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Anna Knight
Number of words: 1249 - Number of pages: 5.... she was able to convince them to teach her to read and write. She learned to write by copying words in the sand. Like a good neighbor, Anna taught the children younger than her the things she had learned. In this way, she was teacher even as a young child.
Anna was introduced to the Adventist Church in a very unconventional way. Usually the case with new converts is that they have friends that bring them to church, or maybe even complete strangers that introduce them to their religion. Neither of these conventional ways was the case for Anna. It seems that doing things the unconvention .....
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X Comparison
Number of words: 1911 - Number of pages: 7.... became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday, achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Ma .....
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Albert Camus
Number of words: 597 - Number of pages: 3.... by marriage, Gustave Acault, who provided Albert with a better environment as well as an actual father figure. After enduring the hardships of his childhood, Camus began writing at age seventeen.
Camus wrote many influential works and gained much success, starting at age seventeen, when he decided to strive to become a writer. Albert's first "literary experience" was gained as a member of the "North African Literary Group." By 1932, he was writing articles for the magazine entitled Sud. Albert entered the University of Algiers on scholarships in this same year. As an art critic, he wrot .....
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Hayden Carruth
Number of words: 925 - Number of pages: 4.... including the Lenore Marshall Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the
Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth
Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Circle Award
for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991.
In "Another" Carruth comments on the goal of poetry. He begins by
dismissing truth and beauty;
"Truth and beauty
were never the
aims of proper poetry
and the era
which proclaimed them
was a brutal
era."
-Another
The era mite have been brutal but "truth and beauty" where and still are
a large part of "prope .....
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Winston Churchill
Number of words: 1348 - Number of pages: 5.... began to change, however, and he "changed sides" in
1904, when he abandoned the Conservative party for the Liberals. When the
Liberals came to power in 1905, Churchill entered the government as secretary of
state for the colonies. In 1908, the year of his marriage to Clementine Hosier,
he became a member of the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. Winston's
political missions became more and more important, in 1910 he became a member of
the Admirality. In 1913-1914 Churchill completed British naval preparations for
war. During World War Churchhill made some fatal mistakes in .....
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Christopher Reeve
Number of words: 716 - Number of pages: 3.... nineteen seventy-eight movie Superman, he was given the lead role as Clark Kent/Superman. Reeve was an outstanding Superman both on and off the screen. He made Clark Kent/Superman a believable character, says Reeves "somebody you can take home and introduce to your parents". This part was just like Reeve, A down home good boy with good brains and a great heart.
Reeves went onto appear in a total of 17 feature films, and 12 or so television movies and one hundred and fifty or more plays. With him, it was not about he money. That may be what makes him so great. He turned down m .....
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Eudora Welty: Her Life And Her Works
Number of words: 1230 - Number of pages: 5.... distant swimmer. From my position I was looking through a rectangle
brightly lit, actually glaring at me with sun, sand, water, a little
pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a
border of dark rounded oak trees, like that engraved thunderclouds
surrounding illustrations in the bible"(Welty,75). Welty's long sentence
structure and word usage allows the reader to feel as though he or she were
the one sitting on the beach. This description helps the reader to be
involved in the story. He or she could feel as though he or she were a
part of the story instead of .....
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Sam Walton
Number of words: 758 - Number of pages: 3.... in order to make a bigger profit in the long run. It can probably be stated that would not have been as successful if his devoted wife had not been there along his side. Always there for him, Mrs. Walton was able to keep the entire family together during the hard and difficult times. While Sam was out doing the dirty work trying to make something of his business, Mrs. Walton was playing the role of mother and father back at home. had to create and develop his business in a very difficult environment. Competition was all around, and most people saw Walton’s store as a dead-end flop wh .....
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Ulysses S. Grant
Number of words: 524 - Number of pages: 2.... from the Union Grant had no troubles making up his mind to fight for the Union cause. Grant organized the first group of Union volunteers in Galena and accompanied the men to Springfield. Grant longed for active duty and, on May 24, 1861, offered his services to the U.S. government, suggesting that he was “ competent to command a regiment.” Although he failed to gain this appointment, he accepted from Governor Yates the command of the 21st Illinois Regiment, quickly brought it under excellent discipline, and did good service against guerrillas in Missouri.
On August 7, 1861, Pres .....
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Dustin Hoffman
Number of words: 495 - Number of pages: 2.... of that film had casted the wrong
actor but after watching more of the film I changed my mind. His character
in this movie was probably difficult to act because of the events that took
place in the film. His character's personality and surroundings changed so
much. One minute Hoffman's character is a white Indian and the next he's a
gunfighter.
I thought that the role that Hoffman played in “Kramer Vs. Kramer”
was fairly simple, however it showed how he could play diverse roles in
different movies. In this film he played a father who's wife left him and
his son but then returns an .....
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