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Ronald Reagan
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1133.... and began a 25 year acting career. Some of his noted movies were Knute Rockne-All American, King’s Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie industry.
Reagan’s first national political scene was when he did a speech supporting Republican presidential c .....
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Mark Antony 2
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1239.... Commander, and sent off to Judea and Egypt. Antony was later sent to Gaul where he served under Caesar. He was so superior to his peers that at the age of 22 he became Tribune of the People. Soon Antony became a quaestor with a reputation of being a speaker on behalf of Caesar’s interests while he was no there.
It was during this period in Rome where Antony met Fulvia. Fulvia also had a hate for Cicero from her last marriage. They soon were married and Antony was making his way higher in the Roman world. In 49BC, he received the title of Augur (priest and soothsayer). .....
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Robert Browning
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2151.... the Christian faith(Miller, 1953). His mother, who had strong ties to the congregational church, took great time to instruct Robert in his religious studies. With this open atmosphere, however, Browning exhibited signs of disinterest in religion during his early childhood. The town preacher, in fact , found it necessary to publicly scold "for restlessness and inattention Master "(as cited in,Miller, 1953, p.9). 's tendency toward skepticism was recorded early on. 's first deviation from his faith was at the age of fifteen or sixteen. His primary influences were the Flower famil .....
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Heinrich Schliemann
Number of pages: 17 | Number of words: 4640.... who succeeded only because of his queer mix of genius and fraudulence. He had a shylock's conscience when it came to business dealings, and his shady methods pervaded both his life and his archaeology (Burg, 15-31). Schliemann had a habit of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be grossly untrue are his tales of being entertained by the American president Millard Fillmore and his wife in 1851, and his narrow escape from the San Francisco fire of that same year (Traill 9-13). Mor .....
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Biography Of William Shakespeare
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 917.... with other 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 .....
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Walt Disney
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1140.... wanted to pursue a career in the commercial arts fields, so he got a job at a local studio. At the age of 18 Disney already had basic training in animation. He started making Laugh-O-Grams, which were short commercials and illustrated jokes. Walt then started his own company called Laugh-O-Grams. This is were Walt produced a series of updated fairy tales some of these included: Cinderella, Goldie Locks And The Three Bears, and Puss in Boots. These productions demonstrate how talented Disney really was. Despite Walt’s talent this company was not very successful (Finch Pg.41 .....
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WEB DuBois's Influence On Literature And People
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1062.... rather ashamed that we have not developed more
millionaires and more big business. (Paschal 154)
DuBois believed that assimilation was the best means of treating
discrimination against blacks in the 1920's. Education was a key to a
diverse and cultural society. DuBois being a well-respected intellectual
and leader, worked to reach goals of education and peaceful resolutions
between the races and classes.
DuBois felt that the black leadership, of Booker T. Washington, was too
submissive. Washington wanted black to try and get along with society
"trying to fit in". He .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1459.... states in his Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the development of his heroic style.
By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style. Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Beethoven did extend it to some degree. He had unprecedently composed sonatas for the cello which in combination with the piano opened the era of the Classic-Romantic cello sonata. In addition, his sonatas for violin and piano became the cornerstone of the sonata duo repertory. His experimentation with additions to the standard for .....
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