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Jackie Robinson
Number of Words: 1250 / Number of Pages: 5
... with a pocket full of change or an extra lunch, because the kids bribed him into playing on their team. But his childhood wasn’t all-good, because all of his friendships ended after each game. Lucky for him he had four siblings to spend time with, who were all great athletes, including Willa Mae who was amazing at basketball. He also had some immigrant friends who called themselves "The Pepper Street Gang". Together they challenged white groups in sports for money.
Jack’s skills bloomed all the way through grade school and into high school. At Washington Junior High Scholl, he played b ...
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Arnold Schönberg
Number of Words: 264 / Number of Pages: 1
... for Schönberg's further artistic development. In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of tonality were appreciably extended.
Schönberg revolutionized modern music by establishing the 12-tone technique of SERIAL MUSIC as an important organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performance ...
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Henry VIII
Number of Words: 1044 / Number of Pages: 4
... reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the pope so he can divorce Catherine. But, Cardinal Wosley wasn't able to convince the pope, so in 1529 Henry took Wosley's authority away from him. Henry then appointed Sir Thomas More. Henry then got that divorce through Thomas Cramner, that he wanted with Catherine of Aragon and then married Anne Boleyn. Cramner now the Arch Bishop of ...
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Frederick Banting
Number of Words: 329 / Number of Pages: 2
... in 1922 they succeed in discovering insulin. (The extract was then purified further and tested in a human on January 11, 1922.) They were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology in 1923. They were the first Canadians to ever receive that honor. Banting initially threatened to refuse the award because he felt Charles Best's work as research assistant had been vital to the project and that he should be included in the honor. Ultimately Banting accepted, and shared his portion of the prize with Best. Later Banting was named he ad of a new department of medical research at the University of Toronto ...
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Bruce Lee
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... lessons. “At the same time he entered the 1958 Boxing Championships and defeated the reigning three year champion, Gary Elms.”(1-2) Bruce was involved in many street fights because of his experience in boxing. His parents decided to have him move back to San Francisco.
In 1959 Bruce returned to America and lived with an old friend of his fathers. Bruce worked on some odd jobs around the Chinese community. He lived there for two years then decided to move to Seattle with another old friend of his. He enrolled at the University of Washington to study philosophy. Before he enrolled at the Univer ...
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Candidate Profile Paper On Alan Keyes
Number of Words: 1539 / Number of Pages: 6
... on to work in foreign policy and national security policy for the Reagan Administration and “served at the United Nations as an Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council” (1). Keyes was also the “Assistant Secretary of State, overseeing our participation in the whole UN and international organizations system, and was also briefly part of the National Security Council staff” (1). During this time, he met his wife while posting in India in the Foreign Service. Together, they have three children, two boys and a girl.
Keyes has continued to maintain a traditionally conservative stance on many iss ...
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Asher Lev
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... makes to disregard his Jewish background for the sake of what he loves: Art.
Asher begins a student-teacher relationship with Jacob Kahn, a non-observant Jew. Asher has the choice of disregarding Jacob's invitation to study with him, or calling him. Asher chooses to call Jacob (page 190), which in turn leads him on a journey to neglecting his parent's wishes, and forsaking his faith.
After graduation, Asher decides to tour Europe, and see in person the art works he had before only experienced through books (page293). This decision to be on his own also forced him to choose between art and his fa ...
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Watching Payton Was Pure Sweetness
Number of Words: 836 / Number of Pages: 4
... impulsive energy, is very
much in control of the moment.
The safety, whose job it is to decide which way Payton will go when he finally comes down, is the one who looks stunned and, perhaps, a little frightened. In truth, it is the defender who determines where Payton is going by committing, ever so slightly, to his right. Payton touches down, leans almost imperceptibly left and cuts hard to the right. The safety catches nothing but a lot of air. Payton, blasts of breath pluming through the facemask of his helmet, pressing the ball against the 3 of the No. 34 on his jersey, is eventually ...
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Herman Melville Defined
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... They encouraged him to write of his adventures. The result was his first two well-known novels: Typee and Omoo. Shortly after this Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, and together they had four children.
During his career, Melville was known as a great writer only for his early adventure novels. He was more interested in writing about “passion, innocence, religion, philosophy, and political subjects,” and refused to write, as he put it, “the other way” (13). The public disliked these subjects and his new style, compared to previous works. Due to the lack of money for his family, Melville was force ...
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Jane Addams
Number of Words: 298 / Number of Pages: 2
... Peace Prize with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University.
was born in Cedarville, Illinois, and graduated from Rockford College. She began the Study of medicine but her health broke down, and for two years she was an invalid. During several years of unhappy indecision she found her purpose when she visited Toynbee Hall, a social settlement in London. In 1889 and Ellen Gates Starr moved into the Hull House mansion, located in one of the worst slum communities of Chicago.
The two women held classes for immigrates, tended the sick, cared for babies, and provided a community center, co ...
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