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Biography Of Tiger Woods
Number of Words: 833 / Number of Pages: 4
... Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him “Tiger”. Tiger Woods took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older, he began to compete in the Junior Nationals tournaments against older boys. He didn’t have the strength to drive the ball far, but he had skill; he was blessed. Earl made Tiger some miniature clubs out of his old ones and from that moment on, he was obsessed with the sport ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1949 / Number of Pages: 8
... he failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and
gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The
rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply
to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next
35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the
dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have
happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more
talent....or IF the Dean had been a little ...
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Carl Gauss
Number of Words: 1509 / Number of Pages: 6
... school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication followed and the answer could be found.
This act of sheer gen ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... It was the pride in his
literary work that put him in his real bent." Recalls his St. Paul Academy
teacher. From that prestigious school he then traveled and began attendance in
Princeton University. Not a promising student he was often late to his classes.
His excuse was once "Sir-it's absurd to expect me to be on time. I'm a
genius!!!" Though the "Princeton years" we not his most memorable, it provided
an outlet for his writing, and talent.
During his junior year he left Princeton and entered the army in 1917.
Though he was never sent to battle for his country, there he began work on the
short st ...
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Law And Politics
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring, government imaginable – whatever its political form might be. Under such an administration, everyone would understand that they possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of their existence. No one would have any alliance with the government. When successful we would not have to thank the politicians for our success (Donald). Moreover, conversely, we would no more think of blaming them for our misfortune than would the farmers blame them for a poor harvest due to inclement ...
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Frederick Douglass
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... he started to show people the evils of
slavery. He became an orator and a writer. Whenever he could he attended
abolitionist meetings. In October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery
convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd
Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass
also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls,
in 1848, and wrote three autobiographies: An American Slave, My Bondage and
My Freedom , and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He wa ...
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It Came From Ohio! My Life As A Writer: Biography Of R. L. Stine
Number of Words: 355 / Number of Pages: 2
... Jovial Bob (a way to
introduce himself and humor to the readers) to help The Sundial because
people weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”.
Jane became his girlfriend after meeting her at a party in Brooklyn
and became his wife on June 22, 1969. They had a son named Matthew on June
7, 1980.
A series of scary books for young adults led to the wildly popular
books enjoyed by many kids called Goosebumps. He has written about 250
books in his short life and plans to write many more; he tries to write two
books a month.
As a frequent reader, I think he writes really scary, but s ...
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D.H. Lawrence
Number of Words: 779 / Number of Pages: 3
... dealt with life in a mining town. Another
wonderful example of the nature in ’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the images he has given to a person, make it seem like they really are there. "She closed her sunshade and walked slowly among the many flowers. All around were rose bushes, big banks of roses, then roses hanging or tumbling from pillars, or roses balanced on the standard bushes." The nature in his books truly surrounds a person.
His writing contained heightened sensation. liked to leave his reader’s hanging on to the moment, to conti ...
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Benito Mussolini
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... and
took its name from the Fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman
discipline. The Fascist movement grew rapidly in the 1920’s,
spreading through the countryside where it’s Black Shirt Militia won
support of the land owners and attacked peasant leagues of Socialist
Supporters. To take advantage of the opportunity Fascism shed it’s
initial Republicanism gaining the support of the King and Army.
On October 28, 1922 Mussolini led his Fascist March on Rome.
Mussolini was immediately invited to form the Italian Government by
King Victor Emmanuel III. ...
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Ernest Hemingway And A Farewell To Arms
Number of Words: 2939 / Number of Pages: 11
... he was a small boy, as if he
were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement
was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting
Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and
never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned
and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from
appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it
appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he
could ...
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