Papers on People and Biographies
Alice Walker
Words: 1479 - Pages: 6.... a Jewish civil rights lawyer; afterward, they worked together in Mississippi, registering blacks to vote. In the summer of 1968, she went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
In 1970, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, about the ravages of racism on a black sharecropping family. In Meridian, 1976, her second novel, she explored a woman’s successful efforts to .....
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Christ Is The Answer - John Saward
Words: 2306 - Pages: 9.... of having Christ at the Centre'. " (Saward , 1 ) Through many swamps of confusion and distractions of daily life, Christ has been and will always be the answer to life. That answer can easily be forgotten and pushed aside by routines. Even if it is forgotten or lost in the fog, Christ's work is still very visible to this day. This is visible through the work of John Paul II. From the very beginning of Pope John Paul II's Pontificate, he stressed the importance of Christocentricity. "The opening words of his first encyclical state the truth upon which all his teaching is built: ' The Redeemer of man , Jesus Christ is the centre o .....
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Babe Ruth 3
Words: 1288 - Pages: 5.... guy at St. Mary’s. He spent a lot of time with George. He even helped Ruth learn to be a baseball player.
Baseball was a popular game for the boys at St. Mary’s and George played well at a young age. He played all positions on the field, was an excellent pitcher and had the ability to hit the ball very well. By his late teens Ruth had developed into a major league baseball prospect. On February 27, 1914, at the age of nineteen, the Baltimore Orioles signed Babe to his first professional baseball contract. Because Ruth’s parents had signed over custody of him to St. Mary’s, he was supposed to remain at the .....
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Jack Kevorkian
Words: 1715 - Pages: 7.... process, and effects of Dr. Kevorkian¹s questionable first patient, Janet Adkins, have a very detailed story in them.
Janet Adkins led a very productive life up to and even after she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer¹s, but she couldn¹t handle losing control of her brain (Filene 188). She was 54 years old and lived in a wealthy Oregon suburb with her stock broker husband, Ron. She was also the mother of three sons, taught English and piano, went hang gliding, trekked in Nepal, climbed Mount Hood, and generally behaved with a lot of energy (Gutmann 20). She and her husband were longtime Hemlock society members, which advocat .....
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John Muir
Words: 432 - Pages: 2.... across the country. He walked thousands of miles. He traveled to California to see Yosemite Valley. He worked at a hotel there in the winter. He wrote magizine articles about mountains, glaciers, trees, flowers, birds, animals and insects. People that read the articles came to see the mountains.
While visiting friends in Oakland, California, he met Louise Wanda Strentzel. They married in the spring of 1880. John became a grape and pear farmer. They had two daughters and named Wanda and Helen. As soon as they were old enough John taught them John taught them about plants and animals.
John's farm did well and he was able to contin .....
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Mantle Vs. Mays
Words: 728 - Pages: 3.... unique from the beginning was the fact that he was a switch hitter. Mantle broke into the major leagues before he turned twenty. Mantle had a .298 career batting average, and 536 career home runs. He led the American League in home runs for four years. Mantle hit over fifty home runs in two of those four years.
Mantle was moved around a lot early in the career from short stop, where he had a short error filled season in minor league ball, to right field where he became the Yankee’s regular starter. Then in the fall of 1951 he was moved again to center field after the retirement of Joe DiMaggio. Defensively Mantle was an average playe .....
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Biography Of Gordie Howe
Words: 393 - Pages: 2.... the Toronto Maple Leafs for a couple of years
then he went to the Detroit Red Wings for around twenty-five years. He
played four Detroit Stanley Cup championships. He was the league's leading
scorer six times. He was also named “Mr. Hockey.” He is in the Hockey Hall
of Fame for all kinds of high records. He had 1,518 assists, 1,071 goals;
he scored 2,589 points, and played in 2,421 games. He also received the
Hart Trophy as NHL'S most valuable player six times. He managed to came
back and play a few more games in his life.
Gordie got married and had a daughter named Cathy. He married
Colleen Howe. He did live in Detroit, Michi .....
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Chris Lansid
Words: 689 - Pages: 3.... year and passed it all with flying colors, same as for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. But soon after, a family tradgedy that would change him forever. On the 5th of July in 1844 his father became ill and was hospitalized. It was unknown what he had. From that day Chris was dedicated to fighting illness'. He has cured 3 illness' in his life, one that belonged to his father, Ratestia. The other two, emphasema and lung elestia. He also played a big role in the treatment of cancer. Even though they did not have much technology back then, he still played a major role in he exposing of its effects and how it works. When he was 35, he had a masters and 2 d .....
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George C. Wallace
Words: 1462 - Pages: 6.... George Wallace who smoked his cigar and denounced the State Department as communist. Wallace was a feared politician who lived in a state full of beatings and problems. Racism was the norm and Wallace took full advantage of this ploy to gain political attention.
George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way t .....
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Biography Of Emily Bronte
Words: 460 - Pages: 2.... in order to teach at the Law Hill School. She returned to Haworth when her health again began to fail. After this agonizing experience, Emily remained at home for five years. During this period, she wrote poetry and short stories to fill her time. In 1842,
she attended school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. There they studied music and foreign language. Emily also wrote her French essays at this time. Charlotte and Emily were described as “literary geniuses.”
All the family was reunited at home, in 1845. In the course of time, the Brontes gave up hope for a school of their own. Branwell, working on a novel, t .....
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