Charles Dickens Biography Charles Dickens was one of the most popular writers of all time. Dickens was very observant of life‚ and had a great understanding of humanity. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth‚ England‚ on February 7‚ 1812. When he was two years old he and his family moved to London. Dickens father‚ John Dickens‚ was a poor clerk who worked for the navy‚ and he also spent time in prison for debt. When John was not in prison he lacked the money to adequately support
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Charles-V alentin Alkan‚ c. 1835. Portrait by Édouard Dubufe Charles-Valentin Alkan[n 1][n 2] (pronounced: [ʃaʁl valɑ̃tɛ̃ alkɑ̃]; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was‚ alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt‚ among the leading virtuoso pianists in Paris‚ a city in which he spent virtually his entire life. At the Conservatoire de Paris‚ which Alkan entered before he was six‚
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King Charles the First‚ 1600-1649 King of England‚ Scotland and Ireland whose refusal to compromise over complex religious and political situations led to civil war‚ his own execution and the abolition of the Monarchy. Portrait of King Charles the FirstThe second son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark‚ Charles Stuart was born at Fife in Scotland on 19 November 1600. His father succeeded Queen Elizabeth I and came to the throne of England as King James I in 1603. Charles was created Duke
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Dr. Charles Drew- 1904-1950 World War II was full of scientific breakthroughs. Many of these took place in the medical field. In particular‚ one man was on the forefront of blood and plasma storage with the purpose of transfusions. Before he was elected to lead the Blood for Britain movement in 1940 (Charles R. Drew papers‚ 2012‚ ACS‚ 2016)‚ Dr. Charles Drew had already won recognition for the analysis of blood collection and storage procedures he researched for his dissertation (Charles R. Drew
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Ray Charles was suffering from substance abuse disorder. Substance disorder is defined as a complex behavioral disorder characterized by preoccupation with obtaining alcohol or other drugs (AOD) and a narrowing of the behavioral repertoire towards excessive consumption and loss of control over consumption. It is usually also accompanied by the development of tolerance and withdrawal and impairment in social and occupational functioning. Ray Charles continued substance abuse caused fights at home
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Mustapha Kamal Grade 10 Mr. Halliday History 4/8/13 Charles Lindbergh – An American Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh also known as the Lone Eagle made the first non-stop unaccompanied flight through the Atlantic Ocean on May 20th 1927. Many men had crosses the Atlantic ocean before him‚ but he was the first man to accomplish this extraordinary feat without stopping while flying all alone. Charles Lindbergh was born on the 4th of February 1902. He was drawn towards aviation as a young boy
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution & Natural Selection Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury‚ Shropshire into a wealthy family. Darwin himself initially planned to follow a medical career‚ and studied at Edinburgh University but later switched to divinity at Cambridge. In 1831‚ he joined a five year scientific expedition on the survey ship HMS Beagle. This is where he came up with his theory of evolution. During his voyage on the Beagle‚ Darwin found evidence that challenged
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What is it that connects Ed Gein‚ Ted Bundy‚ Jeffrey Dahmer‚ and Charles Manson? The fact that they are all killers. But the real question is‚ what makes them want to kill? And what makes up a serial killer in the first place? A good portion of the reasons why serial killers have the urge to kill is due to different mental illnesses. An example of this would be Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). Symptoms of this mental illness include “being abused‚ manipulation of others‚ disregarding right
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A Satyre on Charles II This poem is one of the most difficult to establish a definitive version for. Here‚ I present the poem as Vieth published it in his 1968 edition of the Earl’s poetry‚ along with Vieth’s notes. According to a letter dated 20 January 1673/4‚ whose testimony is corroborated by the headings in several early texts of the following poem‚ "my Lord Rochester fled from Court some time since for delivering (by mistake) into the King’s hands a terrible lampoon of ihs own making against
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens‚ set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold‚ it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.[2] The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution‚ the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
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