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Joan Of Arc Was A Saint
Number of words: 1339 - Number of pages: 5.... and I was in my father’s garden. I had not fasted the day before. I heard the voice on my right hand, towards the church. There was a great light all about. (Trask 5)
Because of the fact that she heard these voices, Joan is sometimes regarded as insane. Her critics claim that she had hallucinations. However, this can be proven wrong. “If anyone has hallucinations, those hallucinations will not remain quiescent. They will not be like dreams. They will act upon and influence the sufferer’s whole character” (Beevers 29). Joan’s voices told her to act and she obeyed, “but she d .....
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Hank Williams Jr.
Number of words: 918 - Number of pages: 4.... Blues." At an age
when most young boys are playing Little League baseball or football, Hank was
learning the piano from Jerry Lee Lewis, appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show, and
performing before crowds of up to twenty thousand.
In 1969, Hank teamed up with Johnny Cash to perform in the largest
country concert to date. In 1970, Hank signed the biggest recording contract in
the history of MGM Records. As proud as he was of being the son of Hank
Williams, Hank got tired of being in his father's shadow. In high school, known
as "Rockin' Randall," Hank played contemporary rock, however, that .....
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The Work Of Stephen King
Number of words: 1381 - Number of pages: 6.... ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro
220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else,
others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles),
closed in places, rats, snakes, deformity, squishy things, and his number
one fear is fear of the dark. "At night, when I go to bed I am still at
pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets, after the lights go
out. I'm not .....
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Number of words: 478 - Number of pages: 2.... accompanied by a game of bluff that finally forced First National to give up. When the merger was called off, the Columbia directors rewarded him with the top job. At 25 he had become the youngest bank president in the country.
In 1914, now the successful bank president married the love of his life, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Rose was the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald, a leading Irish figure in Boston. Together they had 9 children, Joseph Patrick Jr., John Fitzgerald, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice Mary, Patricia, Robert Francis, Jean Ann, and Edward Moore.
By t .....
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Stephen King
Number of words: 595 - Number of pages: 3.... of Maine at Orono and earned a Bachelor's degree for English in 1970. He married Tabitha, also a writer, the same year. After graduation, he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same.
Today, is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and that number is climbing rapidly as he is translated into more languages and as he continues to release new books at a rate of almost one per year. At one point, he had an unprece .....
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John Locke
Number of words: 1964 - Number of pages: 8.... and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking. This ability to reflect, think, and reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite t .....
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Anne Boleyn
Number of words: 375 - Number of pages: 2.... man that she truly loved. Anne was bitter about
this decision that she had no say in. Anne's second love was the love of being
queen. Being queen seems to be one of her childhood dreams, which is
understandable, because many girls dream of being a princess or a queen when
they get older. Anne's final and strongest love was the love for her daughter.
Elizabeth was the most important thing in Anne's life, and she would have done
anything that she could for her daughter. For instance, she fought with Henry
many times for the sake of Elizabeth, and the most important is that she chose
death .....
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Henry David Thoreau
Number of words: 670 - Number of pages: 3.... with nature.
Solitude was a noble thing in his experiment. His experiment was based on him leaving the town to find a place where he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the industrial revolution of America. He wanted to be alone and being able to concentrate on nature and his spiritual side. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.” I think the reason for him being in love with himself and being by himself is that he thinks you have to be alone to be able to ap .....
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Catherine The Great
Number of words: 742 - Number of pages: 3.... to select capable assistants--for
example, Nikita PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the
military, and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of
the Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter
I--westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she
did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but
rather encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She
succeeded to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the
overwhelming majority of the population--the enserfed p .....
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Emily Dickinson 4
Number of words: 2858 - Number of pages: 11.... as a remarkably ambitious man—“a typical success-oriented, work-oriented citizen of expansionist America,” in Richard Sewall’s characterization. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, he soon became the leading lawyer in town. For thirty-seven years he was the treasurer of the college that his father helped establish in 1821. Besides this, Edward had accomplished much success in his life but biographers of Emily’s life believe that he paid for his public success through his emotional destitution. Emily’s father was a rigorous Calvinist and dominated th .....
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