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John Wayne
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in
the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from
military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the
film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate
side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers
(1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan
(1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes to fill.
The movies that he made at the end of the decade
were the ones that established him as an actor of merit.
Howard Hawks emphasized the willful side of Wayne’s screen
persona by giv ...
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Jimmy Carter
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... sport is basketball
Breakfast
- Orange juice, coffee, fruit, and cereal. Sometimes pancakes.
Food
- Sirloin steak, medium rare
- Any kind of fish or poultry
- Corn bread
- Any vegetables except beans
- Salad with Roquefort dressing
- Frozen yogurt
Hymns
- The Navy Hymn "Eternal Father Strong to Save"
- "Amazing Grace"
- "Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
Color
- Blue
Gift to receive (as a youth)
- Books
Books
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Poet
- Dylan Thomas
- Miller Williams
Philosopher
- Paul Tillich ...
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Kerouac
Number of Words: 778 / Number of Pages: 3
... or as an
evocation of perhaps one of the liveliest periods in American letters, is a pleasure. It is
about men and ideas that changed everything. That’s reason is enough o read it” (23).
Deck’s statement is true, the book is a pleasure to read. Kerouac was born in Lowell,
Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922. Kerouac went to school in New York City and
afterward served in World War II. After the war Kerouac became a wanderer, traveling
through the United States and Mexico. Kerouac’s wandering and experiences are what
created the subject matter o ...
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The Life Of Benjamin Franklin
Number of Words: 564 / Number of Pages: 3
... with his brother James, Franklin ran away to New York. He could find no work for printers in the city, so he struggled on to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, he found work at an old press owned by a gentleman named Keimer. Keimer loved arguing about religion, and discussed many things with Franklin. Franklin approached and answered Keimer’s questions with such tact, Keimer was impressed with his natural skills as a disputer. It was during these years that Franklin kept a journal describing various English towns and the characters of their residents. This revealed one of the talents that was to ...
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Rene Descartes
Number of Words: 872 / Number of Pages: 4
... moved to the
Netherlands, where he spent most of the rest of his life. He lived for varying
periods in a number of different cities in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam,
Deventer, Utrecht, and Leiden.
It was probably during the first years of his residence in the
Netherlands that Descartes wrote his first major work, Essais philosophiques,
published in 1637. The work contained four parts: an essay on geometry,
another on optics, a third on meteors, and Discours de la methode (Discourse on
Method), which described his philosophical theories. This was followed by other
philosophical works, amon ...
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Political Momentum
Number of Words: 770 / Number of Pages: 3
... recent take off on this large issue has ensured its eventual resolution.
First, allow me to cite examples of corrupt campaign financing. The campaiging 'business' is not a cheap enterprise. The money that is required to publish and distribute phamplets, hire campaign workers, and buy airtime from the media is enourmous! It has always been a concern of candidates of major elections. More recently however has such a controversy surfaces. Allow me to use this as an example: According to the Sep. 29th 1997 issure of Time, in 1995 and 1996, videotapes were made of presedential coffees with Asian executi ...
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Al Capone
Number of Words: 1487 / Number of Pages: 6
... time Capone reached the sixth grade he had already become a street brawler. Capone never responded well to authority and for this very reason his schooling would soon come to an end. While attending school, Capone was responsible for beating a female teacher and knocking her to the ground. The principal of the school rushed in and punished young Capone and for this very reason he would never return to school again. (Sifakis 603) After dropping out of school, Capone took up jobs such as working as a pin-setter at a bowling alley, and working behind the counter at a candy store. Capone was terrific at ...
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
Number of Words: 2994 / Number of Pages: 11
... 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 couldn't
get outside, he escaped to his room and read book ...
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Rudyard Kipling
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team.
Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he later presented in his stories and poems. In 1886 he published his first volume of poetry, "Departmental Ditties" and between 1887 and 1889 he published six volumes of short stories set in and concerned with the India he had come to know and love so well. When he returned to England he found himself already recognized an ...
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Emily Dickinson 5
Number of Words: 863 / Number of Pages: 4
... this her family was very prominent in Amherst. Emily did not enjoy the popularity and excitement of her public life in Amherst. So she began to withdraw from the town, her family and friends (Johnson 29). This private life that she lived gave her, her own private society. She refused to see almost everyone that came to visit and rarely left her father’s house (Johnson 31).
In Emily’s writing changed over the years due to events in her life. Most of her writing was about nature, friends, love and almost a third of her poems dealt with the subject of death (Ferlazzo 22). I’m goi ...
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