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- 2981: R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer
- ... Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer R.L. Stine was born november 8, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio and was named Robert Lawrence Stine. R.L. Stine's first house was three story's high, with a garage. His dog named Whitey (“half collie, half husky, half elephant”) spent his days and nights there because he was so big he knocked everything over if he was allowed in the house ... Norm; he meet him at day camp when he was about 10. His first book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the last one was named Stories and Gags. R.L. ...
- 2982: Nelson Mandela
- ... Transkei on July 18, 1918. His father was the principal councilor to the Acting Paramount Chief of Thembuland. After his fathers death, the young Rolihlahla became the Paramount Chiefs ward to be groomed to assume high office. However, influenced by the cases that came before the Chief s court, he was determined to become a lawyer. Hearing the elders stories of his ancestors struggles during the wars of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people (Ngubane). After receiving a primary education at a local mission school, Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in ...
- 2983: Louis Sullivan An American Arc
- ... that Sullivan developed an intense concept of nature, which would be apparent in his later work. By the age of twelve, Louis decided to pursue a career in architecture. Moses Wilson, one of Sullivan’s high school teachers, introduced him to the disciplines of silence, attention, and alertness, which are necessary components of the abilities to observe, reflect, and discriminate. These would serve to help him in his career pursuits. Asa Gray, a botanist from Harvard who lectured at his school, caught his interest in the morphology of plants. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted two years early to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sullivan’s first employment came as a draftsman for ...
- 2984: Billy Sunday
- ... on his own. He worked for a Civil War veteran and his wife. Colonel and Mrs. John Scott took him in, loved him, worked him hard, and Oswalt / 6 sent him to two years of high school. No one knows whether or not he graduated, but he was much better educated than the typical American was. In 1880, two months before his eighteenth birthday, Billy Sunday decided to give up the rural ... 1886 Sunday played twenty-eight games and batted .243. During the season of 1887 he was a Oswalt / 8 starter in fifty games and rapped out fifty-eight hits, pushing his average to a career high of .291. He also stole thirty-four bases that year. Establishing himself as a professional ball player was important to the Iowa farm boy, but it paled in comparison to an event that took ...
- 2985: Metallica
- Metallica Introduction Metallica was a band that that started out in the garage of one of the members when they were in high school. The band went through many changes and tragedies and found solutions for them and somehow remained playing. They started in 1980 as one of the first, if not the first Black/Metal band. Their popularity ... from Denmark to Newport Beach, California in 1980 to find the sunny climate to play tennis. After that he met the band as friends and then began to play. Hetfeild went to Downey East Middle School where he started playing in the auditorium on the stage with friends. Three years later his mother died of cancer. There was a song written in memory of her memory titled "The God that ...
- 2986: Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic
- Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years of Movie Magic Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity earned him the recognition of ... over 60 still shots, 70 setups, and over a week of attempts; all for a less than a minute on screen. True Hitchcock genius, you never actually see the knife strike Marion, but the loud, high pitched screeching music, and the close- ups of her face and the knife sends chills through the body. An investigator comes out to the motel, and becomes the next victim. Soon the audience learns that ... gas continues to flow from it, and is set on fire, when a passer-by drops a match on the ground causing a immense damage. In a later scene the children are trapped in the school, and as the teacher attempts to lead them to their homes, believing the birds have flow away, they turn a corner and are suddenly surrounded. The birds come together and strike, while the children ...
- 2987: Jack London 2
- ... major figure in the development of American astrology. During his childhood his parents weren't there for him and he was looked after by an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss (Memmie Jennie). London dropped out of school at the age of fourteen, and worked at a series of low-paying sweatshops until he was sixteen. In 1894, during America's worst depression of his time, London traveled across the United States and ... at various hard labor jobs, pirated for oysters, served as a fish patrol to capture poachers, sailed the Pacific on a sealing ship, joined Kelly's Army of unemployed working men, and returned to attend high school. University of California at Berkeley, is where London went when he went back. Jack started to become a writer to escape from the horrific prospects of life as a factory worker. He studied other ...
- 2988: Friendship
- ... and last but not least someone who will shares their toys. After college when they become adults friends are someone who gives you advice, someone who you have fun with, and maybe even an old high school friend. However, even though I fall into the teenage category I feel my friendships are forever. How far would I go to stop a friend from harming my country? Well, that depends on your definition ... important roles in my life. I don’t know what I would do without my friends. They bring me joy when I’m down and we have so much fun when we are away from school. Now I hope nothing ever comes between me and my friends such as one of them harming my country, I betray them, or being forced to get revenge on their behalf. Now a favorite ...
- 2989: The Development Of Dance And Theatre In The East Asian Nations
- ... who excelled in versification, and the creator of effective theatrical pieces, Li Yu (1611-1685). A large-scale performance of kun-ch'u for the Ch’ing emperor Ch'ien-lung in 1784 marked its high point in Chinese culture. K'un-ch'u had begun as a genuinely popular opera form; it was welcomed by audiences in Peking in the 1600s, but within decades it had become a theatre of ... in theatres. Following the liberal ideals of the time, attempts were made to write in colloquial language (rather than in classical Chinese, as previously), amid old plays considered undemocratic were dropped from the repertoire. A school for Peking opera acting, modeled on Western pedagogical methods, was established in 1930, actresses being admitted for the first time in three centuries. The basic style of opera remained umchanged, however. Western spoken drama (hua ... Nationalist government has supported Peking opera on Taiwan since establishing the headquarters of the Republic of China on that island. Troupes of the air force and the army are active, and the Foo Hsing Opera School receives government support. Local opera (kotsai-hsi), sung in the Taiwanese dialect, is extremely popular in commercial theatres, andl many itinerant Taiwanese troupes tour glove-puppet plays (po-the-hi) to towns and villages.
- 2990: ABORTION
- ... because they feel that the child will change the woman's life considerably and they are not ready for such a change. This often applies to a single woman. If this woman is still in school, having the baby will result in dropping out of school and not finishing her education. Having the child will also result in a loss of a social life. The woman could no longer enjoy her independence, but must assume the responsibility of a child who ... know who to ask. Teenagers do not tell their parents and they are afraid that if they seek the advice of a doctor, he/she will inform their parents. There are various reasons for the high rate of pregnancy in teens. Teenagers may lack easy access to contraceptives and therefore have sexual intercourse without any means of protection. They may lack knowledge about contraceptives and instead of seeking advice, ignore ...
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