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R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life As A Writer
... he wrote three more magazines. One of them was
called Eloquent Insanity, another one was titled Uproarious Utopia, the
last one was named Stories and Gags.
R.L. Stine got a scholarship to Ohio State University -- only two
blocks from his home. He joined the Sundial as a writer, and later applied
to be the editor and got the job. When he made up Jovial Bob (a way to
introduce himself and humor to the readers) to help The Sundial because
people weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”.
Jane became his girlfriend after meeting her at a party in Brooklyn
and became his wife on June 22, 1969. They had a son named Matthew on June
7, 1980.
A se ...
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Paul Revere (1735 - 1818)
... man he got a great reputation as a designer and a
elegant silverware maker. Paul went to the North Writing (Grammar) School.
At the school he learned to read well enough to understand a book and also
understand the newspaper. He learned to write reasonably well. Paul was 19
when his father died and the year was 1754.
Paul Revere was a silversmith and a American Revolutionary Patriot.
He also made artificial teeth, surgical instruments, and engraved printing
plates. Paul also made printed money for Massachusetts Congress and he
designed the first official seal for the United colonies as well as the
seal which is used by Massachusetts. He established a gu ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
... think what you want to think, and no one can change that. He describes this belief in the quote "Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind." People can mess with every other part of you, but your mind they can't reach.
Emerson is quoted as saying "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle." I think that he means that each and every person has their own life to live and that they shouldn't devote their time to worrying about what other people are doing. You have enough to worry about with what's going on in your own lives.
Emerson believes that when you express what you are feeling on the inside, most people will be able t ...
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Herbert George Wells
... was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which depict members o! f the lower middle class and their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, Th ...
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Ben Franklin
... one by many as well as Benjamin because it states that you should “speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversations.” Franklins believe that to be “morally perfect” once must not speak unless it is necessary or of importance.
Order: Here is a step, which must be the reason in which I am doing my homework right now and concentrating on just this. Franklin believes that everything must have it’s place, and business must have it’s own time. This being my “business” it is receiving it’s own time.
Resolution: “Decide what you need to do, and do what you say you are going to ...
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
... he uses his experience and observations from his everyday
life and places them into his unique stories.
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21,
1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his
adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's
father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to
buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a
big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse
Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my
father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed ...
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Michael Crichtons Life
... was 6.
B. Was a star basketball player in high school.
C. Graduated in 1960, from Roslyn high school.
D. Decided to go to Harvard University and become a Writer.
III. Life at Harvard
A. Writing was severely criticized, had grades around a C.
B. Thought Harvard was an error.
IV. Persuing other options
A. Decided to study anthropology.
B. Became a visiting lecturer in Anthropology at Cambridge university.
C. Came back to the US and begun training as a doctor.
D. Every year he tried to quit. He didn’t.
V. Writing Thrillers
A. Wrote under different names such as John lange and Jeffery Hudson.
B. “The Andromeda Strain” which ...
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Kurt Cobain: Collection Of Personal Accounts From Family Relatives
... invited Kurt along on one of our steelhead fishing trips. We
were spread out a few hundred feet apart along the Wynooche River. All of a
sudden, we heard this horrendous combination of screaming, warbling and yodeling
from Kurt, who was upstream and out of sight. Gramps told me to run up there and
help Kurt, who must have hooked a big fish. When I reached Kurt, he didn't even
have his line in the water. When I asked him what was going on, he just looked
at me with those piercing eyes and huge grin. He said, "Oh, I'm just trying to
thicken my vocal chords so I can scream better!" When I went back to Gramps to
tell him, he just grinned and said, "It figures, We'll ...
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Biography Of Robert E. Lee
... admired him for his brilliance, leadership, and his love for his work. He graduated from the academy with high honors in 1829, and he was ranked as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers at the age of 21.
Lee served for seventeen months at Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island, Georgia. In 1831, the army transferred him to Fort Monroe, Virginia, as assistant engineer. While he was stationed there, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis who was Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. They lived in her family home in Arlington on a hill overlooking Washington D.C. They had seven children which were three sons and four daughters. Lee served as an assista ...
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
... a lieutenant, junior grade.
During much of the war he served as an operations officer with the South Pacific
Combat Air Transport Command, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander.
After the war Nixon returned to the United States, where he was assigned
to work on Navy contracts while awaiting discharge. He was working in Baltimore,
Maryland, when he received a telephone call that changed his life. A Republican
citizen's committee in Whittier was considering Nixon as a candidate for
Congress in the 12th Congressional District. In December 1945 Nixon accepted the
candidacy with the promise that he would "wage a fighting, rocking, socking
campaign." Jerry V ...
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