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Shaquille O'neal
Number of Words: 255 / Number of Pages: 1
... his web-site. We
talked about him signing a seven year deal with the LA Lakers. I knew him since
his second year with the Orlando Magic about four years ago.
Shaq is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He has also made
two platinum albums in which he expressed his life story. Movies that he has
been in include Blue Chips and Kazaam. Also, Shaq has contributed a lot of time
and money to donations.
Shaq has affected me in many ways. One thing that he has taught me is
that I can do anything that I want if I put my mind to it. He taught me this by
overcoming a hard childhood, moving from ...
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Number of Words: 2869 / Number of Pages: 11
... serious
challenge for the nomination would come from the Senate majority leader,
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. However, Johnson was strong only among
Southern delegates. Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot and then
persuaded Johnson to become his running mate.
Two weeks later the Republicans nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for
president and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., who was ambassador to the United
Nations and whom Kennedy had defeated for the Senate in 1952, for vice
president. In the fast-paced campaign that followed, Kennedy made stops in
46 states and 273 cities and towns, while Nix ...
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Madame Liang
Number of Words: 778 / Number of Pages: 3
... all of her paintings. perhaps one of the most artistic women in this novel. has art because she has style. has style in many ways. Just to name a two, managing an elaborate restaurant, and she wears only the best. "She turned restlessly in the huge bed. The down quilts were light, the sheets were of white silk, but she was sleepless. Moonlight shone against the windows for behind the curtains the moon was full." This quotation talks of her elegant fabrics used in her bed. "… , who managed, no one knew how, to keep open a restaurant whose daily menu carried the finest gourmet foods" and "'Three ...
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Warren Harding
Number of Words: 290 / Number of Pages: 2
... and two of his friends acquired a small town paper, the Marion Star. In five years the star became the foremost paper and most successful small town papers in Ohio. In 1914 the Star was earning him an income of $20,000 a year. He also was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was elected as a Republican to the state Senate in 1899 and he became one of the most popular senators in Columbus.
Harding's Republicanism and his vibrant speaking voice, and his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics. He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and he was a ...
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Robert Johnson
Number of Words: 2894 / Number of Pages: 11
... singin round the house. And he just love church… Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh." (Lomax, 14) Thus, Robert was first introduced by his church into the world of music and was forever captured by its beauty.
Mrs. Johnson didn’t have much trouble with Robert as a child but as he grew older, he became more and more intrigued about the extravagant life of the bluesmen, and taken by the spiritual music. He started following the musicians around, staying out all night, intrigued by the bluesman’s fre ...
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Kosovo And Milosevic
Number of Words: 1462 / Number of Pages: 6
... time. Almost a month after the most powerful military grouping in history launched air attacks on rump Yugoslavia to compel adherence to a peace accord, a human tragedy of grotesque proportions continues to unfold in Kosovo. Nearly 50 per cent of its Albanian population has been forced to flee the country under the relentless assault of the Yugoslav army and police, amid unbelievably cruel carnage of human lives and burning of villages and towns.
Kenneth Waltz’s first-image theory rests on the assumption that the causes of war are to be found in the nature and behavior of man and on the role of ...
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Robert Mannyng Of Brunne
Number of Words: 282 / Number of Pages: 2
... and The
Chronicle of England, produced in his old age in 1338. Brunne translated
both Handlyng Synne and Chronicle from French or Latin works, altering them
considerably in the process. Like many translators of this era, Brunne
took many liberties with the works he translated. He adopted for his
audience (the ordinary people of England), often adding in large tracts of
his own material and using simplified language that they were likely to
understand. Brunne's style is sometimes cumbersome and repetitive,
sometimes full of snap and punch, and often epistolary. But he always
writes a good story, me ...
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Augustus Caesar
Number of Words: 1399 / Number of Pages: 6
... his enemies and became the most powerful man in Rome. At the age of 14 Octavian had finally met his great-uncle and hero when he came back from Asia Minor and said the 3 famous words that summed up his victory, "Veni, Vidi, Vici." Latin for "I came, I saw, I conquered" In Caesar's will, Octavian's dream had finally come true. Caesar had adopted him as his son. In Caesar's will he left his money to a man named Marc Anthony. He was a powerful general at the time. He was a consul of Rome and successor to Caesar. Octavian knew he couldn't just get the money from Anthony. Octavian had no military ex ...
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William Wordsworth
Number of Words: 842 / Number of Pages: 4
... things, the budding twigs, the hopping birds, and the trailing periwinkle, really do exist and if they really are as alive as he says.
Wordsworth’s line "What man has made of man" (7) refers to what human men are doing to the other man on Earth, Nature, whom man is fighting for the top spot. To Wordsworth, Nature is alive and has feelings, the same as the human man. He proves this by making everything so full of life and happy to be alive, such as the little birds, throughout the poem, starting from the first stanza to the last. In the first stanza, he is listening to the sounds of Natur ...
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William Wells Brown
Number of Words: 963 / Number of Pages: 4
... that he could easily present the claim of the Negro for freedom. During 1843-49, he was variously employed as a lecturer of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In 1849, he visited England and represented the American Peace Society at the Peace Congress in Paris. Highly recommended by the American Anti-Slavery Society as an apostle of freedom, he was welcomed by famous Europeans such as Victor Hugo, James Haughton, George Thompson, and Richard Cobden. He remained abroad until 1854. During these years of his activity as a reformer, Brown found time ...
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