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Tennessee Williams
Number of words: 679 - Number of pages: 3.... At the end, Blanche is committed to a sanitarium.
William’s once told an interviewer, “My work is emotionally autobiographical. It has no relationship to the actual events of my life, but it reflects the emotional currents of my life” (Devlin, 75). Critics have made much use of William’s family background as a means of analyzing his plays. William’s father, Cornelius, was a businessman from a prominent Tennessee family who traveled constantly and moved his family several times during the first decade of William’s life. Cornelius was often abusive towards his son, calling h .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 390 - Number of pages: 2.... your work. IT'S YOURS!!! To submit your report please copy and paste it below. Please include a bibliography (if necessary). By submitting this report you are giving us permission to distribute and collect any, and all money acquired by it. You are also confirming that you have written this paper, and are not violating any © Copyright Laws. If you want to be given credit for your work, and you should!!! Please include your name and e-mail address. There is nothing wrong with submitting your paper. Teachers have no right to get upset with you for publishing your work. IT'S YOURS!!! To subm .....
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William Lyon Mackenzie
Number of words: 1320 - Number of pages: 5.... to 21, he claimed that he had given up on drinking and gambling. On July 17, 1814, his illegitimate son was born. What he had done to Isabel Reid, mother of his son, was a sinful deed. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407) He did not assume responsibility for the child; he abandoned his son and his mother-Elizabeth. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407)
This exceptional horrid flaw in his character was carried on into his career later on as a mayor. Mackenzie was named Toronto's first mayor by his fellow councillors, defeating John Rolph. As mayor, Mackenzie was both head of council and chief magistrate for Toront .....
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Bob Marley
Number of words: 353 - Number of pages: 2.... negative way ... make way for that positive day.² Unfortunately Marley was a very smart guy and he knew of his fate. Being a visionary, Marley foresaw his death. He realized reality and what was going to happen to him. An internet source titled ³thirdfield² writes these lyrics by Marley: ³ŒOne bright morning when my work is over I will fly home¹² Marley was a great ambassador to the world preaching unity and justice for all. He wanted everyone to get along without violence. Not many people can measure the importance of to his people of Jamaica. He gave them an identity a .....
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Evita: Saint Or Sinner?
Number of words: 1401 - Number of pages: 6.... fifteen, Eva Duarte set out to become a radio actress. She knew
she could be like the women in the movie magazines she either stole or borrowed
from her friends. Eva met singer Agustin Magaldi, and, packed her bags and
sneaked out of her mother's boarding house to the city of Buenos Aires.
Once Eva learned the rules of the 'casting couch,' she dropped Magaldi
and began her ascent to stardom. For years she wandered the streets, auditioned,
and did whatever she had to do, no matter how distasteful. Eva gained modeling
work and small parts in radio plays, frequenting nightclubs, and began .....
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Shakespeare And His Plays
Number of words: 1185 - Number of pages: 5.... as a playwright. The publication of Venus and Adonis, The
Rape of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in
the Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on
the 38 plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked by a number of
financially advantageous arrangements that permitted him to share in the
profits of his acting company, the Chamberlain's Men, and its two theaters,
the Globe and the Blackfriars. His plays were given special presentation
at the courts of Queen Elizabeth .....
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Evita Peron
Number of words: 1812 - Number of pages: 7.... years of poverty followed and, in early 1935, the young Evita
fled her stifling existence to go to Buenos Aires. Perhaps, as some have said,
she fell in love with a tango singer who was passing through.
She wanted to be an actress, and in the next few years supported herself
with bit parts, photo sessions for titillating magazines and stints as an
attractive judge of tango competitions. She began frequenting the offices of a
movie magazine, talking herself up for mention in its pages. When, in 1939, she
was hired as an actress in a radio company, she discovered a talent for playing
heroines .....
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
Number of words: 598 - Number of pages: 3.... I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful quest to find an answer to one of mans most pondered questions. "If
a cow laughs, does milk come out of his nose?" So I took what was left of the
care package, most of it though, was broken during my stay in the Turkish pr .....
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Farai Chideya
Number of words: 460 - Number of pages: 2.... time as a CNN Political Analyst during the 1996 presidential campaign. It was at this time that she was named to the New York Daily News' "Dream Team" of political reporters and commentators. She appeared on programming such as "TalkBack Live" and "CNN & Company", as well as ABC's "Nightline," CBS's "Up to the Minute," and BET's "Teen Summit" and "Town Hall Meeting on the Black Family." She saw the publishing of her new book, The Color of our Future: How the Nation's Most Diverse Generation is Reshaping American Culture., in 1997. That was also the year that she began her two current pos .....
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2.... rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago.
In 1971 Rev. Jesse L. Jackson formed Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity.) In the 1970s, Jackson traveled throughout the United States in a campaign for education against drug abuse and gangs. In the 1980s Jackson l .....
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