Biography: William Gibson (1914- )
.... American Primitive (1969).
A Season in Heaven (1975).
Golda (1977): play about the Israeli political leader Golda Meir.
Monday After the Miracle (1982): play examining the later
relationship between Annie
Sullivan and Helen Keller.
Film and television
Two for the Seesaw (1962): film based on his play.
The Miracle Worker: film (1962) and TV films (1957, 1979).
The Cobweb (1955: film based on his novel.
Spiel zu zweit (1975): .....
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John Paul Jones
.... since somone had raided an English seaport,
and where was the Royal Navy, who was supposed to keep these things from
happening?
The other event was the Battle off Flambrough Head. A Baltic convoy
escorted by two British ships was sailing past Flamborough Head, and since
Jones had always wanted to break up a Baltic convly, that's exactly what he
planned to do.
Jones had three warships under his command compared to the two British
escorts. He soon realized after chasing the convoy, that he wou .....
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Derek Morris: A Personal Bio
.... heard my mom and dad were
going to have another baby I thought the world was over. But, she turned out
just fine and is quite a cool little person.
I enjoy females, music, partying, and baseball. The quote that is most
meaningful is, "The only place were success comes before work is in the
dictionary." The holiday I enjoy the most would have to be Christmas because it
is only three more months until baseball begins.
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Pierre Trudeau
.... Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home
located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the
University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the
Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat
anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered
radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as
Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned to Canada
in 1949 and resu .....
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The Life Of Jack London
.... 1876
Flora went and retrieved her son, and changed his name to Jack London.
Jack London grew up believing that John London was his father. Jack later
found out that William Chaney the astrologer was his father, and decided to
write him a letter asking him who his natural father is. In Jack's early
years his stepfather John was a salesman for Singer Sewing Machines. John
London however could not walk very much to sell these machines. In the
Civil War John's lungs were damaged. Since John could not wal .....
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Similarities Between Neil Armstrong And Leif Ericson
.... foundations can still be seen in
Kagsiarsuk.
There are a few different versions of how Leif came around to
discovering America. According to the “Saga of Eric,” it occurred on of his
return trips from Norway. His ship was blown to the south by a wind from
the north. Since Leif was on a different longitudinal course without
knowing it, he continued on his westward way. He overshot his home land
and ended up being carried west by favorable winds to the New World.
Another saga is called “Th .....
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Edgar Degas - Not The Typical Impressionist
.... They held exhibitions and published a journal. He was the main
founder of these exhibitions that were later known as Salons. At these
Salons, artists such as Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Manet, and Degas himself
would display their best works of art for criticism. At the Salons Degas's
work, like everyone else's wasn't looked upon highly. Most people didn't
realize how great these artists were until after they died.
Degas went through many styles of art before finally settling on
Realism. He went th .....
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The Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
.... 1955 Rosa Parks, a leading member of the local branch of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was
jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. King soon was
selected as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the
organization that directed a bus boycott prompted by Parks's jailing. The
Montgomery bus boycott lasted for more than a year. Incidents of violence
against black protesters, including the bombing of King's home, focused
media .....
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The Life Of Sid Vicious
.... Chris loved John, and made a request to legally adopt
his stepson. Before the adoption could go through though, Chris died of ill
health. John later changed his name from John Ritchie to John Beverly.
John attended the Soho Primary School where he horrified his
teachers when he told them that he no longer believed in God. John left
this school with two zero levels in English Literature and English Language
and absolutely no ambition to pursue his academic studies.
John went back into education by taking .....
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The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
.... at a very early age.
In 1469, by the age of 17, his father sent him to study in the
workshop of a well-known Italian Renaissance master named Andrea del
Verrocchio. He remained there until 1476 and Leonardo had picked up a
variety of skills. He spent several years there practicing a variety of
things, drafting engineering, architecture, and building, but most of all
he study painting and drawing. The education Leonardo received from
Verrocchio was very practical. For his first project, Leonardo .....
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Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
.... lips
by pressing her fingertips to the speaker's lips and feeling the vibrations
and movement. This method, called Tadoma, is extremely difficult; very few
master it.
Helen had mastered Braille, the manual alphabet and the typewriter by the
age of 10. By age 16, she could speak well enough to go to prep school and
college. In 1888, Helen and her teacher went to the Perkins School for the
Blind, where Miss Sullivan continued to teach her. In 1894 they went on to
the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in .....
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James "Jimmy" Earl Carter
.... on November.
Jimmy became our 39th president on January 20, 1977. His noteworthy
foreign policy accomplishments of his administration included the Panama
Canal treaties, the Camp David accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt
and Israel, the SALLT II treaty witht he Soviet Union, and the
establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of
China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic
side, the administration's achievements included a comprehens .....
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The Life And Work Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... would not
become unstable. Yet with this condition of the character and with the
same condition associated with the author, this reflects the alcoholic
temperament.
Another detail of retrospect can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House
of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick
Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister
but his cousin however the subject of incest still remains. Poe married
his cousin Virginia, who was only 13. Poe's w .....
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Andrew Jackson
.... which made him
humiliated and extremely sensitive to criticism. All these childhood
factors added up and left Andrew Jackson as a touchy, irascible man.
As the oldest man ever elected to the presidency, he was sixty-one
and perhaps the most unhealthy. He had two bullets permanently lodged in
him, and often spat up blood because of them. Many missions of Andrew
Jackson's were self-righteous and stubborn. By his victory at the Battle
of New Orleans, where he killed many Native Americans, he gained eno .....
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... of charity that Mrs. Frances Allan, the wife of a
rising merchant in Richmond, learned of the plight of the Poe babies. She
had no children of her own and so was the more attracted to handsome little
Edgar. She took him home with her, and another family took Rosalie. This
was in 1811, long before Juvenile Courts and official custody of orphaned
children.
Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was
unwilling to commit himself to a step of such permanence. The acting
profession .....
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