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The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 998.... and wait crying for her father to come take her. Even though Eleanor’s grandmother was very strict she gave her the love and the family atmosphere that she needed. Many years later her father died and she was left alone with only uncles and her grandmother. In 1899 at the age of 15 her uncles out of control drunkenness scared Eleanor’s grandmother of Eleanor’s safety. She sent Eleanor away to a boarding school in England. In 1902 she returned to New York at the age of 18. She was ready to come out in the world and find a husband. Eleanor was not very good at small talk, so whe .....
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George C. Wallace
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1462.... and problems. Racism was the norm and Wallace took full advantage of this ploy to gain political attention.
George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He r .....
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 732.... David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of
Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the
Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall.
With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he
not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by
infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning.
Michelangelo’s David does not make me feel a certain way. It is
simply a magnificent statue. This statue does not have a certain mood.
Da .....
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Jean Sartre
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1204.... Later he supported Soviet positions but criticized their policies. In the 1950’s he wrote many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and lives out his life in poor health and a few radical followers.
In the dictionary the translation of Existentialism is a branch of philosophy based on the concept of an absurd universe where humans have free wil .....
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Levi
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 651.... In 1961 became the general manager of a factory producing paints. He retired in 1977 to become a full-time writer.
His prison recollections wrote in the form of memoir, Se questo è un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity, and brought about annihilation of the internees. 's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors .....
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Babe Ruth 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 553.... game. That a man burst out of the audience and yelled “ my boy, my boy… he’s dying, just sign this it would mean the world to him” but not only did he sign the ball but he also visited him in the hospital After a eccentric conversation with Johnny Sylvester. Babe promised to hit a home run for the kid but Johnny Sylvester declined he didn’t only want one home run he wanted two. So Babe laughed and promised, in the next game Babe did do that for him. And more, after the much-anticipated home run Babe ran to the microphone and told him to get bet .....
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Celine Dion
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2271.... Cole, Barbara Streisand, and Ginette Reno, and her favorite male singers are Stevie Wonder and Micheal Jackson. Micheal Jackson even sent her a signed photo stating “To Celine with love.”, (Http://www.celineonline.com/bio1.html.) and the hat he wore in the Billy Jean clip, which was also signed. Her first name comes from a song (Celine, sang by Hugues Aufray and written in 1966 by Vline Buggy) that her mother was singing while she was pregnant.
Celine has a large family. Her mother is Therese Tanguay Dion, and her father is Adhemar Dion. She also has eight si .....
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Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, And J. Cooper
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 306.... long as people continued to become more open minded...for America
was giving them the freedom to do this, along with many other freedoms.
Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that.
Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence.
He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana
Purchase for 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed money
to finance his little war, tsk tsk.
A real thinker in the enlightenment also.
Washington Irving, named after George Washington was a famo .....
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