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Papers on People and Biographies
Laura Secord
Number of words: 1078 | Number of pages: 4.... servants, a small pleasant house and a wealthy store. When they first got married, they lived in St. Davids and after being married for a while they moved to Queenston. Laura did not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness.
On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had already left to fight in the battle in which Sir Isaac Brock was killed. Aft .....
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Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
Number of words: 1254 | Number of pages: 5.... to work for his family and bring in more income than his mother and two brothers were making. Anderson worked as a laborer in 1896- 1898, then served in the Spanish American War. He attended Wittenburg Academy in Springfield, Ohio, in 1900, then went to Chicago. In Chicago he worked at a produce warehouse, and when he was in his teens he began working as an editor for an advertising agency. In 1904 he began to display unusual talent for success in the mail- order paint business.
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In addition to having financial problems Anderson also had numerous family problems. I believe that this is the reason that Anderson would us .....
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Billy The Kid: The True Story
Number of words: 642 | Number of pages: 3.... and disastrous future ahead. He was a favorite with all classes and ages, especially the old and the young. And he most loved his mother. He loved and honored her more than anything else on earth. But what was to come in the next few years were not for the best. Billy had been known to say that his home was not a happy one. He often said that the controlling discipline and cruelty of his stepfather drove him from home and his mother, to going to the bad.
This was only one side of Billy the Kid; he had another side, which was much more terrible. This side was one that not many of the loved ones around him ever saw. .....
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Dizzy Gillespie
Number of words: 2858 | Number of pages: 11.... by saxophonist Charlie Parker, drummer Max Roach, pianist Thelonious Monk and trumpeter "Dizzy" Gillespie. Gillespie was one of the chief innovators of this new style of music as well as an important figure to all musicians to follow him and international figure for the United States.(Kerfeld, 137)
John Birks was born in Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21, 1917. The young prodigy was first introduced to music by his father, a weekend bandleader. Gillespie's father was not as talented as John was to become, he relied on a more stable income as mason around their home ~own. Four years after his fathers death, when Birks was 14, h .....
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Jedediah Hotchkiss
Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2.... received word that Sheridans troops were leaving Winchester head for Staunton. Confederate Generals Rosser and Early had to decide what to do. Knowing that there would be a fight on his hands Early withdrew to Waynesboro leaving General Rosser and a handful of men in Staunton. (Bowman, V1 178)
Early made his post on Florence Avenue in Waynesboro on March 2, 1865. Early's men (Whartons Division) stretched out from Florence Avenue to Pine Avenue. This is about where Waynesboro High School stands now. Soon after Sheridan arrived in Waynesboro and established the Union line about a mile of Whartons Division. By estimating there were .....
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The Life Of Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of words: 432 | Number of pages: 2.... physician, no one would hire her because they did not take her seriously. She then decided to open her own hospital. Elizabeth had to buy a house as her office because no one would rent space to her. This house later became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. It wasn’t long before Elizabeth started seeing many patients because the Society of Friends supported her accomplishment as a doctor and referred people to her.
She also helped train nurses for the battlefront during the Civil War. After the war ended, Elizabeth pursued a new goal, which was to open a college for women. In 1868, she opened the New Yor .....
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Picasso
Number of words: 2069 | Number of pages: 8.... 47) During school, would pay little if any attention to his work or the lecture that the teacher was giving. Instead, he spent his time making sketches of his fellow classmates. (Duncun, 52) At the age of 13, was enrolled at an art school where his father taught, and suddenly his academic habits changed. He began to apply himself to his work, showing interest in what he was doing, and his grades showed a vast improvement. (Galwitz, 92) The family moved to Malaga and on the way there they stopped at their uncle Salvador's house. While they were there, Salvador was so intrigued by 's work that he provided him with a studio and .....
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Levi Strauss
Number of words: 816 | Number of pages: 3.... a supply of silk, cloth, and a few luxury items, which he planned to sell in San Francisco. He also took a supply of canvas, which he intended to use to make tents, and wagon covers to sell to prospectors who were crossing the continent. In January of 1853 Levi became a United States citizen, and by March of the same year he arrived in San Francisco, by the time he landed, Levi had sold all his goods to passengers on the ship except for the canvas.
When got to San Francisco, he opened up a dry goods store under his own name representing his family’s New York firm. The name of his firm was "." At this time the comp .....
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Malcolm X
Number of words: 327 | Number of pages: 2.... become well known and Malcolm was their most prominent spokesperson. In 1963, however, the black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular black nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).
In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, began advocating ra .....
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Poul Voulkos Ceramist
Number of words: 1534 | Number of pages: 6.... stretching the inflexible definitions of what constitutes painting, sculpture and other media. Among these avant-gardists was Peter Voulkos.” In 1954, Voulkos was hired as chairman of the fledgling ceramics department at the L.A. County Art Institute, now Otis College of Art and Design, and during the five years that followed, he led what came to be known as the "Clay Revolution." Students like John Mason, Paul Soldner, Ken Price and Billy Al Bengston, all of whom went on to become respected artists, were among his foot soldiers in the battle to free clay from its handicraft associations. By the late 1950s, Voulkos had estab .....
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