inconceivable. “Abraham Lincoln‚ as a young man‚ was an incredible wrestler due to his strength and the length of his limbs. Allegedly‚ Lincoln only lost one out of the 300 matches he had fought in during his wrestling career”(Klein). According to Carl Sandburg‚ after Lincoln beat his opponent with ease‚ he turned to the crowd and said “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it‚ come on and whet your horns."(Klein). At 21 years old Lincoln was the wrestling champion of Illinois. He lost
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a long‚ long time I hope. Though few young people of today have a clue about who she was. Perhaps if Hollywood continues to make Little Women movies every decade or two‚ she will be remembered. We have immortalized poets like Robert Frost‚ Carl Sandburg‚ Emily Dickinson and others‚ but there are just a few poems by each that are remembered. Having laid to rest my brother of many years‚ I was forced to think of how he would want to be remembered. He never told me. I figured his love for music
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feeling as he is trapped and is going at such a fast rate in the city ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree"). He feels as if the city will calm him down and make him be at peace ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree"). “Veils of the morning” is a metaphor for saying fog and mist brings peace‚ and can only be gone when the sun comes and lifts the veils ("The Lake Isle of
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Irma Gasparyan Professor Elham Shayegh E&C120‚ Section B 18 March 2017 The Captain of the Ship The poem “O Captain! My Captain” by Walt Whitman was written after the murder of the second president of the United States of America Abraham Lincoln. The poem was published on November 4‚ 1865‚ in Saturday Press in New York. This poem became one of the most famous poems of Whitman‚ which the readers immediately accepted. In this paper‚ I will look at
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Strategic Studies Essay “Choose a pre-20th century military strategist and show how/why their ideas remain relevant in the 21st century.” Major General Carl von Clausewitz was a staff officer in the Prussian Army in the early parts of 19th century‚ suffering defeat in 1806‚ but leading Prussia back to glory in 1815. However‚ he was better known as a military theorist‚ and today is recognised as an integral figure in the evolution of military strategy‚ for many of his ideas are still prominent and
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It is a pleasure to nominate Dave Giles for the "Most Outstanding Person" award. He is a former alumni of Carl Sandburg College. My first impression of Dave came in 2012 when he gave hands-down the best speech on the importance of education that I had ever heard. He truly enjoys spending his time helping the community’s youth. He has also continued to live up to that impression of being a passionate man who is optimistic‚ supporting‚ and is as committed to children as he is to bettering our society
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co-sponsored an essay contest‚ "What Good Government Means to Me‚" for eighth-graders in the 13th Legislative District. More than 150 students submitted entries for the contest. The first-place winner was Adam Van Handel‚ from Ms. Eisen’s class at Carl Sandburg Middle School‚ Old Bridge. The second-place award went to Charles Gunningham from Mrs. Grieco’s class at Joseph R. Bolger Middle School‚ Keansburg‚ and the third-place award went to Monica Bastawros from Mrs. Carey’s class at Hazlet Middle School
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of the night” by Margaret Laurence is a story about a boy named Chris that moves into his grandfather’s home to attend high school. The story is told through a narration by his younger cousin Vanessa. The poem “What Shall he Tell That Son” by Carl Sandburg is about a father telling a son about life and how he should deal with it. The poem gives advice to the son that for Chris would have been very beneficial. In the Poem the father tells his son “Life is hard; be steel; be a rock‚” this advice
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Theatre.com. www.BroadwayNow.com/public/boxoffice.asp (13 September 1999). | Selected Works by American Authors | Author | Life | Works | Robert Lee Frost | 1874-1963 | West-Running Brook | Henry W. Longfellow | 1807-1882 | Ballads | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967 | Smoke and Steel | Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | Little Women | William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | The Sound and the Fury | Samuel L. Clemens | 1835-1910 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | All the
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THE RISE OF REALISM (1860-1914) The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) between the industrial North and the agricultural‚ slave-owning South was an important event that marked American history. Before the war‚ idealists championed human rights‚ especially the abolition of slavery; after the war‚ Americans increasingly idealized progress and the selfmade man. Business boomed after the war. War production had boosted industry in the North and given it prestige and political clout. The enormous natural resources
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