Max Thayer

In the short story, “King Curtis’s Echo”, by Max Thayer, the author mostly focuses on his revelation that in the spirit of self-preservation, picking fights with strangers over small indignities, is a bad idea and can have fatal consequences. He does not bring to light the other obvious point in his tale: possessing people skills to begin could have prevented the situation altogether. A little tact, patience, and forethought would have gone a long way in sparing the author the

“I wish to tell you I am innocent and never connected with any crime... I wish to forgive some people for what they are now doing to me.” These were the last words of Vanzetti just before his death. Two innocent men executed because of their background information, the location they were in during a crime and the prejudice trials they had to face trying to prove their innocence. Nicola Sacco was born on June 11, 1888, in Torremaggiore, Italy while Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on April 22, 1891

Edgar Estlin Cummings The life of Edgar Estlin Cummings starts on October 14, 1894 with his birth to Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings. At the age of sixteen he enters Harvard College, and begins to write poetry for Harvard Monthly. After Harvard, he joins Ambulance Corps, and sails to France to participate in World War I. Soon after his arrival he gets arrested and imprisoned for three months in a French detention camp on suspicion of disloyalty1. On New Years Day he is released

Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet – the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost – born in 1894. He was immensely popular, especially among younger readers for his work; he experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax. The majority of his poems turn to the subjects of love, war, and sex, with such simplistic language, abandoning traditional techniques to create new means of poetic expression. “Somewhere I have never travelled”, is a very

Edward Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. His father was a professor at Harvard, leading Cummings to attend Harvard from 1911-1915 (Poetry for Students vol.3). At a young age Cummings showed a strong interest in poetry and art. His first published poems appeared in the anthology “Eight Harvard poets” in 1917. During WW1 Cummings volunteered for the French-based ambulance service and he spent four years in an internment camp in Normandy on suspicion of treason (Poetry for Students

On October 14th, 1894, one of the most creative poets who ever lived, was born. 104 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts was the childhood home of Edward Estlin Cummings. This is where he began writing, at the early age of three, with the assistance of his imagination and his mother, Rebecca Clarke. Rebecca encouraged young Edward to write verse and keep a journal, along with helping him record his thoughts until he was old enough to write himself. He grew up surrounded by many forms of nature

Written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in 1887, Casey at Bat is a narrative American poem and story, telling of a baseball’s game’s final half-inning between the home team Mudville, and another team. The poem has a main character named Mighty Casey, the team’s star hitter. Ultimately, Casey loses the game for his Mudville team at the end of the poem because he strikes out. Casey at the Bat’s theme is baseball with its tone being both exciting and suspenseful. Its tone also begins calmly, getting eager

“Moore alleged that Proctor testified that he found "Bullet 3" consistent with having been fired from Sacco's Colt despite having confided earlier to District Attorney Katzmann that he did not believe "Bullet 3" came from the defendant's gun. Judge Thayer

“ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E Cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings was born In 1894 and Lived in Cambridge Massachusetts. E.E Cummings went to Harvard University. E.E Cummings died on September 3,1962 In North Conway, New Hampshire. E.E Cummings was a painter and painted lots of things. The Question is How does E.E Cummings create meaning using sight and sound? E.E Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using Visual techniques and Auditory techniques. In the beginning

A science writer by the name of Carol Ezzell is the author of the article called “ Clocking Cultures. Since as the early 1990s, Ezzell works as a writer and editor at Scientific American, a popular American science magazine that focuses on mainly on biology and technology. Ezzell also work at science related organizations like Science News, Bio/World and Nature. Ezzell have received an award for her journalism within the field of science by the National Association of Science Writers and the Pan