Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is considered by many to be one of the greatest American poets of her time. Throughout her career of writing, she produced about 1800 poems and thousands of letters that border on poetry in and of themselves (Kirkby 10). However, Emily Dickinson lived a very private...

Jane Addams Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860,and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abr...

Karl Marx: A Life. Francis Wheen. New York: Norton, 1999. 431pp There were only 11 mourners at Karl Marx's funeral in Highgate cemetery on March 17th 1883, but within a hundred years of his death governments that professed Marxism as their guiding faith ruled half the world's popu...

In his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh was seen as a failure, but today, he is viewed as the foremost representative of postimpressionist art. Unable to conform to normal life, Vincent turned to art to express his feelings. His style of using choppy brushstrokes with brilliant colors was looked down upon...

Matthew Flinders: Biography Word Count: 1620 Matthew Flinders was a great British navigator. He first mapped and circumnavigated a large a mysterious landmass which he would later name Australia. Reminders of Flinders exploits can be found in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Even his...

There are developments, trends -- I don't know quite what to call them -- that pique the interest because they don't quite make sense; they are culturally paradoxical. We could all see Survivor coming -- it's the perfect marriage of technological scopophilia and our growing appetite for real-life sp...

1. Author and editor Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. Irving achieved international fame for his fictional works, including the stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as well as for his biographies and historical writings. Irving served as the United Sta...

In the Presidential elections America aims to install the man most able to lead the country and represent the whole. In 1960 John F. Kennedy ran on the Democratic ticket and won over the country. In 2004 John F. Kerry ran on the Democratic ticket and decisively lost the election. Why? How did Ke...

The Biography of Alessandro de' Medici Alessandro de Medici was a part of the Royal Medici family, which was the family of fifteen generations in power in Italy from 1291 to 1743. Alessandro was born in November of 1510 and had a short but interesting life of 27 years. He was assassinated...

A Biography on Anne BoleynAlthough Anne Boleyn was queen of England for only three years, she played a major role throughout the Renaissance. Mother to Elizabeth I, she has been well-known for her political influence in England.Anne's date of birth varies widely. Some articles claim she was born i...

Ida Tarbell was a woman far ahead of her time. Tarbell was an extraordinary woman whose work influenced the lives of others all over. She helped transform journalism by introducing what is called today investigative journalism. Through her achievements she not only helped to expand the role of the n...

Shakespeare\'s love sonnets describe three different contexts in which love operates, as such, he depicts a multi-faceted picture of love. Love in Shakespeare\'s poems does not have a single definition, but rather, an intangible conglomeration of characteristics that, together, make up an ever power...

LENIN A New Biography Dmitri Volkogonov, a former General in the Soviet army, was given unprecedented access to the clandestine Soviet archives during Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's rule, by Boris Yeltsin. In 1994, Volkogonov wrote a revealing book entitled, LENIN A New Biography, which rocked the Len...

You Can't Kill HopeA Fire You Can't Put Out, by Andrew Manis, is a very detailed biography of Fred Shuttlesworth. The book highlights many events that took place during the Civil Rights movement and Shuttlesworth's fight against segregation. The most significant issue presented, in my opinion, is Sh...

Author's Biography She was the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, Toni Morrison. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, she was the second of four children of George and Ramah Wofford. As a child she escaped from the racist attitudes moving to Ohio. She was raise...

Chinua Achebe's Biography: Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born the son of Isaiah Okafo, a evangelicalChristian churchman, and Janet N. Achebe November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria.Although both his parents were Christians, they heavily inundated him withtraditional Ibo values. He married Christie...

Symbolism and The Scarlet Letter Symbolism is traditionally a sign or token of something. In the matter of literature, the definition of the literary device, symbolism, is more complicated. Symbols of literature are usually metaphysical. The main symbol of The Scarlet Letter is the red "A" that ...

With strength, courage, confidence, and determination you can be anything you want to be. Though u may go through many obstacles before you get to the place you would like to be, you can get there eventually as long as you don't give up. Donnie Radcliffe wrote a biography on Hillary Clinton&apo...

My fascination with the Judicial System Structure of today's society was furthered and strengthened after reading and analyzing the works of Edward Greenspan. This superbly written biography recollecting past cases and important events in Greenspan's life allowed myself, the reader, to learn more ...

Is it possible to say that the killing of hundreds of thousands of human beings can be justified? Hiroshima, written by John Hersey, illustrated the horror of the use of a new powerful weapon to end the world's worst military conflict to this day. Through his book, Hersey told the stories o...

Pierre Trudeau He will be forever known as the man who dared to pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth II on national television, capturing the hearts of Canadians. With his strong political background, his undying love for his country, and his loyalty to the welfare of the Canadian people, Pierre Trud...

The Life and Tragedy of Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac was a poet who focused on the forgotten people of the world. Wherever he traveled he found the places nobody wanted to find and turned the un-pretty into magnificent poetry. Kerouac used the people no one wanted to remember and turned them into ...

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Emily Narcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson. The poet was the second of three children, being a year younger than her brother, William Austin, and two years older than her sister, Lavinia. ...

Wyatt Harbert English 1 Term paper Although she won much respect as the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt gained a lot of her international esteem as a civil rights activist long before that. Eleanor's interest in politics did not begin when her husband began his career in politics. Once he w...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to the talented musician Leopald Mozart on January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He demonstrated a rich talent early in his life, practicing the harpsichord at the age of three. His older sister is quoted saying that the young Mozart "often spent much time at the ...