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Freedom Of Information Secretary Of Labor
1,430 wordsI understand that you are considering people for the most Outstanding American Award. I am not one for awards or publicity, especially from the government, but I felt that I truly deserve this award. I am the one man who has fought for the most important aspect of America, its citizens. America's most important asset is it's people, and I, more than the corporate-influenced politicians like yourself, have been the people's defender and advocate for nearly half a century. I am the man who has car...
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Pulitzer Prize Attempted Suicide
796 wordsAnne Gray Harvey was born into an upper-middle class family in Newton, Massachusetts on November 9, 1928. She attended Rogers Preparatory School and a Boston finishing school known as The Garland School. In 1948, she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton just a few months before her twentieth birthday. Anne Sexton received a scholarship from the Hart Agency in Boston, and worked there as a model for a brief time. Sexton later moved from Boston to Baltimore, back to Boston and then to San Francisco. I...
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People Laugh Make People
491 wordsMany people tell me that the first impression they get when they meet me is my sense of humor. Sometimes, I dont realize I'm being funny, because most of the things that I say come naturally; but then again, theres a need for to be funny purposely now and then I remember growing up and watching old episodes of Saturday Night Live with my dad. We used to laugh untill we couldnt breathe anymore. Ever since then, I wanted to have that power; the power to make people laugh untill they turned blue. I...
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John Wayne An American Icon
1,341 wordsMarion Morrison, also known as John Wayne, is perhaps one of the most popular movie personalities ever. He began as a mere stagehand, but by the end of his career he had developed himself as a very successful actor, producer, and director. Marion Michael Morrison was born on May 26, 1907, in Winterest, Iowa. His father, Clyde, worked as a pharmacist, and John Wayne thought of his father as the kindest, most patient man I ever knew. Later on in life, John Wayne's father developed a critical lung ...
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The Evolution Of Black Actresses In American Film
1,783 wordsThere is a rich history in American film. There is one group of people that were many times overlooked for their great attributes to American film: the Black actors. There were many aspiring black actors. Unfortunately, as in most things in the past, they did not have the same opportunities as other mainstream Hollywood actors. They were only allowed to be coons, tragic mulatto's, mammies, and the servants. Even with those roles, they were never allowed to be the leading lady. There are many asp...
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History Of The Nobel Prize Foundation
1,762 words... nd comprehensive scholarship. Mommsen had the ability to combine his command of the vast material with stunning accuracy, a strict method of organization, a youthful vigor, and a method of presentation that almost creates an artful masterpiece and alone can give a solid foundation and life to a common description. It is hard to discern whether or not to praise him solely for his mastery of the topics that he writes about, or to love him for his talent to turn carefully investigated facts int...
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
654 wordsBob Dylan is the pre-eminent poet, lyricist, and songwriter of his time. He re-energized the folk music genre; brought new lyrical depth to rock and roll and when he went electric he combined the worlds of rock and roll and country. His lyrics captured and defined the mood of a generation. Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman on May 24 th, 1941, in Minnesota. He learned to play the harmonica and piano by the age of ten and taught himself to play the guitar. Influenced by rock and roll Dylan form ...
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Nuclear Power Worked Hard
1,154 wordsBethel's life changed when he became only fourteen years old. At fourteen he watched 27 -year-old attorney Thurgood Marshall defend a young black accused of murder in Hugo, Oklahoma. Marshall was able to reduce the young man's sentence from death to life in prison. Marshall became Bethel's idol. Marshall was a main reason Bethel dreamed on becoming a civil rights lawyer. Another reason for his dream was his son, Jesse Jr... Bethel first began his college career at Tillotson College in Austin, Te...
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The Door In Wall By Marguerite De Angeli
1,266 words"The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite De Angeli The Door in the Wall written by Marguerite De Angeli is, probably, one of the most exciting books one have ever read. This book captivates the readers breath from its very beginning with the writers elegant, simple, finely crafted, and robust literary style, revealing the mystery of why did this book become Newbery Award Winner in 1950 and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1961. The paper explores Marguerite De Angelis literary style, as one of the funda...
