Stephen King
.... on the spring of 1973 upon the acceptence of Doubleday & Co. to publish Stephen King’s novel Carrie. After learning from his new editor, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would make him financially secure enough to quit teaching, Stephen moved his now growing family to southern Maine because of his grandmother’s ever growing sickness. During the writing of Salem’s Lot Stephen’s mother grew ill and died of cancer at the age of 59. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. During the fall o .....
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Stephen Sondheim
.... Sondheim\'s philosophy since is encapsulated in one of his song titles: \"I Never Do Anything Twice\". His first score as composer-lyricist was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) - a show so funny few people spotted how experimental it was: it\'s still the only successful musical farce. In the following three decades, critics detected a Sondheim style - a fondness for the harmonic language of Ravel and Debussy; a reliance on vamps and skewed harmonies to destabilise the melody; .....
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Stephon Marbury
.... be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said:
\"A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He\'s sitting on top of a mountain...That\'s where I want to see myself\" (Wolff, 62).
Mr. Marbury had great pressures exerted on him to put up big numbers. He was frustrated that very few people could comprehend how much pressure was exerted on him to do this. Mr. Marbury even had international recognition by making the covers of magazines i .....
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Steve Jobs
.... Kottke, a friend from Reed College.
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of "Woz’s" "Homebrew Computer Club". Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn’t nearly the engineer as Woz and persuaded him to start work on a home computer.
Woz and Jobs designed the Apple I in Steve’s bedroom and built the first prototype in Steve’s parents garage. Apple I was a hit. Steve sold his Volk .....
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Steven Speilberg
.... Spielberg said \"From age twelve or thirteen I knew I wanted to be a movie director, and I didn\'t think that science or math or foreign languages were going to help me turn out the little 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework.\"(Contemporary Authors 3) Movies were also helping Stephen to escape his family life, where at home things were bad with his parents, and when Stephen was twelve years old they divorced. This only helped to clarify Stephen\'s love of film.
After he completed hi .....
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Stonewall Jackson
.... joined the Confederacy and soon made his reputation as Stonewall Jackson at the First Battle of Bull Run, also called Manassas. When his men were retreating he stood still while enemy soldiers were firing at him. His troops saw him and one of them shouted \"There is Jackson standing like a stonewall.\" Only then did his men have the courage to fight on and eventually win. In 1862, in the Shenandoah valley Jackson earned international fame by defeating 60,000 Union soldiers with only 17,000 troops. Aft .....
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Susan B Anthony
.... speech for the Daughters of Temperance, and then help found the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York. It was one of the first organizations of its time.
In 1851 she went to Syracus to attend a series of antislavery meetings. During this time Susan meet Cady Stanton. They became best friends. Susan joined Stanton and Amelia Bloomer in campaigns for women’s rights. She would often deliver speeches written by Stanton, who was occupied with her young children. In 1854, She devoted herself t .....
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T.S. Eliot
.... O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; Many are saying of me, there is no help for him in God. Psalm 3 Eliot’s The Hollow Men finishes with some of his most quoted lines: ‘This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.’ Here Eliot seems to be at an all time low. He is sad and cynical about life and his spiritual journeying could well have ended here. In Journey of The Magi and A Song for Simeon we find Eliot con .....
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T.S. Eliot
.... to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history.\" This idea that the world is chaos and only the structure of the poets prose can bring order to it is the driving force behind Eliots work. But yet, Eliot has often been criticized or admonished for not providing that very order he speaks of. Professor of English Melissa Sodemn said that most of his poems are \"a dramatic monologue loosely bound together with a rambling psychological coherence.\"
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Ted Bundy
.... to be the result of very poor to no parental guidance, he stated himself that he couldn\'t talk to his parents about many things. Ted Bundy had expressed feelings during an interview that, parental involvement and security is very important in a young child\'s life and that he never had that protection. Bundy was very shy as a youth and he was often bullied in junior high, as a result of he was subjected to humiliation often. Even though he was subjected to this kind of behavior he managed to maintain a h .....
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Terry Fox
.... just 2 years ago the chance of living was fifteen percent. The night before his operation a former coach brought Terry a magazine featuring a man who ran a marathon after a similar operation. Terry didn’t want to do something small if he was going to do something he was going to do it big. "I am competitive" Terry said, "I’m a dreamer. I like challenges. I don’t give up. When I decided to do it, I knew it was going to be all out. There was no in between Terry’s sixteen month follow up he .....
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Theodore Dreiser
.... to help her poverty stricken family. The success of this book gave him some much needed encouragement and continued on writing more novels. He then wrote The Financier in 1912 and The Titan in 1914. These books were the first two novels of a trilogy dealing with the career of the late 19th century American financier and tycoon Charles T. Yerkes. Dreiser then wrote in 1913 about his experiences in Europe in a book titled A Traveler at Forty. In his next major novel, The Genius was written in 1915 and it dea .....
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Theodore Kaczynski
.... Ted built a small one-room shack on this parcel of land surrounded by dense deciduous forest. The shack measured 10 feet by 12 feet and lacked electricity and plumbing. Kaczinski lived by farming a few vegetables in his small garden and venturing into town only when necessary.
It is unknown when Kaczynski started to make his bombs for the purpose of killing but his motives, the FBI believe are his beliefs about today’s society being destroyed by technology. Kaczynski wrote a paper of 35,000 words i .....
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Thomas Edison
.... Edison was attempting to devise for the automatic telegraph a machine that would transcribe a signals as they were received into a form of the human voice so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages. Some researchers had theorized that each sound, if it could be graphically recorded, would produce a distinct shape resembling short hand, or phonography, as it was known then. Edison hoped to make this concept real by employing a stylus-tipped carbon transmitter to make impressions on a str .....
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Thomas Edison
.... his childhood. When he was 15, a train accident injured his ears more. When he tried to jump on a moving train, a conductor grabbed the boy\'s ears to help pull him up. "Thomas said he felt something snap inside his head. He soon began to lose much of his hearing." (Swanson pg. 34) Thomas never became deaf, but from then on he was hard of hearing. His deafness could have been cured by an operation. But Thomas refused the operation. He said being deaf helped him concentrate. When Edison wa .....
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