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Billie Holiday
Number of words: 643 - Number of pages: 3.... to their further abandonment of Billie. Aside from the superficial tension between Billie and her mother, they did their best to remain loyal to one another and provide for each other (W 201).
As Billie grew older, life grew harder and reality slowly became more and more real for her. At age 10, Billie was raped, further strengthening Billie's image of reality. As Billie grew older she became carefree and grew to have a strong temper. One musician remembers Billie as "a child, 11 or 12 years old, shouting the worst words she knew in the street, anxious to be grown up" (W 35). And on the n .....
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Levi
Number of words: 651 - Number of pages: 3.... factory producing paints. He retired in 1977 to become a full-time writer.
His prison recollections wrote in the form of memoir, Se questo è un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity, and brought about annihilation of the internees. 's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors, in spite of the brutality to which he was subjected. LA TRE .....
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Gillian Anderson
Number of words: 1247 - Number of pages: 5.... point, it is safe to say that the Anderson family was somewhat nomadic. Now being an inhabitant of England, the family moved several more times. At the age of 5, Gillian was living in Crouch End in north London, where she attended her first school. By this time Gillian had spent most of her life in London but had picked up her parents’ American accent. Her classmates teased and taunted her, and she was bullied in the schoolyard. She immediately learned how to fight back, and she practiced her north London accent until it became impeccable enough to call her own. By the time Gillian .....
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Writings Of Maya Angelou
Number of words: 775 - Number of pages: 3.... and have sex with her. This resulted in pregnancy.
She gave birth to her son, Guy, a month after she graduated from high
school in 1945 (“Maya” 18). When she was growing up, she suffered from
people being racist toward her. For example, when she was younger her
grandmother took her to a white dentist that refused to put his hands in a
black persons mouth (Arensberg 118). Occasions like such convinced her
that she had to take the pain and move on. Much of Maya Angelou’s writing
stresses the themes of courage, self-acceptance, and realization of one’s
life (“Maya” 18).
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Robert Johnson
Number of words: 2949 - Number of pages: 11.... in the backyard or me, when I’d be singin round the house. And he just love church… Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh." (Lomax, 14) Thus, Robert was first introduced by his church into the world of music and was forever captured by its beauty. Mrs. Johnson didn’t have much trouble with Robert as a child but as he grew older, he became more and more intrigued about the extravagant life of the bluesmen, and taken by the spiritual music. He started following the musicians around, staying out .....
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George Washington Carver
Number of words: 1365 - Number of pages: 5.... gained him the name "plant doctor."
George had his own playmates to play childhood games with. Though his parents and playmates were white, he developed a strong friendship with most everybody and continued contact with them even after he left his hometown. The nighttime was about the same as everybody’s, except George and his brother went out to explore while the elders were asleep. During the night he would observe plants and also have fun riding sheep until punished by his parents. George learned very quickly. He mastered everything that was taught to him. This life style helped .....
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The Life Of Julius Caesar
Number of words: 1364 - Number of pages: 5.... Pompey to bring about Caesar's fall. The Senate’s plan
backfired, giving Caesar full control of Rome and bringing about the end of
Pompey’s life.
Caesar succeeded in bringing order back to the face of Rome. First
he reformed the existing Roman calender. The existing calender was
corrupt because it did not synchronize with the solar year. Priests were
allowed to prolong the calender at their will and some used it to their
advantages. Caesar put an end to this by setting a new calender which
consisted of 365 days and a leap year, every four years.
Caesar abhorre .....
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Biography Of Dr. Maria Montessori
Number of words: 704 - Number of pages: 3.... teacher, Whose task it was not to
judge the children. She felt it was the teachers role to help guide and
enlighten something that was asleep in the student. Mental work would not
exhaust the child, it would give the child nourishment. Through her
observations and trial and error, she developed what became known as the
Montessori Method of education. She experimented with materials that would
awaken the childÕs potential. It was a radical departure In MontessoriÕs
time.
A new housing project was being built in a part of Rome. The
tenants of the housing project where day labore .....
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Andrew Carnegie
Number of words: 1149 - Number of pages: 5.... making a miniscule amount of money. Although the Carnegies lacked in money, they abounded in ideals and training for their children. At age 15, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. He learned to send and decipher telegraphic messages and became a telegraph operator at the age of 17. Carnegie’s next job was as a railroad clerk, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked his way up the ladder, through his dedication and honest desire to succeed, to become train dispatcher and then division manager. At this time, young Carnegie, age 24, had already made some small i .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of words: 1606 - Number of pages: 6.... whites, and if a black man ever entered a white mans home, it had to be through the back door.
Even though Martin did not like these rules, he could not change it as a child. Even with them though, he still managed to live a normal life. He loved church and reading the bible. He decided to become a minister very early in his life. That dream was not far away for him. Because he liked to read so much, it made him very smart in school and he skipped two grades. As King learned about white mans laws, he tried to think of different ways to try and change them. This is what lead him to becoming .....
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