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- 7591: Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
- ... size of a grapefruit. His wife, Joy Piccolo, stood at his side the entire operation and everynight there after. Brian and Joy were what most people would call the "ideal" couple. Brian was the All-American hardworking athlete, while Joy was the loving supportive wife that stood by his side no matter what his successes or failures might bring. Brian lived through the operation, but then the Piccolo's got another ...
- 7592: Stephen King
- ... others. The popular movie, Stand By Me, was adapted from his novella, "The Body" from Different Seasons. In 1992, Sleepwalkers was produced from an original screenplay by King. Stephen is a regular contributor to the American Cancer Society, provides scholarships for local high school students through Hampden Academy and contributes to many other local and national charities.
- 7593: Comparing Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville's Writings
- ... factitious cares and superfluously coarse labor of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them "(p. 790). Thoreau points out the weakening of man's original calling by the results of the industrial revolution, division of labor, the robotics of factory life and materialistic vision of life. The end result is self- destruction and depression of ones independence, spirit and development of mental and spiritual heights as described here ...
- 7594: Image of Child Heros
- ... passed out from exhaustion he took it upon himself to get her water and keep her alive. In the end they were rescued from the cave and Tom was given accolades as a hero. The American culture is very receptive of the child hero. In recent movies such as Home Alone, the child is glorified and given the role of the hero. In America, where there is not very much that ...
- 7595: Endangered Species 2
- ... living outside the reserves, representing over 50% of the country's tiger population.28 CAPTIVE BREEDING A recent initiative by the US National Zoo, IUCN Captive Breeding Specialist group and a number of other North American scientific organizations has resulted in the development of an Action Plan for the creation of a Tiger Genome Resource Bank. This is intended to assist in the maintenance of the genetic diversity of both captive ...
- 7596: Chanel, Gabrielle
- ... rebelled against and hated--the Establishment. But if one looks at documentary footage of her from that period, one can still feel the spit and vinegar of the fiery peasant woman who began her fashion revolution against society by aiming at the head, with hats. Her boyish "flapper" creations were in stark contrast to the Belle Epoque millinery that was in vogue at the time, and about which she asked, "How ...
- 7597: Charles Dickens
- ... holic, is visited by three ghosts, and learns the error of his ways by becoming a warm, caring man. A Tale of Two Cities tells about the rulers in England and of how the French Revolution had an effect on them. This book was written in weekly installments in 1859. Great Expectations was, without a doubt, the most popular out of all of his works, and has stood the test of ...
- 7598: Charles Lindbergh
- ... the roads leading to the airport. When he climbed out of the cockpit he was taken by the crowd and held aloft. Two French flyers were able to get him released, but only after another American had been mistaken for him. Lindbergh s helmet had somehow gotten on the other man s head, and he was being dragged away by the crowd. Charles Lindbergh was insisting that something be done about ...
- 7599: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... to Can Grande della Scalla." The Critical Tradition: Classical texts and Contemporary Trends. Ed. David Richter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 119-121. Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. W.H.D. Rouse. Scarborough: New American Library. 1937. Planeaux, Christopher S. "Christopher's Plato: Introduction." 28 September 1996. (16 October 1996) Plato. Republic, Book X. The Critical Tradition: Classical texts and Contemporary Trends. Ed. David Richter. New York: St. Martin's ...
- 7600: Charles Lindbergh 2
- Charles Lindbergh, one of the world s aviation heroes and an American hero, was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He was born on February 4, 1902, in Detroit. He went to school at the University of Wisconsin for two years ...
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