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- 5121: Shoeless Joe
- ... without the spikes, he was known as “Shoeless Joe” from then on (McGee 1). Shoeless Joe made his major league debut later that year, in 1908, with the Philadelphia Athletics. He only played there a short time before being transferred to the Cleveland Indians. Finally, in 1915 he was sold to Charles Comiskey and the Chicago White Sox. It was here that he played his last few years of professional baseball ...
- 5122: The Work of Stephen King
- ... go for the gross-out, I'm not proud" (Gault 243). "Stephen King writes of good vs. evil, putting a usually shaded white up against the blackest blacks" (Gault 238). Stephen King never ends his stories with any cheap or easy hope. King never stops emphasizing his essential liking for people. He lapses into bogeyman mode when inspiration wanes. Characters bring out the realism and excitement in King books. "Of King ...
- 5123: Stephon Marbury
- ... Syracuse, and struggling St. John's guard Felipe Lopez, who sat for Richard Avedon's camera while still in high school, only to turn their backs on both when they turned out to be anything short of great. This fear of being ridiculed back at home frightened him. Stephon Marbury had always dreamed of going to the professionals. He had mentioned it to the press many times and was not fibbing ...
- 5124: Steven Speilberg
- ... 8-mm sagas I was making to avoid homework."(Contemporary After he completed high school, Spielberg was well on his way to becoming a director. He had already won student awards for some of his short films, and one of them, a movie called Firelight, had actually been shown in a local movie theatre. As a young high school graduate, Spielberg would often take tours to Universal Studios, and then sneak ...
- 5125: The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great
- The Literary Contributions of King Alfred the Great Our understanding of the literary achievements of King Alfred depend very much upon what we believe about his early education. If we are content to accept the stories of Asser, the famous biographer of Alfred, that he reached his twelfth birthday before he learned to read (Keynes 75), then we must reckon his literary career as a phenomenon which can only be described ...
- 5126: Samuel Adams
- ... major role until his death in 1803. Samuel Adams truly is the father of American independence. Work Cited Page “Adams, Samuel.” Encyclopedia Americana, Inc. 1990 ed. Carlson, Bill. “Samuel Adams.” The Rhodes Family Genealogy Family Stories. Infotrac, 1991. Fradin, Dennis. Samuel Adams. New York City: Clarion Books, 1998. Miller, Ann. “Samuel Adams.” Lucidcafé Library, Inc. http://www.bena.com/lucidcafe/library/95sep/adams.html, 1995. Morris, John. “Adams, Samuel.” The Reader ...
- 5127: San Martin
- ... Parana River". In 1813, the government in Buenos Aires sent him to the Northern provinces of Argentina, in the purpose of stabilizing and strengthen the anti royalist movement over there. Unfortunately, his efforts were cut short due to his weakening health. In the middle of 1814, he had to briefly retire for rest. That gave him ample time to make strategic plans, that would facilitate his main objective of overthrowing the ...
- 5128: Shel Silverstein
- ... really noticed other writers around me, it was probably a good thing." ( Silverstein, 213 ) He went on personal instinct and trust. In his earliest days he wrote as an editorialist for a local press. Those stories consisted mostly of community gossip and leisure activities. Later he moved on to write unique poetry that better held his interest. People could learn so much from a man like Shel Silverstein. Everybody takes up ...
- 5129: Shaka Zulu
- ... position to introduce some ideas that he had. The traditional throwing spear, the assegai, was no good for hand-to-hand combat, and left the warrior defenceless after he threw it, so Shaka introduced the short stabbing spear. His warriors used their shields to deflect the initial rain of assegais, then advanced on a nearly defenceless enemy with their stabbing spears. In a style fitting his reputation for bravery, Shaka demonstrated ...
- 5130: St. John The Evangelist
- ... principles. Thus before writing a Gospel, St. John experienced it all on himself. He also wrote three epistles. The first is called catholic, as addressed to all Christians, especially his converts. The other two are short, and directed to particular persons, to Gaius and to local church. The Book of Revelation is also attributed to him. Writing a Gospel was not the only great challenge that St. John performed in his ...
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