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Dorothy Dandridge Ruby Dandridge Dottie
611 wordsDorothy Jean Dandridge was born on November 9, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents (Cyril and Ruby Dandridge) had a troubled marriage, which eventually lead to them going their separate ways. Ruby met the new "love" of her life, a woman, later was much despised by Dottie. She was very domineering and abusive toward Ruby's two children, especially Dottie. Early in their youth Ruby and her friend trained them for performing onstage. Between the ages 4 - 6 depending on who you ask, was about the ...
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Ahead Of His Time Freedom Of Speech
1,254 wordsLenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider, or more commonly known as Lenny Bruce, was a comedian, a family man, drug addict, and philosopher. A conventional Jewish child from Long Island, who joked about homosexuality, drugs, religion, and race. Arguably, he paved the way for the comics of today, paying the price for being twenty years ahead of his time. Addicted to vulgarity and drugs he became a regular in courtrooms across America. The humiliation he caused a Philadelphia judge is thought to be an...
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Gave Birth World Cup
606 wordsRoberto Baggio was born on February 18, 1967 to his mother Matilda and his father Fiorin do, in the small Italian town of Caldogno which is located north of the city of Vicenza. His brothers and sisters are Gianna, Walter, Carla, Giorgio, Anna Maria, Nadia, and Eddy. Roberto had much freedom as a child. His father often took him to a soccer field where he stayed until late evening. Roberto's passion for soccer was evident. Roberto started his soccer career in his home town of Caldogno, at the ag...
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Coral Gables Merrick Vision City
984 wordsGeorge Merrick, a son of a Congregational minister, Solomon Merrick, was not even thirty years old when he embarked on the construction of Coral Gables. His family first came here when he was only a child, escaping the raging blizzard happening in New England at the time. They were actually headed for Miami, but, because of a yellow fever quarantine, they decided to settle west in an area known then as "pine land. George had a vision, a vision of a city inspired by the fury and tumult of the Old...
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Boy Scouts William D
422 wordsBoy Scouting has effected the lives of many young men between the age of twelve and eight-teen. Over one million boys have been effected in America alone since 1910 when Boy Scouting was incorporated. But the story of Boy Scouting started before 1910. The Story begins in 1844, when the YMCA was founded in London. The YMCA laid the foundation for the largest organization for boys. Within the next fifteen years three of the most important figures in boy scouting were born. They are Daniel Carter B...
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Long Term Short Term
701 wordsMy job, and the job of my company, is to provide strategic consulting and advice to our clients. Eighty percent of our clients are in the steel sectors and therefore we are continuously involved in struggling with the issues of long-term development in technology, costs, markets, product specifications and industry structure. We operate world-wide and so we are continuously confronted with the need to think about global developments in the metals sectors. One of our key tasks is to provide under...
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Selling Drugs Gang Members
2,063 words... stepfather however had been raping her for years. In Texas the laws of domestic violence did not change until 1991, until then it was legal to raping your wife. This is the environment that gang kids come from. One gang member when asked about gang rape says: When it domes to gang, there is not such thing as raping. Ill tell you straight right now, the girls have a choice of initiations: (A). Fighting one-on-one with a guy for two minutes, (B) get shot in the leg with a Glock, (C). get jumpe...
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Blood Red Young Girl
721 wordsDominique and Her Determination for Identity "Dominique" is a compelling essay that takes the clich's "the clothes don't make the man, "you can't judge a book by its cover, " and "you only get one chance to make a first impression" to a new perspective. Lisa Hay, author of "Dominique, " recognizes a young girl's struggle to create a life for herself by dressing and acting out different roles. By doing this, Dominique is living up to the clich's that people -- - usually -- - try so hard to avoid....
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Hands On Method Eventually I Developed Style
614 wordsAccording to an article by Howard Gardner, there are two different ways in which American and Chinese children learn. Gardner says that Chinese children are taught using a more hands on method than American children, who he says are taught by experimenting. After reading this article, I began to think back upon the different ways in which I learned certain things. I realized that I was very rarely taught using the American style of learning. Rather I was shown in a hands on method like the Chine...
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Terrifying Past Joy Luck Club
926 wordsIn the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, four of the main characters have a secret in their past that haunt them constantly. Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair all have terribly bad experiences in China. These women try to escape their past by moving to America, but their memories still disturb them. Not only does it plague their own minds, but it also affected their daughters lives and the way they were raised. Each of these women experienced terrible events in their ...
