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Stephen Crane
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 700.... of wrath. The effects of his preoccupation with faith are evident in most of Crane’s work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101).
began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused to do any work. After leaving Lafayette, he moved on to attend Syracuse University, .....
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Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1899.... this author, was the
only one that didn't put me to sleep with a warm cup of milk.
Thomas L. Clancy Jr., son of a mailman and department store credit
employee, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947. He attended a local
catholic parochial elementary and secondary school. Most of his friends
were interested in sports, and following their favorite teams throughout
the season, but Tom had more important things on his mind like guns, tanks,
and planes. He went to Loyola College, a Jesuit college of liberal arts in
Baltimore where he majored in English. While attendin .....
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Frederick Douglass
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1156.... from the world of the dead, which in a sense is what the move from oppression to liberty is. not only underwent a transformation but, being intelligent and endowed with the gift of Voice, he brought back with him a sharp perspective on the blights of racism and slavery. Dropped into America during the heat of reform as he was, his appearance on the scene of debate, upon his own self-emancipation, was a valuable blessing for the abolitionists. In their struggles so far, there had been many skilled arguers but few who could so convincingly portray the evils of slavery .....
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Jimi Hendrix
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3378.... and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in “If 6 was 9” on Axis: Bold As Love when he said “I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, King Curtis, Joey Dee and the Starliters, the Isley Brothers, and many others (Murray 38-42). The development .....
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Richard Linklater: Man Of Youth
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 500.... music in all Richard Linklater's films is what I noticed the
most. He takes period music and uses it to raise the scene to another level.
In the cases of The Newton Boys all new music was written for this film
set during Prohibition. With the music in Dazed and Confused it is able to
make me excited about them going to the party in the woods. The music is
able to complete the cruise scenes. Suburbia had a music star come back to
the town to change the lives of everyone. His musical influence was
important to keep the film together.
Richard Linklater's beliefs ar .....
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1422.... War I
While he was still in school, World War I started. In the spring of
1915, his name was enlisted in the Canadian Army. However, his commanding
officer, arranged him for his education. Hours after the successful
completion of his final exams in December 1916, he was back in uniform.
Within a few months, he was serving in the Canadian Army Hospital at
Ramsgate, England. He then voluntarily transferred to the front line near
Cambrai, France because he felt he was not doing enough. He used his
intelligence to capture three fully armed Germans without any use of .....
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The Life And Times Of Peter Straub
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1877.... test. The car was going to hit me, and I was going to die.”2 Along with his year in a wheelchair, he developed certain emotional quirks. Because of the long hours sitting, Peter read even more so than ever. And once able to walk again, his misfortune did not leave him alone. Straub soon developed a severe stutter which accompanied his speech into his twenties, and even now, at 57, still puts in an appearance. Another very unfortunate incident occurred to Peter as a child, which he refrains from speaking about almost entirely; he was sexually abused. He has never spoken .....
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Ernest Hemingway 4
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1155.... (Lesniak 20). Hemingway’s childhood was rarely mentioned, other then that he tried to run away from
home several times when he was still in high school (Lesniak 23). After Hemingway graduated from Oak Park High School, he went to work, in 1917, as a reporter at the Kansas City Star. In 1918 he enlisted as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy. In 1920 he starts working as a reporter and
a foreign correspondent for Toronto. After being an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I, he converted to Catholicism and he often referred to himself for the rest of h .....
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