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The Life And Works Of Samual Clemens
Words: 976 / Pages: 4 .... Clemens went back to his
brother who had been appointed secretary of the territory of Nevada.
Realizing that he had no money Clemens tried his hand in prospecting, which
he found was not his cup of tea. He then became a reporter, but he was
quickly moved up to editor of the Virginia City, Nev., Enterprise, this is
when he began using Pseudonym “Mark Twain”. In 1864 Twain joined the staff
of the Morning Call, which is when he met Bret Harte, the first purely
literary figure he had ever known. The next year he wrote The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. After his publishment he was sent around
the world by the Sacromento Union. Lat .....
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Michael Jordan: The Early Years.
Words: 1164 / Pages: 5 .... the star in baseball he once was. He was still
very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career,
he dropped baseball to pursue another interest.
Basketball and Michael.
When Michael was younger he adopted the game of basketball. Mike used
to work with his father in the garage. While working with his father, Michael
picked up the habit of sticking his tongue out in an intense situation. When
Michael reached the ninth grade, he tried out for basketball. Coach Lynch,
Michael's coach, cut Michael which in turn may have made the best player alive
today. Michael then took practicing basketball to another level. He pl .....
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Neil Armstrong
Words: 785 / Pages: 3 .... himself. In case of any emergencies with the two men before
the launch, either physical or mental, a backup crew was made. The backup crew
consisted of Charles Conrad Junior, and Richard Gordon Junior. The objectives
of the mission were:
A. (Main) Rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena target vehicle (GATV)
and conduct EVA operations.
B. (Secondary) Rendezvous and dock in the 4th revolution. Perform
docked-vehicle maneuvers, Evaluate systems and conduct 10 experiments.
The mission was set to launch on March 15, 1966. Due to minor problems with the
spacecraft and launch vehicle hardware the launch was delayed one day. The
launch was successful. .....
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Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
Words: 1044 / Pages: 4 .... heroes Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant.”
(Johnson 1). It was these comic book heroes who fueled Bradbury's fondness
for science fiction. After moving to Tucson, Arizona Bradbury got a job a
local radio station because of his experience in Waukegan as an amateur
magician. “‘I was on the radio every Saturday night reading comic book
strips to the kiddies and being paid in free movie tickets, to local cinema,
where I saw ‘The Mummy,' ‘The Murders in the Wax Museum,' ‘Dracula' ...and ‘
King Kong.'” (Johnson 2). In reference to his one year in Tucson Arizona,
Bradbury recalls “‘It was one of the greatest years of my .....
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Freud
Words: 4758 / Pages: 18 .... Shakespeare, Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. To avoid disruption of his studies, he often ate in his room. After medical school, began a private practice, specializing in nervous disorders. He was soon faced with patients whose disorders made no neurological sense. For example, a patient might have lost feeling in his foot with no evidence to any sensory nerve damage. wondered if the problem could be psychological rather than physiological. Dr. evolved as he treated patients and analyzed himself. He recorded his assessment and expounded his theories in 24 volumes published between 1888 and 1939. Although his first book, The Interpretation of Drea .....
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Steven Spielberg
Words: 716 / Pages: 3 .... at the Atlanta Film Festival and led to the boy genius's
Universal Studios directing contract at the age of twenty.
Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which included an
episode of the Rod Serling series Night Gallery and the classic cult movie Duel.
His first feature, The Sugarland Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon
offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that .....
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Samuel Colt
Words: 665 / Pages: 3 .... At the age of ten he started to work at his fathers dyeing and bleaching factory. Then at the age of fourteen Samuel went back to school and later went to Amherst Academy in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Teen Years
When Samuel was a teen he worked at his father's factory. Samuel would often mix chemicals to see their reaction. This was also the time Samuel got interested in guns. He would always take his father's guns apart. One year at the public picnic Samuel filled a beer keg with gun powder and put a long wick on it. Then he put it in the river and lit the fuse, then pushed it down the river. It exploded in the river in front of all the .....
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Thomas Jefferson And Alexander Hamilton
Words: 445 / Pages: 2 .... to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He valued social
harmony. He believed that property was among the natural rights of man. He
encouraged public opinion. He had a system of free public education.
Alexander Hamilton was the symbol of the Federalist party. He had a
dream of national grandeur to which he was prepared to subordinate the
interests of the people. He had a wish to replace the Articles of
Confederation with a strong centralized government. The states were to have
virtually no power. Hamilton thought that under this essentially
monarchical plan, the national government would have unlimited sovereignty.
Hamilton worked to .....
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Grace Murray Hopper
Words: 461 / Pages: 2 .... and programed the UNIVAC I, the first commercial large-scale electronic computer. She stayed untill when it was bought by Remington Rand and latter merged with Sperry Corporation. At her retirement ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Constitution in Boston, Navy Secretary John F. Lehmann Jr. presented Admiral Hopper with the Distinguished Service Medal. More than 40 colleges and universities have conferred honorary degrees on Admiral Hopper, and she has been honored by her on several occasions. She was the recipient of the first Computer Sciences "Man of the Year" award presented by the Data Processing Management Association. Her entry in "Who's Who" requ .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Words: 947 / Pages: 4 .... instructed the young boy on the organ. In 1695 his parents died when he was only ten years old. He went to go stay with his older brother, Johann Christoph, who was a professional organist at Ohrdruf. Johann Christoph continued his younger brother’s education on the organ, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother’s care.
A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of eighteen as a “lackey and violinist” in a court orchestra in Weimar. Soon af .....
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