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Sammy Davis Jr.
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 512

.... audience. It was as if the black artists were not fit to talk to the audience. Sammy changed this at a nightclub in Hollywood. He “touched the audience”. This got him a record deal with Decca. When Sammy was a rising star, he was driving from Las Vegas to L.A. He had an accident that took away his left eye. This gave him publicity and boosted his career. After this, he converted to Judaism and started to refer to God as “The Cat Upstairs”. Sammy worked hard. You already know he had many talents. What you probably did not know is that he often worked on several projec .....


JFK: His Life And Legacy
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2060

.... 98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John on frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, and Kathleen. Joe, Jr., was a significant figure in young John's life as he wa .....


Winnie Mandela: Trial And Error
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 706

.... 79). He also displays this abuse of power when he accuses Creon of conspiring against him. "I’ve caught him in a plot, against my person" (Sophocles 36). His arrogance caused the people of his land to lose respect for their king. Mandela also had this raise to power and arrogance when she allegedly ordered the murder of young boys believed to be spies. "(I) was ordered to sing loudly to drown out the screams of boys being beaten for allegedly leaking information" (Maclean 55). Her followers and the people who believed in her goals eventually lost respect for her. Beca .....


Richard The Lion Hearted
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1723

.... action that gave him the name John Lackland. At a young age of twelve, Richard pledged homage to the King of France for lands of his. At the age of fourteen, Richard was named the Duke of Aquitane in the church of St. Hillaire at Poitiers (one of the lands made homage to the French King.) Henry's sons, who had been given lands but no real power revolted against their King father aided by their mother. In retaliation King Henry had Eleanor jailed. She remained there for many years. Richard's Mother Eleanor Eleanor was the daughter and heiress .....


Lyndon B. Johnson
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1462

.... Byrd, born in 1944, and Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas. In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public powe .....


Michelangelo
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 567

.... several marble statuettes. then went to Rome, where he was able to look at many newly discovered classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed. The high point of ’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David which he made between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. David, ’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of Fl .....


Sir Isaac Newton
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1496

.... Woolsthorpe to take care of the farm left by Newton's father. But she didn’t have enough money, so she could not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and was sent home to help her. Poor young Isaac could not farm for his life. He abandoned the necessary chores and only thought about mechanical things to make and books to study. There are many stories about him at that time that show how forgetful he was becoming. One of the stories is about when he was once leading a horse, it ran away, and he didn’t even notice. The story says that Isaac’s horse slipped i .....


Jimi Hendrix
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 306

.... got Mitchel and Noel Reddin to join Jimi. They formed "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" Jimi went back to America and toured with the monkeys. But unfortunatley, this was not a good idea because both bands styles were TOTALLY diffrerent. When Jimi returned to England, he joined up with "Band of Gypsies" and recorded one album. On september 18, 1970, James Marshal Hendrix was pronounced dead at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in Kennsington England. His cause of death was: He took an offbrand of sleeping pills to get some rest, but they were not his usual brand, and he overdosed, al .....



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