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Stephen King
Number of Words: 425 / Number of Pages: 2
... finally pushed to
the limit, her true side is finally exposed. Cujo, involves a ferocious dog that
starts out so innocent and kind , and ends up a brutal man killer(Bleiler, 1031).
The Shining, takes place in a motel that is haunted(Beacham, 748). Jack
Torrence is a writer who is ridden by guilt and failure(Beacham, 749). After
Torrence, his wife, and his five year old son are snowed in for the week, they
finally realize the evil that the motel actually possesses. In Firestarter, a
little girl possesses the power to start fires with her mind. These powers were
givin to her as a test by the govern ...
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Billy Sunday
Number of Words: 1565 / Number of Pages: 6
... After being sold to the Phillies for a three year contract he prayed this prayer,
"Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I
will take that as assurance you want me to continue to
play ball; if I get it before that date I will accept that
as evidence you want me to quit playing ball and go into
Christian work."
Billy received his release on March 17. His days of playing professional baseball were over. He took a job as an assistant secretary at the YMCA in Chicago. For the next few years Billy Worked at the YMCA as a preacher and teacher.
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman was a we ...
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William James
Number of Words: 747 / Number of Pages: 3
... Germany. During this time, William retired due to illness but that didn’t stop his from excelling in the field. Three years later, in 1872, at the age of thirty, William become an instructor in physiology at Harvard University. In 1875, William started teaching Psychology at Harvard and after 1880 he was teaching both classes.
He taught at Harvard for thirty-five years, during which time; he wrote his first (and only) book; had his essays and lectures published in three different books: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897), Human Immortality (1898), and The Va ...
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Mark Twain
Number of Words: 1498 / Number of Pages: 6
... writers of his time. “Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes… they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens was sole, incomparable.” (Twainweb) This being Jones 2 perhaps the best explanation for Twain’s unique humorist views, it is no doubt this lifestyle provided for his creative storytelling and successful career as an author. , a native of Missouri who lived most his childhood in poverty, began his career, surprisingly, as a steamboat pilot. This career path was soon to be interrupted by the Civil War, in which he served for the Confederate Army for two weeks before withdraw ...
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Betty Friedan
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... like a son. Unfortunately, her and her mother clashed. They were both controlling. Miriam dominated Betty, and Betty resented it a great deal. In her early years, Betty tried to measure herself to her mother and would always fall short. It took her a few years to realize that the perfect image of motherhood, along with beauty, talent, and strength, was only a façade, and something she never wanted to be. From there, she told herself that she would be more than a wife and mother.
Betty was eight years old when the depression hit. The Goldstein's were never poor, but all the little luxuries had to b ...
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Indira Gandhfemalei
Number of Words: 3231 / Number of Pages: 12
... drawn to Gandhi. They believed in Gandhi’s nonviolent noncooperation. The family also supported Gandhi’s policy of promoting domestic cottage industries by boycotting all foreign goods(Jayakar 67-68).
Motilal’s involvement with the Congress made his home the hub of the freedom movement. It became the place where earnest, khadi-clad men came and went at all hours of the day and night; it became a place that rang with drafts, declarations, and debates. Indira absorbed the tension and excitement of those days and became a quiet, serious child, fired by a sense of mission she did not quite unders ...
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John Muir
Number of Words: 329 / Number of Pages: 2
... titles and copied his notes. John decided to send an article to the
New York Tribune. To his surprise, the newspaper published "Yosemite Glaciers"
on December 5, 1871, and paid him $200, that was a lot of money back then. On
New Year’s Day in 1872, the same newspaper printed "Yosemite in Winter." John
thought that he might be able to earn his living by writing, what he called "pen
work." He stayed in his cabin for the winter and wrote it. He went through a
couple of earthquakes. He joined his valley neighbors and suggested they smile
a little and clap their hands. He said that Mothe ...
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Teddy Bear
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... because he was not strong enough to fight back. Roosevelt's father built a gymnasium in the family home, and Theodore exercised there regularly. He overcame his asthma and built up unusual physical strength. Roosevelt studied under tutors until he entered Harvard University in 1876 at the age of 18. He earned good grades in college. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880. In October 1879, Roosevelt met Alice Hathaway Lee. Roosevelt courted Alice during his senior year at Harvard. They married on his 22nd birthday. A double tragedy struck on Feb. 14, 1884. Alice Roosevelt died two days aft ...
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Modern American History
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... influenced many of the leaders of the baby American government. This coupled with his exceptional achievement made Franklin a great inspiration to the people of his time that lasts to this day. Alan Greenspan is a recent figure in history, but his impact on the present and future economics of America is incalculable. The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan is in charge of setting interest rates and reporting to the government on the state of the entire economy. In essence, Greenspan’s job is running the day-to-day and long-term economies of the United States. He is involved in intern ...
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Charlie Chaplin
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... in the world. A sign of this was when he was five years old and sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken for crazy. The audience apparently loved him and hurled their money onto the stage. By the age of ten, Charles was a skilled singer, acrobat, juggler, pantomime, and comic improvisor. From the ages of twelve to fourteen, Charlie's places of employment included a barbershop, stationary store, doctor's office, glass factory and printing plant. Many average boys his age didn't even have a job. Charlie's big escape from poverty was through theatre, whereby the age of sixteen ...
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