Tennessee Williams
.... years best play. Williams averaged two
plays a year since that time. On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in
New York City. Throughout Williams' lifetime he has put forth more than twenty-
five full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and
unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto. These have been translated into
at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil, Welsh, Marathi and Hindi. In
addition, there are two novels, a novella, more than sixty short stories, .....
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Bill Gates
.... trombone, had
no interest in philosophy but rather thought of himself as a "scientist." His
science teacher, William Dougall, remembers if the teacher wasn't going fast
enough, "Bill always seemed on the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates
once said to a teacher that some day he would be a millionaire. A grossly
underestimated statement. Today Gates is one of the richest men in the world.
In the fall of 1968, Bill Gates was entering the 8th grade at lakeside School,
and his best friend Paul Al .....
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
.... when Stephen's father Donald, a
Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of
cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact
on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King
recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother,
struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn't see a great
deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low
paying jobs.” .....
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The Marquis De Sade's Attitude Towards Women
.... such,
significant because of his "refusal to see female sexuality in relation to a
reproductive function."
Sade justified his beliefs through graffiti, playing psychologist on
vandals:
In the stylization of graffiti, the prick is
always presented erect, as an alert attitude.
It points upward, asserts. The hole is open, as
an inert space, as a mouth, waiting to be filled.
This iconography could be derived from the
metaphysical sexual differences: man aspires,
woman .....
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
.... elementary schools in Brookline
and Riverdale. By the age of thirteen his father sent him to the
Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. He then transferred to
Choate Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut, and graduated in 1935 at
eight-teen years old. In 1936, after a summer in England, John entered
Princeton University. After Christmas, of that same year, he developed
jaundice. Then in 1936 he entered Harvard University. At Harvard he
majored in government and international relations. In 194 .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... in 1880 , he married Alice Hathaway Lee of Boston. In
the same year he entered Columbia University Law School. But historical writing
and politics lured him away from a legal career.
His yearning for public acknowledge plus the corrupt state of New York
led him to join a local Republican Reform Club. In 1881 he was elected to
New York assembly where he set out to stop the corruption in both party
machines. In 1884 the death of his wife and a defeat in his political career
made him retreat to th .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
.... creative ideas including the development
of a metal detector, an electric probe which was used by many surgeons before
the X ray was invented, a device having the same purpose as today's iron lung,
and also a method of locating icebergs by detecting echoes from them. With his
many inventions (especially the insanely popular and universally applied
telephone), his efforts to educate the deaf, and the founding and financing of
the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (now
call .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... survey
land, and play the violin. Despite his thinness, he was strong enough to tame a
wild horse and chop wood like a lumberjack. Most important of all, he was know
to be a superb writer.
Though surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson was not a man of many words. Not
known for his speaking abilities, he was shy and seldom spoke in public. When
delegates at the Congress gave long speeches, Thomas Jefferson oftentimes just
listened. John Adams said of Jefferson, "During the whole time I sat with him
in Con .....
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Thomas Paine
.... of 1775, in which he criticized slavery in America as being unjust
and inhumane. At about this same time, he became the co-editor for the
Pennsylvania Magazine. When he arrived in Philadelphia, Paine noticed the
tension, and the rebellious attitude, that was continually getting larger, after
the Boston Tea Party.
In Paine's opinion, the Colonies had all the right to revolt against a
government that imposed taxes on them, and which did not give them the right of
representation in the Parliament at .....
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Alexander III
.... then mounted the horse and began to ride,
to the amazement of all who watched. When he got off the horse Philip kissed
his son.
Plutarch also tells of Alexander entertaining Persian ambassadors while
his father was not present. When Alexander was 16 Philip left him in charge of
Macedon when Philip went to fight the Byzantines.
When Alexander was 20 his father was murdered at the theatre. Some say
that Alexander had a part in the plot to assasinate his father but almost all
agree that his mother Olymp .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... read it, you're too tired to read the book, let alone
do a report with it.
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Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia, on
April 13, 1743. His dad, Peter Jefferson and his mom Jane Randolph were members
of the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the bar .....
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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion
.... out a record
attendance of over 15,000 spectators. Woods was also the first African-
American to win the U.S Juniors. He quotes " when I am up at the tee all I
think about is where I want my ball to go". During this whole time Tiger
attended Stanford college and maintained straight A's in his sophomore year. He
had originally planed to graduate from Stanford before going pro, but when Nike
offered him a 42 million dollar deal to wear their clothes for 5 years he couldn'
t resist. This was not the .....
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Tony Kronheiser
.... A Real Fixe," Kornheiser says, "George was beginning to suspect that we
had entered (doo-doo, doo-doo). . . The Nouvelle Dining Zone." Most people who
have watched the Twilight Zone before can relate this statement as a reference
to the famous TV show, so Kornheiser's slang was effective in grabbing the
reader, even if a large majority of them have no idea what the word "nouvelle"
means. Kornheiser uses an array of such adjectives throughout his pieces but he
does not pretend to be above his readers. H .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
.... to Vincent, encouraged him to work, and wrote
regularly. Vincent's thinking during his short career (approximately 750
paintings, 1,600 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 1 etching) was documented in more
than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others.
Van Gogh's early years includes all his work from 1879 through 1885. Between
August 1879 and November 1885 he worked in Etten, The Hague--where he received
some instruction from his cousin, Anton Mauve and in Nuenen, among other places.
In Nuenen he .....
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Walt Whitman
.... got wounded from the war. He feels bad for them and
wants to save them desperately. This shows that he dislikes the war because he
felt there was no need for them being injured. If it wasn't for the war, the
people wouldn't be that way. He doesn't state these beliefs directly, however
it is easy to see through his words. Walt Whitman mentions his dislike of war
throughout his poems. He may do this indirectly but his message is abundantly
clear. He is obviously anti-war and has only negative aspects o .....
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