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Iwo Jima John Wayne
1,379 wordsMarion Morrison, also known as John Wayne, is perhaps one of the most popular movie personalities ever. He began as a mere stagehand, but by the end of his career he had developed himself as a very successful actor, producer, and director. Marion Michael Morrison was born on May 26, 1907, in Winterest, Iowa. His father, Clyde, worked as a pharmacist, and John Wayne thought of his father as the? kindest, most patient man I ever knew. ? Later on in life, John Wayne? s father developed a critical l...
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Raymond Carver Strong Influence
4,015 wordsIn private desperation, Raymond Carvers characters struggle through their lives, knowing, with occasional clarity, that the good life they had once hoped would be achieved through hard work will not come about. In many ways, Carvers life was the model for all of his characters. Married to Maryann Burk on June 7 th, 1957, at nineteen, and having two children by October of 1958, the Carvers life was decided for years to come. Early on, Carver felt, along with his wife, that hard work would take ca...
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Science Fiction Short Stories
1,281 wordsIn Illinois, on August 22, 1920, Ray Bradbury was born. Ray showed promise as a writer from and early age, when he began writing short stories. As a child, he was fascinated by magic and fantasy and spent many days dreaming that he would grow to be some sort of magician or something along those lines. Bradbury first wrote, Holler Bochens Dilemma, which was printed in 1938 in an amateur fan magazine. He went on to publish his own magazine, called Future Fantasia. He published a short story called...
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Chelsea House Publishers Life And Times
697 wordsThe Life and Times of Frank Sinatra By Esme Hawes Chelsea House Publishers Philadelphia &# 61651; 1998 Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He later became known as Frank Sinatra and one of the greatest entertainers of his time. American singers, Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank. Sinatra then developed a vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental ja...
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University Of California Rocky Mountains
1,660 wordsGary Snider the American Poet A spiritual man, conscious of nature and his surroundings. He recognizes good and evil, and struggles to find his own special place in the realm of all other men. He searches far and wide for places of interest, upon arrival, he hopes to find a solemn sanctuary for man and nature. Gary Sherman Snyder, the son of Harold and Lois Snyder, was born in San Francisco, California, on May 8, 1930. The Family moved quite a few times before they settled down in Portland, Oreg...
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Quot And Quot Quot Quot
2,842 wordsDonna Allen Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, and Marion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy from an early age. Walker completed her high school education at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her family had moved in 1925. She went on to attend New Orleans University (now Dillard University) for two years. Then, after ac...
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T S Eliot Quot And Quot
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Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
518 wordsMaya Maya Angelou Maya Angelou. Maya angelou was born in Saint louis, missouri and was given name maya by her older brother who call her my or mine. when she was young she was raped by her mothers boyfriend and was mute five years. After her parents divorced she and her brother were sent to Arkansas to be raised by their potential grandmother. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisko be with their mother, who had bytes remarked. she took drama and dance lessons. at six teen years of ag...
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Martin Luther King Jr Maya Angelou
796 wordsMaya Maya Angelou Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981. She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nomination. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and del...
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Point Of View Martian Chronicles
1,247 wordsThe Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, is a science-fiction book and was written in 1946. This major work by Bradbury is a collection of short stories relating to Mars or Martians. Bradbury had a clear vision of the Mars in which these stories are set. His vision was one of a fantasy world from the Martians point of view. In this work, the humans from Earth are the aliens from outer space. Bradbury has won many awards including the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin F...
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Civil Rights Movement Raisin In The Sun
1,572 wordsLorraine Hansberry rejected the limitations of her race and gender and through her written works, became a social activist and expanded the role of a black woman in America. Lorraine Hansberry wrote many works that allowed her to explain her views. She also explored these ideas through playwrights. Lorraine Hansberry was said to be a spearhead of the future. She was a woman who refused to be confined by the categories of race and gender (Tripp 3). Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930. Both of her...
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