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Fredrick Douglass
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 512

.... of the system they supported. He was opposed to slave uprisings and other violent resistance, but he was firm in his belief that slavery must be totally abolished. In the first issue of the Liberator in 1831, he had proclaimed “I WILL BE HEARD” (32). Ever controversial, Garrison made many enemies throughout the country. As described by Douglass in his autobiography Life and Times, Garrison made sweeping attacks on organized religion because the churches refused to take a stand against slavery. He also believed that the U.S. Constitution upheld slavery. Garrison .....


The Life Of Georgia O'Keefe
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 574

.... of one-year teaching positions which I held in Amarillo, Texas in 1912-1913, as a drawing supervisor in its elementary schools; at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1915-1916; and at west Texas Normal College in 1916-1917, and I taught summers at the University of Virginia. Despite my studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, the University of Virginia, and Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, I was never able to remain at one institution long enough to receive an academic degree. My career began on April 3, 1917 with the .....


Martin Luther King Jr
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1971

.... public-speaking that, by the end of his third year at Crozer, the professors were praising King for the powerful impression he made in public speeches and discussions. Throughout his education, King was exposed to influences that related Christians theology to the struggles of oppressed peoples. At Morehouse, Crozer, and Boston University, he studied the teachings on the nonviolent protests of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. King also read and heard the sermons of white ministers who protested against American racism. All of these things were especially important in shaping .....


Gabriel Garcia Marquez (spanis
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Ernest Hemingway 3
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2997

.... 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 fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" .....


Dante Alighieri 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 882

.... his writing. Dante was one of the most influential individuals in early European literature, language, and politics. He influenced Italian society and culture through his poetry and his prose (Dante Internet). His writings helped to unify the Italian language. His opinions on politics were new and many of his ideas are seen in today’s politics (Holmes 23). These are the three key areas in which Dante was so influential. Dante’s writings had a great impact on Italian literature, both in the nature of the topics and the style of the prose. His writings have been .....


Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 511

.... first lonely winter in Washington as a freshman Representative, the family remained together. With a home in the capital as well as one in Ohio they enjoyed a happy domestic life. A two-year-old son died in 1876, but five children grew up healthy and promising; with the passage of time, Lucretia became more and more her husband's companion. In Washington they shared intellectual interests with congenial friends; she went with him to meetings of a locally celebrated literary society. They read together, made social calls together, dined with each other and traveled in company un .....


A Little Bit About Einstein
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1370

.... He generally did his real studies at home where he concentrated on physics, mathematics, and philosophy. One year one of Einstein’s teachers suggested that he leave school, so at mid-term the 15 year old boy quit school. Einstein then moved to Italy to help his father in business. In 1895, he failed the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They suggested that he studied at a Swiss school in Aarau. There he studied theories of electromagnetism, by James Clark Maxwell. At the age of 16, he wrote an essay on why he would like to study theo .....



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