Riley King
.... He worked as a disc jockey at the Memphis radio station WDIA in 1949, where he picked up the stage name \"The Beale Street Blues Boy,\" He was influenced by jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as countless other blues musicians including T-Bone Walker. Among the many songs he eternalized, \"The Thrill Is Gone\" is perhaps his most enduring, he aslo won several Grammy\'s for that song and the albums \"There Must Be a Better World Somewhere\", \"My Guitar Sings The Blues\", \"Live at San Quentin\", \ .....
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Robert Capa
.... camera allowed him to be inconspicuous and have a large capability of movement. With this camera he was able to jump into battles to take pictures that no one else was ever able to take.
One of the main things that Robert Capa tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to portray things such as their sorrow or their shock, mainly focusing on the expressions of the subjects’ faces to show what emotions they might be feeling.
Despite his worldwide recognition Capa denied .....
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Robert E. Lee
.... office in Washington from 1834 to 1837 and spent the summer of 1835 helping to lay out the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan. In 1837 he got his first important job as a First Lieutenant of engineers. He supervised the engineering work for St. Louis harbor and for the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. His work there earned him a promotion to Captain. In 1841 he was transferred to Fort Hamilton in New York harbor, where he took charge of building fortifications. When war broke out between the U .....
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Robert Frost
.... Many critics think the poem is divided into three basic parts. \"An Interpretation of Frost\'s Birches\" thinks the three parts are the scientific explanation of the appearance of the birches, Frost\'s boyhood fantasy about their appearance, and his present day interpretation of their appearance. The first section is of the natural ways a branch would bend and crack because of weather. \"Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning after a rain.\" The second is more of how the branches would bend because o .....
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Robert Frost
.... to and for all men. Many of the poems Frost wrote deal with situations set in a simple, rural setting. The characters he creates are very realistic, and are not romanticized. This is one reason why people can relate to the poems. His characters \"seem more real than their neighbors with manifest reservations\" (Cox 8). One could say that the people are more three-dimensional than just imaginative words on a paper. He uses farmers and workers in his poetry, and sometimes he pokes fun at the more \"sophis .....
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Robert Hunter
.... contemporary/traditional and form their own categories.
One of the main traditional themes that Hunter uses is the gambling theme. The poems \"Candyman\" and \"Loser\" exemplify this motif the best:
Come on boys and gamble
Roll those laughing bones.
Seven come eleven, boys
I\'ll take your money home.
--\"Candyman\"
Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy
Last fair deal in the town.
Put your gold money where your love is, baby,
Before you let my deal go down.
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Robert Johnson
.... skin. As a small child he watched in amazement to the powerful music of the bluesmen. In beautiful song they captured the pain of injustice which Robert, as well as most other African Americans of the time, had been forced to endure all their lives. Young Robert was intrigued by these men, and dreamed of one day singing the blues himself. His half brother Charles taught him the basics on guitar yet Johnson’s most influential teacher was the famous bluesman, Son House. Son House was a student of Charlie .....
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Robert Johnson
.... little Robert as a playful little boy, who \"Always used to be listenin, listenin to the wind or the chickens cluckin in the backyard or me, when I’d be 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 troub .....
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Roberto Baggio
.... the home team, France. Roberto is still considered one of the best in the world and it is predicted he will get another chance for the world cup.
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Roberto Clemente
.... of poor weather and an unstable cargo plane, but Roberto was determined. He was upset that the previous supplies had not made it to the victims. Roberto was going to personally see to it that the victims received the much needed supplies. Unfortunately the plane went down off the coast of Puerto Rico. Roberto\'s body was never found. Just months after Roberto joined an elite group of players with 3000 hits, he was gone. Roberto’s tragic death in 1972 prompted the Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors to un .....
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Rocky Marciano
.... finished their workouts by racing over to Saxton\'s Spring to get a cold drink of water.\"
Unfortunately, Rocky\'s experience of growing up in a multi-ethnic, working-class setting contributed to his involvement in a number of \"altercations.\" Although most were territorial battles that took place at James Edgar Field, some occurred well beyond....
Even prior to his teenage years, Rocky\'s reputation for being a \"really tough Italian kid\" extended all the way over to the Bush, Brockton\'s Iri .....
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Ron Howard
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Howard’s parents intervened in certain ways in his life since he was a child star like making sure certain aspects of contracts said didn’t say that he had to do promotional tours. When he was not working he was enrolled in public schools so he could interact with other kids his age. "In school I was a novelty at first," Howard told Edwin Miller. "People got very jazzed up about the idea of having a kid actor in class. That would blow over in a couple of weeks, and then I was able to bl .....
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Ronald Reagan
.... about increasing respect to sex and drugs, that had emerged in the late 1960s. These groups had little in common, and stood on Reagan’s side to make changes. Reagan also controlled a solid majority over middle class and working class Americans, many of them were the once who had supported the Democratic Party. He won their support with his positive declaration that the federal government imposed taxation high and had grown too large to control over people. Reagan spoke out in public against what overgrown .....
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Ronald Reagan
.... moved to Hollywood in 1937 and began a 25 year acting career. Some of his noted movies were Knute Rockne-All American, King’s Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie industry.
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Rosa Parks
.... and then her mother also became ill. Rosa was forced to abandon her classes for good. In 1931, Rosa met and fell in love with Raymond Parks, a barber who was active in civil rights causes. They were married in 1932 and settled in Montgomery. Raymond Parks encouraged Rosa to finish her education, and she received her high school diploma from Alabama State College in 1933. After her marriage, Rosa Parks worked at several different jobs, as an insurance saleswoman and as a seamstress, doing alterrations e .....
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