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New York City Essays and Term Papers
Harper Lee: The Author And Her TimesWhen To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960, interviewers who met the author often felt as if they were coming face to face with a grownup version of Scout Finch, the six-year-old heroine of the novel. Although she was almost thirty-five years old, Harper Lee was a youthful looking ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, The Social Worker
As the wife of a popular United States president, Anna was born in New York City, October 11, 1884, and died November 7, 1962. She was an active worker for social causes. She was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was raised by her maternal grandmother after the ...
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Andy WarholThe American artist and filmmaker was born Andrew Warhola in 1928. There has been quite a bit of confusion as to where and when was born, but according to Andy's two older brothers and the birth certificate that was filed in Pittsburgh in 1945, he was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh. ...
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Katherine Anne Porteris regarded as one of the leading modern writers of short stories. Born on May 5, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas as the great-great-great- granddaughter of the famous American frontiersman Daniel Boone, Porter was educated at various schools. In the 1920's and 1930's, she contributed articles to ...
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Isaac NewtonIt was a time of great change in seventeenth century England, but a baby was being born on December 25, 1642 that would create more change in the way man perceived his world than anyone before him; he would be named . England was going through the Glorious Revolution and was in a state of ...
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The Bay Of Pigs InvasionThe story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The blame for the failure of the operation falls directly in the lap of the Central Intelligence Agency and a young president and his advisors. The fall out from the invasion ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden's Thoughts And FeelingsIn J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person
narration is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the
main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a
flashback of a significant period of his life, three days and nights on
his own in New York ...
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Howard Stern: The King Of Mass Media Or The Anti Christ??
Introduction:
I. Howard Stern has no respect for his cohorts, the general public, or himself.
a. Stern constantly criticizes and abuses his co. workers, and his peers.
b. Stern insults the people of America, and Canada.
c. Stern’s attitude on his show implies that he has no self respect ...
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Grace KellyEven before married a prince, she had the aura of a princess. Frank Sinatra once commented, \"Grace was a princess from the moment she was born.\" She had remarkable elegance and sophistication that made her different from other Hollywood actresses. Some say she had an undertone of fire ...
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HippiesThe 1950’s gave to America certain ideals and values that were strongly followed and enforced, some of the people in the following generation took those ideals and attempted to destroy them. Most of them were just teenagers or young adults, but they all agreed that the lifestyle and beliefs that ...
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The Changing Face Of BasketballBasketball has come a long way since its soccer ball and peach basket beginnings
in that its style, players, facilities and leagues have developed dramatically
and gained tremendous popularity. Salaries have increased from Bob Cousy's
minute $45.00 a game (Minser 37) to Michael Jordan's $300,000 ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright 3Architecture, the practice of building design and its resulting products, customary usage refers only to those designs and structures that are culturally significant. Today the architecture must satisfy its intended uses, must be technically sound, and must convey beautiful meaning. But the best ...
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Legalization Of Drugs: AgainstEveryone agrees that something must be done about the tremendous physical
and emotional health problems that drug abuse causes. Concern about the abuse
of drugs is so widespread that recent polls indicate it to be one of the most
serious problems in today's world, threatening the security and ...
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William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, with Jefferson as its county seat, is
both a mythical and actual place. Yoknapatawpha county is 2400 square miles in
area and has a population of 15,611 persons. Jefferson has an actual jail, town
square, old houses, and Old Frenchman's Place, even a railroad. ...
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Thomas Edisonwas a man who influenced America more than anyone else. Some of the inventions he pioneered are still used to this day. He was a man who spent almost his entire life working as a scientist, and receiving more than 1,200 patents in his lifetime. (Anderson pg.7) ’s life was probably twice as ...
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Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution To Natural ResourcesAfter William McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became our 25th President. America¹s natural resources were threatened. Species like the bison and beaver were endangered; others were extinct. Soil fertility was low and about four-fifths of prime forests had been cut down. ...
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Babe RuthThe crowd that jammed Chicago's Wrigley Field booed when the big
man with the barrel-shaped body and pipestem legs came up to bat. It
was the third game of the 1932 World Series between the Chicago Cubs
and the New York Yankees. The score was 4-4 in the fifth inning. Cub
pitcher Charlie Root ...
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History Of The Original TeddyFar better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, then to rank with those poor spirits who niether suffer much nor enjoy much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [sic]
The creation of the original teddy ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: First Person Narration Is CriticalIn J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person narration
is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character,
Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a
significant period of his life, three days and nights on his own in New ...
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Grace KellyEven before married a prince, she had the aura of a princess. Frank Sinatra once commented, "Grace was a princess from the moment she was born." She had remarkable elegance and sophistication that made her different from other Hollywood actresses. Some say she had an undertone of fire beneath ...
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