... She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was question ...
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... and in 1935 she divorced him. However, while on assignment in New Mexico, she remarried to Paul Taylor. In 1939, she began her first major project. Later, she worked for the Farm Security Administration. However, much conflict arose and in 1940 she was dismissed for the last time. In the 1950’s and 60’s Dorotheas’s husband, Paul, spent six months photographing developing countries and Asia. Dorothea began having reoccurring ulcers. She was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. When she was in the Near East she caught malaria. Ansel Adams described her as a difficult woman who was opinionated, impatient, and willful. A woman who def ...
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... Kung-Fu among many other styles that he practiced. From all of the things that I've read and seen about Lee, I think that he was the type of person that would never give up. He could get beat and come back for revenge, but there weren't many times that he was defeated. He was also a very inspiring person to many people. He taught that mental actions overcome physical ones, that people should only result to fighting when it was the last option, and that a person shouldn't determine the outcome of a fight before it starts because underestimation could lead to defeat. Bruce also had clever methods of thinking and different ways to put his thoughts into action. H ...
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... a merchant promised to meet him at a place to discuss something concerning trade. The merchant forgot to keep his promise and could not reach the place at the time agreed upon. When three days later the merchant passed from the place of their meeting he found the Prophet (s) standing there to fulfill his part of the promise. When Muhammad (s) was twenty-five years old, a rich merchant widow asked him to take a caravan of merchandise for trade to Syria. Soon after this trip, she proposed to Muhammad (s) through a relative for marriage. Muhammad (s) accepted after he had thought about the situation. Some western writers who are not familiar with the social set- ...
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... came in 1833, when he entered a short-story contest and won a prize of 50 dollars for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle." By 1835 he was the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. He married his cousin Virginia, who was only 13, and Mrs. Clemm stayed with the couple. The Poes had no children. This success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in the magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and he looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he tried free-lance writing in New York City and Philadelphia but earned very little. Again he tried editing. His work was praised, but he was still paid litt ...
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... was a strong physical resemblance between Einstein and his younger sister Maja, and the two had a close relationship throughout their lives. Maja, also a pianist, married Paul Winteler Einstein childhood friend, Paul Winteler, in 1910 and later moved to the United States. When Einstein was older, he invented electric eye. He also was asked to be the president of Israel, but he refused. When Einstein was a teen-ager he was very interested in science. When he wanted to relax he would play the violin which he started playing at the age of six. The kocks, his mother's family, and the Einstein had lived in Southern Germany for more than a century, selling cloth, farming, ...
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... His experience as a preacher is reflected in his first paintings of peasants and potato diggers. He became really obsessed with art when he was 27. His early drawings were dark and somber, sometimes crude, but strong and full of feelings. In 1881, at age 28, he moved to Etten. Van Gogh liked the pictures of peasant life and labor that were first to be painted by Jean-Francois Millet, who had great influences on Van Gogh. His first paintings were crude but improving. In order for him to come up with the most important painting of his pre-impressionist period he had to make a number of studies of peasant hands and heads. And in April 1885 he painted a scene, The Pota ...
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... and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them." [To Kennety Tynan, 1967] is often referred to as a “Renaissance man”, an individual who’s ambitious and concerned with revolutionizing multiple aspects of life. He was a prolific writer and talented actor who often appeared in his own productions. A gifted artist, Welles, coupled his abundant energy with an enthusiasm for life. He tried everything and was not afraid to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failures as well as the acclaims of success. While, some critics say that Welles could never top “Citizen Kane”, such movies as “The Tria ...
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... was that cathode rays were some kind of material particle. Yet many physicists, including J.J. Thomson, thought that all material particles themselves might be some kind of structure built out of ether, so these views were not so far apart. Experiments were needed to resolve the uncertainties. When physicists moved a magnet near the glass, they found they could push the rays about. Nevertheless, when the German physicist Heinrich Hertz passed the rays through an electric field created by metal plates inside a cathode ray tube, the rays were not deflected in the way that would be expected of electrically charged particles. Hertz and his student Philipp Len ...
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... to the rights of English subjects so naturally when forming their societies they incorporated those rights in their culture. When oppressed by the English, colonists fought vehemently for their rights and their principals. The essence of America from the start was the opportunity for people of all backgrounds, culture, races, and religions to start fresh in a society granting freedoms and rights not available in other countries. The question from colonial times was the origin of those rights. Were rights able to be granted from person to person? Or were those rights inherited based upon the culture the given person is born or assimilated into? Given George M ...
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