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The Diary Of Anne Frank By Anne Frank
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 371.... could express. However, Anne managed to keep hope for a better tomorrow and her respect for the human race.
Anne made a very powerful statement in her last words. To truly believe such a thing after being abused by the Nazis is quite remarkable indeed. I am very sure that most people, including myself, would have thought that the world was a completely corrupt and humans are naturally cruel if they’d have gone through such times. I believe that Anne has the ability to say such a thing because of her great unselfishness and love for all of G-d’s creatures. I .....
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Biography Of Robert Frost
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 889.... to The
Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor
White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.)
High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special
student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but
rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased
for him by his paternal grandfather), and supplemented his income by
teaching at Derry's Pinkerton Academy.
In 1912, at the age of 38, he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take
his family to England, .....
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Watching Payton Was Pure Sweetness
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 836.... are wide, deer-caught-in-the-headlights wide. But this
wild creature, crackling with that quirky, impulsive energy, is very
much in control of the moment.
The safety, whose job it is to decide which way Payton will go when he finally comes down, is the one who looks stunned and, perhaps, a little frightened. In truth, it is the defender who determines where Payton is going by committing, ever so slightly, to his right. Payton touches down, leans almost imperceptibly left and cuts hard to the right. The safety catches nothing but a lot of air. Payton, blasts of br .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1160.... Jeane was once heard to reflect on this time and say: "The world around me then was kind of grim...I had to learn to pretend in order to...I don’t know.. block the grimness. The whole world seen sort of closed to me..(I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game." (MarilynMonroe,http://www.ionet.net/~jellenc/mmbio3.html) In 1941, Norma Jeane again lived with a family friend when she met Jim Dougherty, who was 5 years older than her. They then married on June 19, 1942. "Grace Mckee (family friend she was living .....
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Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 751.... time. Consider, for example, how different the question appears when inverted and framed in more historical terms: How did a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?" (Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with contempt and not given a .....
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Ray Bradbury
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1235.... a child he was encouraged to read the classic,
Norse, Roman, and Greek Myths. When he was old enough to choose his own reading
materials, he chose books by Edger Rice Burroughs and the comic book heroes
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant. When Bradbury was in Waukegan he
developed his interest in acting and Drama. After seeing a magician, known as
Blackstone, he became fascinated with magic also.
In 1932, his family moved to Tucson Arizona. With his talents he learned
in Waukegan (amateur magician) he got a job at the local radio station. "I was
on the radio every .....
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Wyatt Earp
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 365.... Within a year, having brought relative peace to Dodge City, he moved on to Deadwood in the Dakota Territoy.
In the fall of 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima Co. and later as deputy U.S. marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. Earp and three of his brothers, together with the American frontiersman Doc Holliday, participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfighter in 1881, during which they killed several suspected cattle rustlers. .....
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John Dillinger
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 598.... John which seemed to be a plan for a prison break, but he denied everything. Four days later, using the same plans, eight of Dillinger's friends escaped from the Indiana State Prison, using shotguns and rifles which had been smuggled into their cells. During their escape, they killed two guards.
On October 12, three of the escaped prisoners and a parolee from the same prison showed up at the Lima jail where Dillinger was. They told the sheriff that they had come to return Dillinger to the Indiana State Prison for violation of his parole.
When the sheriff asked to see their .....
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