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Shoeless Joe
Number of Words: 1189 / Number of Pages: 5
... game without the spikes, he was known as “” from then on (McGee 1).
made his major league debut later that year, in 1908, with the Philadelphia Athletics. He only played there a short time before being transferred to the Cleveland Indians. Finally, in 1915 he was sold to Charles Comiskey and the Chicago White Sox. It was here that he played his last few years of professional baseball and his life would be forever changed.
From the years 1917 to 1919 the Chicago White Sox were by far the dominant team in baseball. It is speculated that they could have “gone on to become one of the greatest teams ...
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The Biography Of Kurt Donald Cobain
Number of Words: 1038 / Number of Pages: 4
... musical heroes and inspirations to Kurt. Also while in high
school he met future band mate with Nirvana, and many other groups,
Krist(Chris) Novoselic. Krist was an immigrant from Croatia and he and
Kurt became friends instantly. Later Kurt and Krist formed Nirvana with
Chad Channing as drummer and recorded Bleach in 1989 for only $600.
Channing was replaced with Dave Grohl, now of the Foo Fighters, who went on
to record their other five CD's as Nirvana's new drummer.
Drug were easily found for the youths living the town. Kurt was
smoking hash and tried any kick that came his way. Kurt ...
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King Of Babylonia: Hammurabi
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... This format of organization was emulated by civilizations of the future. For example, Semitic cultures succeeding Hammurabi's rule used some of the same laws that were included in Hammurabi's code. Hammurabi's method of thought is evident in present day societies which are influenced by his code. Modern governments currently create specific laws, which are placed into their appropriate family of similar laws. Hammurabi had his laws recorded upon an eight foot high black stone monument. Hammurabi based his code on principles like, the strong should not injure the weak, and that punishment shoul ...
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John Updike
Number of Words: 861 / Number of Pages: 4
... wife Mary E, Pennington a fine arts major from Radcliffe, she was two years older than . In 1954 he wrote his senior paper on Robert Herrick, who was a 17th century poet. That summer he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude (Yerkes, James 4/2/00). The next fall moves to England on a Knox Fellowship where he enrolled in the fine arts at Oxford. At Oxford he met Katharine White and she offers him a job on the staff of The New Yorker.
That summer he returned to his wife, and their first child Elizabeth was born April 1, 1955. He moved his family to Manhattan where he began his work at The New Yorker. ...
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Life Of Baruch Spinoza
Number of Words: 1318 / Number of Pages: 5
... of lens-crafting. He was offered many opportunities to work at a univeristy of academic careers, but reluctantly declined each and every one of them. After a couple of years he was visited my many philosophers.
As the years went on, and the days flew by, it is thought that this period of time is when Baruch wrote his first known piece of work, known as the Treatise on God and Man and His Happiness, in which the outlines of his developed philosophical system is foreshadowed. Along with this book, he is thought of to have written many others like Theologicopolitical Treatise and The Improvement of ...
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of Words: 460 / Number of Pages: 2
... but Elizabeth persevered and pursued her dream. In 1849, she graduated from Geneva Medical School at the top of her class. After this, she went to Paris (which at this time was the medical Mecca) to take advanced studies, but she was not permitted to study here either. She was then forced to enter a large maternity hospital as a student midwife. Here she contracted an infection and lost her sight in one eye. She then went to London and there she was permitted to continue her studies.
In 1850, Elizabeth returned to New York City and was not allowed to practice medicine in any hospital. During this time, ...
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Norman Rockwell
Number of Words: 576 / Number of Pages: 3
... a job creating illustrations and cover art for its periodicals. This would be his arena, revealing his works to thousands of people, for over forty years. During this period Rockwell painted portraits of various celebrities and persona. Rockwell was a "people painter" and predominantly worked with the depiction of emotions inspired by his models. Rockwell always took particular care in picking and choosing his models as he was very pragmatic and wanted them to exhibit characteristics that met with his peculiar standards. During his time with the Post, Rockwell often made illustrations that ef ...
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Martin Luther King
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice.
Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the reader of his point. King uses the words from an old Negro spiritual, the famous line, "Free at last! free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!" (505) This phrase serves as an exclamation point on an emotional speech that is sure to deeply move the reader. King quotes the song "America the Beautiful" stating that he wants everyone to sing it with new meaning. In his speech King comes across as a persecuted African American who wants a change for all ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1359 / Number of Pages: 5
... wrong. Hitler’s idea of one dominate race was a very bad one.
Adolf Hitler was born in an Austrian town known as Braunau am Inn.
Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler’s father was a Custom
official’s, and his mother was named Klara. Alois was illegitimate, first of all
he used his mother’s name, Schicklgruber until 1876, when he adopted the name
Hitler. Adolf’s father was very strict with him, and ignored him most of the
time because Adolf liked to dream. As you can see Adolf did not idealize his
father very much, and his death in 1903 actually came as a relief to Adolf.
Adolf really ...
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St. John The Evangelist
Number of Words: 1204 / Number of Pages: 5
... holy principles, and show them to others. One of his greatest challenges was writing a gospel.
is mostly known for writing a fourth Gospel. If you would ask any person to list his challenges almost everybody would tell you that he wrote a gospel. It is believed that he wrote a Gospel at the year of 96, after the death of Domitian. His object in writing it he tells us himself: "These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, you may have life in His name." In order to write a Gospel you have to be truly involved in holy life by y ...
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