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suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

and stained glass" (Pioch). It was also in this year that he did his traveling to Italy where he did a great number of paintings t...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

the Imperial Court, Mozart was such a mischievous child that he climbed into the lap of the Empress Maria Theresa and gave her a k...

author notes that, "the most usually presented idea - that Euclid was an ordinary mathematician/scholar, who simply lived in Alexa...

himself with the Western cultures, going to France and learning, it seems, as much as he could. It was while in France that his pe...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

and early career help illustrate how he was a relatively simple man who would likely have remained obscure without WWII and Nazi G...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

"spent the next four years in the Charterhouse in devotion and prayer" (Kreis). During his time there he composed poetry and Latin...

When Berry was a junior in high school he dropped out so that he could be a boxer, once fighting on the same...

hands were scalded (Gale, 2007). When she was 10 she went back to school (Gale, 2007). When she was 11 she was witness to the race...

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

now retired. He was a pupil of Don Jose Luzan in Zaragoza, learning from his own invention when he visited Rome. He has no master ...

year of starting, and he was 23 years old. He needed a bigger challenge" (Williams [1], 2000). Williams notes that he was incredib...

20th century possessed a "rigid class structure"-to a large extent it still does-and that was clearly shown in the novel (Aldous H...

music and his family had a lot of musical talent. He was not the first to exhibit this unique gift and his desire for a musical li...

enough to get by, or is making enough money to pay bills and go on an annual vacation a worthy goal? In defining how much money on...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

globe he would presently find it out" (OConnor; Robertson). Halley then attended Queens College Oxford (Edmund Halley: 16...

in Cleveland he learned about how sewing machines work and then opened a store where he sold machines and fixed them in 1907 (Blac...

honorable discharge (Blackinventor.com, 2006). After the war he worked in a patent law firm as an office boy (Blackinventor.com, 2...

and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant1. Because he has no way of checking his ...

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

they did not, by and large, take the lead in challenging the racial caste system. As Daddy King recalled, Instead of championing t...

In ten pages Hume's life, works, and writings are considered including his Treatise of Human Nature, with an assessment of his inf...

anything. When he was six, his father gave him a compass. He was fascinated by the way the needle always pointed north. This exper...

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...