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Dinner With Bill Gates
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1339.... some young boys on the volleyball
court, playing a game. I couldn't help but notice a middle-ages guy, dressed in
a pair of worn jeans and a sports coat, watching the game with furious intensity.
I turned to the servant, our guide, I suppose, and asked him who this man
was. "Oh that's Master Gates, the proprietor of this house. You'll be dining
with him shortly."
The servant led us through this room, past the pool and into a narrow
corridor. This hallway was adorned with pictures of Bill Gates, in various
characters and positions. The only one I recognized was the .....
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Robert Mannyng Of Brunne
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 282.... 1303) and The
Chronicle of England, produced in his old age in 1338. Brunne translated
both Handlyng Synne and Chronicle from French or Latin works, altering them
considerably in the process. Like many translators of this era, Brunne
took many liberties with the works he translated. He adopted for his
audience (the ordinary people of England), often adding in large tracts of
his own material and using simplified language that they were likely to
understand. Brunne's style is sometimes cumbersome and repetitive,
sometimes full of snap and punch, and often epistolary. But he .....
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Lincoln - The Truth
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1717.... single one could be traced back to him. Some historians claim that a few of his actions were unconstitutional, however, all of his actions were later upheld by the Congress. Lincoln did what needed to be done.
Lincoln was an honest man. Especially when dealing with personal money matters. For example, at one point during his administration, Congress granted him twenty thousand dollars to fix up and refurbish the White House. In doing so, Mrs. Lincoln exceeded the allowed dollar amount by six thousand seven hundred dollars. President Lincoln said that he would not ask for t .....
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The Life Of Sally Ride
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 774.... Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978.
In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper
for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in
astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but
now NASA wanted to hire scientists and technicians who could monitor the
complex technology of the shuttle. Prior to her application, no women had
ever been accepted into NASA's space program. There were over 8,000
applicants for the thirty-five positions available. 1,251 of the 8,000
people who applied were women and only s .....
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John F Kennedy
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 301.... the memorable line: "Ask not what your country can you--ask what
you can do for your country."
As president he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America
moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest
sustained expansion since World War II. Before his death, he laid plans
for a massive plans for assault on persisting pockets of privation and
poverty.
John F. Kennedy was called the dreamer President. This inspiring
president challenged America to be the first country to land a man on the
moon. He gave the space program it's f .....
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Robert Stevenson
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1631.... him by his father of adventure. This enabled Robert’s imagination to grow and he created his own tales. His father was proud of him, but afraid his only son would not succeed in life. His father suggested law school just incase his writing did not succeed. He graduated, but he never practiced law, (1854). Instead, he wanted to travel for adventure and to find good health.
Robert Louis Stevenson began his travels in 1870. In the Life and Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, written by Richard Dury, Dury claims Stevenson first went to France, where he met Fanny Osbourne, .....
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1161.... long as the camera stays lower than the object being shot.
Ozu developed his own tranzition system,he was putting framed shots of the
surroundings between the scenes to tell us that the scene and the setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it should be. One
of the very important style of Ozu is he did not obey to the 180 degree
rule infact he used all the 360 degree space. Ozu orbitted the camera
around the characters and he broke down the 360 degree space into
multiples of 45 degrees. He shots characters from 90 degree poin of
viewes and in many diff .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 423.... now there was a bigger sense of peace between the slaves, and the people that once owned them. This proclamation plays a big part of the peace that we have among the different people of the world today.
Lincoln also designed a plan known as the reconstruction. This construction plan would bring peace to the seceded states and Union, and would bring them back together in unity. This plan of reconstruction brought peace to the Confederacy and Union, because now the states that had once seceded from the Union now had a chance to get back in to be unified once again. Und .....
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