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Poore Brothers 3
<view this essay>.... the Sun. In 1986 the brothers founded Poore Brothers in Goodyear, Arizona. They started with one kettle, one delivery truck, and one store that sold their chips, Mayfair, across from the Wigwam. They didn't have a marketing budget, so they relied on sampling and word of mouth advertisement. It wasn’t long before the large grocery stores in the valley began to authorize sale of their products. It was also right around this time they had a couple of bold flavors that were real winners, Salt & Vinegar and Jalapeño. Soon, all of Arizona could buy their products. In order to serve all their Arizona customers they started a distribution company. Today Poore B .....
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Alice Walker
<view this essay>.... been involved in the black movement and displays strong feelings towards the respect black women get.
In 1961, Walker entered Spelman College, where she joined the Civil Rights Movement. Two years after graduating in 1965, she married Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer; afterward, they worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. .....
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Abraham Lincoln
<view this essay>.... who in Abraham's words "was
a good and kind mother".
In 1830, Abraham left India and moved on to Illinois. Lincoln tried
various occupations and served briefly in the Black Hawk War.
Lincoln lost in 1832 as an Illinois legislator. Two years later he
made it as a Whig. As a Whig, he supported the Second Bank of the United
States (The Illinois State Bank).
Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They
were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had
four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926.
Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived
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The Work Of Stephen King
<view this essay>.... child again" (King 220). King can bring out the fears that are kept deep
down in our souls. He knows that we have been set down in a frightening
universe, full of real demons like death and disease, and perhaps the most
frightening thing is the human mind. Horror is "one of the ways we walk
our imagination" (King 218). King takes ordinary emotional situations and
translates them into violent tales of vampires and ghosts. "You never
have to ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro
220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
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Langston Huges
<view this essay>.... begins the poem by stating:
“I Dream a World where man
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn” (World Lines 1-4)
Here Hughes is stating very generally and unspecific how he wishes for peace and love. Something that everyone would like but will probably never come true. This statement is an excellent attention getter. It tells about a dream that everyone would like without singling out any group of people to blame for the dream not coming true. Then as the poem goes on he gets more and more specific. Hughes then goes on to dream that everyone “Will know sweet freedoms way,/Where greed no longer saps the soul.” (World li .....
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Jack London
<view this essay>.... every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. (Parks and Recreation)
This attitude fueled ’s daring life. But his brash spirit eventually lead to his demise. London lived a short life, dying at age 40. He was known to be strikingly handsome and was a celebrity. His passionate writings were famous for his ideas on the struggle of survival and the questions of death. London’s novels were usually based on nature and adventure, coming from real life experiences, which appealed to millions of r .....
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Joseph Stalin
<view this essay>.... his own people is appalling. For example, Stalin’s plan for collectivization resulted in the death of twenty million people. The great five-year plan to turn the peasant farmers into one, huge farming community brought on famine, starvation and eventually death to twenty million peasant farmers. Another atrocity that Stalin was responsible for was the forced labor camps known as Gulags. “...the murderous forced labor camps of 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 absolut .....
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William Stafford’s Inspiration
<view this essay>.... that goes into writing. When I read Stafford’s essay on the writing process it was like he was speaking directly to me.
Stafford uses a metaphor for fishing to explain the beginning of the writing process. You must be very patient when fishing. Sometimes there is a nibble right away and sometimes it takes a little longer. The second that you feel the nibble you must react in order to hook the fish. The writing process is just like this. The second an idea comes to mind you have to write it down but don’t stop there. You must keep on writing because that idea will lead to another idea and before you know it you will have a complete idea. Stafford explain .....
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