Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Abraham Lincoln's Biography



Abraham Lincoln was borned on February 12, 1809. He was the sixteenth president of the United States, his Parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks and they lived in a farm in Hardin County (Kentucky), before lincoln left the state. His oldest sister, Sarah and his younger brother, Thomas, who die in infancy.

In 1816, his family was forced to make a new start in Perry County (Indiana) . He later notice that this move was"Partly on account of salvery" because of difficulties with land deeds in Kentucky.

Later when he was nine, his mother die of a milk sickness, Soon his father married Sarah Bush Johnston. Lincoln was affectionate toward his stepmother, who he would call "Mother" for the rest of his life, but he was distant from his father.


Lincoln began his political career in 1832, at the age of 23, with an unsuccessful campaing for the Illinois Gerneral Assembly , as member of a Whig Party.




In 1836 Lincoln became lawyer with the help of John Todd Stuart , and in 1837 he moved to Springfield, where he became Stuart's law patner .


On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd. The cuple had four sons . Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, Willian Wallece Lincoln and Thomas " Tad" Lincoln , but saddly the only one that survive was Robert Tood .


Unfortunatly he died on April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South.
Questions:
1- At what time did Lincoln died ?
2 Who killed Lincoln's grandfather?
3-What political party did Lincoln created ?
4- When Lincoln was president who were his Vice presidents ?
5- What are Lincoln's nicknames?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Oscar Wilde Biography


Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on October 16, 1856. In school he was very lazy , but he had an exellent memory.

In 1874 Oscar went to England and became part of the Magdalen College . At the age of 25 he went to live in London. In 1881 he published his first volumen of poems, in the same year he appealed attention on a lecture in United States .

He married in 1884 with Constance Lloyad who help him financilly. In 1891 he published The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Oscar Wilde was sented 2 years at hard labor and he went to prision but he left it in 1897.

Finally he died in Paris on November 30, 1900 .


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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/


We expect to answer this question about Oscar Wilde life with " The Picture of Dorian Gray" book.


1- What means the picture that is in the cover of the book ?

2- How are the characters of the book ? they are nice or they are nasty ?

3- Is this book inspired on his life ? or in the problems about the past ?

4- In what person he think for writing this book ?

5- What kind of literature is this book ?