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Frank Lloyd Wright
<view this essay>.... sane or
normal because his buildings were so radical back then. People started to look
and beleive in his work after they saw his first commision, which was Moore-
Dugal house.
Wright was born in the year 1867 on the date June 8th, in Richland Center,
Wisconsin. His name was to be Frank Lincoln Wright, the name was Franks great
grandfathers name. His mother thought it would be a tradition if the name
stayed in the family, and that it did.
Wright studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin. He thought that the
school was the pits in architecture from 1885-1886. He did not lead the coolest
life there but infact that of a nerd. After school he move .....
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Women Who Changed The World: Rosa Parks
<view this essay>.... of Colored People) Youth Council. In
1943 she was elected secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. In a
celebrated incident in 1955 she was arrested for violating segregation laws when
she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This resulted in a
boycott of the bus system by blacks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the
movement. In spite of harassment the boycott continued, and in 1956 segregated
seating was challenged in a federal lawsuit. Within a few months bus segregation
was ruled unconstitutional, and the buses were officially desegregated in
December 1956. Parks, who had lost her job because of the boycott, moved to
Detroi .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
<view this essay>.... the support of the government and earned the
respect of Sieyes and Tallyrand. They identified Napoleon as their strong man
in the Coup of Brumaire.
In 1799, Napoleon introduced a dictatorship to bring order to the chaos
in France. He instituted many reforms, for example in the civil service and
treasury. He guaranteed the Frence people equality and fraternity. In exchange,
he took away their liberty. Another reform was the creation of the national
eduction system. This was a pleasant addition because it adds knowledge to the
Empire. Another was a knew constitution, in this he presented to the public in
a plebiscite that required them either to accept ful .....
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Langston Hughes
<view this essay>.... His first published poem was also one of his most famous, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, and it appeared in Brownie’s Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays, and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications(Jackson,1).”
“One of Hughes’ finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”. It spoke of Black writers and poets, “who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration”, where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet. Hughes argued, “no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself’. He .....
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The Life Of Walt Disney
<view this essay>.... the animals. When he was seven, he and his sister
began attending school, but in 1917 his family returned to Chicago.2 In
Chicago he took a summer job on a railroad. When he began at McKinley High
School, he took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago
Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join
the American Red Cross during World War I.
Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father
advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he
determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
stu .....
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Constantine The Great
<view this essay>.... the religious foundation of his domain, he set the religious course for the future of Europe which remains in place to this very day. Because he replaced Rome with Constantinople as the center of imperial power, he made it clear that the city of Rome was no longer the center of power and he also set the stage for the Middle Ages. His view of monarchy became the foundation for the concept of the divine right of kings.
Constantine, the son of Constantius Chlorus and Helena, seems to have been born in Naissus in Serbia on 27 February ca. 272 or 273 C.E. When his father had become Caesar in 293 A.D., Constantius had sent his son to the Emperor Galerius as hos .....
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It Came From Ohio! My Life As A Writer: Biography Of R. L. Stine
<view this essay>.... book was The Giggle Book it was really magazine, which
he wrote it in 6th grade. When Mr. Stine got into high school, he became
a magazine writer and he wrote three more magazines. One of them was
called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the
last one was named Stories and Gags.
R.L. Stine got a scholarship to Ohio State University -- only two
blocks from his home. He joined the Sundial as a writer, and later applied
to be the editor and got the job. When he made up Jovial Bob (a way to
introduce himself and humor to the readers) to help The Sundial because
people weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”.
Jane .....
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Chuck Yeager
<view this essay>.... poorly educated and destitute decided to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. The funny thing about that is that Chuck never even saw an airplane on the ground until he was 16 years old, when it had an emergency and landed in a cornfield, and Chuck was not even impressed with it. He said the reason that he joined the Air Corps is because the recruiter made the Air Corps sound more interesting that the Navy recruiter. Anyway, Chuck joined the Air Corps as a mechanic. After a year of being a mechanic, the Untied States was short pilots, so they put up a notice to see if anyone wanted to become a pilot. Chuck signed the form; however, it took another year for them to pic .....
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