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Marlowe Cut Short
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 792.... he obtained his degree.
After Marlowe obtained his masters degree he went to London to work on his new profession as an author. He began getting into a lot of trouble with the law and having enemies around every corner. On May 18, 1593 a warrant was issued for Marlowe due to heretical documents found in his room. Marlowe's roommate, Thomas Kyd, was arrested and charged with atheism claimed that these documents did not belong to him but instead
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to Marlowe. However, before Marlowe went to trial he was murdered on May 30, 1953 at Eleanor Bull's tavern in Deptfo .....
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George Orwell
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 881.... He failed to win a university scholarship after the final examinations at Eaton and, in 1922, he joined the Indian Imperial Police. This decision was not the usual path that most Eaton students would have taken. Blair preferred a life of travel and action and he served in the force in Burma (now known as Myanmar) for five years. He resigned from the police force for two main reasons: firstly, being a police officer was a diversion from his real ambition of being a writer; and secondly, he felt that as a policeman in Burma, he was supporting a political system in which he could .....
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The Life And Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1466.... John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of
Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While
there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and
started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of .....
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Roy Jones Jr.
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 497.... got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his
own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s
tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though because he
had to ask others that he knew for money to take the kids to boxing
tournaments in neighboring states. The only form of transportation was an
old rickety van, which doors were held with metal wire.
By the time Roy was 19 he had a amatuer record of 106-4 and became
the yungest member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic boxing team. In public the
team teased Roy but when .....
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2104.... what kinds of human activities and behaviors were acceptable and how
Bradstreet deviated from these behaviors.
Bradstreet was not truly unorthodox in that she did not dissent from
accepted beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century and lived in
a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived within the limitations
not only of the beliefs and standards of her society, but of her sex. A woman's
place was definitely in the home in Colonial America. The experiences of women
were considered narrow and trivial in comparison with men's.
Puritani .....
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Alexandre Dumas
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 305.... However, He became famous not for his novels, but for his plays. Having been regarded as the most important playwright, one of the most prolific writers ever, and the most famous novelist in France, Dumas soon found his luck failing him. He made a fortune and quickly lost it due to his lavish life-style, and generosity. His reputation became tarnished because he often collaborated with people who supplied ideas and minor works, to which Dumas gave his touch of literary genius. He now faced accusations and even suits charging him of plagiarism. Later on in his life, he wrote .....
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Margaret Thatcher
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1945.... by her protégée, John Major: who, consequently, only served one short term.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with a passion. Before long Alfred opened his own grocery shop, and eventually he came to own two." (Maye .....
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Nikola Tesla
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1045.... Edison in New Jersey,
but the two inventors, were far apart in background and methods. But, because of
there differences, Tesla soon left the employment of Edison, and in May 1885,
George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh,
bought the patent rights to many of Tesla's inventions. After a difficult period,
during which Tesla invented but lost his rights to many inventions, he
established his own laboratory in New York City in 1887, where his inventive
mind could be free. In 1895, Tesla discovered X-rays after hours upon hours of
experiment .....
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