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- 6381: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... democracy in a time when Europe was in shambles, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is the person of the century. Churchill's childhood was filled with disappointment and tediousness. He spent most of his time at school, something he didn't take seriously. His teachers characterized him as bright, but stubborn and obstinate. He avidly loved to read history and poetry, however, and was fascinated by the glories of battle. From childhood ...
- 6382: Lord of the Flies: Character Analysis of Piggy
- ... it wasn't to get people to listen to him, he just wanted his glasses back so he could see. "That's right. Can't catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school who had asthma," Piggy started to explain his situation to Ralph. "And I've been wearing specs since I was three." Whether or not Piggy could run around savagely was irrelevant. The point to be ...
- 6383: Nikola Tesla
- ... on July 10, 1856. His father was a clergyman of the Serbian Orthodox Church and his mother an expert needle worker and an inventor of home implements. Tesla received a technical training at the polytechnic school in Graz and the University of Prague. In 1881 he began work for the newly founded telephone company in Budapest, and in late 1882 he joined the Continental Edison Company in Paris. Tesla went to ...
- 6384: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... the ton to button makers. When his mother moved the family to Detroit , six years after her husband's death, Jimmy hauled ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his boyish ways and become the man of the house ...
- 6385: Terry Redlin: A Biography
- ... S.D., he was involved in a motorcycle accident which ended his dream of being a forest ranger. He then decided to work toward a degree in graphic arts. He graduated from the St. Paul School of Associated Arts and spent 25 years working in commercial arts as a layout artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and art director. In 1977, at the young age of 40, Redlin jumped into wildlife scenes of ...
- 6386: Biography of Moshe Dayan
- ... think he was a great warrior and nobody can compare to his talent, ability, and smartness. My personal thoughts regarding Moshe Dayan is that Dayan's military education came not from the academies or service school but from the kibbutz and the battlefield. Under the charismatic and talented Dayan, the State of Israel fielded one of the best and most efficient fighting forces in the 20th century. I understand now about ...
- 6387: Character Development in Dead Poets Society
- ... Charlie Dalton, the reader assumes that he is handsome and ?preppy?. The reader creates a picture in his (or her) mind of a very attractive, Matt Damon-type (he is so hot), above average high school male. Contradictory, in the movie, Charlie is shown as a rather average, scholarly gentleman, leaving no room for the imagination take over. Also, Knox Overstreet is described in the novel as a curly-headed, athletically ...
- 6388: The Life and Work of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... how Poe obsessed over Virginia's death. In 1848 Poe became so upset that he tried to commit suicide by taking laudanum. Throughout Poe's life he has been through failure: Allan withdrew him from school; Poe lost all chance of becoming Allan's heir, was expelled from West Point, fired from the Messenger early in 1847, fired for drinking May 1840 and had great hopes for the Broadway Journal, of ...
- 6389: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria Picasso, was an Andalusian of Majorcan origin. In 1896 Picasso entered the school of fine arts where his father was a professor. In 1900, Picasso visited Paris, at the time the world's centre for art and literature, and became infatuated with its street life, in particular, the ...
- 6390: Biography of Benjamin Franklin
- ... His father was a salesman of candles and soap. Because the Franklin family was poor, Ben wasn't able to get much education. When he was ten years old, his father took him out of school and taught him the soap and candle business. However, Benjamin disliked the trade. Two years later, Ben was apprenticed to his brother who was a printer and publisher of The New England Courant. He became ...
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