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William Shakespeare
Words: 339 / Pages: 2 .... my bones.
-seven years after his death his friends John Hemings and Henry Condell published a book containing 36 plays, which was called the "First Folio"
-"He was not of an age, but for all time." Ben Johnson
His Life in the Theatre
-considered to be the greatest dramatist in the world
-only the Bible is read more than Shakespeare's plays
-from 1593 - 1613 he wrote 37 plays, acted, helped manage an acting troup and was part owner of the "Old Globe Theatre"
-1593-1594 the theatres were closed because of the plague and Shakespeare wrote his narrative poetry
-little is known about Shakespeare because he did not write about himself, nor did he pu .....
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Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
Words: 513 / Pages: 2 .... due to a large tumor in his body that turned out to be mallignent. Once the doctors tried to go on and remove the tumor, they were shocked to see that it was the size of a grapefruit. His wife, Joy Piccolo, stood at his side the entire operation and everynight there after. Brian and Joy were what most people would call the "ideal" couple. Brian was the All-American hardworking athlete, while Joy was the loving supportive wife that stood by his side no matter what his successes or failures might bring. Brian lived through the operation, but then the Piccolo's got another piece of disheartening piece of news. What was this piece of news, you mig .....
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Charles Darwin
Words: 370 / Pages: 2 .... sold out on the first
day of publication and subsequently went through six editions.
Charles Darwin also contributed to the Market economy with his belief
"survival of the fittest." In a free enterprise system, it is believed that the
best will survive while the less efficient will collapse if the market is
allowed to work without government interference. In a market economy, since the
government has very little control of the businesses, the companies must work
their hardest and come out with good products that will outsell the ones of
their competition.
Social Darwinism basically means that the strong will control the weak.
Social Darwinism .....
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James Buchanan
Words: 675 / Pages: 3 .... to
return and graduated on high honors. After college he left and went to study law
in Lancaster PA. James worked hard and later became a successful lawyer. He made
more than 11,000 a year. James became a canidate for the Pennsylavania
legislature in 1814. But the war of 1812 was growing fast. The British Had just
burned down Washingto D.C. James volunteered to serve his country so he joined a
calvary company. Buchanan returned for the election and won a seat in
legislature in 1814. He served another term and returnd to Lancaster.
James Buchanan became a popular person in Lancaster and was invited
to many partys and dinners. At one part .....
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Josef Stalin
Words: 558 / Pages: 3 .... Stalin escaped in 1904, and married his first wife,
Yekaterina Svanidze. She died six years later, in 1910. After her death,
Stalin was subsequently arrested eight times, six in which he escaped. He
was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was
released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause.
He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central
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Nicholas Ferrar
Words: 1266 / Pages: 5 .... to Europe, spending time in the warmer
climate of Italy.
On his return to England he found his family had fared badly. His brother John
had become over extended financially and the Virginia Company was in danger of
loosing its charter. Nicholas dedicated himself to saving the family fortune and
was successful. He served for a short time as Member of Parliament, where he
tried to promote the cause for the Virginia Company. His efforts were in vain
for the company lost their charter anyway. Nicholas is given credit for founding
a Christian community called the English Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in
Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar w .....
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Ron Howard
Words: 806 / Pages: 3 .... of the confused he is know as Opie Cunningham. (sitcomsonline)
The television producer Sheldon Leonard, who had seen Howard’s performance in Barnaby and Mr. O’Mally, cast the actor in the "Andy Griffith Show" which began its eight years on CBS on October 3, 1960. The gentle and subtle comedy of the show was set in the sleepy town of Mayberry, North Carolina, and was centered on the daily lives of sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith), his young son, Opie (Howard), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), who was the live in housekeeper and Opei’s surrogate mother, and Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Andy’s deputy. The scenes between Andy and Opie were sen .....
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Frost
Words: 694 / Pages: 3 .... and a newspaper reporter.
Then in 1895 married Elinor White whom he had been co-valedictorians with in high school. Then between 1897 and 1899 felt the need to go back to college he attended Harvard as a special student only to leave without a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move.
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Andy Worhal
Words: 1957 / Pages: 8 .... in old jeans and sneakers, Warhol attempted to intermingle with anyone at all who might be able to assist him in the art world. His portfolio secure in a brown paper bag, Warhol introduced himself and showed his work to anyone that could help him out. Eventually, he got a job with Glamour magazine, doing illustrations for an article called "Success is a Job in New York," along with doing a spread showing women’s shoes. Proving his reliability and skills, he acquired other such jobs, illustrating adds for Harpers Bazaar, Millers Shoes, contributing to other large corporate image-building campaigns, doing designs for the Upjohn Company, .....
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Adolph Hitlers' Rise To Power
Words: 1039 / Pages: 4 .... used propaganda, an understanding of what the word means is required. According to Merriam-Webster, "propaganda is the spreading of ideas to further or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler used propaganda as his tool to further his ideas and help him gain the backing of the people in the country. The form of propaganda he used, and was successful in using, were his words. Hitler made many speeches, but the one speech that was a famous one, was his final speech at his trial for treason. In this speech he gave his views and opinions on the events preceding the trial. This is an excerpt from his speech: "...I a .....
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