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John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
Number of Words: 1133 / Number of Pages: 5
... tried his hand as a construction worker and as a
reporter for the American. (Covici , xxxv). Steinbeck then moved back to
California and lived with his wife at Pacific Grove. In 1934, he wrote for the
San Franciso News, he was assigned to write several articles about the 3,000
migrants flooded in at Kings County. The plight of the migrant workers motivated
him to help and document their struggle. The money he earned from the newspaper
allowed him to travel to their home and see why their reason for leaving and
traveled to California with them, sharing in with their hardships (Steinbeck,
127). Becau ...
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SAMUEL SEABURY
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... various pamphlets. His attempt proved futile and the delegates were elected and met together on that fateful day in Philadelphia when a new nation was envisioned. Now Samuel began to take more courageous steps in preventing the breaking away of the colonies. He wrote “Westchester Farmer” ,a compilation of five essays reasoning why the colonies should stay with the English. The five essays were Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Congress, The Congress Canvassed, Free Thoughts in the Full Vindication of the Congress, A View of Controversy, The Republican Dissected. Some of the writings were ...
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Diana, Princess Of Wales
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... Ken Rutherford, 35. As a result of her deep compassion towards those in need, the public is now more aware and supportive of the causes she faithfully supported.
During her often turbulent 17 years in the world’s spotlight, Diana’s honest and sincere sympathy for those in need remained constant. She traveled thousands of miles a year in support of her causes, even to dangerous locales in Bosnia and Angola. “She did things like this because she wanted to from her heart.” Diana chose issues that touched people directly. In 1987, when many still feared AIDS could be contracted through casual cont ...
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Tennessee Williams
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... once told an interviewer, “My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life” (Devlin, 75). Critics have made much use of William’s family background as a means of analyzing his plays. William’s father, Cornelius, was a businessman from a prominent Tennessee family who traveled constantly and moved his family several times during the first decade of William’s life. Cornelius was often abusive towards his son, calling him “Miss Nancy” (Bigsby 236), because the child preferred books to sports. In A Stree ...
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William Lloyd Garrison
Number of Words: 611 / Number of Pages: 3
... fine, was jailed. After his release from prison Garrison dissolved his partnership with Lundy and returned to New England. in partnership with another American abolitionist, Isaac Knapp, Garrison launched The Liberator in Boston in 1831; the newspaper became one of the most influential journals in the United States .
Garrison was also a pacifist and involved in other reform movements. He was deeply convinced that slavery had to be abolished by moral force. He appealed through The Liberator and through his speeches, especially those to the clergy, for a practical application of Christianity in demanding ...
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Biography Of Dr. Maria Montessori
Number of Words: 704 / Number of Pages: 3
... She felt it was the teachers role to help guide and
enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not
exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her
observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the
Montessori Method of education. She experimented with materials that would
awaken the childÕs potential. It was a radical departure In MontessoriÕs
time.
A new housing project was being built in a part of Rome. The
tenants of the housing project where day laborers who left their children
of five years of age home alone and ...
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
Number of Words: 1530 / Number of Pages: 6
... moment met with praise from his city and his parents. However, it would be some time before Renoir would consider himself an artist. He continued to paint porcelain until automation rendered hand decoration obsolete.
Since his fans required different subject matters and themes than the porcelain, Renoir renewed his visits to Louvre in search of workable ideas. He discovered the sensuous, sometimes frivolous, works of Fragonard, Boucher, and Watteau. His taste in art was being formed. As he later started about Boucher's, "Diane au bain": "it was the first picture to thrill me, and I've cont ...
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Biography Of Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of Words: 335 / Number of Pages: 2
... no such thing as one people better than another.
The Lord created us all equal , and I'm going to see to that."
Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and
marches, but none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a
speech that showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our
country is changing, and helping to change South Africa.
The key to all this success was Martin Luther King Jr. who showed
us that one man, nonviolently, could make a difference. Most of all he made
us realize that all men are created equal, and should be treated for ...
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Was Jimmy Hoffa A Hero Or A Criminal?
Number of Words: 1330 / Number of Pages: 5
... picking up and
delivering laundry. The family worshiped at the Christian Seaboard
Congregational churches, and Hoffa attended Sunday school there.(Current
Bio) In 1922 the Hoffas moved to Clinton Indiana, two years later they
settled in Detroit, Michigan, in an apartment on Merritt Street on the
city's brawling, working-class West Side. There he and his brother were
derided by their peers as "hillbillies" until they won acceptance with
their fists. At the Neinas Intermediate School in Detroit, Hoffa was a
bashful B student who won prizes in gymnastics. After school he worked as a
delivery boy, and f ...
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... This proclamation plays a big part of the peace that we have among the different people of the world today.
Lincoln also designed a plan known as the reconstruction. This construction plan would bring peace to the seceded states and Union, and would bring them back together in unity. This plan of reconstruction brought peace to the Confederacy and Union, because now the states that had once seceded from the Union now had a chance to get back in to be unified once again. Under this plan, Lincoln wanted to form 10 percent government. Under this plan, each individual state could form their own gover ...
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