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- 6651: Maya Angelou
- ... dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent ...
- 6652: THe Catcher in the Rye: Summary
- ... dilemma like maybe the city in the raw. Where he/she would be exposed to prostitution, drunkenness, and maybe drugs. Holden Caufield sees himself ruined and tainted by the world. He has failed out of school, drinks, and smokes. His attitude is it is too late for me. But, there is a ray of hope in his life; he feels it is his duty to save other children from the world ...
- 6653: Michael Jackson
- ... broke down, he paid expenses for forty disadvantages children from ‘The Thelma Marshall Children’s Home for Orphans, foster children and abandoned children, The Hoosier Boys Home and The Donzels Work Study Program for High School students working toward a college education, to attend the three date in Detroit. After he visited his home town he performed in a concert at Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, donating money to the needy ...
- 6654: The Works and Influence of Christopher Marlowe
- ... writers in history because of his great plays and poems. “Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as William Shakespeare” (Biographical par. 1). “Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker and attended King’s School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College”(“Christopher Marlowe” par. 2).” In 1584, he received his Bachelor of Arts. He then left his studies to work for the government as some sort of secret agent or spy ...
- 6655: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he says his, “...mind commenced its characteristic and beautiful activity.” Over the years Emerson became interested in the church and eventually enrolled in divinity school. In 1829 Emerson married seventeen year old Ellen Tucker, however seven months later, she died of “consumption.” With Ellen’s death, Emerson’s and most tender and loving relationship was lost. It is possible that ...
- 6656: Rachel Carson
- ... the increased numbers of children suffering from leukemia around the year 1979, when state investigators discovered that the two municipal wells that supplied drinking water to certain neighborhoods were contaminated with industrial solvents. Harvard Medical School’s research showed a clear relationship between contaminated water and Woburn’s elevated leukemia rate. An audacious proposal by a young lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann to make the companies presumed responsible for the contamination pay ...
- 6657: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... challenge that the burdens of everyday slavery could not give. Learning to read and write was a challenge simply because the resources were not there. He used wit and good natured cunning to trick local school boys into teaching him the alphabet. If he had never sought knowledge, he would never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without ...
- 6658: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... Death is perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door rarely left ...
- 6659: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality. We slowly drove-He knew no haste And I had away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility- We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess-in the ring- We passed the fields of Gazing Grain- We passed the Setting Sun Or rather- He passed Us- The Dews drew quivering and chill- For only Gossamer, my ...
- 6660: Elie Wiesel
- ... He was a cultured man concerned about his community yet, he was not an emotional man. His parents were owners of a shop and his two oldest sisters worked for his parents. Elie was a school boy and interested in studying the Zohar “the cabbalistic books, the secrets of Jewish mysticism”(Wiesel 3). His teacher was a foreigner, Moshe the Beadle, a “poor barefoot of Signet”(Wiesel 3). He was Elie ...
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