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Raoul Wallenberg
Number of words: 1511 - Number of pages: 6.... went to sea at the age of fifteen and became a steam boat captain not long after. Raoul dreamed of being one of the "Big Men" like the men in his family. He looked at them as fearless Vikings (Linne'a 7,8).
Raoul studied architecture at the university of Michigan in Arbor, Michigan U.S.A. He could learn about banking after collage. He wasn't good in math this isn't good for a future banker (Linne'a 15,18). He finished his architecture course in three and a half years which is a four and a half year class. He won a medal awarded to one student out of each class of eleven
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Nationalism And Patriotism
Number of words: 743 - Number of pages: 3.... of persons who have fled from the restrictions and controls of a dictatorship to a free or democratic country. These citizens are often willing to make unusual sacrifices for their new homeland.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of patriotism is the people who gave their lives to free us from the British during the Revolutionary War. They fought and some of them even died so you and I can have the freedom to pretty much as please in everyday life. The next thing comes to mind when I think of patriotism is the people who fought and gave their lives during World War II. They .....
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Oprah Winfrey
Number of words: 1152 - Number of pages: 5.... has overcame number of obstacles that most people have encountered in their own lives. She had to deal with poverty, sexual abuse, racism as a child, and her lifelong battle with weight.
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954. As a child, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then moved back to Nashville. She has lived through poverty, repeated sexual abuse, and a sentence to a juvenile delinquent home. (Hyde 1997 p.57) Oprah was crowned Miss. Black Tennessee at age 19. In 1973. She left Tennessee State University and became a newscaster for WTVF in Nashville .....
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
Number of words: 394 - Number of pages: 2.... than writing, especially rowing.
Maupassants education was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and
later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880
he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time,
Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his
skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short
stories that were publish .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of words: 2266 - Number of pages: 9.... was described as being
handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an
imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him.
At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany,
geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows
(About Leonardo).
At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo was apprenticed as a
garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading Florentine
painter and sculptor of his day. In Verrocchio’s workshop Leonardo was
introduced to many techniques, from the painting of altarp .....
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Ben Franklin
Number of words: 1118 - Number of pages: 5.... Ben's best friend's name was Nathan. Ben helped Nathan learn the fable "The Wolf and the Kid", while Ben learned "The Dog and his Shadow". At the time of the recital of the fables the school master said, "and Ben will recite "The Wolf and the Kid", which was Nathan's fable. Ben thought, "If I say that it is Nathan's fable, then the school master will get into trouble. If I recite the fable, then Nathan will get into trouble." Ben did nothing; he simply stood there looking up into the sky. Everyone said that Ben was lazy and that he could not even learn one fable. Josiah Franklin .....
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My Opinion On Director Hoovers Essay
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... and kills simply for the pleasure of killing?
Granted it is said that advocates of capital punishment should actually witness an execution to see how it is carried out and the trauma a person faces when they know that they are being led to their death. Yes these criminals were young once, innocent and vivacious, full of life with parents, friends and a long gone innocence. But for some reason they became a killer and killers must be dealt with severely and swiftly. Additionally I say to persons against the death penalty, let me show you the crime scene photos of a murder/rape victim. What a .....
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Autobiography Of Owen Archer
Number of words: 1145 - Number of pages: 5.... and I standing in it, and the citizens were accusing us of a crime and they were taking Ned away. I had a bad feeling about the journey mainly because I knew there would be fighting and I had only one eye and a lot of scars but I was afraid because many soldiers come back with lost limbs or sometimes even worse. I love my Lucie and I didn’t want to lose anything.
WE followed a long, windy trail and had troubles finding good places to stay the nights. Rest and good food was important for our journey because many of the men were sore from riding most of the day. We stayed in barns and .....
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Donald Barthelme
Number of words: 1103 - Number of pages: 5.... "Paradise" (1986). He also wrote Snow White, a parody of the popular children’s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children’s literature for the book titled "The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn" (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Bart .....
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Henry James And William Dean H
Number of words: 1047 - Number of pages: 4.... and writings, one of a detached observer rather than participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14)
The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into
the complex society and culture of Europe with The American, which chronicles a man whose finds himsel .....
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