness”, along with several other relatives. The hardest years of ’s life were yet to follow. After a short time it became apparent that Thomas could not cope with his family by himself. Thomas went back to Kentucky to seek a wife. He married Sarah Bush Johnson. They made a businesslike ar ...



Charles Darwin
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... Darwin's dream remained just that, a dream but is without doubt, beginning to take tangible form, with current genetic studies. According to Oparin's hypothesis (hypothesis formulated about the creation of life on earth) the first simple cell, emerged about four billion years ago. How can that hypothesis be extended to explain the variety of life forms that exist on earth today? (Question formed by scholars in an attempt to stump Darwin) Darwin in his "Origin of Species" published an answer to this question in 1859. Darwin wrote: "As many more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there must be in every case, a struggle for existence, either ...



Thomas Jefferson
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... with Reverend Mr. Maury, a classical scholar, for two years and in 1760 he attended William and Mary College. After graduating from William and Mary in 1762, Jefferson studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of ...



Napoleon And Caesar
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... irreversibly. Caesar was able to create the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies (Duggan 117). Julius Caesar was to become one of the greatest generals, conquering the whole of Gaul. In 58 BC, Caesar became governor and military commander of Gaul, which included modern France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years, Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman legions and tribes in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire (Duggan 8 ...




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