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    of influential authors‚ many of which are still read and appreciated today. One of those authors was Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was the author of many novels‚ short stories‚ and non-fiction work. His work is still admired and studied by people throughout the world. As a child Hemingway experienced loss‚ violence‚ and saw many different cultures‚ which all influenced his work. Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s life‚ he endured a great amount of violence and suffering. Hemingway was not a stranger when

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    ERNEST HEMINGWAY: Writer‚ war correspondent‚ international adventurer‚ lover‚ drinker‚ brawler. The tabloid reputation -- filled with truths‚ half-truths and flat-out untruths -- grows ever-wider. If you made up a character like Ernest Hemingway‚ how many would believe it? The mercurial Hemingway left people enchanted‚ hostile‚ endeared‚ confused‚ charmed‚ bruised‚ engaged‚ bitter. He was an extraordinary‚ unforgettable presence. As more than one person remarked: “Hemingway sucked the air out of

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    Literature was booming in the 1920s‚ with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald at the forefront of writing books‚ and Gertrude Stein as a poet‚ novelist and playwright. Many new up and coming literary geniuses were arising in the 1920s. This time period brought about a period of lively culture with people having lavish parties; it also brought new technologies and a mass-consumption economy. But let’s focus on Ernest Hemingway‚ who was certainly a jack of all trades‚ writing many books and serving

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    Ernest Miller Hemingway

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    Kaitlyn Alfman January 08‚ 2013 Research Project Notes Ernest Miller Hemingway Born on July 21st‚ 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois Died on July 2nd‚ 1961. Ernest Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head at his home on July 2‚ 1961. His wife‚ Mary‚ said that he had killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon. American author and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Raised in suburb of Chicago. Spent most of his time in Northern Michigan

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    Julio Yanes 10/31/13 Period. 4 A.M.D.G. Ernest Hemingway "Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another". Ernest Hemingway believed that a life is not lived without taking chances. Hemingway participated in many risky and sketchy things. He played football‚ which back then was played with leather helmets‚ he also hunted big game which was one of his favorite hobbies. Throughout his life‚ masculinity and the ability

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    Paragraph #1: Introduction Hook - Ernest Hemingway is experiencing the inferiority of women‚racism against others‚ and the suicide of a depressed father. Explain the story - A boy named Nick is with his father and the father ends up helping an indian woman give birth while most don’t care about the woman in pain. The father of the newborn can’t stand to listen to his crying wife so he ends up committing suicide. This helps Nick mature at a young age. Thesis - Coming of age is the moment a person

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    individual who qualifies to accept the Nobel Prize? I think of someone who is intelligent‚ dedicated to his or her work‚ and someone who has made a breakthrough that has changed the world. Out of all of the six scientist that have been nominated‚ I believe Ernest Rutherford deserves this award. According to “Chemheritage‚” “Rutherford studied at Canterbury College‚ and the University of New Zealand before moving to England in 1895 for postgraduate study at Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge

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    TRIPLE ENTRY JOURNAL: “The Killers” The short story “The Killers” written by Ernest Hemingway begins as two rude men walk into a lunchroom and start taunting George‚ the man running the place and Nick Adams‚ a young man sitting at the other end of the counter. Finishing their supper‚ the men reveal that they are planning to murder Ole Anderson‚ a big Swede‚ former heavyweight prizefighter‚ who often ate at that lunchroom. After 7:00 pm‚ they stop waiting for the man to enter the scene; it was

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    Disillusionment‚ death‚ and a general feeling of malaise are recurrent themes throughout Ernest Hemingway’s stories. While Hemingway sometimes drifts into a philosophy of nihilism‚ there also shines a sense of dignity in the acceptance of such pessimism; as it is especially displayed in the short‚ "A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place". This story proposes that as people may feel complacent in their youth‚ they will inevitability decline into an undesirable life of loneliness and dissatisfaction. However

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    Ernest Miller Hemingway

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    1. Biography of Ernest Miller Hemingway "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it‚ never really care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve‚ but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue." (’On the Blue Water’ in Esquire‚ April 1936) A legendary novelist‚ short-story

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