Frank Sinatra
.... the coveted role of Private Maggio in the film \"From Here to Eternity.\" Sinatra\'s soulfulness and precision in portraying the skinny, street-wise Italian-American caught critics and audiences by surprise and earned him an Oscar in 1954. His triumph led to a second career as a mature movie star, playing Nathan Detroit opposite Marlon Brando in \"Guys and Dolls,\" and many, many other very famous roles. He also became active in politics, supporting Democratic candidates and fighting against racism in .....
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Franz Joseph Haydn
.... almost every song his father sang. This was his beginning in music. Later on, he received an education from his uncle where he gained more of an interest in music. Participation in a choir gave him the opportunity to go to Vienna and there, he studied the piano sonatas of Emanuel Bach and was given the chance to finally get a chance to compose; something he had always wanted to do. This is when the first string quartet was developed. Later on, he was employed by the Esterhazy family and was given .....
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Franz Kafka
.... into English. The name Gregor is closely associated to "Gregariously", which refers to a sociable and jovial mindset. Gregor is seen as the epitome of sociable, a "traveling salesman". However, Gregor is one who is "meeting new people all the time, but never forming any lasting friendships that mellow into anything intimate"(118). Through being a traveling salesman, Gregor must be friendly, though his forward happiness seems only a ploy to keep up his gut wrenching w .....
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Frederic Douglass
.... spelled out hold a lot of weight in the American Dream. This leads to the first reason why Frederick Douglass\'s life represented the failure of the American dream.
Being born a free man is no doubt a god given right. And in a country that goes to great troubles to make sure each specific right is spelled out, it would seem obvious that the freedom to belong to yourself was one of those rights. This is why it is so outlandish and hipocrtitical that slavery existed in America. Frederick Douglas .....
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Galileo Gallilei
.... at the university of Pisa, the same one he had left without a degree four years before. Galileo was a brilliant teacher, but his radical ways of thinking and open criticism of Aristotle’s teachings were not acceptable to the other professors at the university. They felt that he was too radical and that his teachings were not suitable. In 1592, his three-year contract was not renewed.
1n 1592, he landed a job teaching mathematics at the University of Padua with the help of some aristocrati .....
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Gandhi
.... towards the Indians and their hopes. They were just as Miller 2 good to Jinnah as they were to Ghandi. Their trip helped reassure some but a lot of the Indian nationalists were still much too sceptical to be so easily persuaded.(Alexander 126) On March 15, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee said \"India must choose what will be her future constitution. I hope that the Indian people may elect to remain within the British Commonwealth.... But if she does so elect it must be by her own free will.... If, on the othe .....
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George Berkley
.... he might add that because it cannot be sensed it is not a piece of knowledge. After being enlightened by the above proposed argument, though, the same materialist is logically forced to agree that, because the material itself can not be sensed, its existence can not be futile as proving that the Cyclops exists; his ideas have lead him into skepticism.
Given that objects are ideas and human’s posses’ minds to perceive them with, the nature of both ideas and minds deserves careful consideration. .....
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George Brenard Shaw
.... on 16th May 1884, later becoming one of it’s leaders. By joining the Fabian Society he met his life long friends, Sydney and Beatrice Webb. Next Shaw was hired by The Pall Mall Gazette hired him between 1885-88, to review books. Then Edwin Palmer, founder of the \"Magazine of Music\", employed Shaw as his music critic. Soon after that Shaw began to write the plays that made him a very, very wealthy man. These plays included Arms and the Man, Candida, Don Juan in Hell, Getting Married, Heartbreak House .....
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George Bush
.... it will take more than a "brand name" to win this election. According to the June 21, 1999 issue of Newsweek 65% of voters they polled still knew nothing or little of George W. Bush.
When looking at a possible future President of the United Sates of America it is not uncommon to start with their past and work forward to see their progress and failures. George W. Bush attended a preparatory school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Like many young men he was interested in spo .....
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George Bush
.... Dorothy Walker Bush. Prescott Bush worked in an investing firm, but ended up moving his family to Connecticut where he later on developed a strong interest in politics which led to his position as Senator of Connecticut. Bush had three brothers and one sister who were all brought up strictly and well-mannered. He attended private Greenwich Day School and exclusive Phillips Academy where he was indeed popular. Along with his good grades, Bush was president of the senior class, captain of the baseball .....
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George C. Marshall
.... continent. With the assistance of the Marshall Plan, Western Europe began to recover from the ravages of war. Marshall\'s effort to include the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in this grand design was rejected by Moscow. As Western Europe rebuilt, Europe was divided both economically and ideologically, and conflicting politics soon laid the ground for \"The Cold War\". When it became evident that the gap between Eastern and Western Europe would not be bridged, and that the Western European states feare .....
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George C. Wallace
.... beatings and problems. Racism was the norm and Wallace took full advantage of this ploy to gain political attention.
George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through .....
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George F. Handel
.... violin player in an orchestra) his bad talent as a lawyer and good skills as an artist, both characterizing every sudden and proverbial decision taken by him in the future were both proved.
At those times Hamburg, the mercantile capital city of Northern Germany, was well known also for its Gansenmarkt Thater (literally: \'Theatre at the goose market\'), which workers were yet trying to create the millenary dream in advance of Goethe by combining Italian creativity with German methodology. And what bett .....
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George Lucas
.... in 1962, which ended his racing career before it even started. He missed his graduation ceremony at his high school, but joked that the only reason he got a diploma was because his teachers felt sorry for him. As a result, Lucas looked for other options to fill his void in life. Since his grades were not good enough for a four-year college, he decided to go to junior college. For the first time in his life, he hit the books. He fell asleep trying to earn the highest grades he could in order to have a .....
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George Orwell
.... time writing in very poor living conditions because he felt that the poor in London and Paris represented the people of Burma under British rule. When he came back to London he lived among the homeless and poverty-stricken because he felt that he should expose himself to such living conditions. In December 1929, Blair announced his decision of writing a book describing his time spent in Paris. This book was originally entitled A Scullion\'s Diary was later changed to Down and Out. He also wrote Burmese Day .....
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