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Lizzie Borden
<view this essay>.... Borden, Lizzie's father, was the son of a fishmonger, who was born on the less fortunate side of the family. He dedicated his entire life to changing this situation, and succeeded handsomely(Meganet, 1998). He accumulated enough money to invest in real estate and banks and became quite a wealthy man by the standards of his time(Crimelibrary, 1998). Many self-made men prefer to keep a firm grip on their hard-won riches. However; Andrew took this particular tendency to such an extreme that he was a local legend, and not a very popular one.
According to one Fall River legend, "When he was an undertaker, he cut the feet off the corpses so that he could cra .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
<view this essay>.... Van Gogh thought her feelings would be mutual, though she was not attracted to him. In fact, she was disgusted by him. She was engaged to be married, anyway. Because he was so hurt from this rejection, he took it out on his career. He told the costumers they were buying useless junk and insulted them for that. Van Gogh had to go to Paris and only his uncle’s influence allowed him a second chance with the firm. His harsh behavior toward the costumers continued. In 1876, the Goupil’s managers had to let him go.
Van Gogh, being the son of a Lutheran minister, was very much drawn toward religion. Van Gogh decided to prepare himself for ministry by .....
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Frank Sinatra
<view this essay>.... of Dolly and Anthony Sinatra, a pair of Italian immigrants. He was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey where he spent his teenage years unloading trucks for the Jersey Observer newspaper. He then became a copy boy where he found a passion to strive for, journalism. However, the editor at the newspaper said, “copy boys don’t know enough to be reporters.” So, Sinatra went to secretarial school. He studied English, typing, and shorthand. The newspaper’s editor eventually promoted him to cub sports reporter After achieving his goal to be a journalist, Frank had another passion to strive for, singing. In his spare time, Sinatra appeared in on Major Bowes Amate .....
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Lenonard Bernstein
<view this essay>.... an aunt who no longer needed it. She knew of Leonard’s love for music, but I doubt she knew what a great impact this gift would have, not only on Leonard, but also on the world of music.
After the young boy began to show an interest in the instrument, a neighbor offered to give him lessons, which lasted for about a year. After that year, Bernstein was no longer satisfied with his teacher, so he went out to find another one. He was referred to a teacher by the name of Miss Susan Williams and despite his father’s protest, this teaching relationship with Miss Williams lasted for two years.
When Bernstein decided that he needed a more professiona .....
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Biography Of Robert Cormier
<view this essay>.... and burned.
His teacher refused to let him go to see if his family was safe until he
had said the requisite prayers. This incident enraged him for years
afterward.
One of the nuns, however, made a remark that changed the way he thought of
himself. His seventh-grade teacher read one of his poems and told him that
he was a writer. He believed her, and continued to think of himself as one.
Later, a teacher at Fitchburg State College was so impressed with one of
Cormier's stories that she submitted it to a magazine; it became his first
published work.
After college, Cormier went on to write commercials for a local radio
station, and soon switched to newspaper w .....
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Ray Bradbury
<view this essay>.... a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942. Bradbury's first story publication was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. In 1939, Bradbury published four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine, contributing much of the published material himself. Bradbury's first paid publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In 1942 Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. By .....
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Adam Smith
<view this essay>.... necessarily always mean increasing one’s wealth measured in dollars and cents. It is a fact that individuals seek many goals, not just increased wealth. Therefore, the self-interest of the individual involves at the minimum goals relating to prestige, friendship, love, power, helping others, and many other things. In a successful market, the competition between businesses would create enough goods for everyone. Supply and demand for desired goods would determine which businesses would be successful. It would also determine the price of the goods. This is how the market worked at Smith’s time. However, the flaws with this theory are apparent in the .....
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Paul Revere
<view this essay>.... and arrest Adams and Hancock for Treason. On the evening of April 18, 1775 Smith assembled his force on the British Common. His orders were secret, but the patriots had learned of them. Revere and William Dawes were sent to warn Adams and Hancock in Lexington and the patriots in Concord. An arrangement was made for a signal to be flashed from the Old North Church in Boston. Two lanterns meant that the British would be coming by water, and one, by land. Revere directed this signal to be sent to friend in Boston. ("'s Ride: Explanation:) Revere borrowed a horse and left Boston around 10 p.m. He arrived in Lexington at midnight. Around 1 a.m. Revere Dawes, a .....
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