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The Life Of Sid Vicious
<view this essay>.... constantly moving. He always loved his mom
though. He once said, "I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be
kindhearted. I love my mum."
John was the image of his absent father, but tended towards picking
up his mom's love for music in a house full of the sounds of jazz, in
particular Ella Fitzgerald.
Eventually Anne found a new man. His name was Chris Beverly. She
later married him. Chris loved John, and made a request to legally adopt
his stepson. Before the adoption could go through though, Chris died of ill
health. John later changed his name from John Ritchie to John Beverly.
John attended the Soho Primary School where he horrified his
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John F. Kennedy
<view this essay>.... States
House of Representatives in 1946, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952.
In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery,
Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize
in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and
failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the
nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican
nominee. The issues of defense and economic standards were raised in four
televised debates. Kennedy won .....
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Booker T. Washington
<view this essay>.... founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama. Though Washington offered little that was innovative in industrial education, which both northern philanthropic foundations and southern leaders were already promoting, he became its chief black exemplar and spokesman. In his advocacy of Tuskegee Institute and its educational method, Washington revealed the political adroitness and accommodationist philosophy that were to characterize his career in the wider arena of race leadership. He convinced southern white employers and governors that Tuskegee offered an education that would keep blacks "down on the farm" an .....
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Thomas Jefferson
<view this essay>.... as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He r .....
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
<view this essay>.... who, financially supported the family.1 Doyle had a pretty rough home life because his father was an alcoholic. As he grew up, Doyle had to take more of the responsibilities around the house into his own hands, because his father was either too sick or drunk to fulfill his daily work at home. Doyle’s mother, Mary Foley, was a homemaker who took care of her son Arthur and his brothers and sisters, and also worked and cleaned the house everyday.2 Doyle’s early education started when he was about seven years old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle .....
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Harry Shippe Truman
<view this essay>.... glasses.
The teasing didn't bother him much because the other kids grew up learning
not to hit kids with glasses.
Harry liked reading books in his spare time. He especially liked Mark
Twain's books 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'. He had to read mostly
adult books. Another one of his favorite books were biographies of the U.S.
presidents. Harry read most of the three- thousand books that were in a
nearby library. Harry was very good in school because of reading all the
books. His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister
Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the
children lessons and noticed .....
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Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
<view this essay>.... Laboratory as a public relations writer. It was here
that he wrote his first novel, Player Piano. Vonnegut's next move was
resigning from his job to fulfill his dream. He moved to Provincetown,
Massachusetts so he could concentrate on his writing.
For the next seven years Vonnegut worked on novel titled "Upstairs and
Downstairs." He never did finish this novel. He received income by
starting a Saab dealership and writing short stories.
In 1957, his father died of lung cancer. His sister and her
husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick.
Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel
Sla .....
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Robert Capa
<view this essay>.... died sometime in 1954 by stepping on a land mine.
In the time of World War I the standard camera used by war photographers was the medium-sized bellows extended Graflex with four by-five inch plates. This camera, being fairly large made making candid shots and maneuvering in dangerous situations impossible. Later the 35 mm Leica allowed Capa to do these things. The camera allowed him to be inconspicuous and have a large capability of movement. With this camera he was able to jump into battles to take pictures that no one else was ever able to take.
One of the main things that tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to port .....
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