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Frank Sinatra
Number of words: 751 - Number of pages: 3

.... Way, Witchcraft, Strangers in the Night, and that’s Life were some of his hit songs. In the 1940s Sinatra embarked on a solo career and became the idol of the “bobby-soxers”. They were teenage girls who swooned over his crooning, soft-voiced singing. During this time period he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949). Sinatra is also well respected as a jazz singer. During the 1950s and 1960s Sinatra also teamed with a number of talented jazz arrangers, including Nelson Riddle, Nea .....


Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of words: 1019 - Number of pages: 4

.... reach. Emerson is quoted as saying "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle." I think that he means that each and every person has their own life to live and that they shouldn't devote their time to worrying about what other people are doing. You have enough to worry about with what's going on in your own lives. Emerson believes that when you express what you are feeling on the inside, most people will be able to relate with what you are feeling. He tells us this in the quote "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense." Everyone .....


Terry Fox
Number of words: 2106 - Number of pages: 8

.... 12). One March morning in 1977, Terry awoke with a striking pain in his right knee. Terry had no idea that what he had thought to be a cartilage problem from playing sports was actually a fatal tumor. Terry received the test results, and sadly, he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma: a rare bone cancer. With his parents by his side, Terry cried. This marked the beginning of the battle for his life, yet the start of a new hope. Eventually, since the cancer had spread, Terry was forced to have his leg amputated. The night before his operation Terry's fo .....


Charlie Chaplin
Number of words: 502 - Number of pages: 2

.... Sydney went to live with their father and his mistress. In the same year Charlie joined the dancing troupe, the Eight Lancashire Lads. Which eventually led to his parts in Sherlock Holmes and a few other parts. At the same time his brother Sydney had joined the famous Fred Karno Company and there he quickly became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hi .....


Shakespeare
Number of words: 547 - Number of pages: 2

.... basis of Hecatommithi and Twelfth Night on the basis of His Farewell to Military Profession. More than fifty percent of ’s plays were influenced from various groups of topics. Other things that influenced ’s plays were his life experiences. As a young boy dramatic events that occurred led to his writing of Hamlet. The drowning of a girl named Katherine he knew was also a source of his playwriting. History affected his writing as well. One of ’s most heralded plays was based on the life and demise of Julius Caesar. He gathered information about Caesar, and w .....


Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 1946 - Number of pages: 8

.... the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean’s office that .....


Captain Kidd
Number of words: 548 - Number of pages: 2

.... with mocha coffee from Yemen, but later Kidd’s crew took several small ships. Kidd captured his most valuable prize, the Armenian ship Quedagh Merchant, in January 1698 and scuttled the unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April 1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City. There he tried to persuade the colonial governor of New York, the Earl of Bellomont, of his innocen .....


Archimedes
Number of words: 419 - Number of pages: 2

.... shouting "Eureka!"(I have found it). He was then able to deduce that the crown the king was sold was in fact not gold. It was also said that single-handedly defended the city of Syracuse during a Roman siege by constructing huge lenses to focus the Sun's light on Roman ships and huge cranes to turn them upside down. When the Romans finally broke the siege, was killed by a Roman soldier after snapping at him "Don't disturb my circles", a reference to a geometric figure he had outlined on the sand. biggest contribution to math, especially geometry, was .....



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