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Dylan Thomas
<view this essay>.... in August and The World I Breathe was released in December.(Bookshelf ’98)
In April of 1940 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was published and in September Dylan began working for Strand Films, Inc. He remained with Strand through the conclusion of the Second World War. His second child Aeronwy, Byrn Thomas was born in March of 1943. Deaths and Entrances was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tour .....
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Jackie Robinson: Breaking The Color Barrier
<view this essay>.... Rickey has set new standards for all black athlete’s to come.
Jackie Robinson grew up in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie attended UCLA where he played baseball, basketball, football, and track. After collage Jackie enrolled in world war two. After the war Jackie got an honorable discharge. After the end of the war Jackie didn’t know what he wanted to do and he was very short on money. Finally Jackie decided he wanted to join the Negro Leagues. In 1944 Jackie officially was on a Negro baseball team. (Shorto, Russell p. 5-10) In 1945 Branch Rickey the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was looking for a black player to break the serration barrier and rise above it al .....
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Henry Adams, Virgin And The Dy
<view this essay>.... language and American education, was as far as possible sexless” (Adams, 385). The only sculptures and paintings of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. For example, “America was ashamed of her…have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her” (Adams, 384). However, during this time of the technology revolution, women were beginning to be viewed differently, especially in Europe. Women were viewed as beautiful and mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming something more than just a means of reproduction .....
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AC. Greeen
<view this essay>.... of Oregon he accepts God as his savior. When Green had free time in the University he would encourage College students to read the Bible , know God and follow his commands . He would also preach to them about how good is to be a Christian and he would proudly say that he was a Christian .When he was playing basketball for Oregon State he was drafted to the Lakers . After graduating from Oregon State ,Green moves to L.A to play for the Lakers .That year Green wins his first NBA championship with the Lakers . When he lived in L.A he formed A.C Green Foundation for Youth to help build hope, confidence , and self esteem in young people. When he played his second ye .....
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Maya Angelou
<view this essay>.... who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. spent her formative years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. lived in Accra, Ghana, where Ser .....
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The Life Of King David
<view this essay>.... killed Goliath with a sling and a stone
from a brook nearby. When he killed Goliath, the Philistines were really scared.
They all fled for their lives and the Hebrews won the war. During David's life
he makes many friends. One of the people who was David's friend was king Saul.
David played his harp for Saul and made him feel better when life was getting
him down. David also becomes good friends with, Jonathan, Saul's son. Saul gets
envious of David because the people of Saul's kingdom really like David. Saul
tried to have David killed but, Jonathan finds out about the plot and saves
David's life. Later on in life David became king of all Israel. One day David .....
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Horace Mann
<view this essay>.... the improvement of education. The purpose of education is a large subject and covered it completely throughout his life. Even today the purpose of our schools is almost the same as what prescribed it should be long ago.
Mann wanted the common schools to be available to everyone. He wanted it to be available to people that were rich, poor, and of different backgrounds. Public schools try to be this today; they are free to everyone and nondiscriminatory. Mann believed in public support and control of schools.
Mann thought that education was a right that was passed on from generation to generation. Denying children this right was horrible to Mann. Today i .....
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Abraham Lincoln
<view this essay>.... that Lincoln did, and maybe one of the most important. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. It said, “Slaves within any state, or designated part of a state…then…in rebellion, …shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” This proclamation was the main cause of creating the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This was important because now there was a bigger sense of peace between the slaves, and the people that once owned them. This proclamation plays a big part of the peace that we have among the different people of the world today.
Lincoln also designed a plan known as the reconstruction. .....
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