(Goetz 780) Cullen's biological mother never tried to contact him until he became famous in the 1920's.while in school he won a citywide poetry contest and then saw his stanzas widely reprinted. He later won several other poetry contests as a young man in high school and throughout college. Among the prizes won by Cullen there were Phi Beta Kappa honors and the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize. ... This was seemingly evident when Cullen requested that Langston Hughes not put ant black jazz rhythms in his and poetry. ... Cullen's differences caused people to respect the fact that he c...

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Since she was very little she's been involved in music writing, poetry, singing, acting. ... Just like I said before, my mother would read these stories, and sometimes she would sing them for me, which inspired me to actually write poetry " (Rienzi). ... "My church would do children events like poem contests music contest. ...

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During the time in which John's mother came back into his life, he was beginning to write and it is said that due to his mother's death, he began to take interest in schooling and poetry because of the loneliness that he felt when she died. He used the events of his childhood to inspire him to enter contests and submit works that he had written (181). ... With the illness of Tom came the feelings of guilt by John for wanting to still pursue poetry while his brother was deathly ill (Ward 221). ...

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"I believe there is one story in the world, and only one, that has inspired and frightened us. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their greediness and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. ...

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Italy and Germany, newly consolidated nation-states at the time, soon joined in the contest to claim every plot of known land - and spread the glory and superiority of their respective cultures. ... He writes poetry and is considerably gentle and kind - a representation of all things good in the world. ...

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ndustrialization was a time period that took place from the 18th to 19th century. Industrialization is the process of developing machine production of goods, which required natural resources. Manufacturing was often done in people's homes which were known as the cotton industry which used manual lab...

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"What dire offense from am'rous causes springs,/ What mighty contests rise from trivial things,/ I sing... Thus, Pope has successfully taken the audience from epic poetry in form, to mock epic in reality. ...

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Socrates obviously took great pleasure in contests of words and ideas, and the discussion of love brought out the best in those with whom he was debating. ... Diotima also makes the distinction that love is not confined solely to the feelings of one person for another, but encompasses many things, like poetry, philosophy, money-making, gymnastics and politics. ...

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He was a farmer and wrestler, who earned fame and brought honor to his village by overthrowing Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling contest. ... It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow. ...

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Oratory was a particularly popular form of entertainment; Americans attended sermons, political speeches, poetry readings, and public lectures with an enthusiasm unmatched in American history. ... Over the course of its 23-year existence, Barnum filled the American Museum with lots of strange and rare things like dioramas, scientific instruments, a flea circus, a loom run by a dog, the trunk of a tree under which Jesus' disciples sat, an oyster bar, a rifle range, waxworks, taxidermists, phrenologists, pretty-baby contests, a variety of freaks like the Siamese twins, a menagerie of exo...

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JOSE RIZAL, the martyr-hero of the Philippines, was born in Kalamba, on the southwest shore of the picturesque Laguna of Bay in Luzon, June 19,1861. His father's family began in the Philippines with a Chinaman named Lam Co who came from the Amoy District to Manila possibly because of the political trouble, which followed the conquest of his country, by the Manchu invaders. It was in 1697 that this ancestor who's Christian name was Domingo was baptized in the Parian church of San Gabriel At first a merchant, he finally made up his mind to stay in these Islands, and turned farmer ...

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The characteristics of his works are the profundity of theme and the grandeur of the poetry recited by the chorus. ... The date of the first contest with Euripides is uncertain in 441 Euripides defeated Sophocles in one of the annual Athenian dramatic competitions. ...

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There he arranged for the publication of his first volume of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems. ... The Philadelphia Saturday Courier published five of his stories after he entered a writing contest (May 1808). ...

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Legend and Myths of the Irish The recognition of the medieval literature with the Tuatha Dé Danann, ('People of the Goddess Danu') this may be connected directly to the early pantheon of Celtic deities. In the belief that there are ancient earthen work structures whi...

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On April 20, 1999 two gunmen opened fire in Columbine high school located in Littleton, Colorado. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, juniors at Columbine High School, shot and killed as many as twenty-five of their classmates and faculty members, as well as themselves. They also wounded at least fourteen others. The two boys appeared to target athletes as most of the wounded kids were wearing sports clothes like football jerseys and hats (Fisher 1). Many lives were changed that day and most of the nation wondered what could have prevented such a horrifying act of violence. ...

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