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The Life And Works Of Frederic
Number of Words: 2356 / Number of Pages: 9
... itself at an early age. There are stories, for instance, of how when his mother and sister played dances on their grand piano he would burst into tears for the sheer beauty of the sounds he heard. Soon he began to explore the keyboard for himself and delighted in experimenting. By the age of seven he had become sufficiently good for his parents to try and find him a teacher. Their choice fell on Adalbert Zywny, a Bohemian composer then aged sixty-one and now remembered solely as Chopin’s first teacher. Within a few months of beginning his studies with Zywny, Chopin began to play in public, and by the e ...
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Ted Bundy
Number of Words: 2045 / Number of Pages: 8
... Ted as their own and she portrayed herself to be her son's older sister. As for Ted's natural father Lloyd Marshall, who was an Air Force veteran was unknown to him throughout his life. When Ted turned four, his mother, Louise took him with her and moved to Tacoma, Washington where she married Johnnie Bundy. felt nothing towards his stepfather, he was very bitter that he was forced to move across the continent from his grandfather, the only man he looked up to. Although, a psychiatrist had concluded after talking with Bundy year's later, that his grandfather was an abusive brute or even worse. A ...
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James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
Number of Words: 273 / Number of Pages: 1
... grade
lieutenant. When his father died he was "stationed" not too long after that
back in Plains. During this time he became extremely interested and
involved with his community.
He eventually, in 1971 he became the 76th governor of Georgia.
While in office, his fellow governors selected him to serve as a chairman
of the Southern Regional Education Board, the Appalachian Regional
Commission, the Coastal Plains Regional Action Planning Commission, and the
Southern Growth Policies Board.
In 1973 he became the Democratic National Committee campaign
chairman for the 1974 congressional el ...
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Kobe Bryant
Number of Words: 5263 / Number of Pages: 20
... screaming vulgarities as Harris waved an admonishing finger in his face. Tonight, however, Van Exel is having a hell of a game, hitting key jumpers from all over the floor. His hot hand has saved them in clutch situations before, but now the ball is about to go to someone else for the game-winning shot.
The 18-year-old rookie, . The Golden Child.
A lanky, charismatic, 6-6, 200-pound prodigy, Kobe had led little-known Lower Merion High School to the Pennsylvania state title the year before. This year, he was being asked to carry an NBA team to the Finals. No problem.
"Give me the ball, coach," Brya ...
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John Marshall Harlan II
Number of Words: 831 / Number of Pages: 4
... firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of the Operations Analysis Section of the Eighth Bomber Command. He was also the recipient of the American Legion of Merit and the Belgian and French Croix de Guerre.
After the war, Harlan returned to his practice. From ...
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of Words: 846 / Number of Pages: 4
... Indiana (3). In total Lincoln had a little less than one total year of education. Abraham did not have that much education because there were no teachers to teach him and his peers (Stefoff 15). Abraham also read as much as possible and he always found ways to find moments for reading. When he was plowing a field, for example, he carried a book and read a page or two at the end of each row, while the horses rested. “I never saw Abe after he was twelve that he didn’t have a book in his hand or in his pocket,” Dennis Hank later marveled. “It didn’t seem natural to see a feller read like that ...
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Stephen Crane
Number of Words: 700 / Number of Pages: 3
... his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101).
began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused to do any work. After leaving Lafayette, he moved on to attend Syracuse University, where he also played baseball, and wrote for his brother’s news service (Colvert 12:102). It is said that Crane wrote the pr ...
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Ben Franklin
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... Philadelphia. Experiments he proposed, first tried in France in 1752, showed that lightning was in fact a form of electricity. Later that year his famous kite experiment, in which he flew a kite with the wire attached to a key during a thunderstorm. His later achievements included formulating a theory of heat absorption, measuring Gulf Stream, designing ships, tracking storm paths, and inventing bifocal lenses. In 1751, Franklin was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly, causing the beginning of nearly 40 years as a puublic official. At home from 1762 to 1764, Franklin travelled throughout the colonie ...
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Al Capone
Number of Words: 1257 / Number of Pages: 5
... to trust the young Capone and gave him more to do. Meantime, young Al learned by observing the wealthy successful respected racketeer and the people in his organization. In 1909, Torrio moved to Chicago and young Al fell under other influences.
At this point in his life, nobody would ever have believed that Al would go on to be the criminal czar that he ultimately became. For approximately six years he worked faithfully at exceptionally boring jobs, first at a munitions factory and then as a paper cutter.
Eventually he met a guy named Frankie Yale. He opened up a bar called Harvard Inn. An ...
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Adoph Hitler
Number of Words: 652 / Number of Pages: 3
... Hitler took over a group and renaming it NSADAP, which is infamously known as the Nazi party. Hitler tried taking over the Bavarian government by force. This invasion caused his imprisonment of five years, but he happened to be released after about six months. While in prison, he began writing his book Mein Kamph (My Struggle). When Hitler was released from prison, he quickly found out that the Nazi party membership has fallen drastically. The party was no longer allowed to have private and public meetings and Hitler could no longer speak in public. Hitler was determined to bring the Nazi party ba ...
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