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George Orwell
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... the Indian Imperial Police. This decision was not the usual path that most Eaton students would have taken. Blair preferred a life of travel and action and he served in the force in Burma (now known as Myanmar) for five years. He resigned from the police force for two main reasons: firstly, being a police officer was a diversion from his real ambition of being a writer; and secondly, he felt that as a policeman in Burma, he was supporting a political system in which he could no longer believe. Even at this time, his political ideas and his ideas about writing were closely related. In his book The ...
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Michael Jordan
Number of Words: 421 / Number of Pages: 2
... NBA as one of the 50 greatest players of all-time.
He leaves a series of records, including a career record for highest points per game average in a regular season;31.5; Bulls' all-time leading scorer and third all-time leading scorer in the NBA with 29,277 points; set NBA record with 23 consecutive points against Atlanta in 1987; and a career record for scoring average in the All-Star Game, 21.3.
But more important than the records and the victories, Jordan had a charm, class and a nice guy image that made him bigger-much bigger-than basketball. His name and face are recognzed immediately all over ...
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Cardinal Richelieu
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... was ideally suited to this life. In 1606 then Abbe Armand de Richelieu was appointed Bishop of Lucon and in 1622, Pope Gregory appointed him a Cardinal.
Like his grandfather and father before him, serving the monarchy was very important to Richelieu. To this end he allied himself with Marie de Medici, the queen mother, and was appointed to the court as Secretary of State to foreign affairs in 1616. This position did not last long as Marie's favorite, Concino Concini, was assassinated; this caused a falling out between mother and son. The king, Louis XII, had decided to take a more direct hand ...
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Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... most people would call the "ideal" couple. Brian was the All-American hardworking athlete, while Joy was the loving supportive wife that stood by his side no matter what his successes or failures might bring. Brian lived through the operation, but then the Piccolo's got another piece of disheartening piece of news. What was this piece of news, you might be asking yourself. The answer is in the book, "" by Jeannie Morris. This book traces the life and death of a superstar hwo had a dream. A dream to make his loving fans happy and to become a big name in the National Football League. With his f ...
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Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
Number of Words: 3506 / Number of Pages: 13
... I reached Kurt, he didn't even
have his line in the water. When I asked him what was going on, he just looked
at me with those piercing eyes and huge grin. He said, "Oh, I'm just trying to
thicken my vocal chords so I can scream better!" When I went back to Gramps to
tell him, he just grinned and said, "It figures, We'll just let him be!" We can
now say, "Thank you, Kurt, for thickening your vocal chords!"
Kurt didn't fit the general mold of society in a logging town, and so he was
beaten upon by people who didn't understand him. One day I heard that he was in
a fight a few blocks away. When I ran to ...
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Andrew Carnegie
Number of Words: 1149 / Number of Pages: 5
... lacked in money, they abounded in ideals and training for their children. At age 15, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. He learned to send and decipher telegraphic messages and became a telegraph operator at the age of 17. Carnegie’s next job was as a railroad clerk, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked his way up the ladder, through his dedication and honest desire to succeed, to become train dispatcher and then division manager. At this time, young Carnegie, age 24, had already made some small investments that laid the foundations of his what would be tremendo ...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... life, he was so into this idea of Passive Resistance, if anyone that wanted an Independent India resorted to violence, he would fast until the violence stopped. he did this a number of times and it always worked. Also if he created notes, memos or writings about India's home rule, the government would throw him in jail. The great thing about Gandhi is that he never denied a true accusation and happily was taken of to jail. I believe that Gandhi once said 'It is not as if I am sentenced to prison, just taking an extended holiday.'. The qualities that Gandhi had were very respectable. He was a very well ...
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Charles Dickens 5
Number of Words: 1218 / Number of Pages: 5
... in his life and would later write that he wondered 'how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age'.
This childhood poverty and adversity contributed greatly to Dickens' later views on social reform in a country in the throes of the Industrial Revolution and his compassion for the lower class, especially the children.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short storys and articles before his death in 1870. The inscription on his tombstone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey reads: He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of ...
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Michael Jordan
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... 3000 points in one season . In the following six
seasons he led the NBA in scoring averaging more than 30 points per
game . Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their first NBA championship
tittle in 1991, and did it again in 1992 and in 1993 . Jordan
retired from basketball in 1994 to play baseball . He only played for
about one year but he didn't have what it took to be a baseball
player . He came back to play basketball in the middle of the 1995
season to lead the Bulls into the first round of the playoffs where
they ...
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William Christopher Handy
Number of Words: 414 / Number of Pages: 2
... by black composers.
William Christopher Handy was born on Nov,16, 1873, in Florence, Ala,
the son of former slaves . As a 15-year-old he left home to work in a traveling
minstrel show, but he soon returned when his money ran out. He attended Teachers
Agreicultural & Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama, and worked as a
school teacher and bandmaster. In 1893, during an economic depression, he formed
a quartet to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. For several
years afterward he drifted around the country working at different jobs.
Eventually he settled in Memphas, Tenn.
A ...
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