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Martha Gellhorn An American journalist as well as novelist, Martha Gellhorn was known to be the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century who had covered almost every important world conflicts that took place during her writing career. She began her career by writing for The New Republic and then she became a reporter for a local newspaper. Later she not only travelled throughout the continent but also met President Franklin D. Roosevelt's confidant, Harry Hopkins, with whom she shared

are kind and caring to Huck but not in the right way. They try to force the Bible and its laws onto him when he does not care about them. They use the religion to magnify Huck’s mistakes but never show his accomplishments. Jullian Davis from Bryn Mawr College states in his article that “After dinner, she read him the story of Moses which, according to the footnotes, she uses as a metaphor to preach to Huck about the state of his own life” (Davis 2). Twain uses the difference of religion and superstition

Elizabeth Bowen-was born on June 7, 1899 in Dublin, Ireland and died on February 22, 1973 in London, England. She was a writer and a novelist. Even though she was born of the Anglo-Irish gentry she spent her early childhood in Dublin, as it says in the autobiographical fragment seven winters. Born in Dublin on June 7, 1899, Elizabeth Bowen lived in Ireland until the age of seven, when her family moved to England. Her education completed, she returned to Dublin in 1916 to work in a hospital for World

Why Stress Affects Everybody Differently The word "stress" technically refers only to how our body reacts to stressors, different external inputs. Many stressors are not inherently stressful. There are conscious and unconscious things that occur in our inner world that determine whether a stressor in the external world will trigger our stress response, called mediating responses and moderating factors. (1) Some stress is good for us and motivates us. But signs that stress has gone too

graduated from Thomas Jefferson University in 1988. He started training as a Doctor for the next three years at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. Kolecki then spent the next three years training at Lankenau Hospital in the Cardiology Department in Bryn Mawr, Pa. In 1994 Kolecki started in private practice while being associated with St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem Pa. Dr. Kolecki explained that he has been going through this court process for the last five years. He said his children have been

The Never-ending Story: Sexual Orientation and Genetics It is my observation that the average person gains insight into the nature vs. nurture debate when some particular human trait that is politically or socially volatile at the time is announced as having a specific genetic origin. This observation was confirmed when, in surfing the web, I came across an article entitled, "Female Inner Ear Comes Out of the Closet (1)." While reporting on a study published by a UT psychology professor who

Moore became a poet, she went to prep school in, Pennsylvania. At the young age of 17, Moore enrolled in Bryn Mawr College, where she started publishing some of her work in the literary magazines, Tipyn Bob and The Lantern. Moore graduated in 1902 with a BA and that same year enrolled in the Carlisle Commercial College, where she took secretarial courses for a year. After Carlisle Commercial College, Moore decided to teach at the U.S. Industrial Indian School at Carlisle. After five years of teaching

one day you regain the sense that these colors and this tension are extraordinarily beautiful, it feels like an incredible gift. The human condition is horrible; all this beauty is extra.” After Charles’s death, Byatt began to teach at University College. “I think what saved me was the students,” she says with wonder. She began to complete her book, The Virgin in the Garden which she interrupted after the death of her son. It published in 1978.It remains the first of a series of four novels that

Thematic Research Paper In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, strict societal rules and class structures bear negative results for the World State, such as resentment, gender inequality, and rebellion. The citizens resent different classes and societies, caused by draconian societal structure. A society wholly reliant on medical technology to thrive creates gender imbalance as it erases motherhood and has a flawed familial structure. The World State ultimately becomes its own worst enemy, as

of a religious culture in order to encounter something completely new. I chose to attend Quaker Meeting for Worship because the Quaker religion is very prevalent in Pennsylvania especially around the Philadelphia area. Haverford College was founded by Quakers and Bryn Mawr has always been closely associated as well. Additionally, many of the local towns have meeting houses within them making the Quakerism a perfect religion to explore. The Haverford Friends Meeting house, built in 1834, is a small