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Grapes Of Wrath Rose Of Sharon
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... ction with the characters of this story, the
events themselves reveal Steinbeck's second major
area of symbolism. He uses the events to shape his
characters, as well as tell his story -- symbolic
to the test of mortal life, the very reason we are
here, so the Bible teaches us. There are several
examples that illustrate how triumphant the human
spirit can be in times of trouble and mental
fatigue. The trek West itself reveals just how
committed the Joad's were to their dreams. They
risk every...
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Martin Luther King Jr Nobel Peace Prize
333 words
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15,
1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Alberta Williams
King and Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta King's
father was the minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church
where Reverend King, Sr. and Reverend King, Jr.
served as pa stor's. Martin Luther King, Jr.
earned his B. A. degree at Morehouse College,
Atlanta, Georgia, a B. D. degree at Close
Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, and a
Ph. D. degree at Boston University, Boston,
Massachusetts. In 1954, Revere...
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Formula 1 Air Racing
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Formula 1 air racing is what I think the most
exciting form of air racing. Formerly called
midgets the Formula 1 aircraft of today weigh
about five-hundred pounds have a Continental O-
200 engine. They usually reach speeds of 250
knots. Before I get into the high tech machines of
today I will discuss some of the history of air
racing and how it branch off to formula 1. Before
world war II racing aircraft were all original
designs that greatly advanced the field of
aeronautics. The aircraft used ...
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Year Old Boy Larry Watson
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Pulitzer Prize Los Angeles
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Tony Kushner was born in New York City, Manhattan,
New York in 1956. He was raised in Lake Charles,
Louisiana. Both of his parents were musicians, and
they encouraged him to follow his dreams seeing
that he took interest in theatre at a young age.
Hes Jewish and practices the gay lifestyle. He was
educated at both Columbia University and New York
University. He received degrees in medieval
studies and in theatre. Hes currently living in
New York City. Kushner started writing his plays
in the ear...
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Matter How Hard Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel was a great man as well as a
humanitarian. His works told of the many harsh
realities of Jewish life. Due to the way he was
brought up in a strict family, where he was taught
the importance of family ties, all those lessons
helped him live through the concentration camps.
All the lessons and experiences throughout his
life contributed to his amazing writings. Elie
Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in northern
Transylvania on September 30, 1928. His real name
was Eliezer Wiesel. H...
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Prize For Literature Farewell To Arms
776 words
Do you ever ask yourself what makes life
meaningful? For American novelist and short-story
writer Ernest Hemingway, it was courage. The
characters in his works might not win, but they
always live and die bravely. Hemingway told it how
it was and didn't hold anything back. Hemingway is
well known for his novels of war, big game
hunting, fishing, and bullfighting. One of his
most famous works, "The Old Man and the Sea, "
describes an old fisherman's fight to keep a giant
fish he caught from being ...
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Love And Marriage Taming Of The Shrew
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As a comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, by William
Shakespeare, deals with a lot of very real issues.
It speaks of the winners and losers on the
marriage market, and asks us many serious moral
questions. Shakespeare presents us with two main
views on love and marriage - male dominance, and
money - the dowry for marriage and wealth as a
measurement of partner suitability. For the age in
which it was written, it is an accurate depiction
of love, life and marriage, but nowadays, such
actions as to ta...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War Ii
564 words
About 60 years ago one of the most important
monuments in history was completed. This famous
monument is Mount Rushmore. The big rock where 4
faces are carved. This big rock is located in the
Black Hills in South Dakota. Gutzon Borglum and
400 other workers spend 15 years carving the four
presidents into history. For the past 60 years the
same faces are still there. What if we carved 4
new faces into the monument? Whom should we
select? The four people I have selected have
played an important ro...
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Pulitzer Prize Glass Menagerie
720 words
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams
on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was
the second of three children of Cornelius Coffin
and Edwina Dakin Williams. His early childhood was
troubled with illnesses that left Tennessee a
terminal hypochondriac throughout the rest of his
life. He turned to writing as a method of escaping
the unhappiness that surrounded him. His first
published work was a response to an essay question
that appeared in Smart Set magazine in 1927. In
1929,...
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Frank Mccourt Literary Critic
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When a critically acclaimed Irish writer wins
numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer
Prize, for an autobiography, one becomes intrigued
as to what made this man's life so interesting.
