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Autobiographical Essays and Term Papers
William Christopher HandyHandy was an American black composer and compiler of "BLUES" music. He
was born in Florence, Alabama. He was educated at the Negro Agricultural and
Mechanical College near Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of former slaves.
He was educated in the public schools and by his father and paternal ...
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Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has published ten best ...
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Go Ask Alice1. Alice, the writer of the diary. She's 15 years old when the story begins. Her real name is not known.
Mom, her mother, and Dad, her father, a university professor.
Alex(andria), her sister.
Tim, her brother.
Gran, her grandmother, and Gramps, her grandfather.
Roger, a schoolmate with whome she ...
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Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in Kent, a marshy region by the sea in the west of England. Dickens' father John was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life. When ...
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Orson WellesThe term 'genius' was applied to him from the cradle, first by the man
who would vie with Orson's father to nurture the talent all agreed resided in
the fragile boy.(Leaming, 3)
George was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 6, 1915. He
was the second son of Richard Head Welles, an inventor, and ...
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The Life And Work Of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass's writings reflected many American views that
were influenced by national division. Douglass was a very successful
abolitionist who changed America's views of slavery through his writings
and actions. Frederick Douglass had many achievements throughout his life.
Douglass was ...
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Tennessee WilliamsThomas Lanier �Tennessee� Williams is acknowledged as one of the greatest American dramatists of the post-World War II era. His stature is based almost entirely upon works he completed during the first half of his career. William�s lyrical style and his thematic concerns are distinctive in ...
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�I Won�t Learn From You� And Other Thoughts On Creative Maladjustment, by Herbert Kohl, is a collection of five inspirational and optomistic essays, which are at the forefront of current thinking on urban education. While the main focus of Kohl�s book is creative maladjustment, each of the five essays follows its own theme. They include the student�s denial to ...
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Autobiographical Assignment: My GrandfatherMy grandfather was shipped out in December 1941 and severed in the Air Force during World War II. He left my grandmother by herself to raise a child under the help of her parents' shelter and emotional help, and he would send his check he received from the Air Force. It was not common for my ...
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For Whom The Bell Tolls - SummNovel Analysis: For Whom the Bell Tolls
The story first takes place in Guadarrama Mountains, during the Spanish civil war. Robert Jordan, is an American teacher who has volunteered his services to the Loyalists in their fight against the Fascist rebels. He becomes torn between his new found love, ...
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Joyce's "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man": A ReviewJames Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered
to be one of the finest works of literature of all time. Herbert Gorman,
an author from the early twentieth century, stated that "so profound and
beautiful and convincing a book is part of the lasting literature of our
age," and ...
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Samson Agonistes Dealing WithIn John Milton's works, specifically Samson Agonistes, we get an idea of how Milton shows people coping with defeat. The most evident way these people to choose to deal with their defeat is by questioning why this has to happen. Which usually leads to what is the purpose of living if bad things ...
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Utopia As its title hints, the essay which follows is not the history but biographical of an idea. The idea for the book called . Like all ideas for books it was born and had its whole life span in the mind of an author. Like all such ideas it ceased to be when the printed book became a ...
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Biography And History: Harriet Jacob's The Life Of A Slave GirlTo be a good writer, you must posess a careful balance between detachment
and association, a delicate waltz where you are not so wrapped up in the events
of a story that it alienates the reader, and yet not so far separated from the
subject matter that the readers cannot get into it. This is ...
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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs� appalling autobiographical narrative of her experience of slavery, is a story very much interwoven with the �cult of true womanhood.� Jacobs hardly embodied the ideal picture of true womanhood painted by white, middle-class Northeastern Americans: delicate, white, submissive, ...
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The Influence Of The French Revolution On RomanticismThe literature of a country is affected and influenced by how the
people of that country live. This paper will prove that The French
Revolution greatly influenced 19th Century French Romanticism. First, the
cultural values of the revolution will be identified. Then, the different
aspects of ...
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A Farewell To ArmsFrom Ancient Greek playwright, Euripides, ("To die is a debt we must all of us discharge" (Fitzhenry 122)) to renowned Nineteenth Century poet, Emily Dickinson, ("Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me -/ The carriage held but just ourselves/ And Immortality" (Fitzhenry 126)) ...
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George OrwellThroughout history, writers have written about many different
subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen
name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of
the twentieth century. He was born in Bengal, India in 1903 to an English
Civil ...
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The Life Of Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath's life, like her manic depression, constantly jumped
between Heaven and Hell. Her seemingly perfect exterior hid a turbulent and
deeply troubled spirit. A closer look at her childhood and personal
experiences removes some element of mystery from her writings.
One central ...
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EvelineEugene Gladstone O�Neill�s life is reflected throughout his plays in order to let out his true feelings. Eugene O�Neill was born in October on the 16, 1888. He was born in New York City, New York, in a hotel on forty-third and Broadway. For the first seven years of his life, he traveled with his ...
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