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Jim Henson, A Gentle Genius
Number of Words: 617 / Number of Pages: 3
... many things
that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high
school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated
by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the
University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to
perform with puppets on a children’s show. That job didn’t last long, but
within a few months later he was puppeteering for the local NBC affiliate.
Soon he had his own five minute program called Sam and Friends. He
produced Sam and Friends for six years. Assisting him was fellow student
Jane Nebel, ...
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John Wayne
Number of Words: 767 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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 giving him the part in R ...
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Emperor Constantine I
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... was in charge of the Roman Province of Britannia. When Constantius died Constantine he was immediately proclaimed emperor by the army. However, it took many years of political struggle and actual civil war before he could consolidate his power. Constantine finally became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire in 323 CE when he defeated the eastern Emperor Licinius.
Of Constantine’s major accomplishments I feel that the most important was his recognition of the Christianity. In 311 CE, he ordered the end of the persecution of Christians. On October 28, 312 CE, Constantine faced one of his greatest batt ...
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John Locke
Number of Words: 1964 / Number of Pages: 8
... thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking. This ability to reflect, think, and reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite the same as another.
This leads to determining why Locke theoriz ...
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George C. Marshall
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an economic program, the Marshall Plan, to help bring relief to war torn nations in Europe. The plan stipulated that the United States war prepared to assist Europe on certain terms. The European countries were to (1) Confer and Determine their needs on a continental basis; (2) show what resources they could put into a common pool for economic rebuilding; (3) stabilize their currencies; and (4) try to remove trade barriers so that goods could flow freely throughout the continent. With the assistance of the Marshall Plan, Western Europe began to reco ...
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Thomas Paine: Propaganda And Persuasion
Number of Words: 711 / Number of Pages: 3
... His use of broad generalities was demonstrated
when he concluded, “Not a man lives on the continent, but fully believes
that a separation must sometime or other finally take place...” A second
type of propaganda used was either/or fallacy. Paine had the sentiment
that a man either fought for freedom or would always be known as a coward
when he stated, “The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his
children will curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little
might have saved the whole, and made them happy.” The third and final use
of propaganda in Paine's The Cris ...
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Ralph Ellison’s Life
Number of Words: 1315 / Number of Pages: 5
... without a provider. In Ellison’s early years, he and his family lived among middle class whites. Ellison was endowed with learning and intellectual curiosity. Ellison was introduced to a new world, one that he would make his own. His history, folktales, and music were already important to him. He often wrote about his Afro-American heritage:
“There is no point in complaining over the past or apologizing for one’s fate. But for blacks, there are no hiding places down here, neither in country or city. They are an American people who are geared to what is and who yet are driven by a sense of what ...
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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked
for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew.
In the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book,
Chicago poems. Two years later, at the age of forty, he published
Cornhuskers. The public loved these two marvelous books. Other poets
accepted them as wonderful. In the 1920's he became so popular, that he
quit journalism to write full-time as a career. He also moved away from
the black ink to write songs. So ...
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Adam Smith 2
Number of Words: 517 / Number of Pages: 2
... of how social order and human progress can be possible in a society where individuals follow their own self-interests. Smith argued that this individualism led to order and progress. In order to make money, people produce things that other people are willing to buy. Buyers spend money for those things that they need or want most. When buyers and sellers meet in the market, a pattern of production develops that results in social harmony. Smith said that all this would happen without any conscious control or direction, “as if by an invisible hand.”
Smith also believed that labor, n ...
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Jackie Robinson
Number of Words: 1051 / Number of Pages: 4
... into the army. He was honorably discharged in 1945 with the rank of second lieutenant. Robinson then started to play in the Negro National League and was eventually seen by a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The scout brought Robinson to the attention of team president Branch Rickey, who wanted to try out his “noble experiment” of integrating the Major League. The Major League was closed to black players at the time because no owners would sign a black man to their teams. Even a year after Robinson’s historic signing, the owners of the teams voted 15 to 1 (with Rickey dissent ...
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