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Louis Armstrong
<view this essay>.... abillities.
His reputation began to develop when King Oliver left New Orleans for Chicago and offered Armstrong his position a group that was considered to be one of the better ones in town. Soon after this he was called to Chicago by King Oliver to join his orchestra at Lincoln Gardens.
A particularly important accomplishment of Armstrong's during the '20's was his development of "scat singing," a type of wordless singing derived from folk and blues music. He continued touring with his own groups, generally consisting of six to eight- musician groups ( Hot Five, Six, & Seven) through the thirties and forties, his fame only hampered by the fact that the b .....
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Mark Antony
<view this essay>.... mother remarried P.Lentulus. Lentulus found him self in trouble and was strangled by Cicero for his involvement in the Catiline Affair. This changed Antony’s early life severely and he promised one day he would meet up with Cicero and kill him.
’s military career started when he was young. His first travels were to Syria where he was soon promoted to a Calvary Commander, and sent off to Judea and Egypt. Antony was later sent to Gaul where he served under Caesar. He was so superior to his peers that at the age of 22 he became Tribune of the People. Soon Antony became a quaestor with a reputation of being a speaker on behalf of Caesar’s interests while he was .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
<view this essay>.... in “circumference,” as she says in her own words. Death is
perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other
than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to
see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of
Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her
large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a door
rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her a reputation for
eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps increased her interest in
death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in .....
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
<view this essay>.... stories such as “The Body” and “Quitters Inc”.
King's works are so powerful because he uses his experience and observations
from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories.
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947,
at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted
brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's father Donald, a
Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of
cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact
on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King
recalls how his fam .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
<view this essay>.... from everyone else as much as you can. Emerson said that your mind is your own, and no one can touch it. You can think what you want to think, and no one can change that. He describes this belief in the quote "Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." People can mess with every other part of you, but your mind they can't reach.
Emerson is quoted as saying "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle." I think that he means that each and every person has their own life to live and that they shouldn't devote their time to worrying about what other people are doing. You have enough to worry about with what's going on in your own live .....
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John D. Rockefeller
<view this essay>.... A. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. The family lived in modest circumstances. When he was a boy, the family moved to Moravia and later to Owego, New York, before going west to Ohio in 1853. The Rockefellers bought a house in Strongsville, near Cleveland, and John entered Central High School in Cleveland. While he was a student he rented a room in the city and joined the Erie Street Baptist Church, this later became the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Active in its affairs, he became a trustee of the church at the age of 21.
He left high school in 1855 to take a business course at Folsom Mercantile College. He completed the six-month course in three months .....
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Richard Marcinko
<view this essay>.... and joined the Navy. After
two years as a teletype clerk, he convinced his Commanding Officer to send him
to UDT, Underwater Demolition Team, training.
Later, in June 1966, he joined Seal Team Two and went to Vietnam. He
served two tours there and came back a decorated war hero. After his return to
the United States, he became Commanding Officer of Seal Team Two, where he
served for eight years. Then, he came up with the idea of the Navy's first
counterterrorist unit, Seal Team Six.
Now, the most important contribution Richard Marcinko made was his idea
of Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six was created as part of the CounterTerrorist
Joint Task Force, a group .....
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The Life Of Sylvia Plath
<view this essay>.... in an effort to
save his life, but he died in November of 1940, when Sylvia was just eight
years old.
The fact that her father could have prevented his death left Sylvia
Plath with a feeling of deliberate betrayal. Instead of reaching out to other
people for comfort, she isolated herself with writing as her only expressive
outlet, and remarkably had a poem published when she was only eight.
Plath continued prolific writing through high school and won a
scholarship to Smith College in 1950 where she met her friend Anne Sexton.
Sexton often joined Plath for martinis at the Ritz where they shared poetry and
intellectualized discussions about death. Alth .....
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