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Tupac Shakur
Number of Words: 673 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Harlem and the Bronx. Young Tupac began his performance career with the 127th Street Ensemble and then enrolled Baltimore School for the Arts where he was educated in ballet and acting. Tupac was forced to drop out of the school and move to California where his criminal career began. Tupac began selling drugs and had several altercations with the law including several shooting and the unexplained death of two off-duty officers. Tupac’s music continued to excel until his untimely death on September 7, 1996.
The artistic ability and musical talent weren’t enough to get by with; it took ...
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On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery
Number of Words: 1570 / Number of Pages: 6
... opening of The
Cotton States' Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia meant to attain at least
three goals. The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning
white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of
trickery). The second was that behind the purpose of the trickery itself,
advancing his fellow brothers. Trying to bypass whites' mindset and
actually making whites help the black cause. And the third and last but
not least important was that of delivering a moral speech on dignity and
pride for both blacks and whites. All these three goals show Booker T.
Washington's aims, b ...
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Ernest Hemingway
Number of Words: 1118 / Number of Pages: 5
... participated in boxing, which would help him make money as a sparring partner in Paris in later years. During his senior year in high school, World War 1 was intensifying in Europe. The United States tried to stay out for as long as possible, but when German submarines sank four American ships, America declared war in April 1917. Most of his friends either enlisted or were drafted. He wanted to join the war but, his father thought he was too young so he got a job as a reporter on The Kansas City Star (Russell, 7). Throughout these hectic months his thinking about joining the war intensified.
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Nelson Manndela
Number of Words: 1257 / Number of Pages: 5
... College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was
elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods).
At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves the task of transforming ANC into a mass movement. In September of 1944 they came together to form the African National Congress
Youth League. Mandela soon impressed his peers by his disciplined work and consistent effo ...
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Elvis Presley
Number of Words: 1395 / Number of Pages: 6
... music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvi ...
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Adam Smith
Number of Words: 814 / Number of Pages: 3
... acted in his or her own best interests the market would automatically produce what the people demand. He knew this would work be more effective and efficient than any governing body or groups of planners to decide the Three Economic Problems: What to produce? How to produce it? For whom to produce? He knew because the people, the consumers would be making those decisions for themselves. Smith also noticed that self-interest lead to increased trade and bargaining. “It is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of̶ ...
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Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... mechanical equivalent of heat. This idea claimed that
heat and motion were combined, which now is taken as second nature. At the time,
heat was thought to have been a fluid of some kind.
Kelvin also maintained an interest in the age of the sun and calculated values
for it. He assumed that the sun produced its radiant energy from the
gravitational potential of matter falling into the sun. In collaboration with
Hermann von Helmholtz, he calculated and published in 1853 a value of 50 million
years. He also had an interest in the age of the earth, and he calculated that
the earth was a maximum of 400 mi ...
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Rembrandt
Number of Words: 457 / Number of Pages: 2
... sketchers of all time. When he had no other
model, he painted or sketched his own image. Rembrandt painted or sketched
over fifty portraits just of himself! During the next few years three of
his four children died as babies, and in 1642 his wife died. Rembrandt made
most of his etchings during the 1630’s and 1640’s. His landscape paintings
are depiction’s of the land around him. One of Rembrandt’s most famous
paintings was known as 'The Night Watch', painted in 1642. It depicts a
group of city guardsmen waiting the command to fall in line. In the
foreground are two men, one in bright yellow, the o ...
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Edgar Allan Poe 4
Number of Words: 1240 / Number of Pages: 5
... actually was. "Though he lives on the brink of the pit, on the very verge of the plunge into unconsciousness, he is still unable to disengage himself from the physical and temporal world. The physical oppresses him in the shape of lurid graveyard visions; the temporal oppresses him in the shape of an enormous and deadly pendulum. It is altogether appropriate, then, that this chamber should be constricting and cruelly angular" (63).
Setting is also an important characteristic is Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". The images he gives us such as how both the Usher family and the Usher mansion ...
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Gregory Efimovich Rasputin
Number of Words: 723 / Number of Pages: 3
... no wrong in the his ways. Many of the Orthodox clergymen became skeptical of the monk and his close involvement with the imperial family, the Romanov family members of Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich also became concerned and wanted him to be sent away. With many entreaties from Tsars Nicholas’s family to send the monk away, Nicholas was so in love with Alexandra , that he could not send the monk away for fear of his son bleeding to death and his family falling to pieces. Rasputin had great influence over the imperial family, and his actions causing outrage , gave a scandalous image to the imperial ...
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