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Bruce Lee
Number of words: 836 - Number of pages: 4.... Cha-Cha dancing. For four years Bruce was dancing and taking Kung-Fu lessons. “At the same time he entered the 1958 Boxing Championships and defeated the reigning three year champion, Gary Elms.”(1-2) Bruce was involved in many street fights because of his experience in boxing. His parents decided to have him move back to San Francisco.
In 1959 Bruce returned to America and lived with an old friend of his fathers. Bruce worked on some odd jobs around the Chinese community. He lived there for two years then decided to move to Seattle with another old friend of his. He enrolled at t .....
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Stephen Sondheim
Number of words: 632 - Number of pages: 3.... Never Do Anything Twice". His first score as composer-lyricist was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) - a show so funny few people spotted how experimental it was: it's still the only successful musical farce. In the following three decades, critics detected a Sondheim style - a fondness for the harmonic language of Ravel and Debussy; a reliance on vamps and skewed harmonies to destabilise the melody; a tendency to densely literate lyrics. But, all that said, it's the versatility that still impresses: you couldn't swap a song from the exuberantly explosive pit-band sc .....
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D.h. Lawrence
Number of words: 766 - Number of pages: 3.... Also, the most significant of his early fiction, Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another
wonderful example of the nature in ’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the images he has given to a person, make it seem like they really are there. “She closed her sunshade and walked slowly among the many flowers. All around were rose bushes, big banks of roses, then roses hanging or tumbling from pillars, or roses balanced on the standard bushes.” The nature in his books truly surrounds a person.
His writing contained heighte .....
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Michael Jordan 3
Number of words: 983 - Number of pages: 4.... Larry whenever he could. Michael never expected what would come in the near future.
Michael Jordan went to the University of North Carolina as a basketball recruit. Even though Jordan at 6'5" was a man with potential, he still studied very hard in an attempt to get a good education, while competing in sports. Mike wasn't expected to be a star of the Tar Heels, since they had players such as James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and Al Wood. But, by the end of the
1981-82 season, Jordan, as a freshman, was an everyday starter. Carolina reached the Final Four with the help of Jordan, who had sixteen .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of words: 250 - Number of pages: 1.... job as a court musician at Weimar. There
he became known as a great organist. In 1717, the Prince of Cothen invited Bach
to become Kappelmeister in Cothen. The Duke of Weimar refused to let Bach go to
Cothen, however, and confined him in a gaol for a time.
After Bach was released by the Duke of Weimar, Bach took up the Prince
of Cothen on his offer and stayed with him in Cothen for a period of six years.
It was there in Cothen that Bach became widely known for his skill as organist
and his ability to compose sacred and secular music. His stay in Cothen staged
his fame in his country for .....
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Tiger Woods
Number of words: 833 - Number of pages: 4.... States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older, he began to compete in the Junior Nationals tournaments against older boys. He didn’t have the strength to drive the ball far, but he had skill; he was blessed. Earl made Tiger some miniature clubs out of his old ones and from that moment on, he was obses .....
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Paul L. Dunbar
Number of words: 1163 - Number of pages: 5.... of poetry, “Oak and Ivy” was published in 1893. Many of his poems and stories were written in Afro-American dialect, of which he was initially most noted for (Martin and Hudson 16).
His second volume, “Majors and Minors” was published in 1895. “Majors and Minor” were a collection of poems that was written in standard English (“major”) and in dialect (“minor”) (Young 373). It was this book that fixed him on his literary path. This book attracted favorable notice by novelist and critic, William Dean Howells who also introduced Dunbar’s next book, “Lyrics of Low .....
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Number of words: 317 - Number of pages: 2.... active member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s, waged a vigorous fight against isolationism and pacifism before and during World War II, and in 1944 helped to found the Liberal Party in New York State. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on June 1, 1971.
Niebuhr indicated his overriding interest in what has been called theological anthropology, a concern with the nature of man as a contact point for religion and society, in such major works as Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Interpretati .....
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The Life And Work Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of words: 641 - Number of pages: 3.... the character and with the
same condition associated with the author, this reflects the alcoholic
temperament.
Another detail of retrospect can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House
of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick
Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister
but his cousin however the subject of incest still remains. Poe married
his cousin Virginia, who was only 13. Poe's wife in 1843 had begun showing
symptoms of tuberculosis a year after she burst a blood vessel in her
throat. Madeline Usher - the sister to Rode .....
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Abraham Lincoln: Biography
Number of words: 420 - Number of pages: 2.... It is not our
frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our army and our navy . . . Our
defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all
lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of
despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage
and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his
opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery.
The southern states, which believed they .....
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