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Papers on People and Biographies
The Life Of Walt Disney
Number of words: 1333 | Number of pages: 5.... to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Walt Disney left the company and moved to Hollywood. He wanted to
make longer animated cartoons in stead of short animated ads. Disney's
first character with a personality, was Oswald the Rabbit. But, in a
scandal, he lost the character and several animators. Outraged by the loss
he vowe .....
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Marilyn Monroe: Suicide Or Murder
Number of words: 2608 | Number of pages: 10.... Joe's Dimaggio's son and not thirty minutes later after this
happy conversation, Marilyn Monroe was dying…” This was one of the
strangest facts about the case. (Brown, and Barham)
Marilyn Monroe did have somewhat of a drug problem, as told by
everyone who knew her including her stepsister. The drugs and anti-
depressants Marilyn took mainly consisted of sleeping pills and anti
depressants prescribed by her psychiatrist, who is believed to have
something to do with Marilyns death.
After Marilyn's funeral studio publicists broke into Marilyns file
cabinets and carried away all papers related to Fox. Marilyn's .....
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George Berkley
Number of words: 749 | Number of pages: 3.... that seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny.
The initial groundwork for Berkley’s position is the truism that the materialist is the skeptic. His idea is that no one can ever perceive the real essence of anything. In short, the materialist feels that the information received through sense experience gives a representative picture of the outside world and one cannot penetrate to the true essence of an object. This makes logical sense, for the only way to perceive this real essence would be to become the object itself. Although the idea is logical it does contain a certain grounding for agnosticism .....
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King Henry VIII
Number of words: 697 | Number of pages: 3.... him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbidden, all payments
to Rome were stopped, and the pope's authority in England was abolished. In
1534 the Act of Supremacy declared Henry himself to be Supreme Head of the
Church of England, and anyone who denied this title was guilty of an act of
treason. Some changes were .....
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Biography Of James Polk (11th President)
Number of words: 319 | Number of pages: 2.... This view prevailed at the Democratic Convention,
where Polk was nominated on the ninth ballot.
Even before he could take office, Congress passed a joint
resolution offering annexation to Texas. In so doing they took away the
possibility of Polk having a war with Mexico, which soon served diplomatic
relations.
After trying to negotiate boundaries with Mexico and Canada wanting
to extend the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans proved
useless, congress declared war and, despite much northern opposition,
supported the military operations. American forces won repeated victories
and occupied Mexico City. .....
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Biograhy Of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Number of words: 2488 | Number of pages: 10.... a superstar of the man who is
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Born in the tiny village of Thal-By-Graz , Austria, young Arnold
Schwarzenegger did not seem destined for grandeur. "In the beginning
Arnold seemed an unlikely figure to become a cultural icon" (Flynn 10).
Living in poor, medieval-like conditions, Schwarzenegger was raised
alongside his older brother Meinhard in a strict, Catholic household. His
father, a police chief, often put his two sons through rigorous physical
tests, as well as mental. Schwarzenegger credits these tests and his
father's strictness as a contribution to his strong self-discipline. As a
child, Schwarzen .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 1364 | Number of pages: 5.... than them, he simply did not have the genealogy and they reminded him of it often. The first poetry he had released came shortly after this time. It was in no way concerned with his alma mater, it was more concerned with happiness lost and how the his life was miserable due to a rude awakening. His poem "Tamerlane" tells how ambition for youthful dreams killed love. In "The Lake", Poe hints of suicide as an escape from earthly worries. Poe did all of this before he had fully entered manhood. He almost seemed to enjoy feeling melancholy and depressed.
About this time in his life, Poe joined the army. Here he was not chi .....
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Jimmy Carter
Number of words: 796 | Number of pages: 3.... coffee, fruit, and cereal. Sometimes pancakes.
Food
- Sirloin steak, medium rare
- Any kind of fish or poultry
- Corn bread
- Any vegetables except beans
- Salad with Roquefort dressing
- Frozen yogurt
Hymns
- The Navy Hymn "Eternal Father Strong to Save"
- "Amazing Grace"
- "Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
Color
- Blue
Gift to receive (as a youth)
- Books
Books
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Poet
- Dylan Thomas
- Miller Williams
Philosopher
- Paul Tillich
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Soren Kierkegaard
Bible quote
"Behold I stand .....
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Biography Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
Number of words: 694 | Number of pages: 3.... by following the course at the College
of Barcelona, but without success. His austerities had also undermined his
health. After considerable delay he was finally admitted into the Society
of Jesus as a lay-brother, 31 January, 1571. Distinct novitiates had not as
yet been established in Spain, and Alfonso began his term of probation at
Valencia or Gandia -- this point is a subject of dispute -- and after six
months was sent to the recently-founded college at Majorca, where he
remained in the humble position of porter for forty-six years, exercising a
marvelous influence on the sanctification not only of the members of the
house .....
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The Life And Work Of Anthony Burgess
Number of words: 1817 | Number of pages: 7.... the series, and that will be the
second book focused on in this paper. Anthony Burgess's work in A
Clockwork Orange and Enderby's Dark Lady strongly reflects significant
events or influences in his own life.
Anthony Burgess was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England
in early 1917. (Stinson 1). Both of Burgess's parents were members of the
theatric arts: His father was a pianist, his mother was a musical actress.
Burgess went to a Catholic elementary school, and was one of the many
victims of the "iron discipline and largely rote memorization" (Stinson 2)
typical in such schools of the time. Burgess attended Xaverian .....
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