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Grover Cleveland
Words: 536 - Pages: 2.... became interested in
politics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor of
Buffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment.
He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation
for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the
first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried into every
detail of Grover Cleveland's life which he called "colossal impertinence".
Grover Cleveland had five children. Esther, his second daughter, was the first
and only child of a President to ever be born in the White Hous .....
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James Cameron
Words: 2107 - Pages: 8.... He later dropped out of both studies because the math in the physics course had been to hard for Cameron to deal with.
got a job as a miniature model maker at the Roger Corman Studios. The Roger Corman Studios were studios that made B-movies. They were fast and cheap productions, and none of the people working there were professionals so Cameron fit right in. He quickly moved up the ranks in the studio, jumping from one movie to another.
Cameron worked as art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars, he did special effects work and direction on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. It wasn't until 1981 when Cameron go .....
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John Woo
Words: 945 - Pages: 4.... create real characters with real emotions that the audience can sympathize with. Perhaps that is his greatest talent, and perhaps that is why he will become known as one of the greatest directors in the years to come.
’s style is definitely fast paced an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo’s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded.
Most of the movie .....
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Abigail Adams
Words: 761 - Pages: 3.... house was a sight of luxury in the eyes of the common folk in the parish. Though they lived well, the Smiths had no fortune. Abigail's father often worked with his own hands, planting corn and potatoes, gathering hay, sowing barley, or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship.
Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson. Abigail's father knew John A .....
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Herman Melville
Words: 528 - Pages: 2.... he hears the tails of the killer Mocha
Dick.
1842 Deserts and lives with the natives of nukuheva. He is later
rescued by the whaler Lucy Anne.
1843 Ships for boston aboard the native vessel for the U.S. White-Jacket
was based upon this experience.
1846 Publishes typee.
1847 Publishes Omoo
1849 Feb. 16: His son, Malcom melvelle is born.
1850 Publishes white jacket. Moves to Arrowhead farm in Pittsburg,
massachustettes.
1851 Publishes the famous moby-dick. Oct. 22 Stanwix Melville is born.
1852 Publishes Pierre which prompted one newspaper made a headline
"herman melville crazy".
1853 Elizibeth Melville is born.
185 .....
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Adolf Hitler
Words: 1218 - Pages: 5.... was able to 'hypnotise' those who listen to him. With his fiery voice he could capture an audience and show them his ways. Those who agreed with him believed he was a powerful protector. Hitler speeches led to an uproar of "Heil, Hitler!"
Hitler knew what he wanted, and he wouldn't let anything come between himself and his goal. Unfortunately his aims had no limit in terms of what he would do, and he overestimated the resources and abilities of Germany. Even though there were many experts in many different fields, Hitler wouldn't listen to any of them. He followed in his own thoughts and judgement. His generals gave out a lot of advice but .....
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Shel Silverstein
Words: 1504 - Pages: 6.... found his own hobby: entertaining others. During the 1950’s, Silverstein even served as a member of the United States Armed Forces. While in this position, he was employed as a cartoonist to help cheer up the troops during the Korean War. In 1956, the writer worked again as a cartoonist, but this time for a little-known magazine called Playboy. Despite this wide range of literary audiences, Silverstein’s main purpose was to entertain.
Two of his major collections of works of literature are the critically acclaimed Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. They have no real historic significance; they were written to enter .....
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Adolf Hitler
Words: 1359 - Pages: 5.... eyes and would I have been killed just because I did not Hitlers physical
standards. Also Hitler himself did not have blond hair and blue eyes. Next, I
don’t think that you should judge anyone by the way they look or what they do;
that is very wrong. Hitler’s idea of one dominate race was a very bad one.
Adolf Hitler was born in an Austrian town known as Braunau am Inn.
Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler’s father was a Custom
official’s, and his mother was named Klara. Alois was illegitimate, first of all
he used his mother’s name, Schicklgruber until 1876, when he adopted the name
Hitler. Adolf’s fa .....
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Ivan The Terrible
Words: 2253 - Pages: 9.... old. This is Scar Number One: The Death of Both of His Parents.
The ruling class at this time was known as the Boyars, and these Boyars held the responsibility of "taking care" of Ivan. During his childhood, Ivan would live in constant fear of them.
Ivan's first sign of mental and emotional illness came while he was a teenager. He loved to torture animals, often throwing them into the Moscow city walls, yet he spent hours in church.
Two major events took place at the age of 17. In December of 1546, Ivan made an announcement in the presence of the Metropolitan Makari and the Boyars. He said, "By the mercy of God and his pure Mother, by t .....
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Simone Martini
Words: 746 - Pages: 3.... works for the Palazzo Pubblico’s Council Chamber in Siena, successfully solved the techniques for indicating three-dimensional space. “ Simone unites the composition through the subtle relation of interweaving diagonals, and diagonally directed curves; these are carried out with remarkable consistency in the figures and drapery patterns, from the base line up to the off-center placing of the angels who hold a heavenly crown above the enthroned saint” (Hartt, 109). Also in the “Palazzo Pubblico one of his most celebrated works, the fresco of Guidoriccio da Fogliano, a commemoration of the conquest of the castle of Montema .....
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