Her father was a ceramicist and the Dean of the School of Fine Art. Her mother was a poet and a literature professor at Ohio University. Lin says that she was in her father’s studio “making art as long as she can remember.” (Falconer “Maya Lin Biography‚ Art‚ and Analysis of Works”). When Lin started Yale her major was zoology‚ but she changed it architecture‚ that was because‚ while growing up‚ she liked nature‚ the natural world‚ and science‚ so she wanted to be a veterinarian or an animal behaviorist
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airplane said something to her as it swished by (“Amelia Earhart: Biography and Facts About Disappearance”). In 1920 at an air show in Long Beach‚ California‚ she took a ten minute plane ride that changed her entire life. On January 3‚ 1921 Amelia began flying lessons with Neta Snook (“The Official Website of Amelia Earhart”). Six months after flying lessons‚ Earhart bought her first plane‚ she called it “The Canary” (“Amelia Earhart: Biography and Facts About Disappearance”). October 1922‚ she achieved
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Charmed by Robert A. Tino is an acrylic painting exhibited at the Robert A. Tino Gallery in Sevierville‚ Tennessee. The work is sixty inches in length and forty inches in width. The piece depicts a horse in a realistic manner set off to the right. The bottom of the painting is coated in a large variety of colors. These colors are not delicately brushed on‚ but splattered on with paint using a brush. In his work Charmed‚ Robert A. Tino creates a representational work of nature and its simplicity through
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Robert Walton has spent a lifetime dreaming about finding a passage through the ice. If he is successful in accomplishing his pursuit of this goal‚ he believes that it will not only give him fame‚ glory‚ and fortune‚ but also make a positive impact on the rest of the world. Robert’s goal is an example of an aspiration that is good for both the individual striving towards it‚ and the population that it could possibly effect. However‚ Robert may not be doing this for the right reasons. The quote alludes
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Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin‚ better know as Nastia Liukin‚ was born in Moscow‚ Russia SFSR‚ USSR on October 30‚ 1989 (biography). Liukin is the only child to Valery Liukin and Anna Kotchneva. She was exposed to the sport of gymnastics at the very young age of just two‚ and because of her love for the sport‚
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Bibliography: Fratz‚ Douglas. “Daniel Keyes.” Identities and Issues in Literature‚1997. Literary Reference Center. EBSCOhost. MPSJ library. Keyes‚ H. “Daniel Keyes Biography” A Brief Biography December 6‚ 2002. 10 October 2008. <http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com/dksbio.html>
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Edith Wharton Biography 1862 Born New York City‚ third child of George C. Jones and Lucretia Rhinelander Jones. 1866-72 Fall in family income‚ owing to economic depression‚ prompts move to Europe. The Jonses spend most of 1867 in Rome‚ travel in Spain and settle in Paris in 1868‚ move to Germany in 1870 and to Florence at the end of 1870. 1872 Family returns to the United States‚ living in New York City and spending summers in Newport‚ Rhode Island. 1876-81 Juvenile writings: a manuscript
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| | | Television journalist. Born September 25‚ 1931‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. She was the daughter of nightclub impresario Lou Walters (owner of New York ’s swanky Latin Quarter) and his wife‚ Dena. In 1937‚ Lou Walters expanded his business‚ which caused his family to adopt an itinerant lifestyle‚ moving from Boston to New York to Miami Beach. Walters attended the all-female Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville
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which inaugurate’s new features of an certain status. Robert Gray and Christo Erasmus‚ both explore the concept of self discovery but alter the discovery to being either new and refreshing or challenging and confronting. “Journey‚ North Coast” written by poet Robert Gray‚ demonstrates the self discovery of a concealed environment. This influences the persona’s demeanour to an undulate and stimulating psyche. However‚ the poem “The meatworks” by Robert Gray‚ and short film “The Pencil” (TROPFEST) directed
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raised by his mother Doña Maria and his father Don Josè Ruiz Blasco. Picasso’s father was an art teacher and started teaching him how to draw as a child. "By the time he was 13 years old‚ his skill level had surpassed his fathers" ("Pablo Picasso Biography"). Attending school was a challenge for Picasso because all he wanted to do was doodle and that caused him to get in trouble. "In 1895‚ when Picasso was 14 years old‚ he moved with his family to Barcelona‚ Spain. Picasso
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