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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 564.... troubles with the relationship--maybe professional jealousy caused the problems. D. Other teachers Beethoven turned to other teachers when Haydn went to London for the second time. He studied with Albrechtsberger, famous as a choir director at St. Stephens in Vienna and the best-known counterpoint teacher in Vienna. He then studied Salieri, famous in Mozart's biography. Salieri helped Beethoven in setting Italian words to music. IV. Establishment as pianist and composer His first task in Vienna was to establish himself as pianist and composer. He achieved both rapidly. A. Aris .....
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Herman Melville
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 528.... Ships for boston aboard the native vessel for the U.S. White-Jacket
was based upon this experience.
1846 Publishes typee.
1847 Publishes Omoo
1849 Feb. 16: His son, Malcom melvelle is born.
1850 Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg,
massachustettes.
1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born.
1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made a headline
"herman melville crazy".
1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.
1855 March 2: Frances Melville is born. Publishes Israel potter.
1856 Publishes the Pi .....
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William Shakespeare
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 908.... attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the opportunity to hunt and trap small game. The River Avon which ran through the town allowed him to fish also. Shakespeare's' poems and play .....
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The Death Of John F. Kennedy
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2339.... his neck and then causing all of Governor Connally’s wounds. This bullet was found on the stretcher in the Parkland Hospital. (Compton’s Encyclopedia).
IN 1964 and 1978, The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee did the best they could with photographic and computer technology. With the scientific advances we had since then give us such better enhancements of the film taken. There is one film that is far the most crucial. All or part of the assassination was taken on film by many witnesses who had eight-mm movie cameras or still cameras. The one shot by Dallas dre .....
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Booker T. Washington
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1404.... you’d suspect. Booker states, “ I do not find especial fault with him (his father). He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at the time.”(4)
was engulfed in labor throughout his adolescence and young boyhood days, joining his step-father in working in salt furnaces and coal-mines after the civil war. Of course the labor force in this country was predominately slaves, and after the civil war black people were paid little money to do some of the same work. The whole machinery of slavery w .....
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Aldous Huxley
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 962.... that heredity made each individual unique, and uniqueness of the individual was essential to freedom” (-Biography). From 1908 until 1913, Huxley studied at Eton College (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Eton, Huxley developed a condition of near blindness that plagued him until his death (Philosopher’s Corner Presents: ). After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English at Balliol College, Oxford, Huxley worked in the War Office in London and taught at Eton and Repton (Aldous (Leonard) Huxley). While at Oxford, Huxley was introduced to the literary world and became good fri .....
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Autobiography On Ernest Hemingway
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 623.... made famous by Hemingway himself.
In post-war years, Hemingway spent most of his time writing books. But,
when his first marriage failed, and produced a son, John, he had married
Pauline Pfeiffer, who had his next 2 children. Based in Paris, he had
travelled for skiing, bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had
become what most of his work was all about. Hemingway, started writing
short stories, among them was "Men Without Women" in 1927, and "A Farewell
to Arms" in 1929. This story ("A Farewell to Arms"), shows a lovestory
within a war time setting. Many people .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 890.... Hathaway Lee of Boston. In
the same year he entered Columbia University Law School. But historical writing
and politics lured him away from a legal career.
His yearning for public acknowledge plus the corrupt state of New York
led him to join a local Republican Reform Club. In 1881 he was elected to
New York assembly where he set out to stop the corruption in both party
machines. In 1884 the death of his wife and a defeat in his political career
made him retreat to the Dakota Territory. In 1886 he came back to New York.
He ran for mayor when he came back.He was thir .....
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