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Michael Jordan
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 421.... moments from the last-second shots to phenomenal scoring outbursts. Jordan also was named by the NBA as one of the 50 greatest players of all-time.
He leaves a series of records, including a career record for highest points per game average in a regular season;31.5; Bulls' all-time leading scorer and third all-time leading scorer in the NBA with 29,277 points; set NBA record with 23 consecutive points against Atlanta in 1987; and a career record for scoring average in the All-Star Game, 21.3.
But more important than the records and the victories, Jordan had a charm, clas .....
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Irving Penn
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1086.... in public; he enrolled at the age of 18 in a four-year course at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where Alexey Brodovitch taught him advertising design. While training for a career as an art director, Penn worked the last two summers from Harper's Bazaar as an office boy and apprentice artist, sketching shoes. At this time, he had no thought of becoming a photographer.
Milestones
In addition to his work for Vogue magazine (the American, British, and French editions) Penn has been represented in many important photographic collections, including those of the Museum .....
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FDR
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3077.... again. His reign in office came at, by the far and away, the most difficult time in American history. Not only did he accept the challenges at hand, he rose to the occasion and took this country to another level. Roosevelt was born on January 30 near New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and attended Law School. Although he didn't get his law degree, he was admitted to the New York bar in 1907. He was elected to the New York senate in 1910 and was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as assistant secretary of the navy, a post he held during World War I. Roosevelt ran .....
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Biography Of Emily Bronte
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 460.... at home for five years. During this period, she wrote poetry and short stories to fill her time. In 1842,
she attended school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. There they studied music and foreign language. Emily also wrote her French essays at this time. Charlotte and Emily were described as “literary geniuses.”
All the family was reunited at home, in 1845. In the course of time, the Brontes gave up hope for a school of their own. Branwell, working on a novel, told his sisters of the profitable possibilities of novel writing. In the autumn of 1 .....
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Joseph Stalin
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 954.... the Gulag archipelago - victimized tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children for more than 20 years." Millions of people were sent to the Gulag camps from 1939 through 1953, for the crime of doing absolutely nothing. There were "...eight million souls (a conservative estimate) who languished in Soviet concentration camps every year between 1939 and 1953." under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year Stalin, in his paranoia sent millions of people off to their deaths.
"Russia’s War - Blood Upon the Snow" brought into view a m .....
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Archibald Macleish
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1421.... School. This school catered to his many different interests. Of all the things MacLeish excelled at he was the best at writing. Archibald graduated at the top of his class and was accepted to Yale University. While at Yale MacLeish studied law, but continued his writing and in his off time the university published a book of his works.
After Yale, MacLeish decided to focus on his poetry and his new wife and children. During this time off he wrote his first collaboration called Tower of Ivory Then in 1917 he went to France to serve in the war as a private. He rose .....
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Jefferson Davis
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 627.... taken, he tried to keep the Southern states in the Union. When the state of Mississippi seceeded, he withdrew from the Senate. On February 18, 1861, the congress of the Confederate States made him president. He was elected to the office by popular vote for a 6-year term and was inaugurated un Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. He failed to raise enough money to fight the Civil War and could not obtain help for the Confederacy from foreign governments.
One of the accomplishments of Jefferson Dacis, was the raising of the Confederate army. Davis had .....
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The Life And Death Of Tupac Amaru Shakur
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 950.... you are from cities like Washington
DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia or Baltimore you are considered
eastcoast. If you are from Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland,
Portland, Compton, Watts, Fresno, Long Beach or Sacramento you are
considered westcoast. Why people talk bad bout each other because of their
preference on where to live will never be defined. Just prejudice acts
among people. Tupac was raised in the city of New York before he had rape
charges against him. Then after that he was shot 6 times, somehow living.
After that happened he moved off .....
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