ONLINE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Due Tuesday, April 6, 2010,
@ 10:00 PM EDT
Google "Ambrose Bierce." Find one interesting fact about him (that has not already been posted on this blog) and post it. Be sure to put the information into your own words (i.e., don't cut and paste from another website) to avoid plagiarism. Interesting parts of his life include:
ª his childhood
ª his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War
ª his reputation in literary circles
ª events surrounding his death
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Ambrose Bierce was a great journalist and author as well as a veteran.His military career was cut short due to a bullet wound to the head he sustained in the civil war which left him with dizziness and blackouts.Because of the military, he was able to write about the places he traveled and the events that took place in his journals and literature.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce was one of thirteen children, who all had names beginning with the letter"A". Bierce married Mary Ellen(Mollie) Day and had three children, two sons, Day and Leigh and a daughter, Helen. Both of his sons died before him. Day was shot in a fight over a woman and Leigh died of pneumonia, which was alcohol related. Bierce and Mollie separated following Bierces discovery of a love letter that his wife had received from an admirer. Mollie died before their divorce was final the following year.
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ReplyDeleteAfter studying architecture, political science, history and Latin, it was stated that Ambrose Bierce began to wander aimlessly between odd jobs (laborer and waiter), that seem to have no relevance with his studies. It was also noted that he had taken on many different jobs throughout his life. It seems as though he did this to gain inspiration for his writings.
Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio to Marcus and Laura Bierce. He was the tenth of thirteen children. Although his parents were poor they instilled in him a love for books and writing. His stories are among the best of the 19th century and he always wrote about the tragedies he encountered while at war.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio to Marcus and Laura Bierce. He was the tenth of thirteen children. Although his parents were poor they instilled in him a love for books and writing. His short stories are among the best of the 19th century and he often wrote about the tragedies he encountered while in the war.
ReplyDeleteWhen Ambrose Bierce was in his Seventies in October 1913, he went on a tour of his old civil war battlefields, From there he made his way down south to Mexico Which at the time was going through a revolution, Bierce wound up joining Pancho Villa's army as an observer in December of 1913, he dissapeared with out a trace. It makes you wonder? is he still out out there?
ReplyDeleteWhile Ambrose Bierce was known to be horribly critical of others work he was surprising supportive of young and new writers, he was one of thirteen children, he moved about the world, he spend 3 years living in england, which is were he began writing, and later lived in San Francisco, he was once a manager for a coal mining company based out of new york, but once they went out of business he went back to writing. He became one of the most influential writers on the west coast.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce was not a people person when became the editor of the news-letter where he wrote a satirical column exposes that contained material about public figures at the time which did receive a lot of notice but also received a lot of hate. The most notable figure who wasn't very fond of this was Oscar Wilde.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce is best known as a writer that went missing after the civil war. Now while there are many theories as to why or how he went missing the one that stood out the most to me was the theory that he never existed to begin with or that he checked himself in to a hospital for the insane in Nappa by his secretary Miss Christiansen. However the most interesting one to me is the theory that Ambrose Bierce disappeared at the same time as an Ambrose Small proving that evil supernatural forces were collecting Ambroses.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce disappeared without a trace. He had joined Pancho Villa’s army in Mexico as an observer but was never heard of after he wrote a letter to his friend, Blanche Partington, on December 26, 1913. There were several investigations and theories as to what had happened but his what had happened still remains a mystery.
ReplyDeleteBierce vanished after sending a letter to his close friend, Blanche Partington. There are no facts as to when he died or how he died. his disappearance is one of America's most famous disappearances.
ReplyDeleteIt states at the age of four, Ambrose Bierce moved to Indiana. He was the author of the "Devils dictionary" and was publish in 1906. He was part of the Civil War and was in the Ninth Indiana Infintry Unit.
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ReplyDeleteAn interseting fact anpout Ambrose Bierce was that he was one of fourteen children and all of their names began with the letter A.
For one, I think it is very ineresting that he is one of thirteen children who's names start with "A". I also think it's interesting that he some how vanished from the face of the earth. The stories as to how he died are also very interesting.
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