Henry Charles Bukowski writing was influenced by the social‚ cultural‚ and economic ambience of Los Angeles. He left home after his father read some of his stories and went berserk‚ destroying his output and throwing his possessions out onto the lawn‚ a lawn that the young Bukowski had to mow weekly and would be beaten for if the grass wasn’t perfectly cut. Bukowski was born in 1920 in Andernach‚ Germany. He died on March 9‚ 1994 in San Pedro‚ California. He was a German American poet‚ novelist‚
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have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have thoroughly been in earnest.” This was a memorable quote said by a wonderful English writer‚ Charles Dickens. Born in Portsmouth‚ England to a wealthy family‚ Charles John Huffman Dickens was a well-known writer even in his time‚ his books being published by the dozens. He experienced with multiple genres such as historical fiction‚ realistic fiction‚ and mystery/suspense when writing
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Charles Baudelaire: Romantic‚ Parnassian‚ and Symbolist Often compared to the American poet Edgar Allen Poe‚ the French poet Charles Baudelaire has become well-known for his fascination with death‚ melancholy‚ and evil and his otherwise eccentric yet contemplative style. These associations have deemed him as a "patron saint of modernist poetry" while at the same time closely tying his style in with the turbulent revolutionary movements in France and Europe during the 19th century (Haviland‚ screens
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Charles Aznavourian is a Armenian/French singer‚ songwriter‚ actor‚ public activist and diplomat. He was born in Paris‚ France on may 22‚ 1924. His birth name is Shanour Vafhenag Aznavourian. Aznavour father Michael Aznavourian was from Akhaltsikhe in Georgia and his mother was from Turkey. At a young age Aznavourian and his parents moved to Tbilisi for Jobs‚ they soon moved again to France were Michael sang in restaurants before he created his own Georgian restaurant called "Le caucase" .Together
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.During his life‚ his works enjoyed unprecedented fame‚ and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth‚ England‚ Dickens left school
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Charles Handy is an Irish author and philosopher who specialising in management and organizational behavior. He has been evaluated among the Thinkers 50 ‚ a private list which is the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001 he was second on this list ‚ just behind Peter Drucker.Handy born in 1932 .He graduated from Oxford and started his business career in marketing at Shell International. in 1967‚ He was a co-founder of the London Business School and left Shell to teach there in 1972
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Coketown By Charles Dickens Dickens is using figures of speech to make pictures in the readers head and he is therefore helping people imagine the things he is telling about. One would say that Dickens is using metaphors to put a picture on his story and to make everyone feels how awful and terrible Coketown is. “Coketown was a town of red brick‚ or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but‚ as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the
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Charles Dickens Context CHARLES DICKENS WAS BORN on February 7‚ 1812‚ in Portsea‚ England. His parents were middle-class‚ but they suffered financially as a result of living beyond their means. When Dickens was twelve years old‚ his family’s dire straits forced him to quit school and work in a blacking factory‚ a place where shoe polish is made. Within weeks‚ his father was put in debtor’s prison‚ where Dickens’s mother and siblings eventually joined him. At this point‚ Dickens lived on his own
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Defining the “Gentleman” and the attack by Charles Dickens on the gentility of society‚ in the reading of Great Expectations. “Biddy‚” said I‚ after binding her to secrecy‚ “I want to be a gentleman” This line in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a catalyst for a great discussion and debate‚ one which baffled the people of the Victorian age and still baffles critics to this day‚ what is a true gentleman? Great Expectations is regarded as a masterpiece by Dickens‚ it moves away from
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Linda Kasabian had already married and divorced two different men‚ and was already the mother of a baby girl. Linda visited Spahn Ranch on July 4‚ 1968 and immediately joined the Manson Family. According to Kasabian‚ Earth was a happy place around Charles Manson and his followers. Music‚ marijuana‚ alcohol‚ dance‚ everything combined to make up the “Perfect Place”‚ not knowing these people would bring Hell to Earth for her. It all started on that night‚ August 8‚ 1969‚ Linda was instructed to
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