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Ernest Hemingway’s biography Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists and is known for works like A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea. Born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois, Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho. Short stories´  Ernest Hemingway “The Capital of the World” is about a small residential hotel in Madrid inhabited by second-rate bullfighters. Paco, the protagonist, is a young waiter who aspires to a career in the ring. During an ill-advised game he plays with another employee of the hotel, Paco is fatally wounded and dies, still believing h...

Jack London Jack London was a 19th century American author and journalist, best known for the adventure novels White Fang and The Call of the Wild. Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After working in the Klondike, London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including  The Call of the Wild ,  White Fang  and  Martin Eden , placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916. His life as a writer essentially began in 1893. That year he had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. The 17-year-old adventurer had made it home and regaled his mother with his tales of what had happened to him. When she saw an announcement in one of the local papers for a writing contest, she pushed her son to write down and submit his story. WHITE FA...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald´s biography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, an author well known for his short stories and novels, was born on September 24th, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper middle-class family. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest writer’s American soil has produced in the 20th century. Being from a practicing Catholic family, Scott started his education from Catholic schools in 1903. Since early age Scott developed a reputation of being a boy with unusual aptitude and keen interest in literature. Young Scott’s first publication The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage was a detective story issued in school’s newspaper at the age of 13. In 1913 Scott was enrolled in Princeton University where his love for theater and writing really came to the fore. He wrote many short stories for Princeton Tiger, a college humor magazine published by Princeton University and scripts for Princeton Triangle Club, a musical comedy society. His association with Triangl...

Edgar Allan Poe´s biography On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, sent Poe to the best boarding schools and later to the University of Virginia, where Poe excelled academically. After less than one year of school, however, he was forced to leave the university when Allan refused to pay Poe’s gambling debts. Poe returned briefly to Richmond, but his relationship with Allan deteriorated. In 1827, he moved to Boston and enlisted in the United States Army. His first collection of poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, was published that year. In 1829, he published a second collection entitled Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Neither volume received significant critical or public attention. Following his Army service, Poe was admi...

Arthur miller´s biography Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known plays include 'All My Sons,' 'A View from the Bridge,' 'The Crucible' and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Death of a Salesman.' Synopsis Born in Harlem, New York in 1915, Arthur Miller attended the University of Michigan before moving back East to write dramas for the stage. His first critical and popular success was Death of a Salesman, which opened on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize along with multiple Tonys. He received more acclaim for his award-winning follow-up The Crucible, which reflected his unwavering refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Miller's public life was painted in part by his rocky marriage to Hollywood sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. The playwright died in 2005 at the age of 89, leaving a body of work that continues to be re-staged internationally and ...

Mark Twain   Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is internationally known by his pen name,  Mark Twain . The author of numerous works, Twain's legacy includes two classic American novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both of which are still read and studied worldwide. Born in 1835, Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri and left school after the fifth grade. He worked as a typesetter and reporter for the local newspaper and became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Twain claimed that he had invented his pseudonym from his riverboat experiences and he had earlier adopted the pen name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass. Twain followed his brother to Nevada, where he quickly abandoned mining in favor of writing for the Virginia City newspaper. In 1865, Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" brought him international renown. Eventually he moved east, settling in...

Racial discrimination Racial discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favorably, or not given the same opportunities, as others in a similar situation. Well, the problem of racial discrimination as in this country as the whole world is, that the most people discriminate Haitian people not because of they are black, it´s because they don’t have any money to pay, also they catch the job and the money Dominican want. in the other hand, here in the Dominican Republic there are a lot of illegals people like: Chinese people, Venezuelan, Colombian, Spanish also people from the Unites States. The cause of the problem is, the authorities take money from illegal immigrants like Chinese and Peruvians, they pay money to the authorities to put stores and restaurants at the city but the Haitians don’t have money to pay corrupt authorities that´s why they are discriminated. The best solution of that is, people have to change its mind thinking better and giving best treat to ...