Biography of Thomas hardy Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet who set much of his work in Wessex‚ his name for the counties of southwestern England. He initially pursued architecture‚ his father’s work‚ but after finding success in his novel Far from the Madding Crowd(1874)‚ he gave it up and wrote with abandon. His works ultimately question the Victorian status quo and asks what else would make more sense. Thomas Hardy’s life can be divided into three phases. The first phase (1840-1870)
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with Paul McAteer‚ has given her instructions to keep quiet. So although she is willing to exchange pleasantries‚ although she will countenance the odd off-the-record conversation‚ and although she admits she will be taking "offers" to write her biography after this is over‚ Martha Billes’s lips are‚ for the time being‚ officially buttoned. Her friends‚ however‚ are not so restrained. After receiving the OK from Martha‚ they will phone‚ sometimes unbidden‚ to tell you how Martha has been misrepresented
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BIOGRAPHY OF KARL MARX Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th‚ 1818 in the city of Trier‚ Germany to a comfortable middle-class‚ Jewish family. His father‚ a lawyer and ardent supporter of Enlightenment liberalism‚ converted to Lutheranism when Marx was only a boy in order to save the family from the discrimination that Prussian Jews endured at the time. Marx enjoyed a broad‚ secular education under his father‚ and found an intellectual mentor in Freiherr Ludwig von Westphalen‚ a Prussian nobleman
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Biography of GEOFFREY CHAUCER GEOFFREY CHAUCER‚ English poet. The name Chaucer‚ a French form of the Latin calcearius‚ a shoemaker‚ is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century. Some of the London Chaucers lived in Cordwainer Street‚ in the shoemakers’ quarter; several of them‚ however‚ were vintners‚ and among others the poet’s father John‚ and probably also his grandfather Robert. Legal pleadings inform us that in December 1324 John Chaucer was
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learn how to read‚ write and compute mathematics ("Thomas Paine Biography"). Following in his father’s footsteps as a stay maker had failed‚ just like his many other jobs he held ("Thomas Paine Biography"). Paine worked as an excise
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English Topic: Sample Biography of a Great Lady___ Date: February 11‚ 2013____ Name of Teacher: Miss Lanie Pantinople Alberca__ No. of Meetings: ___1____ _ TPO: Thereafter reading and analyzing the content of a sample biography‚ the students will be able
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January 19th‚ 1809 in Boston (Poe Society). When Poe was born‚ he only knew his parents until he was almost the age of three (A and E Biography). Poe’s father left his family and his mother died of Tuberculosis (A and E Biography). Poe was separated from his two siblings
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Working Around the Limitations of Biography There are many methods on how to research and record history‚ and historians worldwide will most likely never agree on one approach. Empiricism for instance‚ the historical school of thought that has been used by historians for almost 200 years‚ is both a theory of knowledge‚ an epistemology‚ as well as a method of historical enquiry.[1] The theory’s followers argued that historians should only use primary sources‚ those that are created at the particular
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| Curate | Parish‚ priest | IV | Dissemble | Fool‚ pretend | V | Jocund | Merry; happy | V | Tainting | Spoiling; contaminating morally: corrupting | V | Pavin | Dance | Author Biography - William Shakespeare was born in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. It is generally accepted that he attended the King’s New School‚ the Stratford grammar school known for its classical curriculum‚ because
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Winfrey leadership academy for girls in South Africa which opened in January of 2007(“Oprah Winfrey’s Official Biography” 3). She is not just a big time philanthropist but also one of the greatest talk show hosts of our generation. In 1993 she interviewed Michael Jackson which a hundred million viewers tuned in making it the most watched interview in television history (Oprah Winfrey Biography 3). Her show has been seen by an estimated 42 million views in the United States and is broadcast internationally
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