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Shakespeare And His Plays
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... Adonis, The
Rape of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in
the Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on
the 38 plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked by a number of
financially advantageous arrangements that permitted him to share in the
profits of his acting company, the Chamberlain's Men, and its two theaters,
the Globe and the Blackfriars. His plays were given special presentation
at the courts of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. After about 1608,
Shakespeare's dramati ...
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The Life Of Beethoven
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... Mozart and took a few lessons from him. Mozart quoted "He will give the world something worth listing to". Beethoven also met Count Ferdinand Waldstein while in Vienna, who became his lifelong friend and helped him in his career. Beethoven's mother died in 1787. Five years later he left Bonn permanently and went back to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn and later with Antonio Salieri.
Beethoven's first public appearance in Vienna was on March 29, 1795 as a soloist in one of his piano concerti it was called Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat. Soon Beetho-ven was treated with just as much royalty and nob ...
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Moses
Number of Words: 1086 / Number of Pages: 4
... action and every word attributed to by the biblical writers. Whether one views the Bible as the revealed word of God or as the writing of inspired people, the figure of towers over the early history of the Jewish people. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions revere for his central role in communicating the Ten Commandments and the Torah directly from God to the Jewish people soon after their escape from Egypt. Thus, the Torah is also known as the Five Books of . According to Genesis, the first book of the Bible, the Israelite people first came to Egypt in search of food during a famine that ...
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Henry Ford 2
Number of Words: 1628 / Number of Pages: 6
... Jane. Henry was the oldest of all the kids. As Henry grew up he was assigned chores to do around the farm just like all his brothers and sisters. Henry came to the conclusion that he didn't like farm life while he was still a young boy. He was more interested in mechanical things. He was always pulling things apart to see how they
worked. In 1879 Henry walked six miles to the Michigan Car Company and took a job. Although it was only for a short time, he now knew what he wanted to do. The following year he took another job where he was exposed to and began working with an internal-combustion e ...
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Elie Wiesel
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... how hard he tried. He managed to remain with his father for the next year as they were worked almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. After the war, the teenaged Wiesel found asylum in France, where he learned for the first time that his two older sisters had survived the war. Wiesel mastered the French language and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, while supporting himself as ...
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Beethoven
Number of Words: 574 / Number of Pages: 3
... By 1778, Beethoven started
hearing humming and whistling sound in his ears, and it got worse. A few
years later, he became completely deaf. Although he was deaf he could still
write music. He finished his first symphony in 1800.
In 1802, Beethoven became depressed and thought a lot about suicide. He
went to a small village in Germany where he stayed for a few years. The
next couple of years Beethoven created his most impressing masterpieces.
In 1812 he had completed over twelve of his best works and he was known
worldwide. But after this Beethoven did not release any music for ...
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Frederick Douglass' Life And His Work
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... Ferry in 1859, that Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal and armory there. He objected. Warning Brown that an attack on federal property would be equal to an assault on the U.S. government, and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation.
He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential election of 1860, and helped raise two regiments of black soldier, the Massachusetts 54th and 55th. After the Civil War, Douglass, as a recognized leader of and spokesman for the black slaves, fought for enactment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the ...
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Jack London
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... and the questions of death. London’s novels were usually based on nature and adventure, coming from real life experiences, which appealed to millions of readers.
was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. The relationship between his mother, Flora Wellman, and his father, William Chaney, ended while Flora was pregnant. He was given the name, John Griffith Chaney. Later in her life, Flora remarried to John London. At age ten, John Chaney changed his name to . Growing up, Jack thought that John London was his father. The London family was very poor, John being a do ...
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Jackson, Andrew
Number of Words: 503 / Number of Pages: 2
... voters, integrating the country in politics. Before it had just been the wealthy that could vote and run for office now all white men could participate.
These new voters wanted a President who was just like them, they wanted someone they could relate to. Van Buren would help to put Jackson in office by presenting Jackson has a people's president. He presented him as someone just like them, someone who knew where they were coming from. Jackson's party would be known as the democrats. They were in favor of a smaller government, and thought the states should have more control over issues. One such issu ...
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Albert Einstein Biography
Number of Words: 662 / Number of Pages: 3
... he advanced (1914) to a prestigious post at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon discovered by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic energy seemed to be emitted from radiating objects in discrete quantities. The energy of these quanta was directly proportional to the frequency of the radiation. This seemed ...
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