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- 3011: White Lilacs
- ... feathered. His family had to find a place for him to hide so nothing else would happen to him. - The citizens of the black community (Freedom) had to find a new place to go to school because the white people had burned the colored school down. This happened because of the fact that no people were moving out of Freedom. - Rose Lee's parents had a harder time getting enough money to survive. This is after they moved out of ...
- 3012: Samuel Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
- ... my low-burnt fire." In this first paragraph, Coleridge is talking about winter and how everything is peaceful and there is "extreme silentness." In the second paragraph, Coleridge begins reminiscing about a certain day in school, when he was fairly young, "How oft, at school, with most believing mind
have I gazed upon the bars." At first, it appears he was very happy, "So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me with a wild pleasure
" But as this paragraph progresses ...
- 3013: Abraham Lincoln
- ... of Abraham's parents were members of a Baptist congregation that had separated from another church due to opposition to slavery. When Abraham was 7, the family moved to southern Indiana. Abraham had gone to school briefly in Kentucky and did so again in Indiana. He attended school with his older sister, Sarah (his younger brother, Thomas, had died in infancy). In 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln died from milk sickness, a disease obtained from drinking the milk of cows which had grazed on ...
- 3014: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... and the doubts. However, it was not enough to overcome him, he was too strong mentally and had so much courage (Hinkins). Because of all of this, Jim became a star. Right out of high school he was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. Abbot turned down the offer and decided that college must come first. He attended the University of Michigan; to him he was merely postponing one ambition so ... a notch when the game is on the line. A gamer wants the ball or a hitter wants the bat when it is do or die time. Jim has always been a gamer, in high school, college, the Olympics, and the Major League (Macht 107). Many people are born each year with some kind of physical shortcomings. But most of them do not grow up with the talent, heart, and courage ...
- 3015: Alvin Ailey
- ... YWHA. Revelations has been seen in every country that the company has toured and has been universally acclaimed. Born in Rogers, Texas on January 5, 1931, Alvin Ailey spent his formative years going to Sunday School and participating in The Baptist Young People's Union. At age twelve, he moved to Los Angeles and, on a junior high school class trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, fell in love with concert dance. Ailey began his formal dance training inspired by the performances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and the classes with ...
- 3016: Anne Frank
- ... started a business in food products. In the spring of 1934, the Franks reunited and settled in Amsterdam. Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam a happy life, just like she did in Frankfort. She attended Montessori School and had a lot of friends. However her father was still worried, for in Germany the Nazis gained almost complete power. In 1940, the Germans invaded and conquered Holland. Anne's life had changed by the Germans taking control. She could not go to her school, and was to attend the Jewish Lyceum. No Jews were allowed out on the streets at night. Her life changed again. It was not a happy one for herself or her family. In 1941, the ...
- 3017: John Keats
- ... His father was a livery-stable owner, however he was killed in a riding accident when Keats was only nine and his mother died six years later of tuberculosis. Keats was educated at the Clarke School, in Enfield, and at the age of 15 was apprenticed to a surgeon. Subsequently, from 1814 to 1816, Keats studied medicine in London hospitals; in 1816 he became a licensed apothecary (druggist) but never practiced ... the moon goddess, it was attacked by two of the most influential critical magazines of the time, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Magazine. Calling the romantic verse of Hunt's literary circle "the Cockney school of poetry," Blackwood's declared Endymion to be nonsense and recommended that Keats give up poetry. Last Works In 1820 Keats became ill with tuberculosis. The illness may have been aggravated by the emotional strain ...
- 3018: Coro Concert Experience
- ... as I walked out I was a bit amazed at the performance. I had an appreciation for the music and the performers that I have never had before. The concert had two groups; The Moores School Chamber Singers conducted by Roger S. Keele, and Coro conducted by Joel F. Plaag. The Moores School Chamber Singers were flawless. The men wore black and white tuxes and the women were dressed in all black. There were nine males and eight female singers. The accompanying chamber music was played by a ...
- 3019: Changing Faces's All Day / All Night
- ... music. The artists second album, All Day/ All Night is mainly focused on love and its consequence, heartbreaks. Changing Faces is on the Big Beat/ Atlantic record label. Charisse and Cassandra first met in high school: never to think that they would meet again. After high school ended the two went their separate ways. Cassandra went to college for a bachelor of social arts degree and Charisse went to college and studied criminal law. They met again while touring with Sade. Cassandra ...
- 3020: Creative Writing
- Creative Writing My boredom lingered on despair as I sit at home alone wondering what my friends are doing at school. I wouldn t be in this situation if I would have stayed out of trouble. My antics got me suspended from school, and enough trouble with the law that they had me on house arrest. I could not talk to my friends and I couldn t go anywhere either. My thoughts start to stray towards Lisa. Lisa ...
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