On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. ... There he received a writing style sheet that instructed: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. ... During his stay in Europe through the 1920's, Ernest was influenced by eccentric writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary compression. ... Hemingway witnessed a man and a boy in a small boat being dragged by a fish that the man had hooked. ...

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For Ernest Hemingway, writing was a ritual which confronted human inadequacy. ... In the presence of death, man can discover his own sense of being- (Baker 153). ... In Hemingway's short story, "The Capitol of the World-, the young waiter Paco dies in a tragic accident with a make-believe bull. ... At one time, he had been very promising, but upon being gored in the abdomen, he lost his courage in the ring. ... In the short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber-, Hemingway writes of the importance of human and animal confrontation. ...

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