Martin Luther King
.... said "You
know, when I grow up to be a man, I'm going to hit this thing, and hit it
hard, Mother; there's no such thing as one people better than another. The
Lord created us all equal , and I'm going to see to that."
Over the years King was involved in many famous boycotts and marches,
but none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech
that showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our
country is changing, and helping to change South Africa.
The key .....
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James Fenimore Cooper And His Writings
.... novels were the quintessential representative of American
romanticism.
America produced many renown authors during the age of American
romanticism. During this time, writers, such as: Washington Irving,
William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allen Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper emerged.
Romantic writers emphasized intuition, an inner perception of truth that is
independent of reason. To discover this truth, Emerson wrote in The
American Scholar (1837), a man must "learn to detect and watch that gleam
of light whi .....
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Martin Luther King
.... of life. The boycott of the Montgomery Bus was begun
when Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man on
December 1st. Two Patrolmen took her away to the police station where she
was booked. He and 50 other ministered held a meeting and agreed to start a
boycott on December 5th, the day of Rosa Parks's hearing. This boycott
would probably be successful since 70% of the riders were black. The bus
company did not take them seriously, because if there was bad weather, they
would have t .....
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J.D.Salinger
.... in the
Pennsylvania Hills. It was here that certain biographical facts begin to
build up in accounting for Salinger as a writer. It was at Valley Forge
that Salinger developed a sense of being a misfit, of having been sent away
to become part of an alien institution, and that what is needed, what is
missed, is a larger, closer family.
It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some
of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war two. This
had a great deal to do with h .....
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Salinger's Writing Style
.... in a way as if he was talking to you
directly. I can almost hear Holden in my mind telling the story to me.
This makes it much more real and it seems as if I was taking part in the
story. I also like how the story moves on and does not stay on an incident
or topic for more than one chapter. The story has a fast pace and I like
it that way. It makes is less difficult to follow and read. As a result
from the fast pace, I was more tuned into the story and did not want to
skip ahead when it got boring. .....
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The Work Of J.D. Salinger
.... suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and
Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for
Franny. The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick 71).
Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caufield, the
protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his girlfriend, so Caufield
reads a passage in the Bible. This helps Holden change his outlook on life
(Salzbe .....
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The Work Of John Collier
.... (Contemporary Authors 111). Collier's readers are involved in
his writings by trick endings or "take away endings" in which readers are
given all clues but asked to finish, the story on their own (Critical
Survey 1169). His subject manner is often the line between logical or
psychological meaning. The subject contains an irony that is well balanced
between an element of horror and humor. His short stories are based on
relationships of the young and old. Collier's characters are hoping to
fulfill the .....
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John D. Rockelfeller
.... being a "Bold
Innovator in industry and philanthropy" he also said he was "an organizing
genius." Allen Nevins, Historian 1940. Another person who swayed my
decision was William H. Vanderbilt. He felt Rockelfeller had a monopoly
because he was "Enterprising, Shrewd, Able, and Smart." Pg. 128 promise of
America volume 3. Vanderbilt knew that Rockelfeller had a successful
business because of his good skills. The last thing that helped me decide
was a excerpt from Rockelfeller's biography. His opinio .....
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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
.... the force of thousands of tons of dynamite was tested at a government
installation test site in Nevada.
Soon after the United States used this weapon on Japan twice, The Soviet Union
developed their own nuclear weapon. The Arms Race was on. Suddenly both
countries expended large amounts of resources on making these bombs useful in
combat. Three hundred billion U.S. dollars2 were spent to ignite this project
and produce only a small number of functional bombs. The Soviet Union was
thought to have spe .....
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Thomas Paine
.... nobody was
too happy about it. The next day after they heard this news, a huge mob
assembled outside of the state house. Thomas Paine was one of the speakers
trying to calm down all of the eight-thousand people that were in front of
the building.
Paine soon went to a ball to represent the Pennsylvania Magazine in
which he represented. He had a lot of answers to questions people kept
asking him. Paine was finally fired when he argued with Aitkin because he
wanted to put an article in the paper. .....
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John Gotti: The Man Behind The Mob
.... at the age of
twelve, after noticing a mobster named Albert Anastasia. He soon joined a
street gang called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys (Davis 61-63).
At the age of 16 Gotti dropped out of school, and began to model
his life after Anastasia. John got a job with the gang he had earlier
joined, as a debt collector. He was required to bust a lot of heads to
complete his job. This got him noticed by Angelo Bruno, who was a soldier
under none other than Anastasia. John was required to do many odd jobs for
Bru .....
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Jonathan Swift: Misguided And Incorrect Criticisms
.... attacking human life.
Swift infuriates some critics for criticizing something that they feel must
be divine since it is the chief instrument of God. These critics argue
that human nature must be dignified if it is the key theme of Christianity.
They, however, are wrong, and are guilty of being naive. Swift and his
supporters counter their attacks by pointing out that it is hypocritical of
them to revere such vices as corruption, greed, and immortality, and these
critics need to take a serious look at .....
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Ray Charles Robinson
.... a bus ticket to Seattle and left. Eventually Charles dropped
his surname.
There he entered a contest and was given a job at a nearby Elks club.
After a numerous amount of months, a record producer noticed him and
Charles had his first album: "Confession Blues." Afterward Charles went on
the road for a few years. He played at bars around the country. It was
known by musicians as the chitlin' circuit.
Soon Charles stopped imitating other musicians, as he had been doing up
until this point, and bega .....
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Biography Of Katharine Hepburn
.... was a very high salary for begining actresses.
Katharine served as Hope Williams's understudy in Holiday. She sat
through every performance for six months. One day at understudy rehearsal,
Aurhtur Hopkins, the director, watched her act. “Fine,” he said, “Just
don't ever be sorry for yourself.”
One night at midnight, Jimmy Hagen, the writer of the play, asked
her if she still knew her part. Hope was sick and they needed her to
perform. She spent all day the next day memorizing her lines. Katharin .....
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The Biography Of Kurt Donald Cobain
.... such as Black Sabbath and the Sex
Pistols.
While in high school Kurt met Buzz Osbourne and Matt Lukin of the
Melvins, musical heroes and inspirations to Kurt. Also while in high
school he met future band mate with Nirvana, and many other groups,
Krist(Chris) Novoselic. Krist was an immigrant from Croatia and he and
Kurt became friends instantly. Later Kurt and Krist formed Nirvana with
Chad Channing as drummer and recorded Bleach in 1989 for only $600.
Channing was replaced with Dave Grohl, now of t .....
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