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Hemingway’s Greatest Hits
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1392.... out that, at the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, Henry talks about how "things went very badly" and how this is connected to "At the start of the winter came permanent rain". In the book, Miss Barkley afraid of the rain because she has a nightmare and she sees death in the rain. She says, "Sometimes I see me dead in it", which she is referring to the rain as a death. It is raining the entire night when Miss Barkley is giving childbirth and when both she and her baby die (Malcolm 54-55).
Most of the reader fined out that A Farewell to Arms is fun and excited to read. Heming .....
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Nies Bohr
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 291.... He was born on Oct. 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, Christian, was a professor at the University of Copenhagen and his brother, Harold, was a great mathematician. He entered the university in 1903. In 1907, he earned his PhD went to England to study with J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherfurd. He returned to Copenhagen in 1916 as a professor at the university. He became the director of the university's Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1920, to which he attracted many world-renowned physicist. In 1922, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the atomic structure. .....
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Jimmy Carter: The 39th President Of The United States
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2603.... at a transitional period in the United
State's history, and lost most of his power very quickly.
Jimmy Carter's beginning was a very simple and typical "American
style" start. Jimmy was born James Earl Carter, Jr., on October 1, 1924,
in Plains, Georgia. His parents were James Earl Carter and Lillina Gordy
Carter. His family lived there for the first three years of Jimmy's life,
and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there
until he was seventeen years old, participating in the family's peanut farm.
In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated .....
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Biography Of Charles Dickens
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 777.... by his mother, he devoured
his fathers' small collection of classics, which included Shakespeare, Cervantes,
Defoe, Smollet, Fielding, and Goldsmith. These left a permanent mark on his
imagination; their effect on his art was quite important. dickens also went to
some performances of Shakespeare and formed a lifelong attachment to the theater.
He attended school during this period and showed himself to be a rather solitary,
observant, good-natured child with some talent for comic routines, which his
father encouraged. In retrospect Dickens looked upon these years as a kind of .....
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A Biography Of Henry Ford
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1106.... Michigan, on July 30, 1863,
and educated in district schools. He became a machinist's apprentice in Detroit
at the age of 16. From 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanical engineer, and later
chief engineer, with the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1893, after
experimenting for several years in his leisure hours, he completed the
construction of his first gasoline engine. His first automobile was completed
in 1896. The body was a small crude wooden box, it had a single seat, a
steering tiller, bicycle wheels, and an electric bell on the front. In 1903 he
founded the Ford Motor .....
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Richard Cory
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 695.... those who she had tried to please in the past were the ones to comment about how beautiful she looked. Finally she had received the praise she was longing for.
In contrast, Richard Cory was viewed as the gem of the neighborhood, unlike The Barbie doll. Richard Cory was a man loved by all. He was a man that society had put up on a pedestal. He had the looks, wealth and the manner that everyone wanted. Even though people did not really know him they wanted to live like him and be like him. His fellow neighbors worked harder at their jobs thinking that it would help .....
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Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire): French Author And Philosopher 1694 - 1778 A.D.
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 408.... to the philosophy of John Locke and
ideas of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. After his return to Paris he
wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to
criticize the French government and Voltaire was forced to flee Paris again.
In 1759 Voltaire purchased an estate called "Ferney" near the French-Swiss
border where he lived until just before of his death. Ferney soon became the
intellectual capitol of Europe. Throughout his years in exile Voltaire produced
a constant flow of books, plays, pamphlets, and letters. He was a voice of
rea .....
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Hayden Carruth
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 925.... Lannan Literary Fellowship. He has won
many awords including the Lenore Marshall Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the
Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth
Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Circle Award
for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991.
In "Another" Carruth comments on the goal of poetry. He begins by
dismissing truth and beauty;
"Truth and beauty
were never the
aims of proper poetry
and the era
which proclaimed them
was a brutal
era."
-Another
The era mite have been brutal b .....
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