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Cyrano De Bergerac
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 873.... to the question posed of me now.
Cyrano’s happiness was not viewed by him with either a favor or a goal. I cannot believe that Cyrano cared about his own happiness whatsoever. Really, that apathy would probably be the only way that he could emotionally accept his dangerously selfless undertakings. Case in point, his giving of Roxanne to the incredibly undeserving Christian. No real happiness in that action. Roxanne and Christian’s, maybe, but certainly not his own, and he loved Roxanne. Had Cyrano actually wanted to be happy, the pangs of grief that he would feel as he gave he .....
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1118.... 6). He was not a wimp by any means. In High School, he wrote for the school newspaper. He participated in boxing, which would help him make money as a sparring partner in Paris in later years. During his senior year in high school, World War 1 was intensifying in Europe. The United States tried to stay out for as long as possible, but when German submarines sank four American ships, America declared war in April 1917. Most of his friends either enlisted or were drafted. He wanted to join the war but, his father thought he was too young so he got a job as a repor .....
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2573.... Hamilton and his brother were illegitimate children. Alexs mother had now been declared a whore. After his mother’s died of yellow fever her husband sued for everything she had so that he could deprive the whore children of anything that could help them. Through all these tribulations Hamilton realized that nothing would be handed to him and he would have to work harder than anyone else to make a name for himself.
With his new found knowledge Hamilton took on the job as a clerk for an international trading company owned by Nicholas Cruger. Since h .....
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Walt Whitman And His Poetry
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 695.... contant writing it took him to write the book
Leaves of Grass. The Leaves of Grass basically was his life's work and
contained 400 poems. He is known as a poet for the Leaves of Grass. An
interesting fact: his opening poem in the Leaves of Grass tells about how
he knows he will die soon. It says that “I have walked the roads you will
walk” which is telling about how he once was alive just like us. It is a
peom that remembers him and speaks to future generations.
Indeed, Walt Whitman is a very interesting poet, and his style is
the best in the world.
Sample Peom
In Cabin .....
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Domitian
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 677.... amicus Barea Soranus, was an excellent choice, with consular senators in her father’s and mother’s family.” (Jones, 1992)
was an educated person, although it is unknown where he got his education. He loved to write and wrote poetry. His poems were very sensitive no matter what the topic. Later on even wrote and published a book about baldness. Apparently, was interested in many different types of literature. People often said that he spoke intelligently, and made memorable comments. In his later years, began to read Tiberius’s commentaries .....
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Richard Milhous Nixon
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2764.... (1962), RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978), and In the Arena (1990).
Nixon came from a southern-California Quaker family, where hard work and integrity were deeply-rooted and heavily emphasized. Always a good student, he was invited by Harvard and Yale to apply for scholarships, but his older brother's illness and the Depression made his presence close to home necessary, and he was attended nearby Whittier College, where he graduated second in his class in 1934. He went on to law school at Duke University, where his seriousness and determination won him the nickname "G .....
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The Works Of William Faulkner
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 634.... “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by this narration allows readers only to see the town’s point of view. In criticizing Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that Faulkner learned “that he could achieve a variety of different effects through manipulation of authorial voice”(97 Ferguson). Faulkner desired the reader to dislike Emily, and therefore he created a narration that disliked Emily. This limitation of the third person is one of several of Faulkner's devices to steer t .....
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Princess Diana
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 731.... had a friendly relationship with her stepmother. Her mother remarried too. To a man named Peter Shand-Kydd. She then moved to the island of Seil which is west of Scotland where they now still live.
Diana attended finishing school briefly in Switzerland. Then she returned to London where she became a nanny. Diana loved children. After her nanny work she became a kindergarten teacher. She had a reputation of a hardworking, gentle, warm hearted and patient person. In Charles's words "She was jolly, amusing, and attractive."
Diana's sister was married to Robert Fellows .....
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