Papers on People and Biographies
John Wayne
Words: 767 - Pages: 3.... a series of low budget films whose failing budgets
and quick shooting schedules did little to advance his career.
In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by
casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw
Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in
the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from
military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the
film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate
side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers
(1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944) and Back to Bataan
(1945) left Wayne with some pretty big shoes .....
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Bob Marley
Words: 353 - Pages: 2.... an informal soccer game. During the game Marley injured his foot and the injury showed cancerous cells. An anonymous internet article titled ³¹s Quotes² has him saying, ³Just can¹t live that negative way ... make way for that positive day.² Unfortunately Marley was a very smart guy and he knew of his fate. Being a visionary, Marley foresaw his death. He realized reality and what was going to happen to him. An internet source titled ³thirdfield² writes these lyrics by Marley: ³ŒOne bright morning when my work is over I will fly home¹² Marley was a great ambassador to the world preaching unity and justice for all. H .....
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Jon Bennet Ramsey
Words: 1837 - Pages: 7.... and they would be informed of the whereabouts to exchange their daughter for the money. However, that call never came.
Patsy screamed up to John. They both re read the ransom note again. The police were dispatched to the Ramsey home at 5:25am.
It was within this most critical time period that the police made the biggest mistakes, which may be the reason why the case has yet to be solved and probably never will.
First off, when police were dispatched to the house that morning, they were told that there was a child missing, and there was a ransom note left behind. Any person with the slightest bit of common sense would believ .....
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Led Zeppelin
Words: 6917 - Pages: 26.... in 1968. Plant joked to Jimmy Page, the guitarist leader of the group, that his innocence looked like it needed a paint job.
Page had something else on his mind. A representative of their record company, he said, had just called to report that the sales of the new album, Houses of the Holy, were spectacular. Page had been officially told that were the biggest-selling group in the whole world. A silent moment of triumph passed between Plant and Page. Across the hall, an Al Green record played on Jones's portable stereo.
"Well," said Jimmy Page, turning to the visiting writer. "What do you want to know?"
I wanted to say "everything." As a .....
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Joesph Mengele
Words: 2127 - Pages: 8.... human being". To this day, he serves as a warning signal of the evil, man is capable of doing by trying to do good for one's own race with the exclusion of others.
Josef Mengele was born March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany and his parents were Karl (1881-1959) and Walburga (?-1946) Mengele. He had two younger brothers; Karl (1912-1949 and Alois (1914-1974). He had several nicknames, one of them being Beppo. He was a bright and cheerful child in his early days. (Mengele32) He was full of ambition and had high hopes for his future. In 1930 he graduated from the Gymnasium and in 1935 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Munich. .....
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Rasputin: The Man, The Mystery
Words: 1500 - Pages: 6.... He eventually went to the monastery at Verkhoture. At this place he became aquatinted to the Khlysty sect. After spending some time at this monastery he did not become a monk. When he came to this monastery he had no intentions of becoming a monk. But this even eventually leads to fame and power for Rasputin.
At the age of nineteen, Rasputin returned to his home in Pokrovskoe. There he fell in love and married Praskovia Fyodorovna. Together the two had three children. They had Dimitri in 1897, Maria in 1898, and Varvara in 1900.
Marriage wasn’t enough to keep Rasputin in one place. He continued to wander to places of religious signi .....
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Sarah (Moore) And Angelina (Emily) Grimke
Words: 422 - Pages: 2.... they lived under. Soon afterward both
sisters moved to North Carolina to join the Anti-Slavery movement.
In 1835 Angelina wrote a letter of support to Abolitionist leader
William Lloyd Garrison who published it in his newspaper The Liberator. The
following year, 1836, she composed a thirty page pamphlet entitled An Appeal to
the Christian Women of the South. This pamphlet urged southern women to persuade
their influential husbands to re-examine the morality of the slavery institution.
A similar plea was made towards the Southern Church institutions months later in
An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Though praised by othe .....
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A Memorable Experience In Photography
Words: 639 - Pages: 3.... their lives(Images of War 9). Robert's
belief on photography is "If your pictures are not good enough, your not close
enough"(Photographs Foreword).
Robert's breakthrough in the field of photography came during the Spanish Civil
War. His most famous picture was a snapshot of a courageous man in the act of
falling(Capa18). His own special talents and course of world happenings, led
him into a role as a professional photographer of war(Images of War20). To
really admire and understand Capa, you must have a fascination for dramatic and
emotional pictures of war. There probably has been thousands who admire the
work he does. Well you can .....
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Pablo Friere
Words: 1205 - Pages: 5.... is there to educate/teach the student (oppressed) but is he really? As Freire indicates "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are." (67). He also goes on to say "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, t .....
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Words: 971 - Pages: 4.... he had come to Charlotte to teach the city's
black schoolchildren and also to support his family. He had an
intense thirst for knowledge. At a time when few educational opportunities
existed for black Americans, he studied math, music, literature and
languages. He left Charlotte to take a job as assistant principal of the State
Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. "There's time enough, but
none to spare."(1)
Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City
to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financial
news column for the New York Mail and Express. Later that year his .....
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