Papers on People and Biographies
Alfred Hitchcock
Words: 2114 - Pages: 8.... business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came just a year later with "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example of a classic Hitchcock plot. The general idea of the plot is an innocent man is accused of a crime he did not commit and through a web of mystery, danger, action, and of course love he must find the true criminal. This plot came to be used in many of Hitchcock's films throughout his career both silent and "talkie". It was not long .....
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Fidel Castro: How One Man With A Cigar Dominated American Foreign Policy
Words: 3347 - Pages: 13.... of the 1940 Constitution.
As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster
style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow.
Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a
regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that
Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own
citizens, it stifled dissent. (1)
At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion.
Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against .....
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The Works Of Sinclair Lewis
Words: 297 - Pages: 2.... and even bitter. Lewis was born in Sauk
Center, Minnesota, on February 7, 1885, and was educated at Yale
University. From 1907 to 1916 he was a newspaper reporter and a literary
editor.
In Main Street (1920) Lewis first developed the theme that was to run
through his most important work: the monotony, emotional frustration, and
lack of spiritual and intellectual values in American middle-class life.
His novel Babbitt (1922) mercilessly characterizes the small-town American
businessman who conforms blindly to the materialistic social and ethical
standards of his environment; the word "Babbitt," designating a man of this
type, has becom .....
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Joan Of Arc
Words: 552 - Pages: 3.... told her uncle what
the angels were saying and her uncle was told to take her back home until
she grew up. In 1429 she moved back to Vancouleurs were she persuaded the
people to follow her. The people also helped her find transportation and
safety to get her to where she was going.
While in France Joan used the voices in her head to help the
Dauphin, Charles VII. She told the Dauphin how she was capable of saving
France and she was given a large French army to lead. The army she was
given won many wars against the English and helped the French in the
Hundred Years' War. This gave her a place of honor next to the king in the
Cathedra .....
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Tom Clancy
Words: 841 - Pages: 4.... praised the book and helped boost it to bestseller lists. Clancy continued to use plots based on political issues of the world.
All of his novels were on bestseller lists. Clear and Present Danger sold more copies than any other novel that was published in the 1980’s. Clancy has been called the creator of the "techno-thriller" genre. He uses extremely detailed descriptions of military technology and weapons to create realism. Occasionally, his descriptions, which were derived from declassified information and interviews, were so accurate that military officials disapproved of them because they found the descriptions of wea .....
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J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
Words: 607 - Pages: 3.... same goes for dishing the dirt on his life. He's a private person who
wrote very personal stories. I feel that, even if there is not enough on
the pages to satisfy, what is there is filling enough. He gave the world
one novel and 35 short stories and that's all. He has actively resisted
surrenderring his whole life to public scrutiny, and that is not an easy
thing to do. I refuse to chip away at that shell. Besides, who cares about
his old loves and trips to Europe and family problems and all? That's what
fiction is for, after all!
So, some ask, why do I reveal the 22 "missing" stories and the titles of so
many others? I do it beca .....
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My Autobiography.
Words: 391 - Pages: 2.... brother is my half brother he is my father's son. I'm not sure who his mother is.When I was young my mother didnt tell anyone about me and my sister, it sort of upset me when my little sister was born because she made a big public statement about it.But I know she loves me even if she leaved me at home all the time by myself. I go to public school and my last name is Reynolds like my grandmother. There is no Fisher found in my name at all. After my dad left my mother changed my last name completely and hid my birth certifacate so I couldent find it. I can understand that, in a way. I know my brothers last name is Curtis but I don't know an .....
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Georges Seurat - Hi Painting
Words: 1600 - Pages: 6.... is an island newly adopted by the Parisian middle class as a place for quiet Sunday gatherings. The painting looks very realistic. The figures and the way they are dressed look lifelike as does the beautiful landscape in the background. The colors and the painting style, pointillism, make this painting very realistic. The question is, how does Seurat go about making the painting look so lifelike?
Pointillism was a major reason in why Seurats painting looks so lifelike. During the painting of La Grande Jatte, Seurat simplified his brushwork to such an extent that his painting seems to be composed of nothing but tiny, more or less ci .....
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Nicholas Romanov
Words: 1509 - Pages: 6.... to emerge from feudalism. In political terms it was also backward, there was no legal political parties nor was there any centrally elected government .
Russia at this time was under tsarist rule by Nicholas II of the Romanov empire. Nicholas II was brought up by his father Alexander III who didn’t believe that his son could take an intelligent interest in anything and therefore did not educate him in the business of state . The fact that his father who died at age 49 thought that he had many more years ahead of him may also be another factor behind Nicholas’ poor leadership of Russia .
Alexander who died in 1894 had left Russia with .....
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Mark Twain
Words: 2304 - Pages: 9.... a narcotic cost him most of his savings and money soon became tight (Paine 34-35). The family soon grew with the birth of Pamela late in 1827. Their third child, Pleasant Hannibal, did not live past three months, due to illness. In 1830 Margaret was born and the family moved to Pall Mall, a rural county in Tennessee. After Henry’s birth in 1832, the value of their farmland greatly depreciated and sent the Clemenses on the road again. Now they would stay with Jane’s sister in Florida, Missouri where she ran a successful business with her husband. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the small remote town of Florida, Missouri. Samue .....
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