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Maurice Sendak
<view this essay>.... Rosie. Currently, he illustrates the animated series Little Bear on Nickelodeon. Sendak grew up a sickly child who was not allowed to go outside often. Therefore, being the youngest child in a family of three, he was left alone with his imagination. He enjoyed drawing and reading from an early age, but was often dissatisfied with the children books that were available to him. He attempted to read what he called "real books" even when he was a young child; he felt it was an embarrassment even to enter the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited by any ef .....
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The Life Of Anne Frank
<view this essay>.... our nationality long ago. And
besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews."--
October 9, 1942
On Nazi Punishment of Resisters
"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for
saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--
innocent people—are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo
can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against
the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're
referred to as 'fatal accidents.'"--October 9, 1942
"All college students are being asked to sign an official stateme .....
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Gather Together In Maya Angelou's Name
<view this essay>.... (Lupton 7-8).
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928, to
Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson. After three years her parents divorced,
and both Maya and her older brother Bailey, were sent to Stamps, Arkansas.
Once in Stamps, the children were cared for by their paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Annie Henderson (Neubauer 21).
In her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou tells
the story of her childhood. She also makes the reader keenly aware of her
close connection with her grandmother. Stephen Butterfield says of Caged
Bird (in his Black Autobiography in America, 1974): "Continuity is
achieved by the contact of mother a .....
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The Life And Times Of Karl Mar
<view this essay>.... asked to contribute to the Rheinische Zeitung, an opposition paper, in Cologne. Marx in October of 1842, became editor-in-chief, and decided to move from Bonn to Cologne. As the paper became more and more prominent the government decided to censor, and eventually suppress it. This paper ceased operation in March of 1843.
Karl Marx was married to his childhood friend Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843. Later in the fall of that year Marx along with another Left Hegelian, Arnold Ruge, moved to Paris and began publication of a radical journal entitled Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher. However due to the difficulty in distributing such a radical paper, only one is .....
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Henry Ford
<view this essay>.... “Quadracycle.” During the next several years, Henry continued to work on passenger vehicles and also made race cars, which he sometimes drove himself. In 1903, He came up a car that he was ready to market and formed the Ford Motor Company. In 1908, Henry introduced his car, the Model T. Ford introduced the first assembly line in 1913. In 1917, the Ford was sued by his stock holders. He opened a plant in River Rouge. By 1926, Henry began loosing sales to General Motors and Chrysler, because his Model T was getting old. His newer cars received moderate sales. Henry’s son, Edsel was named president in 1919, but Henry remained in control. When Edsel died in 1943, H .....
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Elvis Presley
<view this essay>.... in Tupelo, Miss. In 1949 his family moved to Memphis, Tenn., where young Presley attended L.C. Humes High School, graduating in 1953. That summer he came to the attention of Sam Phillips, president of the Sun Record Company, when he went there to make a personal recording intended as a present for his mother. Presley made his first commercial recording for Sun the following year, and Colonel Tom Parker, who managed his career from that time, arranged for him to make a series of personal appearances.
In 1955 RCA Victor bought his recording contract from Phillips, and by 1956 Presley was a best-selling recording artist and television star. His hip gyrations, wh .....
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Mark Twain 2
<view this essay>.... led John to drink heavily. Scared by his addiction, John vowed never to drink again. Even though John now resisted alcohol, he faced other addictions. His concoction of aloe, rhubarb, and a narcotic cost him most of his savings and money soon became tight (Paine 34-35).
The family soon grew with the birth of Pamela late in 1827. Their third child,Pleasant Hannibal, did not live past three months, due to illness. In 1830 Margaret was born and the family moved to Pall Mall, a rural county in Tennessee. After Henry’s birth in 1832, the value of their farmland greatly depreciated and sent the Clemenses on the road again. Now they would stay with Jan .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
<view this essay>.... downfall. Napoleon participated in three wars that led to his downfall: "The Attack on Russia", "The War of Nations", and "Waterloo". Napoleon was once quoted as saying,
"A battle is a dramatic action which has a beginning,
a middle, and an end. The order of battle which
the two armies take, the first movements to come
to blows- this is the exposition; the counter-
movement of the army under attack form the
complication, which requires dispositions and
and brings on crisis from which springs the
result or Denouement (Gray 6)".
Napoleon thought himself to be invincible and God-like. He felt that he had a destiny to be one of the greatest military leaders to ev .....
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