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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
Number of words: 2104 - Number of pages: 8

.... lived and wrote must be examined in order to comprehend 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 wer .....


Sigmund Freud
Number of words: 2614 - Number of pages: 10

.... In October 1859 the family moved to Vienna where Sigmund grew up. He lived there until June 1938. Freud attended high school at Leopoldstadter Communal-Real- und Obergymnasium. While in high school he got the idea of becoming a scientist when he heard, a lecture delivered about Goethe. In 1873 he registered at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna. (Jones,1957) In 1878 he changed his name from Sigismund to Sigmund. He obtained his doctorate in medicine in March of 1881, and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Physiology under Ernst .....


Allen Ginsburg In America
Number of words: 1606 - Number of pages: 6

.... ended up doing was running around with a bunch of poets and the like, including fellow students Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac and friends William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising gay bars in Greenwich Village. At this point in Ginsber .....


A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
Number of words: 1652 - Number of pages: 7

.... Winston Churchill in 1974. It is with this same thoroughness and true human interest that she captures the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II. Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role in her country's politics as an important aspect of the modern nation's iden .....


Biography Of James Polk (11th President)
Number of words: 319 - Number of pages: 2

.... should be "re-annexed" and all of Oregon "re-occupied." The aged Jackson, correctly sensing that the people favored expansion, urged the choices of a candidate committed to the Nations "Manifest Destiny." This view prevailed at the Democratic Convention, where Polk was nominated on the ninth ballot. Even before he could take office, Congress passed a joint resolution offering annexation to Texas. In so doing they took away the possibility of Polk having a war with Mexico, which soon served diplomatic relations. After trying to negotiate boundaries .....


Lorenzo Ghiberti
Number of words: 603 - Number of pages: 3

.... scenes from the lives of Christ, the Evangelists, and the church fathers. He also made another set of doors for the Baptistery. These bronze doors had 5 panels on each side, containing scenes from the Old Testament. They were dubbed “ The Gates of Paradise,” by Michaelangelo, and were Ghiberti’s greatest work. Ghiberti also made a larger than life statue of the Arte dei Mercani di Calimala’s(the guild of the merchant bankers) patron saint. He made two large bronze figures for Or San Michele, created designs for the stained glass windows in the cathedr .....


Albert Einstein
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2

.... meal, the newlyweds returned to their new home. It was a small flat, about 100 yards away from Bere's famous clock tower. Upon returning home, a small incident occured, that was to occur many times throughout Einstern's life; he had forgotten his key. A year later, in 1904 they had a child, Hans Albert. In that same year, he recieved a job at the swiss patent office. In 1905, three of Einstein's 4 famous papers; "about a 'heuristical' perspective about the creation and modulation of light, about the movement of in still liquids mixed objects supported by th .....


Review Of Ernest Hemingway And Writings
Number of words: 1492 - Number of pages: 6

.... school in 1977 he chose not to go to college and instead became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he remained for seven months. His oppurtunity to break away came when he volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July of 1918 while serving along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel and forced to return home after recuperation in January 1919. The war had left him emotionally and physically shaken, and according to some critics he began as a result "a quest for psychological and artistic freedom that was to lead him first .....



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