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Neal Cassady
Words: 2683 / Pages: 10 .... would not suprisingly become one of the most influential individuals during the 1950s and 1960s.
For a time I held a unique position: among the hundreds of isolated creatures who haunted the streets of lower downtown Denver there was not one so young as myself. Of these dreary men who had committed themselves, each for his own good reason, to the task of finishing their days as pennyless drunkards, I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood to which their vision could daily turn, and in being thus grafted onto them, I became the unnatural son of a few score beaten men.
( The First Third)
With him as not only the .....
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Mikhail Lermontov
Words: 632 / Pages: 3 .... history will be examined in the book by “The Hero of Our Time.”
The book begins with story of a Muslim girl Bella being kidnapped from a Muslim house. This is our first clue to history. Russia just like any other European nation was trying to expand to gain new markets and raw materials. However this could only be done at the expanse of Eastern Tartar tribes and south of the Ural Mountains. At this moment we can see two theories emerging in the 19th century. The first one is nationalism provides by the fearsness that Tartar tribes were resisting Russian aggression. The second important characteristic trait is chauvinism portrayed by the fa .....
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General George S. Patton
Words: 3667 / Pages: 14 .... PATTON`S PERSONAL SIDE ARMS. THE IVORY HANDLED REVOLVERS BECAME HIS TRADEMARK DURING WW2. TOP SMITH & WESSON .357 MAGNUM. BOTTOM COLT .45 MODEL 1873.
Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School that he began to catch up on his aca .....
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David Hume 2
Words: 1039 / Pages: 4 .... is in agreement. Their will always be disagreements over the validity of everything because the "truth" is only how different people comprehend the things they perceive through their senses. Therefore using any type of scientific method was useless in proving certainty of human nature because there would always be enough evidence to prove the opposing view as being the truth. However the truth can be proved when referring to the relations of ideas. When dealing with things like (2+2=4), there is no openness to interpretation and no exceptions. 2+2 must always = 4 because it is based on scientific factual information and there is clearly no ar .....
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Tiger Woods
Words: 847 / Pages: 4 .... friend saves him. The friend's name was Nguyen Phong, and he was good in combat; he was a tiger in combat. Nguyen Phong had the nickname of "Tiger". Earl vowed that if he ever had an o ther son, he would call him "Tiger". After the war, back in the United States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him "Tiger". took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older, he began to compete in the Junior Nationals tournaments against older boys. He .....
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Muammar Al Qaddafi
Words: 913 / Pages: 4 .... He always was devoted to school as a kid. He would take a long hike
from the desert to school. He would come home only every Thursday, the
beginning of the Muslim weekend. Then he would go back to school. He was
the first in his family to be well educated.
One of his first goals when he was a child was to join the Libyan army.
He slowly moved up in rank. It was surprising they even let him in the
army; he had a long police record. He eventually joined the King's police.
This was when the idea of a coup attempt came. He did succeed.
Qaddafi was born in a tent in the desert 20 miles south of the sea.
This is a desolate place- burnin .....
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Ghandi 2
Words: 490 / Pages: 2 .... roots.
His actions of passive resistance presented a great force upon the British. Although hard to control at times, the idea eventually worked in the end. Gandhi practiced protesting, fasting, and the boycotting of British goods. To accomplish the last he made his own clothes that were simple and made from hand-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India.
Gandhi gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite Muslim and Hindu against their oppr .....
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Muhammad Ali - Cassius Clay
Words: 965 / Pages: 4 .... that there was a police officer in the basement of a gym, Ali went down in a horrendous state of mind exclaiming a "state wide bike hunt (http://www.planetpapers.com/jump.cgi?ID=182.html)," and said he was going to beat up the person that sole his bike.
The way his life changed was that the police officer asked him if he knew how to fight and he said "no." The policeman offered Ali lessons in how to box so that he could seek on the bike thief. This was the starting point in Muhammad Ali’s boxing career.
In the late fifties, Cassius Clay rules Golden Gloves And the AAU national champion. A quick fight at the Rome Olympics in .....
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The Reign Of Hitler
Words: 1931 / Pages: 8 .... any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the yo .....
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J.D.Salinger
Words: 1298 / Pages: 5 .... parents, in Manhattans "Highly rated" McBurney
school. They where concerned about his grades. He flunked out one year
later. Salinger was then enrolled in Valley Forge Military Academy in the
Pennsylvania Hills. It was here that certain biographical facts begin to
build up in accounting for Salinger as a writer. It was at Valley Forge
that Salinger developed a sense of being a misfit, of having been sent away
to become part of an alien institution, and that what is needed, what is
missed, is a larger, closer family.
It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some
of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war tw .....
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