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Billie Holiday Lady Day Work
313 wordsBillie Holiday was born on April 7 th, 1915 the daughter of a Clarence Holiday. He was also a musically talented, and played the guitar / banjo . She work at an early age in run down factories, and where ever she could get a job. Billie was discovered in a factory by Columbia Records scout John Hammond and signed in 1933. She was discovered around sixteen or seventeen, which was late to begin a career as a musician, or a sing at that matter. On her debut record she was accompanied by members of ...
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Returned To New York Coleman Hawkins Jazz
1,070 words"I think he was the most interesting jazz musician I've ever seen in my life. He just looked so authoritative... I said, 'Well, that's what I want to do when I grow up. '" (Deveaux, 35) Cannonball Adderley said these words when he first saw Coleman Hawkins with the Fletcher Henderson band at the City Auditorium in Tampa, Florida. Just as Hawkins influenced one of the greatest alto players in history, he has influenced many people to become phenomenal saxophone players. Lester Young and Sonny Rol...
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Early 1900 Women And Men
1,465 wordsLife in the 1900 's was depressing and was an era filled with extremely hard and strenuous work that didn't offer any future for the average canadian in doing better. If you were an average wage earner you would be virtually stuck in the same job for the rest of your life, while rich maintained their wealth mainly caused by the low taxes. Living conditions were poor for average canadians and even worse for the arriving immigrants. At this time some of the modern conveniences were just being inve...
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Drivers License Good Time
345 wordsEnglish 102 The date was July 1, 2000. It was a usual summer night but what made this a memorable night it was my 19 th birthday. I was finally able to go into the clubs at Canada. You see I was the last one to turn 19. Therefore, I could not enjoy the clubbing scene until now. I was nervous yet excited about this night I have been for a long time. The drive seemed like it was hours away but in reality it was only 45 minutes. When we got to the bridge I was really nervous and scared. They asked ...
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Coming Of Age End Of The Story
893 wordsJay August Children are often taught by their parents, but sometimes they must learn things on their own. When coming of age we learn many important lessons that are critical for a successful future. Sometimes the most significant learning experiences are traumatic and painful. In The Lucid Eye in Silver Town by John Updike, Jay August is an intellectual, but inexperienced individual that must overcome difficulties of frustration and disappointment to realize his childhood immaturity. The charac...
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Form Of Euthanasia Type Of Euthanasia
1,347 wordsYou are Euthanasia 4 Euthanasia You are on your way home from work and suddenly a car swerves out of control and slams into the side of your car, leaving you paralyzed. So now what? There are only two things that are certain in this life, Everyone is born and everyone will die. I am going to discuss the latter. Death could strike anyone at any time. You need to be aware of your options so that if and when you are left to deal with the choices of death you can have your mind made up ahead of time...
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Lecture Tour San Francisco
554 wordsSamuel Clemens 1861 In Hannibal, forms the voluntary militia group Marion Rangers with 14 young men; after two weeks of training, the unit disbands. Clemens goes to Nevada with his brother Orion, who is appointed secretary of a new territory. Clemens clerks for the Nevada Territorial Legislature. 1862 Works for Virginia City Territorial Enterprise 1863 Lives in Virginia City; adopts pen name Mark Twain. 1864 Moves to San Francisco; works for San Francisco Call 1865 Mines at Angels Camp, Californ...
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Copyright Laws Mp 3
985 wordsSubject: MP 3 One of Mp 3 MP 3 Subject: MP 3 One of the most exciting and innovative ways to get music these days is not in the mall and not at a huge mega electronic store, its not even by a mail order CD club, it sits right on a desk and can allow you access to almost any kind of music available right in our home. Technology is changing the way we listen to music now downloading an MP 3 from the Internet is as easy if not a lot easier than going to the store and buying the CD. An MP 3 is a nea...
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Actively Involved Elementary School
841 wordsI never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took my where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me. I have chosen to go to the local community college to get used to the col...
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Five Year Plans Stalin
794 wordsPeople Stalin ruled Russia from 1928 to 1953. He had some short-term impact on Russia but he was single-minded and not pragmatic- unlike Lenin- therefore his impact was mostly long-term. A significant belief of Lenin? s had been that everybody should be equal. Where women were concerned Stalin had other ideas. He reversed many laws from the 1920 s relating to women? s emancipation, in favour of strengthening the family. For example, divorce and child support (if unmarried) became more difficult ...
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