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Mantle Vs. Mays
Number of words: 728 - Number of pages: 3.... led the American League in home runs for four years. Mantle hit over fifty home runs in two of those four years.
Mantle was moved around a lot early in the career from short stop, where he had a short error filled season in minor league ball, to right field where he became the Yankee’s regular starter. Then in the fall of 1951 he was moved again to center field after the retirement of Joe DiMaggio. Defensively Mantle was an average player that seemed to always get the job done, but never made the headlines on the defensive side of the game.
There really was no need for Mantle to mak .....
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Walter Johnson - A Pitcher
Number of words: 644 - Number of pages: 3.... $9. His first year wasn't so good but in his second year he earned the name 'the big train' with an amazing won loss record.
Back when Walter pitched they had no Cy Young awards or league MVP awards but if they had, Walter would have won a dozen of each. On a team with a won loss record of around 60 and 94 Walter usually had half of their wins. He would frequently lead the league in wins, E.R.A., and strikeouts, but even the lackluster of the Senetors had some effect on him. In 1916 he had a miniscule E.R.A. of 1.86 but lost 20 games.
It was 1924, and by hard work and determination (John .....
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Napoleon And Caesar
Number of words: 1658 - Number of pages: 7.... France, Belgium, and portions of Switzerland, Holland, and Germany west of the Rhine. For the next eight years, Caesar led military campaigns involving both the Roman legions and tribes in Gaul who were often competing among themselves. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire (Duggan 84).
Caesar's principles were to keep his forces united; to be vulnerable at no point, to strike speedily at critical points; to rely on moral factors, such as his reputation and the fear he inspired, as well as political mea .....
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Frost
Number of words: 694 - Number of pages: 3.... a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move.
In 1912, when was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. would establish himself quickly and wo .....
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Henry James And William Dean Howells
Number of words: 1046 - Number of pages: 4.... 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 himself unab .....
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Princess Diana 3
Number of words: 1087 - Number of pages: 4.... school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico.
On February 24, 1981, it was officially announced that Diana was to marry the Prince of Wales. They were married at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The ceremony drew a global television and radio audience estimated at around 1,000 million people and hundreds of tho .....
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Andrew Jackson
Number of words: 438 - Number of pages: 2.... All these childhood
factors added up and left Andrew Jackson as a touchy, irascible man.
As the oldest man ever elected to the presidency, he was sixty-one
and perhaps the most unhealthy. He had two bullets permanently lodged in
him, and often spat up blood because of them. Many missions of Andrew
Jackson's were self-righteous and stubborn. By his victory at the Battle
of New Orleans, where he killed many Native Americans, he gained enough
momentum for the American people to adore him. With this momentum as "Old
Hickory," "Old Chieftain," and "Old Hero," people felt forever indebted to
hi .....
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Nostradamus
Number of words: 2050 - Number of pages: 8.... and the Prognostications. The Prognostications are like an Almanac. They contain a series of Predictions about the next year. Because these predictions were fulfilled (or not) more than 440 years ago few are interested in them.
“The really interesting stuff is the Centuries. This name comes from the fact that each Century contains 100 prophetic verses of 4 lines. These verses are called quatrains. wrote 10 Centuries, which are commonly numbered by roman numerals I to X.” (Flanagan WWW)
left his predictions in the form of several letters, almost 1000 4-line verses called .....
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Marco Polo
Number of words: 1838 - Number of pages: 7.... particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fear everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous Silk Road. Eventually ,the Mongols discovered that it was more profitable to collect tribute from people than to kill them outright, and this policy too stimulated trade (Hull 23).
Into this favorable atmosphere a number of European traders ventured, including the family of . The Polos had long-established ties in the Levant and around the Black Sea: for example, they o .....
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Allen Ginsberg: Poet
Number of words: 1568 - Number of pages: 6.... chants.
He wrote poetry for over three decades, and in doing so, changed the course of American poetry. Ginsberg believed in open, spontaneous poetry, speaking his thoughts and emotions in a raw and "uncensored" way. This rawness seemed to transcend the censoring imposed on his poetry by his digressors who considered his writing un-publishable. His main influences in writing were Kerouac and William Blake. This particular poem, America, was written in Berkley in 1956. Basically, "America" has 3 parts to it: Ginsberg questioning America, Ginsberg "rambling" on, and Ginsberg saying "I am Ameri .....
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