Alfred Hitchcock
.... plot came to be used in many of Hitchcock\'s films throughout his career both silent and \"talkie\". It was not long before Hitchcock came to be known as the \"Master of Suspense\". He was said to have \"not only mastered the art of making films but he also mastered the task of taming his own raging imagination\".
The first Alfred Hitchcock film I am going to address is his and England\'s first \"talkie\" which is the dramatization \"Blackmail\". This film, released in 1929, was originally shot .....
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Alfred Nobel
.... laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867.
Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He once experimented with his theories on blood transfusions. These attempts failed and was back on with his chemistry. From an early age Alfred had written and read quite a bit and he had very good writing skills. He wrote many poems and even a play or two only to destroy almost all of them.
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Alice Walker
.... of race was really just the first question on a long list"(1983).
Much of Walker’s writings are very personal. For example, one of her first books once was written during a time in which she was pregnant and suicidal and it described how she had an abortion and dealt with all of its after effects. Unlike many other authors, she is not afraid to write about very personal experiences she has had. Since the beginning of her writing career, she has written sixteen books, including five novels, .....
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Allen Sapp
.... weekend of 1969 Allen had his first major exhibition. The people loved him. He became a great success. The value of his paintings went way up in the next little while as his popularity streadily increased and he did shows all over Canada and in the US and England. He once again became proud of his Indian heritage and began to dress the part. By 1974 he even had a book written about him.
In 1977 Sapp’s son, David, died.
In 1985 Dr. Gonor died while visiting Thailand
In December 1 .....
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Amelia Earhart
.... organization. In addition to forming organizations for women pilots, she occupied her four year break from flying with writing her first book, \"20 hours, 40 minutes\" on her first flight, became assistant to the general traffic manager of TWA and served as vice president for public relations of the New York, Washington, and Philadelphia Airways.
Amelia enjoyed public relations, but missed flying greatly during her four year sabatical. In 1932, no one else had ever flown solo over the Atlantic since .....
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Andrew Carnegie
.... messenger boy in Pittsburgh. He learned to send and decipher telegraphic messages and became a telegraph operator at the age of 17. Carnegie’s next job was as a railroad clerk, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked his way up the ladder, through his dedication and honest desire to succeed, to become train dispatcher and then division manager. At this time, young Carnegie, age 24, had already made some small investments that laid the foundations of his what would be tremendous fortune. One of th .....
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Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson held many military and other job positions while working his way up through the government chain. As in Encarta Encyclopedia, he started off by studying under Spruce Macay who was a lawyer in Salisbury, North Carolina. He started his own practice in 1787. He then was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpected term in the U.S. Senate. He served for over a year and then retired to his private life (3). .....
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Andrew Jackson
.... 1817 he was ordered against the Seminole Indians. He pushed them back into Spanish Florida and executed two British subjects. Jackson instead that his actions were with approval of the Monroe administration. His actions helped to acquire the Florida territory, and he became a provisional governor of Florida that same year.
In 1822 the Tennessee Legislature nominated him for president and the following year he was elected the U.S. senate. He also nearly won the presidential campaign of 1824 howeve .....
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Andy Warhol
.... always carefully examining and looking for a deeper, hidden meaning beneath the surface. On the outside all we see are soup cans, 32 times and to most observers it seems meaningless. Warhol\'s main goal was to show us that in a world where everyone claims to be searching for universal truths and importance an ordinary object like a soup can, dictates so much about societies\' beliefs, values and our views on art.
Andy Warhol loved glamour and celebrities. Through looking at much of his wo .....
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Andy Worhal
.... delicate ink drawings of shoes and cupids, among various others, had no place in a decade dominated by such heroic artists as William de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
Warhol And Pop Art
Pop Art emerged in the US in the early 1960’s, at first completely unacknowledged. During it’s beginning, Pop Art was often seen as an insult to the roles of such artists as Pollock and de Kooning, who were leading a revival of Abstract Expressionist, "an abrupt and conspicuous dialectical reaction to a great wav .....
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Anne Frank
.... be killed.
Life in the Annex was not easy at all. Anne had to wake up at 6:45 A.M. every morning. Nobody could go outside. No one could turn on lights at night. Anne mostly read books or wrote stories. Much of Anne’s diary was written while in hiding. Most of the families got separated, but Anne’s family never was. For this, they were lucky.
In 1944, their hiding place was revealed, and they were taken into custody. The day after their arrest they were transferred to the Huis Van Bewaring, a prison .....
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Anne Frank
.... was Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan and their son Peter. Some time after an elderly man, who was a dentist named Alburt Dussel, was invited to stay with them in their hideout. All eight of the Jews hid in the Secret Annexe for many years. Otto Frank\'s Dutch friends brought them food and even gifts. The news in the fall of 1942 was terrifying for the Franks. The roundup of Jews from Holland was proceeding according to plan. While the Franks were in hiding, Germany was at the height of conquest.
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Ansel Adams
.... shifting conditions as a photographer of landscape.
During this time until 1920, photography was just a hobby for Ansel. In 1920 he decided to make music his profession. His plan was to become a concert pianist. Ansel gave piano lessons and concerts until 1927, when he decided to change his career to photography. That same year the publication of his first book of photographs titled Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, was out. Ansel got financial support for his book from an .....
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Antoine Lavoisier
.... oxygen is the new answer to combustion. He laid the framework for understanding chemical reactions as combinations of elements to form new materials, or products. He concluded that combustion results from the rapid chemical union of a flammable material with a newly discovered gas, which he named \"oxygen\", previously known as "dephilogisticated air." The word "oxygen" means acid producer. Lavoisier and others had found that oxygen is a part of several acids. Lavoisier incorrectly re .....
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Antonin Scalia
.... with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men … are endowed by their Creator.’ And in my view that right is also among the ‘other rights retained by the people’ which the Ninth Amendment says the Constitution’s enumeration of rights ‘shall not be construed to deny or disparage.’"**
Bibliography
* Quoted from an Internet source, which I will show you some other time. The address is too long to type into here. ** I’ll also show you that Internet address, since it is also too .....
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