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Bruce Lee"Ticallion Stallion"
October 10, 1996
English, 9th Grade
This essay is dedicated to Bruce Lee, without a doubt the most famous,
skilled, and inspiring martial artist that ever lived.
Bruce Lee was a Chinese martial artist and actor whose main style of
fighting was Kung-Fu among many ...
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Issac AsimovOnce in a while, a human being comes along with the genius to change the worldviews for all time to come. One such man, named Isaac Asimov, was born in Russia on January 2, 1920. He and his parents immigrated to New York City, in 1923. Asimov originally studied science in school, but later ...
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Frank SinatraMy speech today is on not just a man, but a man who owns tens of millions of recordings, nine Grammy’s and two Academy Awards, some 60 films, worldwide tours, television specials, and hundreds of millions of dollars raised for charities. In sheer productivity, few popular artists could touch the ...
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Emily Murphy: A Great CanadianIt was only in this century that women in Canada had equal rights as
men. But this would never happen if women themselves would not start
fighting for their rights. One of these women was Emily Murphy and her
greatest achievement, Emily proved that women are `persons' and therefore
they have ...
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Leslie Marmon Silko’s work is set apart due to her Native American Heritage. She writes through ‘Indian eyes’ which makes her stories very different from others. Silko is a Pueblo Indian and was educated in one of the governments’ BIA schools. She knows the culture of the white man, which ...
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Macario SakayContradictory to accepted belief, Philippine struggle to American regime did not conclude with the arrest of Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. There were a lot of struggling forces fighting for Philippine autonomy awaiting the year 1910. One of these forces was headed by who instituted the Tagalog ...
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John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29,
1917. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. Which led to some of his
earlier political successes. Some came from when he ran for the United States
House of Representatives in 1946, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in ...
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Charles DarwinMore than a century after his death, and four generations after the
publication of his chief work, "The Origin of Species", may still
be considered the most controversial scientist in the world. His name is
synonymous with the debate that continues to swirl around the theory of
evolution, a ...
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Johann Sebastian BachBorn: March 21, 1685
Died: July 28, 1750
Birthplace: Eisanach, Germany
Age at Death: 65
Biography
Born at Eisenach, in Thuringia, he came of a distinguished musical family.
At 15 he became a chorister at Luneburg and at 19 organist at Arnstadt.
Subsequent appointments included positions at the ...
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Eva PeronMaria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana’s Ibarguen children his last name and would ...
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Fray Junipero SerraMiquel Joseph Serra was born and baptized on November 24, 1713 in Petra, a farming village on the island of Mallorca, Spain. As a child he attended a Franciscan elementary school. At the age of fifteen, Serra left home to enter the Franciscan University in Palma to study philosophy. When Serra ...
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"Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam""More than any other part of the old Empire, Australia
remains inhibited and limited by its nostalgia for past
associations and pretensions which the British nation, and
in particular, the British monarch have long since
abandoned. Nothing has done more to retard Australia's
relations with ...
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Charles ShultzThe comic strip PEANUTS has always been a favorite of mine, and most of America’s. It’s been a hit ever since the first PEANUTS comic strip was printed on October 2nd 1950 in seven U.S. daily newspapers. , the inventor of this imaginative comic strip, still comes up with every PEANUTS ...
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Celine Dion, the youngest of 14 children, was born on March 30th, 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada. Charlemagne is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, on the east end of the Montreal Island. She has Hazel eyes and is 5 feet 7.5 inches tall. Her qualities are self-determination, ...
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Jimi Hendrix: Reflections of the Man Through the Development of His Albums James McGuire UWC 4, Hampton November 4, 1996
On November 27, 1942, was born as John Allen Hendrix in Washington at Seattle General Hospital. His childhood was not a privileged one, however, he did indulge himself in one particular ...
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Life On MichelangeloLife of Michelangelo Michelangelo (1475-1564), arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries ...
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Eli WhitneyHistorians believe that one of the greatest pioneers in the birth of
automation, American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and
manufacturer . Best remembered as the inventor of the cotton
gin. He made his first violin when he was only 12. Eli started college
when he was 23, in 1788. He left ...
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Louis XIV, The Sun KingLouis XIV was only four years old when he succeeded his father to the French throne. Often uncared for, he nearly drowned because no one was watching him as he played near a pond. This began to shape in his young mind an early fear of God.
Louis' character was also shaped by the French Civil War. ...
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Ernest Hemingwaywas born in 1899. His hometown was Oak Park, Illinois, which is by Chicago. He died in 1961 by suicide. Grace Hall, his mother was a musician. She was very good and took up opera. She stopped to raise a family, and from then on she was a music teacher and had a career. His dad was quiet and was a ...
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John Coltrane\"I\'ve got to keep experimenting. I feel that I\'m just beginning. I have part of what I\'m looking for in my grasp, but not all."
This phrase, from the liner notes of \"My Favorite Things\" clearly defines Coltrane\'s life and his search for the incorporation of his spirituality with his ...
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FDRs Influence As PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt’s Influence as president Some have called him the best president yet. Others have even claimed that he was the world's most influential and successful leader of the twentieth century. Those claims can be backed up by the overwhelming support that he received from his ...
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Shel Silverstein Few writers of the twentieth century have made nearly the same impact on the literary society than Sheldon Allan Silverstein. His writing encompasses a broad range of styles, from adult to children’s, comical to unusual. One of his most common styles was that of fantasy: actions and events ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.Born January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Martin Luther King was an eloquent black Baptist minister, who led the mass civil rights movement in the United States from the mid 1950's until his death by assassination, in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4th, 1968. He rose to national prominence ...
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Mohandas Gandhi And His LifeMy Essay is about Mohandas Gandhi. I chose him because he in my
opinion is one of the greatest men to have lived. Indeed it is the great
men who make things happen. They are the ones that make history. To prove
this, we must first know a little bit about Gandhi. Notices that I said a
little, hole ...
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Booker T. Washington“Equality Through Knowledge”
Born a slave, rose to become a commonly recognized leader of the Negro race in America. Washington continually strove to be successful and to show other black men and women how they too could raise themselves. Washington’s method of uplifting was ...
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