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- 4751: Ghost House - Compared To 4 Other Poems
- ... was the age of twelve years old. This wasnt the way you would think a famous writer would start off his life. The even awkward part of this story is that he graduated Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian of his graduating class. When I saw that I was very struck. I realized that changing is all up to one person and that one person is you. Robert Frosts life ...
- 4752: Fried Green Tomatoes
- ... show business career began in the fifth grade when she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a three-act comedy called "The Whopee Girls," which brought the audience to hysteria, but got her expelled from school for using the word "martini." At age 19, Fannie began writing and producing TV specials, and since then has appeared in more than 500 shows and in many motion picture and stage productions, including Candid ... was quite good at acting and comedy, but when she decided to take up writing in her late thirties, she never knew that her book would be such a success. The novel, received rave reviews, high praise and gained more serious recognition by critics and the public eye overall. Being so, producer Jon Avnet turned it into a movie, starring Mary Stuart Masterson. There is a striking resemblance between Fannie Flagg ...
- 4753: The Dangers Of Diet Aids
- ... which are illegal.(Cottrell, 99) Amphetamines increase heart and breathing rates and blood pressure, and dilate pupils. Users can also experience a dry mouth, sweating, headache, blurred vision, dizziness, sleeplessness, and anxiety.(Cottrell, 100) Extremely high doses can cause usersto flush or become pale; they can cause a rapid or irregular heartbeat, tremors, loss of coordination and even physical collapse.(Cottrell, 101) Toxic psychosis, delusional thinking and even death can also ... containing ephedrine alkaloids, one of ma huang s main components.(Fen-phen, 6) It is advisable for pregnant or nursing women to not take ephedra, as well as people who have heart disease, anxiety disorder, high blood pressure, diabetes, glaucoma, or an overactive thyroid gland.(Williamson, 74) Ephedra can be especially harmful if taken at the same time as momoamine oxidase inhibitor drugs, commonly prescribed for depression.(Williamson, 74) On most ... sweets. In one study patients who took dexfenfluramine -- and made no special effort to cut calories-- lost an average often pounds over three months.(New, 58) Last year Johns Hopkins neurologist George Ricaurte found that high doses of dexfenfluramine caused lasting damage to the rain nerve-cell endings in lab monkeys.(New, 58) Despite these findings, the U.S. FDA says it is not aware of human studies that demonstrate ...
- 4754: Fire And Ice - Compared To 4 Other Poems
- ... was the age of twelve years old. This wasnt the way you would think a famous writer would start off his life. The even awkward part of this story is that he graduated Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian of his graduating class. When I saw that I was very struck. I realized that changing is all up to one person and that one person is you. Robert Frosts life ...
- 4755: The Connections Between Violen
- ... made innumerable references to the use and sale of drugs, along with the profit to be made, in their lyrics. In the song "Sky s the Limit", the Notorious B.I.G raps about his school days, being a young drug dealer, rapping "Buy a dime [of marijuana], smoke five, sell the rest for 20/ a young nigga making far too much money/ I was the only 8th grader with a ... drug in just about every song he is featured in. While all this is going on, you can see these rappers sporting the newest clothes, the shiniest diamonds and the fastest cars. Rappers, unlike other high paid professionals, have a reputation for flaunting and bragging about their money. Music videos are the perfect stage to do this and rappers take full advantage of the opportunity with $7,000,000 + videos containing ...
- 4756: Ferdinand Magellan
- ... rye, corn and vineyards full of grapes. Ferdinand and his brother and sister had to help the tenants (people that rented and farmed the land), raise the animals and harvest the crops. Ferdinand went to school at a monastery. Both his parents died when Ferdinand was only ten years old. At the age of twelve, he was sent to live at the court of Queen Leonora and John II of Portugal ... A few years later, after he had gotten his command for a ship, he secretly sailed eastward without permission, and his command was taken from him and he returned home. Once home, he expected a high place, and good pay, because he had done a lot of good service for his country. However, he was given a lowly place, not much better than when he was a boy, and lowly pay ...
- 4757: Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
- ... Union army and observed the Civil War. Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871; he retired in 1891 with the rank of brigadier general. It was quite usual in his noble and high-decorated family, that he chose a military career. And later explored the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and made his first balloon flight while he was in Minnesota . And on August 7, 1869, he was ... public," he had told a reporter. "I am doing serious work for my country." Zeppelin was inspired of the successful ascent. The ship achieved a rate of 30 km/h, whereby it proved an amazingly high controllability. Expectations of the military observers were not fulfilled, however, which was to due to the low engine performance of the Daimler Benz machines. After two further test flights, the new company was actually bankrupt ... with strong wind also. In the meantime, Zeppelin GmbH was created, which was led by Alfred Colsmann. In the proximity of Ludwigshafen, large production plants and buildings of workshops developed. One was thus prepared for high production capacities in the best way. But the expected jobs of the military were missing. The guidance the Zeppelin GmbH reacted very fast. In 1909 he created the DELAG (Deutsche Luftschiffahrts Aktien-Gesellschaft), mainly ...
- 4758: The Birth Of An American Super
- ... Shuster were the two Jewish-American teenage boys who created Superman. Jerry Siegel was the writer and Joe Shuster was the artist. Siegel and Shuster met at the age of sixteen while working on their high school newspaper. They made a number of attempts creating the Superman character. The first attempt utilized a bald middle aged man with advanced mental abilities. The next attempt was closer to the Superman we now know ...
- 4759: Ernest Hemingway
- ... musician. Hemingway did not like his mother and when he grew up he would call her "the old bitch". He grew up in a somewhat religious environment. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School, which is where he realized his writing gift. Besides writing, other activities that he loved included swimming, and boxing. When he was18 years old he had an important decision to make he could either move ...
- 4760: The Advantages Of Stupidity
- ... stupid, and does it in the wrong crowd, like a group of adults, it will seem more immature than funny. If one is forced to act stupid while dealing with lower life forms, for example, high school teachers, one may encounter barriers such as cruelty and insensitivity, with the utterance of statements like, "Think with your head straight!" or, "You have a brain, use it." Yet these are all true, there are ...
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