Everyone has heard the rags-to-riches story of the
poor boy that grows up to become a success. Frank
McCourt defines his own level of despair when the
introduction to Contemporary Literary Criticisms
says, "McCourt's childhood was so bleak and
impoverished that the months he spent in the
hospital recoveri...
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Issues At Hand Friendship With Botvinnik Honeyman
907 words
A Walk in the Woods By Lee Blessing Copyright 1986
The setting of this play took place in the woods
of Geneva on a park bench. The time span for this
play included late summer, fall, late winter, and
early spring. Andrey Botvinnik is a 57 year old
man that is a career Soviet Diplomat. Botvinnik is
a light hearted man that always wants to talk
about something other than the issues at hand.
Botvinnik as a negotiator, was always known for
rejecting the proposals that would encourage arms
reductions...
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T S Elliot Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling, was born in the city of Bombay,
India on December 30, 1865. He made a significant
contribution to English Literature in various
areas including poetry, short stories, and novels.
Rudyard Kipling came from an affluent family with
his father working at the Bombay School of Art,
and his mother coming from a family of very
accomplished women. Most of his childhood was
spent in India where he was taken care of by a
baby-sitter, that instilled in him Indian culture
and traditions (Bio...
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Sylvia Plath Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath was a remarkable twentieth century
American poet. Her poetry focused on depression,
aspects on suicide and death, savage imagery,
self-destruction and painful feelings of women.
Plath's attempts to exorcise the oppressive male
figures that haunted her life served as one of the
fundamental themes in her poetry. Her poetry is a
good example on how suffering and transformation
could be within traditional poetic contexts
(Initiation p. 142). She also believed that a poem
must give expre...
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Nobel Peace Prize South African Government
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Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa in
1994. He is the country's first black president.
He was elected by the country's National Assembly.
The Assembly had been chosen in South Africa's
first elections in which the country's blacks were
allowed to vote. Blacks won a majority of the
Assembly seats, and the Assembly selected Mandela
as president. These developments marked the
beginning of a new era in South Africa. They
resulted in blacks gaining control of the
government after a long ...
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Pearl Buck 1892 1973
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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26,
1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents,
Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern
Presbyterian missionaries, and were stationed in
China. Pearl was the fourth of seven children (and
1 of only 3 who would live until adulthood). Buck
was born in the U. S. so she could be a natural U.
S. citizen. The Sydenstricker's lived in Chinkiang
(Zhenjiang), in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) province.
Pearl's father spent much time away from home,
traveling ...
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Twelve Children Morse Code
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Cheaper by the Dozen, based on a real-life story
of the Gilbreth family, is a fantastic book. This
hilarious comedy about a family with a dozen
children kept me in stitches until the end! This
family, run like a well oiled machine, took me on
Sunday rides through the country, battles in the
family court, summers at the sea, Fathers theories
on motion study, and the economic removal of the
whole families tonsils. I loved it! I find it
truly amazing. Not only did the family boast
twelve children, ...
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R Martin Luther King Jr
449 words
Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, American clergyman
and the best Nobel Peace Prize winner on the face
of this planet, one of the principal leaders of
the American civil rights movement and well-known
supporter of nonviolent protest. Dr. Martin Luther
King Junior challenges to segregation and racial
discrimination in the 1950 s and 1960 s helped
convince many white Americans to support the cause
of civil rights in the United States. After his
assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King
Junior bec...
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Royal Academy Gallery London
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Jenny Saville (career starts 1992) (Still working
in 2002) After a successful graduation from
Glasgow school of Art in 1992 Saville was already
off to a good start. Not only were all of her
paintings sold instantly but also upon return to
the school for post-graduate work she was faced
with an eighteen-month contract from Saatchi. This
supported her to create new work that went on to
be displayed in the Saatchi Gallery in London. She
was inspired by a long standing interest in
feminist theory an...
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Atomic Bomb
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Background of the Atomic Bomb It was during the
Second World War that the United States became a
world power, thanks in a large part to its
monopoly on atomic weapons. The atomic bomb is a
weapon with great explosive power that results
form the sudden release of energy upon the
splitting, or fission of the nuclei of such heavy
elements as plutonium or uranium. This new
destructive force wrecked havoc on two Japanese
cities and caused the end of World War II. It also
saved thousands of American l...
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