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Billy Sunday
Number of Words: 2382 / Number of Pages: 9
... buffoon whose sermons vulgarized and trivialized the Christian message and at worst he was a disgrace to the name of Christ (Dorsett 2). There are elements of truth in both of these views. He was often guilty of oversimplifying biblical truths, and at times he spoke more out of ignorance than a heavenly viewpoint. He was also a man with numerous flaws. He spoiled his children, giving them everything that they asked for. He put enormous responsibility on his wife, burdening her with many aspects of his ministry. He always noticeably sought the Oswalt / 2 applause of the crowd for his own praise. He o ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of Words: 251 / Number of Pages: 1
... and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
Important Works
Sacred music includes over 200 church cantatas, the E ...
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Gangster Dutch Schultz's Life
Number of Words: 309 / Number of Pages: 2
... During this time, the District Attorney Thomas Dewey became a threat, and Schultz decided to
kill him to get him out of the way. But before execution day arrived, Schultz was arrested for Income Tax evasion, a common tale of those days. Schultz could not foresee the outcome of the trial; so he had a steel box created by an ironworker in which he could hide some of his “treasure,” which consisted of thousand dollar bills, diamonds, gold coins, and jewelry.
Considered New York's leading gangster, he was ultimately gunned down by three rival mobsters. He survived for two days, in a guarded hospital roo ...
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Stephen King
Number of Words: 2341 / Number of Pages: 9
... The paper sold for five cents a copy and was full of local news and fictional works by King (Beahm 2). I found this to be quite humorous. I can see two kids sitting at the mimeograph machine printing out their very own five cent newspaper.
When King was at the impressionable age of four, something occurred that King would hold with him for a very long time. King’s family life was typical, for the fifties. King’s mother stayed at home and took care of the home while the father worked. Stephen’s mother and father loved both Stephen and his brother Danny very much. Although one night his fat ...
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Richard Nixon's Presidency
Number of Words: 1481 / Number of Pages: 6
... 1950 Nixon ran for the U.S.
Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-80), whom he
labeled th e for what he alleged to be her pro-Communist sympathies. He won
the election, but his campaign tactics were widely criticized.
Vice-President
In 1952 the Republicans nominated Nixon to be the running mate of
presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. When it was disclosed that as
a senator Nixon had accepted an $18,000 fund fo r from California
businessmen, he was nearly dropped from the Republican ticket. Nixon's
televised self-defense, called th e speech because of a sentimental
reference ...
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Dorothy Parker
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... and love" (Adams 519), together with an absolute foreknowledge of their futility. Love, especially, plays a major role as a theme of Parker's verse. Many poems are relating to love and loneliness or death as results of love. Parker once said of an actress in a review of a play that she "runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." The same could almost be applied to the author herself (Bloom 2537). Her more bitter verses become brief ballads of animosity. This aspect is quite well demonstrated by the imagined injury of others in "Frustration:"
'If I had a shiny gun,
I could have a world ...
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Al Capone
Number of Words: 1691 / Number of Pages: 7
... Mae married that year on December 30.
Capone's first arrest was on a disorderly conduct charge while he was working for Yale. He also murdered two men while in New York, early testimony to his willingness to kill. In accordance with gangland etiquette, no one admitted to hearing or seeing a thing so Capone was never tried for the murders. After Capone hospitalized a rival gang member, Yale sent him to Chicago to wait until things cooled off. Capone arrived in Chicago in 1919 and moved his family into a house at 7244 South Prairie Avenue.
Capone went to work for Yale's old mentor, John Torrio. T ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Number of Words: 687 / Number of Pages: 3
... becoming bigger and stronger than his father. Arnold would sneak into movie theaters to watch Hercules with Steve Reeves and Reg Park, who were bodybuilders. He would judge, and admire Reg Park, promising himself that one day he would surpass him. Arnold was determined that he wouldn't be like other people, he wanted to be powerful. Arnold was Invited by Kurt Marnul, who was Mr. Austria, to receive training at the Athletic Union Graz. Both of his parents disapproved of Arnold, especially then because over a couple of years Arnold grew larger and also created a life for himself. Gustav was trying to d ...
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Number of Words: 1064 / Number of Pages: 4
... each word is used more differently and more intensely than in ordinary discourse. Old yellow pair resounds with more meaning than old couple. “Yellow” implies faded or old; “Pair” is more compassionate than “couple”, suggesting more of a connection than just a matchup. Though easily readable, the first line sets a tone of tenderness. Dinner is a casual affair is also a unique statement. Though five plain words, each is used effectively to create an irony which is maintained for the rest of the stanza. “Dinner” and “affair” imply more formal situations, but yet are described as “casual.” This vague ir ...
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John Brown
Number of Words: 1213 / Number of Pages: 5
... community
in North Elba, New York. In time he became a militant abolitionist, a
"conductor" on the Underground Railroad, and the organizer of a
self-protection league for free blacks and fugitive slaves.
By the time he was fifty, Brown was entranced by visions of slave
uprisings, during which racists paid horribly for their sins, and he came
to regard himself as commissioned by God to make that vision a reality.
In August 1885 he followed five of his sons to Kansas to help make the
state a haven for anti-slavery settlers. The following year, his hostility
toward slave-staters ...
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