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Pablo Picasso
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 470.... During this period, the figures in Picasso's paintings became more robust. In these paintings, family groups replaced the lonely prostitutes and beggars in his earlier works.
Picasso then developed a cubism style of painting. This means that Picasso painted people and things very different than how they really looked. He painted people who had eyes and noses in the wrong places. Picasso's father even thought that his paintings were too strange. During 1915m, Picasso began to return to realism in a series of portrait drawings, although he began to work simultaneously on .....
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Jack London 2
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1366.... at Berkeley, is where London went when he went back.
Jack started to become a writer to escape from the horrific prospects of life as a factory worker. He studied other writers and began to submit stories, jokes, and poems to various publications, mostly without success. These writers he studied were Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Jung.
London went to the Klondike for hopes of digging up gold in 1897. The attempt to find gold was unsuccessful. The winter of 1897 provided the metaphorical gold for his first s .....
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Sir Anton Dolin
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1245.... time he attended the Pitman School for instruction in stenography and French. In 1917, a month after attending a performance of Princess Seraphina Astafieva’s Swinburne Ballet, the thirteen-year-old boy registered for lessons with the Russian ballerina. A former pupil of the Imperial School and at one time principal dancer in the Diaghilev Ballet Russe, Astafieva was then conducting the only school of Russian ballet in London, which stressed the importance of the individual dancer in ballet. After Pat had been her student for about four years, the famous Diaghilev visited th .....
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Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 584.... stand against the Vietnam War. Consequently, the New York State Athletic Committee suspended Muhammad Ali’s boxing license. Muhammad’s recognition as a champion was withdrawn and he was also suspended from the Nation of Islam because he planned to return to boxing. After being barred from the ring, Muhammad displayed his tenacity by touring colleges and giving lectures to earn money while filing suit against the New York State Athletic Commission for violating his 14th amendment rights. When Ali won his lawsuit and his boxing license was reinstated, Ali fought Joe .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1027.... was not particularly abnormal, as many famous authors have claimed to have. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated after four years. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Contrary to his family’s expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother’s house to turn himself into a writer. Hawthorne wrote his mother, “I do not want to be a doctor and live by men’s diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don’t see that there is anything left for me but to be a .....
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Led Zeppelin
Number of pages: 26 | Number of words: 6917.... on his mind. A representative of their record company, he said, had just called to report that the sales of the new album, Houses of the Holy, were spectacular. Page had been officially told that were the biggest-selling group in the whole world. A silent moment of triumph passed between Plant and Page. Across the hall, an Al Green record played on Jones's portable stereo.
"Well," said Jimmy Page, turning to the visiting writer. "What do you want to know?"
I wanted to say "everything." As a fledgling journalist still working at a record store, I'd fought for the opportunity .....
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Robert Boyle
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1244.... to college in which he attended Eton College. Eton college was located in England.
After graduating college, Boyle decided to start his work at Oxford. At the age of twenty-seven, he finally became what he wanted to be for so long, an experimental scientist.(Sootin pp.37-38) He continued at Oxford and received an Honored M.D., and later was accepted to be a member of the Royal Society, a big scientific group. It was a great honor to be a part of that scientific group.(Salzberg p.161)
Arguably, is most famous for Boyle's Law. Boyles's Law, in formula form, is Pressure x vo .....
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Adolf Hitler
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1098.... his scheme to take over the world. This freedom continued for over a year while his family was separated. (Rubenstein; pg 6)
Even as a child Adolf had the making of a leader. He was a good student in elementary school and was always a leader during games being played. He especially enjoyed battle-type games the most and often organized his classmates into "battles." In his book, Mein Kampf, he wrote:
"I believe that even my oratorical talent was being developed in the form of more or less violent arguments with my schoolmates. I had become a little ring leader" (Ruben .....
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