Biographies
Study the biographies of people who have significantly influenced global change. Such people have appeared at all times throughout human history to give the world something new and unexplored.
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Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe By: Kiersten Essenpreis Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allen Poe's contributions to American literature have become increasingly more prominent as the years have passed. As short fiction has become a more accepted genre in literary circles, Poe's theories are studied with more passion. Although he lived a rather melancholy life, Poe did experience moments of joy, and desired to capture the beauty through poetic form. Indeed, what he left behind for the literary
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Edgar Allen Poe
EDGAR ALLEN POE BIOGRAPHY Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. His stories were about love and sadness. He died when he was 40 years old in 1849. People said that they found him unconscious and believed him drunk. He was an excellent writer that kept people fascinated with stories. He died as he lived all his life was miserable and with out hope. It believed that he uses a drug named opium
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Edgar Allen Poe
The gothic short stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe are so outstanding that they are still being read today. He only lived for forty years yet made such a huge impact on literature. Poe tells Thomas W. Fredrick in a letter, why he became a writer. “ Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For
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Edgar Allen Poe
EDGAR ALLEN POE BIOGRAPHY Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. His stories were about love and sadness. He died when he was 40 years old in 1849. People said that they found him unconscious and believed him drunk. He was an excellent writer that kept people fascinated with stories. He died as he lived all his life was miserable and with out hope. It believed that he uses a drug named opium
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Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe 1 Every country has a great writer, in America, that writer is Edgar Allen Poe. He writes all kinds of literature such as poems and short stories. His stories are also for a wide variety of ages. His life was full of failure as well as success. Edgar Allen Poe had many problems mentally and physically. He had a drinking problem and a problem keeping jobs. Poe’s father left him at
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Edgar Allen Poe
He is best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Jan. 19, 1809, died Oct. 7, 1849 in Baltimore, deserves more credit than any other writer for the transformation of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. He also produced some of the most influential literary criticism of his time -- important theoretical statements on poetry and
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was born on the 19th of July, 1834, in Paris, France. His full name was Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. A member of an upper-class family, Degas was originally intended to practice law, which he studied for a time after finishing secondary school. In 1855, however, he enrolled at the famous School of Fine Arts, in Paris, where he studied under Louis Lamothe, a pupil of the classical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. In order to complement his
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas spent almost all of his eighty-three years in the city of Paris. He was the eldest son of a prosperous banker and decided to abandon the study of law in 1855 to begin his training as an artist in the academic system. The only one out of five children to become a painter, he was something of a renegade in his family. He was a reclusive who spurned publicity of any kind,
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Edger Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 as Edgar Poe. He was the second son to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe. Both parents were actors, and shortly after Poe’s birth, his father left his family around 1810. Edgar become an foster child before the age of three years, when his mother died on December 8, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia at the age of twenty-four years. His father died at the age of
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Edmonia Lewis
Mary Edmonia Lewis, the first professional sculptor of African and native American descent to recognized internationally. She was born in New York in 1844. She died on September 17, 1907 London, England. Her sculptures were Neoclassical and religious which she brought back the interest in the late 20th century. During her early life, Lewis' father was a free African-American and her mother a Chippewa Indian, who was orphaned Lewis at an early age around five.
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Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer
Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer Edmund Booth was born on a farm near Springfield, Massachusetts in 1810. Some of the "hats" he wore during his lifetime were farmer, teacher, activist for the deaf, pioneer settler, 49er, journalist, and politician. The consistent theme in Booth's life, one to which he always returned, was his commitment to the deaf: working for the rights of all deaf people in this country, including education of deaf children. Booth's interest in
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Edna Berl Franklin Davis
Edna Berl Franklin Davis Edna Berl Davis was born in December of 1929. Four months before her birth her daddy William Burl Franklin was killed in a car accident leaving Ida Franklin his wife with five children and one on the way. When Edna was born her mother Ida Franklin wanted her to be named after her father so she was named Edna Berl Franklin. Her childhood was a happy one even though her father
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Edourd Manet
Йdouard Manet was a French impressionist during the 19th century. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism--today they are considered watershed paintings which mark the genesis of modern art. While studying with Thomas Couture from 1850 to 1856, he drew at the Acadйmie Suisse and copied the Old Masters at the Musйe du Louvre. After he
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Education
children were expected to attend schools where the King James Bible was read, where Protestant hymns were being sung, where prayers were being recited, but most importantly where textbooks and the entire slant of the teaching was very much anti Irish and very much anti Catholic.” “Many schools required that students recite passages from the Bible, or the Lord’s Prayer. Christian holidays were celebrated, even in cities like New York, where large numbers of students
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of expressionism. Edvard Munch was quoted as saying "We want more than a mere photograph of nature. We do not want to paint pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room walls. We want to create, or at least lay the foundations of, an art that gives something to humanity. An art that arrests and engages. An art created of one's
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Edvard Munch
