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Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 561

.... They moved to New York. While in New York he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of. They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own. About five years after Helem's death he married Audrey Stone. He died in 1991 in his sleep at the age of 87. He wrote 57 books spanning seven decadesfrom 1939's And To Th .....


Dr. Harvey Wiley: Courageous Pioneer And Crusader
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 894

.... - for it's simple needs. Food supply was now distanced from the source, making preserved and canned foods necessary. Corporations and large manufacturers took on the business of supplying food and were prepared to make more profit at any cost. Honest manufacturers were put at a competitive disadvantage and were forced to adopt the practices that could enable them to meet the prices of the less ethical competition. These practices were evident in the debasement of food, and in "patent" medicine. At the turn of the century selling goods under another name, and substituting chea .....


Galileo Gallilei
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1001

.... had been "neglecting his studies." The grand duke’s mathematician intervened and persuaded Vincenzio to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own. In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math tutor. In November of 1589, Galileo found a position as a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa, the same one he had left without a degree four years before. Galileo was a brilliant .....


Wayne Gretzky: Comparing Two Biographies
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 991

.... He was Gretzky's hockey instructor. He was also his lacrosse, baseball basketball and cross country coach. He was not only coach, but also trainer and chauffeur. Gretzky called him dad, his name was Walter. However, in the book "Gretzky and Taylor", it did not show anything in Gretzky's childhood. It was started when Gretzky became the NHL player, a member of Edmonton Oiler's rookie. How he became the hall of the frame. The description of this book was very interesting. The writer show the thing through the game. For example the first chapter was talking about the 1984 Stanley .....


HG Wells
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 351

.... of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary socie .....


Caravaggio
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1829

.... of the Consolation, where he did some painting for the Prior. Having no money, he moved into a decaying neighborhood which suited his personality well. Caravaggio struggled to live in Rome for the first five years. According to biographers he was needy and stripped of every thing. Caravaggio never held a job for more than a couple of weeks during this time, but when he did, he usually was an assistant to painter of much less skill. Despite the poverty he worked under, during this time he created over forty works. These early pictures "reveal a fresh, direct, and empirica .....


Biography Of Pocahontas
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1527

.... in a formal manner with a large feast and festive dancing. Although they did occasionally put prisoners to death in a public ceremony, it was no more savage than the English customs of public disembowelment of thieves and the burning of women accused of being witches. In May of 1607, English colonists arrived on the Virginia shoreline with hopes of great riches. They established a settlement that they named Jamestown. Little Pocahontas watched as these strangers built forts and searched for food. She eventually became quite familiar with them and brought the near starving .....


George Lucas
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2554

.... 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 racing, .....



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