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Walter Johnson - A Pitcher
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... year he earned the name 'the big train' with an amazing won loss record.
Back when Walter pitched they had no Cy Young awards or league MVP awards but if they had, Walter would have won a dozen of each. On a team with a won loss record of around 60 and 94 Walter usually had half of their wins. He would frequently lead the league in wins, E.R.A., and strikeouts, but even the lackluster of the Senetors had some effect on him. In 1916 he had a miniscule E.R.A. of 1.86 but lost 20 games.
It was 1924, and by hard work and determination (Johnson went 23-7) the Senators made it to the World Series but, ...
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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
Number of Words: 1950 / Number of Pages: 8
... time to concern himself with his visions to the topic of “Lenkbare Luftschiffe” or “guidable airships”. This idea had always pursued him in the last 20 years. It was particularly the success of the airship LA FRANCE, which had very much impressed Zeppelin. In a letter to his king, Zeppelin referred, particularly, to the possibilities of the military use of this technology. A meeting with the military authorities, following on it, did not bring good results for it. The authorities over-estimated the problem of air resistance as substantially higher than it really was.
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Neil Postman
Number of Words: 1076 / Number of Pages: 4
... off to them. states his feelings on this best when he writes, " It is a form of stupidity when to accept without reflection someone else’s definition." He wants people to realize that definitions are not god given, and that to question the validity is acceptable. Upon looking in a dictionary at any word you will see that all have several meanings. The same may apply to our lives, while one definition may apply to you another may not.
The ability to question a definition is a crucial part of communication. For example: in the practice of law a case might call for someone to define the ...
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A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
Number of Words: 2516 / Number of Pages: 10
... was Major Melville. The Major
was a wealthy Boston merchant who was one of the famous "Mohawks" who boarded
the ship of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in
to the Boston Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port
of Boston, a post given to him by Gorge Washington. It is like the two blood
lines fitted together perfectly to create Herman Melville. Herman had the
strength of the General, and the crazy hart of the Major.
Herman Melville was "hardly more than a boy" when he ran out to sea
after his fathers death. A young Melville sighed up ...
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Spike Lee
Number of Words: 1492 / Number of Pages: 6
... restaurant. Mookie works as the delivery man for Sal in this movie. Mookie literally delivers pizza, yes, but he also acts as a mediator between the two races. Sal relies on Mookie not only to get the pizzas delivered, but to also keep his fellow black folks happy with Sal so they will come and patronize his restaurant. I think that this shows a very interesting side of Sal. It for the most part pawns him off as a racist. On the one hand he can put on a happy face and greet all the black people as they shell their hard earned money out to him for his pizza, while on the other hand he turns into a big ...
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Charles Manson
Number of Words: 1567 / Number of Pages: 6
... group before a raid. She later showed up as a prosecution witness, a
potential danger to Manson, so faithful members of the "Family" tried to
kill her with a hamburger laced with LSD. Before her testimony, another
"Family" member, Gary Hinman, who had also fled he group, was killed
because he had betrayed the "Family." As you can see, the punishment for
crossing the "Family" was severe.
Manson makes claims to thirty-five murders. Although he was convicted
for others, there was not enough evidence to bring him to trial for the
thirty five.
THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE MAN
The driving force ...
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Profiles In Courage
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh of March" speech. While slavery seemed to be the main issue of the time, the speech spoke mainly of preserving the Union. Although he was opposed to slavery, he seldom brought it up in his political activities. These pressures haunted him around the time he was fighting to be re-elected. Thomas Benton was a Senator of Missouri who had negative relations with President Jackson. Benton supported the Missouri Compromise, but opposed the National Bank and slavery. Seeing how Missouri was a slave state, T ...
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Pablo Picasso 2
Number of Words: 2855 / Number of Pages: 11
... magazine "Arte Joven" (first issue March 31, 1901 - "Young Art"), in Paris. On a second trip to Paris, in the summer of 1901, he exhibited his works at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in the Rue Lafitte and became good friends with the avant-garde poet Max Jacob. It was during this visit that he discovered Vincent Van Gogh, who inspired him to create "The absinthe Drinker" (1901, William Jaffe Collection, New York City) and also the "Dwarf Dancer".
Suddenly, the 20-year-old painter, who now signed himself "Picasso", his mother's maiden name, moved toward a symbolism of great anguish and misery, ins ...
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The Life And Rule Of Cleopatra
Number of Words: 2378 / Number of Pages: 9
... actually speak Egyptian, and was also a very shrewd politican.
Going along with the Egyptian tradition she married her brother and co-
ruler, Ptolemy XIII, who was only 12.The marriage was only of convenience
though, and Ptolemy pharaoh only in name. For three years he remained in
the background while Cleopatra ruled over Egypt. Ptolemy’s advisors
resented Cleopatra’s independence and conspired against her. In 48 B.C.
they stripped her of her power and she was forced to exile in Syria and
she was accompanied by her sister Arsinoe.
Although they had taken away her powers, Cleopatra was determined
to wi ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of Words: 258 / Number of Pages: 1
... included positions at the courts of Weimar and Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
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