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- 6191: William Stafford’s Inspiration
- ... own weak, wandering, diffident impulses”. Through Stafford’s essay I discovered that creative writing is all about my own meandering thoughts and ideas and that what occurs to me is what matters most. In high school I became programmed to think like the teacher. When I would write an essay I would compose it with what the teacher wanted to read, not my ideas. I was convinced that I would get ...
- 6192: The Wright Brothers
- ... a clergyman who later became a bishop of the United Brethren Church. The boys demonstrated their mechanical abilities at an early age. A skating accident made Wilbur an invalid for several years. While in high school Orville built a printing press and started a weekly newspaper. The Wright brothers became inseparable, and neither married. In 1892 the brothers opened a bicycle/repair shop, and manufactured their own bicycles. At a young ...
- 6193: Knee Surgery
- ... It was continued commitment to the Boy Scouts of America that allowed me to earn the award of Eagle Scout in December, 1996. It was responsibility that enabled me to balance my extracurricular activities with school while maintaining good grades. And it was perseverance that helped me to complete preseason football workouts which began on cold January mornings and concluded with double-days in the August heat. Not only do I ...
- 6194: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... not at society as seen in Huck Finn. For example, Tom joins the Cadets of Temperance and takes a vow not to chew, cuss, or smoke. He joined the Cadets partly indo to the flashy uniforms. But as time wore on, he became agonized with the yearning to go drink and swear. Twain justifies Tom’s desires to break his vow as such, “Now he found out a new thing—namely ...
- 6195: Lizzie Borden
- A verdict of not guilty, the insufficiency of evidence and the lack of conclusive evidence all point to Lizzie Borden as being falsely accused. Her previous job as a Sunday School teacher and the fact that she probably wasn't capable of killing her own father and stepmother all lead to the apparent outcome that Lizzie Borden was most likely not the only one possibly at ...
- 6196: Pablo Picasso
- Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and he died in France in 1973. Picasso's father was an art teacher in a local school. He wanted Picasso to become a great artist some day. Picasso's painting style changed more over the period of his life than any other great artist. He was always trying new and different things ...
- 6197: Isaac Newton's Life
- ... months before. His mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried when he was three, and left him with his grandmother until her second husband died, in 1653, when Newton was 11. He was educated at King's School, Grantham, and it was assumed he would continue in the farming tradition of his family, but finally his mother became convinced that he should be prepared for entry to university, and in 1661 he went ...
- 6198: The Life of Edvard Munch
- ... of illnesses interrupted his studies. A year later Munch became more interested and more serious with the art of painting and sculpting, so he left the Technical College. In 1881, he enrolled in the Royal School of Drawing. There Munch studied the old masters, attended courses in painting of the nude, and he learned the skills of freehand and modeling. He was instructed by Norway's leading and finest artist, (at ...
- 6199: Alexander Hamilton
- ... a strict disciplinarian but he fought just as hard with the New York Assembly for a fair amount of pay and supplies for his men. He even spent all of his money paying for their uniforms. The professionalism of his artillery company impressed every senior officer it encountered. It even impressed the artillery commander of the Continental Army, Henry Knox. In August of 1776 Hamilton had his first encounter with George ...
- 6200: Life of Tupac Shakur
- ... the Sun." In that play Tupac played Travis. In June of 1986, Tupac's family moved to Baltimore from New York. That is where Tupac wrote his first rap. 3 months later Tupac attended Baltimore School for the arts. That is where he studied ballet and acting. About two years later Tupac moves west of the United States to Marin City, California. He moved in with a neighbor and then he ...
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