Many people look at the works of Edvard Munch and think " What compels a man to paint such figures?", "What lies in this man's mind that makes his pieces so deranged. From the indistinguishable figures shown in many of his pieces , to the disturbing sceneries, his paintings are truly mysterious. The only way to really understand his work is to understand him and his very emotional life. The life of Edvard would be
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Edvard Munch Biography
Biography-Edvard Munch The painter Edvard Munch was tormented man, who had a very gloomy childhood. “His private life as a grown up was a mess, but he managed to express all his anguish through his creative and disquieting paintings” (Belmont 1). As we take a look at his personal life and how things went for him, you will discover many things that will surprise you. It all started when Edvard Munch was born on December
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Edvard Munch the Man
Edvard Munch is regarded as the pioneer of the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was recognised in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new and different movement of art, that helped artists to express their feelings about all the social change that was happening around them. Munch was born in 1863, and before long he had come to know the intensity of emotional pain. His
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Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy was an American author and socialist known greatly for his famous work of Looking Backwards set in the year 2000. Bellamy was born in Chicopee Falls. His father was Rufus King Bellamy, a Baptist minister and a descendant of Joseph Bellamy. His mother was Maria Louisa Bellamy. Her father, Benjamin Putnam, had also been a Baptist minister, but had to withdraw from the ministry, following objections to him being made a freemason. Edward
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Edward Estlin Cummings
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C07000E Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894. He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from Harvard. During the First World War, Cummings worked as an ambulance driver in France, but was interned in a prison camp by the French authorities (an experience recounted in his novel, The Enormous Room) for his outspoken anti-war convictions. After the war, he settled into a life divided between houses in
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Edward Gein
Have you ever heard the phrase he's a pschyco or you're a pschyco? I have and I never really paid it much attention until I heard about Edward Theodore Gein. He really put the meaning to pschyco!! Edward Gein was born on August 27, 1906. His parents were Augusta and George Geid, he had an older brother named Henry. When Ed was two his parents bought a farm in Plainsfield Wisconsin. Augusta loved their
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Edward Hicks
"An eminent member and minister of the Society of Friends," read local obituaries upon his death in the year of 1846. Contrary, an internet search reveals Edward Hicks as: “A devoted Quaker missionary and one of America's best-known painters in naive style.” Why is there is no mention of the American painter's artwork in his obituary? How did this occur? This occurred because the connection between his artwork, religion, society, and how it intertwined
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner “Now James, I need you to try to stay completely still. It may hurt your arm a bit when I make the cuts. It won’t take too terribly long, and if you pay close attention it will be done before you know it. Nurse, please hold his arm out towards me. Please be sure that he doesn’t move his arm, I don’t want there to be any accidents.” “Those were the last words
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Edward Norton
Edward Norton achieved instant stardom in his feature film debut in the 1996 Primal Fear. Norton was credited for saving a rather mediocre film with his portrayal of a Kentucky altar boy accused of murdering a Chicago Arch Bishop. This role earned Norton Golden Globe and Oscar Nominations for best supporting actor. With his instant fame Norton proved that he could go on and further his acting talents. Norton was born in Boston on August
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Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen Edward Steichen was born March 27, 1879 in Bivange Luxembourg. He died March 25, 1973, only two days from his ninety-fourth birthday. At the age of three his family made the voyage to the United States and by the age of twenty-one Edward was a naturalized citizen. He had deemed himself a fine art painter although this evidently did not suit him as he is said to have burned all his canvases by
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Edward Theodore Gein
Edward Theodore Gein My biography is on Ed Gein. What he did inspired movies and books such as: Psycho, Silence of The Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He is known as ”The Ghoul of Plainfield.” Ed lived a troubled life and was never what we would consider “normal”. He was one of the smartest and most troubled minds of his time. Ed Gein I believe had a large difficult situation know as his everyday
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Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was a man who changed our view of the Universe. In 1929 he showed that galaxies are moving away from us with a speed proportional to their distance. The explanation is simple, but revolutionary: the Universe is expanding. Hubble was born in Missouri in 1889. His family moved to Chicago in 1898, where at High School he was a promising, though not exceptional, pupil. He was more remarkable for his athletic ability, breaking
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Edwin Hubble (spanish)
BIOGRAFIA EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE Hubble naciу en Marshfield (Missouri) el 20 de noviembre de 1889. Ingresу al instituto de Wheaton, en donde participaba activamente en las actividades deportivas; su deporte favorito era el fъtbol, aunque el tambiйn participу numerosas veces en pruebas atlйticas en pista. En el dнa de su licenciatura del instituto en 1906, el director dijo, "Edwin Hubble, te he vigilado durante cuatro aсos y no te he visto estudiar ni siquiera 10
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Edwin O’connor
Edwin O'Connor (29 July 1918 - 23 March 1968) was an American journalist and novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for The Edge of Sadness (1961). O'Connor was a radio personality, journalist, and novelist, originally from Rhode Island who spent most of his professional life in and around Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Notre Dame and afterward served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. In
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Effects of Social Media
Effects of Social Media Admittedly, as a person who has limited social life, I think highly of social media at first because for introverts like me, finally can communicate with others without face to face, no longer worry it will end up being like confrontation. Since on social media, every user appears as a digital being with its digital identity. By clicking and adding a new friend, users start a relation to someone, and by
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