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Terry Fox
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1236.... there was a new pain in his knee. One morning Terry woke up to see that he could no longer stand up. A week later Terry found out that it was not just an ache he had a malignant tumor; his leg would have to be cut off six inches above the knee. Terry’s doctor told him that he had a chance of living but the odds were fifty to seventy percent. He also said that he should be glad it happened now fore just 2 years ago the chance of living was fifteen percent. The night before his operation a former coach brought Terry a magazine featuring a man who ran a marathon after a sim .....
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Life Of William Shakespeare
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 917.... boys of his social class. Students
went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The
teachers were strict disciplinarians.
Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably
fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known
to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large
fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford
also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the opportunity to
hunt and trap small game. The River Avon which ran through the town
allowed .....
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Pablo Picasso
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 342.... He started to paint in subtle pinks and grays, often highlighted with brighter tones. This was known as his "rose period."
For Picasso the 1920's were years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations.
During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography.
The l950's saw the beginning of a numb .....
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George Lucas
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2577.... his racing career before it even started. He missed his graduation ceremony at his high school, but joked that the only reason he got a diploma was because his teachers felt sorry for him. As a result, Lucas looked for other options to fill his void in life. Since his grades were not good enough for a four-year college, he decided to go to junior college. For the first time in his life, he hit the books. He fell asleep trying to earn the highest grades he could in order to have a future for himself.
During junior college, Lucas formed other interests. Instead of .....
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E.E. Cummings
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1417.... article, 'a'; the second line contains the French singular definite article, 'le'; 'll' on the fifth line represents two ones; 'one' on the 7th line spells the number out; the 8th line, 'l', isolates the number; and 'iness', the last line, can mean "the state of being I" - that is, individuality - or "oneness", deriving the "one" from the lowercase roman numeral 'i' (200). Cummings could have simplified this poem drastically ("a leaf falls:/loneliness"), and still conveyed the same verbal message, but he has altered the normal syntax in order that each li .....
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Paul Ehrlich
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 935.... transmitted by sexual contact or kissing. Ehrlich named the compound that cured syphilis “salvarsan”. This was a very effective way to cure syphilis.
II. Background
A. Family
Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 in Strehlen, Silesia. Ehrlich was born in to a middle-class, Jewish family. He was the only son and fourth child of Ismar and Rosa Ehrlich. His father owned a small distillery. Ehrlich had an Orthodox Jewish upbringing in a time when being a Jew was controversial.
B. Childhood
When Ehrlich was six years old he started his schooling at the local prima .....
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Walt Disney
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1294.... older brother was his only friend (Montgomery 13). When Roy finished high school he quit working for his father and moved away (Montgomery 13). Walt did not take Roy’s leaving very well; neither did Mr. Disney. Mr. Disney would sometimes take his anger out on Walt.
Walt took drawing lessons at the Kansas City Art Institute, when their family was still in Kansas City (Montgomery 16). Walt’s family moved again before Walt was finished with high school – to Chicago (Montgomery 18). Left behind, Walt finished high school and relocated to Chicago (Montgomery 18). After mo .....
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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 502.... spectators. Woods was also the first African-
American to win the U.S Juniors. He quotes " when I am up at the tee all I
think about is where I want my ball to go". During this whole time Tiger
attended Stanford college and maintained straight A's in his sophomore year. He
had originally planed to graduate from Stanford before going pro, but when Nike
offered him a 42 million dollar deal to wear their clothes for 5 years he couldn'
t resist. This was not the only reason he decided to go pro. After an excellent
finish in the British Open, Tiger felt that he also had en .....
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