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Babe Ruth
Number of Words: 2400 / Number of Pages: 9
... both paper coverage and radio coverage. The idea of the home run was more of a new concept and with Ruth's improvement it became a symbol of The Babe. The idea of the home run also symbolized the creation of a strong willed nation and self-confident young men, enforcing the idea that innovations and expansion would constantly be occurring.
It was believed that by watching baseball, youngsters would learn to be better people because they would begin to imitate the professionals who became their heroes. Baseball taught quick decision making skills, competitiveness, how to sacrifice for th ...
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John Muir
Number of Words: 432 / Number of Pages: 2
... that read the articles came to see the mountains.
While visiting friends in Oakland, California, he met Louise Wanda Strentzel. They married in the spring of 1880. John became a grape and pear farmer. They had two daughters and named Wanda and Helen. As soon as they were old enough John taught them John taught them about plants and animals.
John's farm did well and he was able to continue travelling around the country. As he traveled he saw how man was hurting the animals, land, mountains and forests. Men were cutting down to many trees and herds were eating all the grass. John said,"every ...
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Eudora Welty: Her Life And Her Works
Number of Words: 1230 / Number of Pages: 5
... through a rectangle
brightly lit, actually glaring at me with sun, sand, water, a little
pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a
border of dark rounded oak trees, like that engraved thunderclouds
surrounding illustrations in the bible"(Welty,75). Welty's long sentence
structure and word usage allows the reader to feel as though he or she were
the one sitting on the beach. This description helps the reader to be
involved in the story. He or she could feel as though he or she were a
part of the story instead of someone only looking in.
As the story progresses, the main ...
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Ellen Foster
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... humble attitude that both Gibbons and
Ellen epitomize in the novel is portrayed through diction and dialogue
throughout the novel allows the audience to gain a better understanding and
personal compassion for both the character and author.
The novel is written in a short, choppy sentence structure using simple
word choice, or diction, in a stream of consciousness to enable the reader to
perceive the novel in the rational of an eleven-year-old girl. One short, simple sentence is followed by another , relating each in an easy flow of thoughts. Gibbons allows this stream of thoughts to again e ...
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Harry S. Truman
Number of Words: 902 / Number of Pages: 4
... did not begin regular school until he was eight,
and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness.
His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading.
He got up each day at 5 AM to practice the piano, and until he was 15, he
went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or
biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military
battles and of the lives of the world’s greatest leaders. In 1901, when
Truman graduated from high school, his future was uncertain. College had
been ruled out b ...
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Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The
Number of Words: 751 / Number of Pages: 3
... historical terms: How did a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?" (Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with contempt and not given any real freedoms.
Another way that Thomas Jefferson shows his moral character is in his most famous achievement, the drafting ...
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The Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... People (NAACP), was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. King soon was
selected as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the
organization that directed a bus boycott prompted by Parks's jailing. The
Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year. Incidents of violence
against black protesters, including the bombing of King's home, focused
media attention on the city. A lawsuit filed by an MIA attorney appeared
before the Supreme Court of the United States, which upheld a lower court
ruling ordering Montgomery's buses to be desegregated. By late 19 ...
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Richard Nixon
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing ...
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The Life And Death Of 2Pac
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... or Quentin Tarrantino film. In
fact, it is not a scene from any movie, although the story will likely wind
up as a made-for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of
the life of rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times
during this escapade while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby
club on September 7th. He later died of the wounds, after six days of
intensive care and several unsuccessful operations.
Tupac Amaru, or 2Pac, as he spelled it --distinguishing him from
the violent Peruvian terrorist group of the same name-- was one of today's
most popular "gangst ...
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Twiggy
Number of Words: 1263 / Number of Pages: 5
... is the face of 1966” (Wilson). Davies, who preferred to be called Justin De Villeneuve, was quite an interesting character with his past resume containing ex-model, ex-antique dealer, and ex-hairdresser. After he discovered her, he (age 25) became ’s (age 15) agent and boyfriend. He took her to Paris and a short while after her popularity grew, she was put on the cover of Elle Magazine, as well as Paris Match and the British edition of Vogue. During ’s peak success in Europe, De Villeneuve set up Enterprises Ltd. where he gathered a line of clothes, false eyelashes, cosmetics, dolls, and posters all ...
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