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A Biography On Carl Sandburg
Number of Words: 479 / Number of Pages: 2
... He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew. In
the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems.
Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public
loved these two marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the
1920's he became so popular, that he quit journalism to write full-time as a
career. He also moved away from the black ink to write songs. S ...
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Comparison And Contrast Of Was
Number of Words: 754 / Number of Pages: 3
... in “Rip Van Winkle” when Rip comes back from the “Kaatskills” and is talking to all the people in the town. There, he finds his son and daughter and asks, “Where’s your mother?” By asking this question, Irving implies both curiosity and even fear if Dame Van Winkle is still around. This humorous approach to the subject of Rip’s wife, makes light of the fact that Rip can’t stand her. Poe uses tone similarly to give his story a ‘feel’. The especially dramatic and morbid tones of “The Fall of the House of Usher” are demonstrated after lady Madeline has died. Roderick, who believes he buried her al ...
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Poul Voulkos Ceramist
Number of Words: 1534 / Number of Pages: 6
... solitary and determined artists broke ground here, stretching the inflexible definitions of what constitutes painting, sculpture and other media. Among these avant-gardists was Peter Voulkos.” In 1954, Voulkos was hired as chairman of the fledgling ceramics department at the L.A. County Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design, and during the five years that followed, he led what came to be known as the "Clay Revolution." Students like John Mason, Paul Soldner, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston, all of whom went on to become respected artists, were among his foot soldiers in the battle to free ...
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Women Who Changed The World: Rosa Parks
Number of Words: 344 / Number of Pages: 2
... segregation
was ruled unconstitutional, and the buses were officially desegregated in
December 1956. Parks, who had lost her job because of the boycott, moved to
Detroit, Michigan, the following year, and again took in sewing. She also worked
as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers,
Jr., also a civil rights leader, to manage his Detroit office. She remained
active in the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In
1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development,
offering guidance to young blacks. She won the NAAC ...
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Francesco Petrarch
Number of Words: 1940 / Number of Pages: 8
... in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as:
\"Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally intelligent, but he hates books\"
He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn\'t until just before Giovanni\'s death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch\'s friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never saw his son before his death but in his mind knew that he ...
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Flo Hyman
Number of Words: 1568 / Number of Pages: 6
... (Encyclopedia of Women in Sports 1996).
Hyman’s dedication to sports and to the fight for equal opportunities for women in remembered by and honored with the Memorial Award, given annually by the Women’s Sports Foundation to female athletes who capture Hyman’s “dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence”. (Sports Illustrated 1986) Hyman was known for a lot of things. People mostly remember her for her awe-inspiring spiking abilities, her equally strong defensive skills and her personal integrity and charisma. Her great sportsmanship and athletic abilities earned her many awards and ...
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Malcolm X
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... organization of arrest, which suggest that police arrest blacks at a higher rate than whites. While Malcolm was in jail, he was well known to the guards. One time he was asked to state his number, but instead he said he forgot his number. The guards beat the hell out of him and sent him to the darkroom. In the darkroom he met Brother Baines. Baines was a man everyone respected including the guards. He was know as the real man and gave speeches about Islam. Malcolm didn't want to listen to him at first, but Baines's cool style helped Malcolm realize that Islam is for him and that the white man is t ...
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Billy Sunday
Number of Words: 2343 / Number of Pages: 9
... he was a well-meaning buffoon whose sermons vulgarized and trivialized the Christian message and at worst he was a disgrace to the name of Christ (Dorsett 2).
There are elements of truth in both of these views. He was often guilty of oversimplifying biblical truths, and at times he spoke more out of ignorance than a heavenly viewpoint. He was also a man with numerous flaws. He spoiled his children, giving them everything that they asked for. He put enormous responsibility on his wife, burdening her with many aspects of his ministry. He always noticeably sought the applause of the crowd for his ow ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... painting of the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. Also there were three other paintings that either disappeared or never existed in the first place. They are, a "Nativity" said to have belonged to Emperor Maximilian, a "Madonna" that Ludovico Sforza announced as a gift to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and the portrait of one of Ludovico's mistresses, Lucrezea Crivelli.
Throughout his life he also served various other roles, including civil engineer and architect (designing mechanical structures such as bridges and aqueducts), and military planner and weapons designer (designin ...
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Lyndon B Johnson
Number of Words: 1457 / Number of Pages: 6
... president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in the P ...
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