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- 6441: Stephen King
- ... 1982), and the Hugo Award(1985)(Beacham, 748). Stephen King written many great books throughout his writing career. Carrie, King's first best seller, is about a teenager who is ridiculed and harassed throughout high school(Bleiler, 1031). After she is finally pushed to the limit, her true side is finally exposed. Cujo, involves a ferocious dog that starts out so innocent and kind , and ends up a brutal man killer ...
- 6442: Bill Gates
- ... in distribution as the company has grown, so much that the Federal government is suggesting that Microsoft has violated Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Bill Gates' first interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that Gates attended. There he wrote his "first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1). It was at Lakeside that Gates met Paul ...
- 6443: Albert Einstein: His Life
- ... believe he was disabled. At sixteen he attempted to enroll at the Federal Institute of Technology but failed the entrance exam. This forced him to study locally for one year until he finally passed the school's evaluation. The Institute allowed Einstein to meet many other students that shared his curiosity, and it was here that his studies turned mainly to Physics. He quickly learned that while physicists had generally agreed ...
- 6444: Babe Ruth
- ... hand's full with the bar, and had very little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his punishments, and it was Babe ...
- 6445: Citizen Soldiers: A Comparison
- ... experienced war of any kind first hand, has a different tale to tell. Citizen Soldiers contains several accounts of the battling of Normandy, France during the war with the Germans. For the most part high school and college students entered the war. Some drafted, some enlisted voluntarily in 1942, 1943, and 1944. As the title suggest, these men were citizens, everyday men sent to war. The Allied campaign against the Germans ...
- 6446: A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
- ... 1936,(later recognized as the year of three kings),the death of her grandfather King George V brought little Elizabeth's first stage of youth to a close. Under the opinion of the nursery and school- room the King's favorite grandchild was advised not to attend the ceremonies. However, intent on doing the proper thing, she did not heed this advice and went along-side her parents. Her father's ...
- 6447: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... him to give several addresses. In 1837, he gave a well-known address called "The American Scholar" in which he outlined his philosophy of humanism. A year later, he gave another address, called "The Divinity School Address." This argued about Christianity at that time for being too traditional and ritualistic in its ways. These methods didn't fill the people's spiritual need. Emerson showed his liking under a new religion ...
- 6448: A Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
- ... been said that many of Duke's pieces are almost impossible to exactly duplicate without the personal style of the original musicians. One of the strange things that was known about Duke was that his school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the inspiration for him to just sit down and start tinkering around with a few notes that usually became big hits. In his band the ...
- 6449: Andy Warhol
- ... with a bachelor degree in pictorial design. After graduating he moved out to New York City, where his life blossomed. He lived for a couple of years with Philip Pearlstein, who he had met at school. Warhol, with his education centered around design, set out to begin his career on the right foot. He started doing drawings for advertisements in a women's shoe catalog. It may not have been much ...
- 6450: Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
- ... his grandmother views these stories as devilish and forbids him to read such things. Granny is very oppressive and the cause of much his educational hunger. Moreover, many times Richard is unable to go to school because they did not have enough money, not only for books, but also for clothing to make him look presentable. A greater part of his education is not by way of formal schooling but learning ...
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