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    Michael Jackson Influence

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    Michael Jackson was born in Gary‚ Indiana on 1958‚ and it wasn’t short after that that he would hop onto the fast track to a life chock-full of success‚ happiness‚ turbulence‚ and controversy. At the extremely early age of five‚ Michael became the lead singer of the legendary Jackson 5‚ a group consisting entirely of his family members. With being as young as he was‚ Michael’s vocal work was amazing and he was able to showcase emotions very well. The Jackson 5 was eventually signed under Motown and

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    Latoya Jackson

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    Part 1 The story I went with was One More To Lake by E.B White. To me his story felt poetic. He was mesmerized by the smells of the cabin he would stay in as a child. Reason being that I chose poetic writing for E.B White is because how he carefully he chose his words for his story. “I guess I remembered clearest of all the mornings‚ when the lake was cool and motionless‚ remembered how the bedroom smelled of lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered the screen” (White 97)

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    ‘The Lottery’ By Shirley Jackson Mode: Reading Genre: Prose Task: How does Shirley Jackson build up suspense in the short story ‘The Lottery’? The story ‘The Lottery’ was written by Shirley Jackson‚ throughout the piece the author builds up suspense towards the climax. The story takes place in a small village‚ where the people are close and tradition is paramount. A yearly event‚ called the lottery‚ is one in which one person in the town is randomly selected‚ by a drawing‚ to be violently

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    Shirley Jackson Response

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    Short Story Response- The Possibility of Evil For the mystery story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson‚ I will be responding to the validity and development of the theme‚ and the symbolism used. Firstly‚ the theme I find the most prominent within the story is simply that people are not always as they seem. This story revolves around Miss Strangeworth‚ who is portrayed in the beginning as a lovely old lady who everyone in the town loves dearly. “When she came into the grocery

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    The central figure that charted the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the deeply troubled painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody‚ Wyoming on January 28‚ 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock’s artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles‚ California where he joined two of his brothers. From there‚ he went on to New York to

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    Jackson V. Metropolitan

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    1. The fact of the case is that Ms. Catherine Jackson evaded paying her electricity bill to the electric company Metropolitan Edison Co. The issue is that the electric company has disconnected her electricity services due to lack of payment. 2. The case was decided by the Supreme Court. It got to that court because the District Court granted Metropolitan’s motion to dismiss the petitioner’s complaint. There was then an appeal and the Court of Appeals granted certiorari which sent the case up to

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    Andrew Johnson Essay

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    president‚ Andrew Johnson was born on December 29th‚ 1808 in Raleigh‚ North Carolina. Andrew lived in a log cabin in North Carolina growing up with his brother and parents. Andrew’s father was a hotel porter and bank janitor while his mother worked as a weaver and a spinner. Andrew Johnson’s father‚ Jacob died when Andrew was three years old leaving him and brother‚ William with their mother‚ Mary leaving them in poverty. Soon after Jacob’s death Mary remarried with Turner Dougherty. Andrew Johnson’s

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    George Jackson Case

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    ATTICA STATE PRISON UPRISING SEPTEMBER 13‚ 1971 George Jackson the most famous political prisoner in the 70’s and leader of the Black Panther Party was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison in California. He was killed by the State on August 21‚ 1971. Because of this Attica inmates organized a hunger strike and wore black arm bands. George Jackson’s revolutionary writings in his book he had written “Soledad Brother” was passed from inmate to inmate inside Attica

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    Andrew - the Hopeful Bird

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    The Hopeful Bird Although Andrew‚ a 7 year old‚ and his dad are homeless and live in an airport‚ Andrew learns that there is still hope and a chance that he will be in a house someday soon. Some of the challenges Andrew and his dad face are that they don’t have a home and they live in an airport. Since they live in an airport‚ Andrew and his dad can’t be seen. Andrew observes a little brown bird that was stuck in the airport for many days. Finally‚ it took a while‚ but the brown bird got out.

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    Helga by Andrew Wyeth

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    The "Helga Pictures” by Andrew Wyeth are a fantastic compilation of tempera and dry brush paintings‚ watercolours and pencil studies secretly created within a span of over fifteen years. Andrew Wyeth created over two hundred and forty individual works of neighbor Helga Testorf from 1971 to 1985 without telling a single person‚ including his wife. He stated that he would not have been able to have finished the project with everyone looking at it. (Allen) The large number of works and the palpable

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