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History Of The Nobel Prize Foundation
1,732 wordsThe whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most important dis...
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Boarding School College Education
624 wordsWhat Motivates You To Seek A College What Motivates You To Seek A College Education Why Is Berea College A Good Choice For You What motivates me to seek a college education? In addition, why Berea College is a good choice for me. December 16, 2000 The last couple of years have been a long bumpy ride for me, as they have for everyone my age. No matter what, everyone has experienced many of the same? teenage? circumstances as I have and has dealt with them in their own way. As a personal participa...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Modern Critical Views
1,490 wordsFlannery O? Connor? A Good Man Is Hard To Find? A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O? Connor? s career spanned the 1950 s and early? 60 s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O? Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was a fundamentalist and a Christian moralist whose powerful apocalyptic fiction is focused in the South. Flannery O? Connor was born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. O? Connor grew up on a farm with her parents Regina and Edwa...
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Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
315 wordsNelle Harper Lee was born on the 28 th day of April in 1926, in southwest Alabama in a small town called Monroeville. Monroeville has a population of 7, 000 people. Harper Lee is the youngest of four children of Alaska Coleman Lee and Frances Lee. Harper Lee went to Huntingdon College from 1944 - 45, from 1945 - 49 she studied law at the University of Alabama, and attended one year at Oxford University. In the 1950? s she worked as a reservation clerk with BOAC in New York City and with Eastern ...
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Department Of Energy York Times
596 wordsFrom a confidential communication plan sent in 1994 to Energy Secretary Hazel Oleary and her chief of staff, by Audrey Hoffer, a public relations consultant employed by the Department of Energy. Last November, House Republicans called for Secretary Oleary's resignation after a report surfaced showing that she had used federal funds to hire a public relations firm to rank reporters by their coverage of the department. The memo excerpted below was subsequently obtained by the Associated Press. Unt...
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Workers Of The World Helen Keller
1,688 wordsImagine a life without being able to see or hear and not knowing how to communicate with anyone around you. That world of darkness is what Helen Keller lived in for six years. Helen Keller has been an inspiration to people ever since she turned six. From 1886 - 1960, she proved herself to be a creative and inspiring woman of America. She was a writer and lecturer who fought for the rights of disadvantaged people all over the world. Most importantly, she overcame her two most difficult obstacles,...
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Anne Sullivan Hellen Keller
279 wordsHellen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She became ill with a fever and was robbed of sight and sound when she was nineteen months old. Helen was taught to communicate by Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Anne Sullivan taught Hellen the word water but she had forgotten that word. On the same day she learned thirty other words. Hellens parents, Captain Author and Kate Keller, thought alot about improving Helens situation. Helen was determined to go to college: It was my right...
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Musical Talent Backstreet Boys
790 wordsPop music is incredibly popular. Not only can one hear bands such as the Backstreet Boys or N Sync playing on just about every radio station in the country, but bands such as this can be seen in toy stores in the form of action figures, or on posters hanging on the bedroom walls of pre-pubescent girls nationwide. These pretty faces and high-pitched voices are enough to drive the average, red-blooded male up the wall and beg for the days of Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top. Despite the disdain showed by t...
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Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers
1,275 wordsJack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson He was the first black person to ever be at bat in the Major Leagues, and made his name famous. But now, everyone seems to have forgotten this great legend. So I hope that this will refresh your memory, had if you ve never heard of him this is what happened in his life: Born on January 31 1919 in Cairo Ga. , Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson, he was raised on the Sasser Plantation. He grew up without a father who left for Florida with another mans wife, leaving hi...
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Short Stories Harvard University
606 wordsJohn Hoyer Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania on March 18, 1942. He was the only child of parents, Wesley Hoyer Updike, and mother, Linda Grove Hoyer. His father was a high school math teacher and his mother was a housewife. In 1936, at the age of four John began attending public schools in Shillington. Nine years later, in 1945, on Halloween day he moved with his parents and grandparents to a farm in the town of Plowville, Pennsylvania. Even though John and his family moved to a new t...
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Young Adults Library Journal
430 wordsLois Duncan is the author of over 40 books, ranging from childrens picture books to adult novels, but she is best known for her young adult suspense novels such as Killing Mr. Griffen and her newest book Gallows Hill. Many of these have been chosen as ALA Best Books for Young Adults and Jr. Library Guild Selections, and they have won Young Readers Awards in 16 states and three foreign countries. In 1992, Duncan had recieved the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the School Library Journal a...
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Pulse Of Morning Angelou Maya
360 wordsangelou, Maya (1928 -), American author, poet, and entertainer, best known for her portrayals of strong African American women. Born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, Angelou spent most of her childhood living with her grandmother in rural Arkansas. She moved to her mothers home in San Francisco after graduating with honors from Lafayette County Training School in 1940. At the age of 16 she graduated from high school, gave birth to her son Guy, and began a series of jobs, including cook...
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Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou S
810 words&# 65279; Writings of Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in California (Lupton 1). When she was three years old her parents divorced. Her father then put her and her brother on a segregated train from St. Louis, California, to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother (2). That began the roller coaster of her life. She went back and forth from her mother to her grandmother on a couple of occasions. When she was seven, she returned to live with her mother. She thought of ...
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Beginner Guide Beginner Guide To Postgraduate Study
364 wordsYour first step is to read our Beginner? s Guide to Postgraduate Study in the USA, which provides introductory information on US degrees, admission requirements, how and when to apply, admissions tests, costs, financial aid, including Fulbright awards, and visas. The Beginner? s Guide is available on our Web site, through the post, or can be collected from our London office. It is also available for reference use at university careers services in the UK. To receive the guide through the post ple...
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Monica Lewinsky One Person
353 wordsThe Tenth annual Meaningless Task Awards are approaching us quickly. There have been many people I have scrutinized for this award. After looking at all of the aspects of these people, I have chosen one person I believe to be the best candidate. The person I have chosen is Monika Lewinsky. I looked at many different aspects of many people. I looked at how much attention the person received compared to the importance of the act. I looked to see if the person had any prior actions similar to this,...
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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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Historically Accurate Oliver Stone
1,010 wordsPlatoon was filmed in 1986, and directed by Oliver Stone. The production studio that produced the film was Orion Pictures. The lead characters include Sergeant Barns, played by Tom Berenger, Sergeant Elias, played by Willem Dafoe, and Chris, played by Charlie Sheen. Chris is the ignorant college boy who comes to Vietnam on his will because he feels lost back home. The character is based off the director Oliver Stone, who dropped out of Yale to join the war effort. Although he is glad to get away...
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Nobel Prize Immune System
997 wordsI. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affect...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
753 wordsIn 1961, West Side Story, a filmed version of the hit Broadway musical that was inspired by William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet, was released to viewers, who just could not resist the energy and excitement of the movie. Thirty-eight years later, viewers, like myself, still cannot resist it. I had never seen the film, which was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, before, but I had always wondered why people loved this multi award-winning movie so much. After viewing the film, I think t...
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Sylvia Plath Life Enjoy
279 wordsSylvia was born in 1932 and had a difficult childhood due to her feelings of inadequacy and her constant need to please her parents. These feelings became intensified when her father died in 1940, and when the family moved Wellesley and Sylvia had to leave close friends. Continuing to excel and earn honors and awards in school and especially in writing, Sylvia attended Smith College in 1950. During her college years, Sylvia remained unsatisfied with her successes, depressed, and disappointed, le...
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