Timothy Leary
.... he explained the occurrence, "A profound transcendent experience should leave in its wake a changed man and a changed life. Since my illumination of August 1960, I have devoted most of my energies to try to understand the revelatory potentialities of the human nervous system and to make these insights available to others." (Marwick 311). Leary attempted to make the insights available to others by making the religious experience that he encountered and the cause of it into a church. The Lea .....
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Tom Clancy
.... of being in operation they are called on three times which seems unusual. The first incident happens in a Swiss bank where terrorists have taken control and have hostages. Team 2 successfully takes them out, losing only one hostage, who was killed before they arrived.
The second mission is in Germany. An international trader is taken hostage in his mansion/castle. This mission goes well too, thanks to the snipers. No hostage deaths, but all the terrorists are killed. The last mission that the .....
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Tupac Shakur
.... music and are influenced and are moved by him. I\'ve even saw a show in Singapore about music here and a Singaporean kid said he listens to Tupac. Tupac has a lot of self-values that he follows. He even said it\'s hard sometimes, but he keeps it up. He said \"To me it\'s really troubling because I look over what\'s successful - Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids on the Block selling twenty-two million copies, and I want that so badly, but I can\'t do that. I would be wrong to do that, knowing what .....
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Tupac Shakur
.... more movies and could be who he really was. He did a lot of interviews that showed his beliefs. He said self esteem and self respect was very important and said \"I feel as though I am a shining prince just like Malcolm and feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like shining princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.\" (Patrick, Tony, n.p.) And when he says all of us, he means all men. He also said he doesn\'t care if someone is white or black. And no one can be judged by their .....
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Tupac Shakur
.... ability and musical talent weren’t enough to get by with; it took a shtick that was "true". There was no candy coating or a softer side to this "straight from the projects" thug. Tupac rapped about what he knew, and he knew the street life. In and out of jail/prison Tupac had been exposed to, even saturated in the criminal element, and this exposure led him to express his exploits in vulgar and gory detail. It was this down to earth ego, telling war stories from his childhood about .....
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Ulysses S. Grant
.... the Southwest frontier in May of 1844.
When the south seceded from the Union Grant had no troubles making up his mind to fight for the Union cause. Grant organized the first group of Union volunteers in Galena and accompanied the men to Springfield. Grant longed for active duty and, on May 24, 1861, offered his services to the U.S. government, suggesting that he was " competent to command a regiment." Although he failed to gain this appointment, he accepted from Governor Yates the command .....
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Upton Sinclair
.... of the \"Appeal to Reason\", which was a popular socialist-populist weekly magazine at that time. Upton’s big break came in 1906 when he published a book called, \" The Jungle.\" As a writer this is where Sinclair gained most of his fame. This book gave him not only fame, but it also led to the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This book had the deepest impact since Harriet Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The books popularity enabled Sinclair to establish and support the socialistic Helicon Home Colony in Eng .....
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Upton Sinclair
.... as the individual pigs themselves. Although they were not necessarily slaves, they were often foreigners and unskilled workers who had no choice but to work for low wages under poor living conditions. Most of these people lived in the plants themselves or in small tenant housings nearby. The beaten workers in the plants found it hard to work in such deprivation and to them their only way to continue living was to drink their problems away. For alcohol seemed to be their only form of enjoyment.
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Vincent Van Gogh
.... He fails, and then takes the razor and cuts off his own earlobe. After this he had many mental breakdowns and was put in the Saint-Pual-de-Mausole mental asylum. When he was in the asylum he painted whenever he got the chance, and his works soon received recognition. He was now respected in the art community and it was suggested that he move closer to his brother Theo. It seams that with his brother, Van Gogh is finally happy. But things were not going so well for Theo. His newborn son become .....
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Virginia Woolf
.... and preserve\" the memories that still remained. According to Woolf, \"the character of Mrs. Ramsey in To the Lighthouse was modeled entirely upon that of her mother\" (Bond 27). This helped Virginia in her closure when dealing with the loss and obsession with her mother.
Although Virginia clung to the relationship with her mother, she favored her father, Leslie Stephen. Virginia resembled her father uncannily in character traits, in her writing and self-doubts, in her great and malicious .....
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Virginia Woolf
.... to her audience what she could have talked about and what other things her topic might mean, she is letting the audience be drawn in to her consciousness. Woolf wants them to know why she decided to use this topic instead of some less meaningful one, that may have made for a good speech but would not have really covered the full scope of the problem. Woolf said:
They just might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontes and a sketch of .....
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Walt Disney
.... sound (Fantasia, 1940) and 360-degree projection (Disneyland’s circle-Vision 360, 1955). This remarkable man’s many achievements also include the longest-running prime time television series (1954-1983), the Academy Award-winning true-life adventure nature films. Walt had many great ideas that he needed to share with others. The was a great persuading leader, he had to make others believe in him and accept his ideas. Walt knew how to tell his ideas to other and get them excited about his new id .....
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Walter Johnson - A Pitcher
.... Series but, they had to face the powerhouse of the N.Y.Giants with John McGraw at the helm. Johnson had never won a World Series game in his life and it was his dream of being able to do so but he was getting old and he knew this would probably be his last chance to win one. In game one he lost a heart breaker to the Giants ace. He had a no decision in the second game and had only one more chance at his goal and he knew it, in game 7, the series tied 3-3, he came into the game in the 7th with the score t .....
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Walter Whitman
.... schools in Long Island. He also engaged in carpentry and house building while he edited newspapers. His early years seemed to show an active interest in working with the public.
Whitman at one time accepted a job with a New Orleans newspaper, and in doing so exposed himself to a great deal of the country. Getting to New Orleans required traveling over the Cumberland Gap and down rivers, of which he later wrote. America seemed to be both his home and inspiration. In \"Calamus\", part of his single .....
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Wang Lung
.... \"great fat fellow\", out of fear, gave Wang Lung the gold, which he used to return to his land, it was O-lan\'s ingenuity in searching out the jewels that made Wang Lung a wealthy man. With these jewels, Wang Lung bought much
land from the Great House and he also hired numerous men to work this new land.
In his later years, Wang Lung became conceited and egotistical. He believed that he had achieved his wealth and prosperity alone and that he was extremely deserving of it all. He had becom .....
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