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Tom Clancy
Number of words: 841 - Number of pages: 4.... sold more copies than any other novel that was published in the 1980’s. Clancy has been called the creator of the "techno-thriller" genre. He uses extremely detailed descriptions of military technology and weapons to create realism. Occasionally, his descriptions, which were derived from declassified information and interviews, were so accurate that military officials disapproved of them because they found the descriptions of weapons and tactics to be very close to reality. Today Clancy continues to write successful novels.
One of Clancy’s most popular books is Rainbow .....
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Albert Camus
Number of words: 563 - Number of pages: 3.... while the world is chaotic, obscure, and indifferent and offers only suffering and death. Thus human beings are alienated from the world. Integrity and dignity require them to face and accept the human condition as it is and to find purely human solutions to their plight. He used a simple and clear but elegant form of writing to convey his ideas about morality, justice and love. In 1957, Camus received the Nobel price for literature. He was deeply troubled by the Algerian War of Independence and he immersed himself in the theatre and working on an autobiographical novel. He died in an automo .....
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Jane Addams
Number of words: 1340 - Number of pages: 5.... influenced by her father, an idealist and philanthropist of Quaker tendencies and a state senator of Illinois for16 years” (Gale 54).
Her determination was seen early in her life. Even though many women were advised not to go to college because they were meant for marriage and not education, at the age of 17, Addams enrolled into a woman college called Rockford Seminary. “During her 4 years at Rockford, she took courses in German, Latin, Greek, history, literature, algebra, and trigonometry. She also studied science-geology, chemistry, mineralogy, and astronomy-as well as music, .....
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Galileo Gallilei
Number of words: 995 - Number of pages: 4.... duke’s mathematician intervened and persuaded Vincenzio to allow Galileo to study mathematics on the condition that after one year, all of Galileo’s support would be cut off and he was on his own.
In the spring of 1585, Galileo skipped his final exams and left the university without a degree. He began finding work as a math tutor. In November of 1589, Galileo found a position as a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa, the same one he had left without a degree four years before. Galileo was a brilliant teacher, but his radical ways of thinking and open criticism of Aristot .....
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Number of words: 542 - Number of pages: 2.... from peasants because of his claim of being a “self- proclaimed holy man” (Rasputin).
“[Grigory] underwent a religious conversion at 18, where he was introduced to the Khlysty sect” (Rasputin). Rasputin’s ideas were heretical from the chruch’s viewpoint, however he was charged with using religion to impress people and “advance himself” (Fuhrmann 44). A doctrine of the Khlysty sect states that “one was nearest God
when feeling holy passionlessness and that the best way to reach such a state was through the sexual exhaustion that came after prolonged debauchery” .....
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Dylan Thomas
Number of words: 1164 - Number of pages: 5.... 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 tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, his famous play for voices.(Bookshelf ’98)
During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, he collapsed in his New York hotel. He was but a few days past his 39th birthday. He died on Noovenber 9th, 1953 at St. Vincents Hospital, New York. His alcoholism was legendary and no doubt played a significant role i .....
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Joan Of Arc
Number of words: 1903 - Number of pages: 7.... in what was called the
Hundred Years' War, much of Northern France was captured by the English,
including Reims where the coronation for kings had been held for over centuries
before him. Since Reims was captured, Charles the VII, who had not yet been
crowned; was still called the Dauphin. When Joan had these visions of Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret, she told her family and friends. When she told
her father, he would not let her go. After when these Visions told her that
England and Burgundy, England's ally, were going to capture Orleans, one of
France's last strong forces, she .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 527 - Number of pages: 2.... were dependent upon the white man, while he, himself was
dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his
acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large
expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis
of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana
territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the
constitution, nowhere in the constitution is the acquisition of land a
right of the government, Jeffersons' predisposition was to strictly go by
the constitution (as seen with the natio .....
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Tiger Woods: The Making Of A Champion
Number of words: 502 - Number of pages: 2.... to win the U.S Juniors. He quotes " when I am up at the tee all I
think about is where I want my ball to go". During this whole time Tiger
attended Stanford college and maintained straight A's in his sophomore year. He
had originally planed to graduate from Stanford before going pro, but when Nike
offered him a 42 million dollar deal to wear their clothes for 5 years he couldn'
t resist. This was not the only reason he decided to go pro. After an excellent
finish in the British Open, Tiger felt that he also had enough mental strength
to go pro. His parents are very support .....
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Margaret Bourke-White
Number of words: 567 - Number of pages: 3.... to take his picture but she didn't have her camera with her. She ran into a camera store and asked to rent or borrow a camera. The picture became one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends.
One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published in magazines all over the country and got Margaret her first big job, at Fortune magazine in New York. With Margaret's photos Fortune became one of the leading .....
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