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
Be sure to put your first name and the initial of your last name on the post, or it will be rejected and we won't be able to enjoy your comment!
I thought it was interesting the way he got wounded in the Civil War. Ambrose was shot in the temple. the bullet got lodged into his skull behind his ear. Talk about being close to death.
ReplyDeleteHe was a tenth from thirteen children.His father named every child by name beginning with the letter A.He left home at the age at 15 to work as a printer devil.
ReplyDeleteWhen Ambrose was seventeen years old, he decided to enter in the Kentucky Military Institute where he studied subjects like history, architecture, and political science. He also,supported the Civil rights and Religious freedom.
ReplyDelete-Gabriela Portilla-
Bierce who was in his seventies, departed Washington, D.C. for a tour of the Civil War battlefields, he once was a part of. During that trip, he vanished without the trace. His disappearance became one of the most famous disappearances in American literary history and became the subject of many novels and movies. For instance, the 1989 film “Old Gringo” starting Gregory Peck, based on the Carlos Fuentes’s novel “The Old Gringo,” presents fictionalized account of Bierce’s disappearance
ReplyDeleteAfter the war Ambrose Bierce retired from the army at the rank of brevet Major, and in 1867 moved to San Francisco, where he began to work for many years as a regular columnist and editorialist for William Randolph Hearst's newspaper, "the San Francisco Examiner."
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce is American writer who lived in Ohio and San Fransisco, he Died in Chihuahua, served in the Union Army and was influenced by Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, and Edgar Allan Poe. It is said that Bierces work influenced writers like William March, Julio Cartazar, H.L. Mencken, Jorge Luis Borjes and Italo Calvino.
ReplyDeleteNICHOLAS R BASCIANO
Ambrose Bierce married to Mary Ellen in 1871 with whom he would have three children. but the long periods away from his family affect negatively his marriage, and in 1888 he and his wife got divorced.
ReplyDeleteI was surpriced that Ambrose Bierce became a writer due to his ftaher a struggling farmer that had love for literature and later on was passed on to his son. Today many children dont follow their parents passion like Ambrose Bierce did.they just go to school to get away from their parents and do the opposite of what they are told to do by their parents
ReplyDeleteBierce's marriage started to fall apart, and the consecuences of it made him had problems with alcohol. His son, Day, had run away from home at fifteen as he did when he was young. Day killed a rival suitor of a sixteen-year-old girl and eventually was killed in a duel in 1889. While his other son, Leigh, died of pneumonia at the age of 26.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce was in the 9th Indian Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. Also, Bierce was assigned First Lieutenant in february of 1862. In his platoon Bierce served as a Topographical engineer. Bierce's duty was to fabricate maps of battlefields.
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce and his wife got married on Christmas Day in 1871. They separated after Bierce found letters that an amirer had sent her.
ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that he spoke out against oppression and supported civil and religious freedoms. He also wrote numerous Civil War stories from first-hand experience. Many of his works are ranked among other esteemed American authors’ like Edgar Allen Poe. That is a great accomplishment to be compared to Poe.
ReplyDelete-Alexandra G