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John Muir
... Wisconsin. He studied about plants and geology. When John left the University he started traveling 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 th ...
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Walt Disney
... 39-40).
Walt’s brother went into the army in 1918. Walt wanted to join his brother, but he was too young. Instead he applied for an ambulance driver and ended up in France. In 1919 Walt came back to the US (Finch 40).
When he returned new he wanted to pursue a career in the commercial arts fields, so he got a job at a local studio. At the age of 18 Disney already had basic training in animation. He started making Laugh-O-Grams, which were short commercials and illustrated jokes. Walt then started his own company called Laugh-O-Grams. This is were Walt produced a series of updated fairy tales some of these included: Cinderella, Goldie Locks And The Three B ...
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Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
... made
alot of money making movies and she loved acting.
When Shirley started getting older, the movies became more serious.
The audiences didn't like Shirley in these kinds of movies and she became less
popular.
Shirley liked to be competitive in everything. She decided to be
the first person in her class to become engaged. On September 19, 1945 Shirley
married John Black and 12,000 people waited outside the church to see her.
When Shirley stopped making movies, she got busy with politics.
President Nixon chose Shirley to become the U.S. Representative of the United
Nations.
Shirley is a kind and gentle girl to ...
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Chistopher Reeves
... thanks to an understanding agent was able to continue his work as a professional actor. "Scheduling gigs around my classes."
By nineteen-seventy-six he was starring with Katherine Hepurn on Broadway, and had become in such demand that he gave up his last year at Julliard. After screen testing for the nineteen seventy-eight movie Superman, he was given the lead role as Clark Kent/Superman. Reeve was an outstanding Superman both on and off the screen. He made Clark Kent/Superman a believable character, says Reeves "somebody you can take home and introduce to your parents". This part was just like Reeve, A down home good boy with good brains and a great heart. ...
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Darwin
... one of its enemies after denying the idea of a divine creation. England at that time had accepted the ideas of Christ and the Bible, and basically it was crazy to attempt to challenge their thoughts and ideas.
Our young man slowly trudges his way down the cobblestone paths that make up England's streets. Peasants crowd his way as he attempts to make his way to the ship. As he passes through the poor and crowded streets he sees a rather rich Duke stroll toward the direction of the Beagle. Whatever grace and beauty that this man was proposed to have was immediately dismissed as our young stranger saw him strike one of his servants to the ground. England at this time ...
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The Life And Work Of Washington Irving
... Oldstyle", won Irving his earliest literary
recognition. From 1807 to 1808, he was the leading person in a social group
that included his brothers William Irving and Peter Irving and William's
brother-in-law James Kirke Paulding, together they wrote "Salmagundi", or,
the "Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff", and others, a series
of essays and poems on New York society. Irving's contributions to this
thing established his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this
reputation was enhanced by his next work, "A History of New York " (1809),
evidently written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American
scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The wo ...
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Don Cherry
... Don was hired on as the head coach for the Boston Bruins, where he experienced much success including a coach of the year award in 1976. It was in 1984 where Don found his true calling though, for it was that year where he accepted a job on the popular Hockey Night in Canada.
Don's first controversial television interview came after the 1986/87 World Junior Championship game, in which Canada and the Soviets had an unbelievable brawl. Don condoned the on-ice violence, and that it what he believes in to this very day. Now it is almost as though every Saturday night, Don has something new and controversial to say. It is for this reason that large numbers of p ...
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The Life And Work Of Robert Browning
... atheist and a liberal. But in a few years he grew away
from atheism and the extreme phases of his liberalism. The things he
learned from the books he read would largely influence his poems later in
his life.
His earlier poetry was regarded with indifference and largely
misunderstood. It was not until the 1860's that he would at last gain
publicity and would even be compared with Alfred Lord Tennyson, another
very famous poet of the time. Some of his early poetry was influenced by
his unusual education. The poet also had an anxious desire to avoid
exposing himself explicitly to his readers. The first poem he wrote
called Pauline, was written in 1883 at the ...
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Augustus Demorgan
... unrivaled, and no topic was too insignificant to receive his careful attention. In 1838 he introduced the term “ mathematical induction” to differentiate between the hypothetical induction of empirical science and the rigorous method. Often used in mathematical proof, for advancing from n to n+I.
DeMorgan made his greatest contributions to knowledge. The renaissance of logical studies, which began in the first half of the 19th century, was due almost entirely to the writings of the two British mathematicians, DeMorgan and G. Boole. He always laid much stress upon the importance of logical training. His importance in the history of logic’s, how ...
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Spike Lee
... brick by brick, board by board which was no little task indeed. The fact that Sal gets to share his creation and hard work with his sons makes it all the more special to him. After Sal has finished his pre-opening preparations Sal's Pizzeria is open for the day. Shortly after this, the main character of the movie, Mookie, comes strolling into the restaurant. Mookie works as the delivery man for Sal in this movie. Mookie literally delivers pizza, yes, but he also acts as a mediator between the two races. Sal relies on Mookie not only to get the pizzas delivered, but to also keep his fellow black folks happy with Sal so they will come and patronize his restaurant. ...
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