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… world, adventure under the sea, all this in the late 1800s? All this was possible in the writings of Jules Verne. Jules Verne was born in Nantes on February 8, 1828. He had a vivid imagination and as a child, he often sailed down the Loire River with…

… of many people in the American Navy today. I shoce this topic because it was intresting in some way. I may discover that he went to jail numerious times, went to court for munity, and if he had a wife. The book that I use for rearchearch is called…

… by Eudora Welty, she talks about a journey that an old, under-educated, African American women named Phoenix Jackson takes. This old woman lived in the back woods of Natchez Trace. She had to walk ever so far, to a little town to get her grandson…

… 26, 1910. She was baptised one day after her birth, to the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Born in Chile, into a Catholic family, her father was a businessman who was CEO of a building company, and her mother was a lady called Drana, and she taught Agnes…

… as Currer Bell) explains her reasons for dedicating her book to W. M. Thackeray, the author of Vanity Fair. Apparently, the main reason for this was: "because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day, as the master of the working corps…

… men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell." Not only was he a theologian and a philosopher. He was a brilliant writer. The powerful writings of Jonathon Edwards have heavily influenced modern literature from the beginning to the end…

… New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. - Bergreen, Laurence. Capone: the Man and the Era. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Al Capone was possibly the largest and most feared mafia boss America has ever seen. This 1920's gangster made his mark on…

…                                                               Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9, 1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He had a major influenc…

… persuasion in their arguments; however, they both use another form of argumentation. Through their different forms, they convey influential opinions that open up the reader's mind. Although both essays are well constructed, they are not of equal persuasi…

… The novel is written by Richard Allen and was published in Great Britain by New English Library. In this story we hear from a teenage boy called Joe Hawkins. Joe Hawkins is a teenage boy living in Plairstow, which is an area in London's East End.…