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    Famous Actress

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    Shirley Temple Shirley Temple was one of the most famous child actors in history. She was born April 23‚ 1928 as Shirley Jane Temple. Shirley and her parents along with her siblings live in Santa Monica‚ California. Her father‚ George Francis Temple was a business man and a banker in Southern California. Shirley’s mother‚ Gertrude Amelia Krieger was a homemaker. She loved dancing and her love for dancing helped mold Shirley’s career. Her parents were engaged in 1914 and had three

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    The Joy Luck Club The Key to understanding Lindo Jong is that she is a very strong and imaginative woman. She thought up a lie to get her out of her arranged marriage as a child‚ while still honouring her mother and father’s intentions for her. However‚ aside from Lindo’s creative and fun personality‚ she is also very proud and narrow minded. Lindo Jong was brought up as a Mandarin Chinese woman. As being so‚ she followed her parent’s plans and tried to be more and more like her mother. Lindo was

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    Archimedes famous mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse was an outstanding Greek mathematician‚ inventor‚ physicist‚ engineer and also an astronomer. Although not much is known about his life‚ he is considered as one of the most eminent scientists in classical antiquity. He established strong foundations in the field of physics‚ particularly in statics‚ hydrostatics and explained the principle of the lever. In his lifetime‚ he made many incredible inventions such as designing innovative machines

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    Heights by Emily Bronte they both conform to the quote‚ “Character‚ not circumstance‚ makes the person.” This was once written by Booker T. Washington. Circumstances shouldn’t effect who you are as a person. Both Lizzy from Pride and Prejudice and Catherine from Wuthering Heights show that within the Circumstances it didn’t effect their character. With the use of characterization and theme both of the novels portray how Lizzy’s and Cathy’s character wasn’t effected under any circumstances. In Pride

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    because he is old. The poem is filled with examples of Prufrock’s insecurities. This insecurity is a hindrance for him. It holds him back from doing the things he wishes to do. This is the sort of characteristic that makes Alfred into a hopeless character. He will not find happiness until he finds self-assurance within himself. The repetition of words like vision and revision show his feelings of insecurity in communicating with the people around him. J. Alfred Prufrock’s self esteem affects his love

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    The Crucible Character Diary Project Assignment: Before you begin‚ it is important for you to realize that writing—other than religious poems and praises—was not allowed by the Puritans. It was considered a sin‚ and punishable as an offence. What if one of the characters in The Crucible kept a “forbidden diary”‚ detailing their thoughts and insights on the events happening around them? Most importantly‚ this diary would reveal much about this person’s inner feelings‚ motives‚ and reasoning.

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    Famous Musicians

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    in London. In Uran Khatola (1955)‚ he recorded an entire song without the use of orchestra‚ having replaced the sound of musical instruments with choral sound of humming. For Mughal-e-Azam (1960) song Ae Mohabbat Zindabad‚ he used a chorus of 100 persons. He asked Lata Mangeshkar to render a part of the song "Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya" in a bathroom that had glazed tiles and then recorded the music to get the echo effect. For Ganga Jamuna (1961)‚ he used lyrics in chaste Bhojpuri dialect. He used just

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    FAMOUS WRITERS

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    FAMOUS WRITERS WORKS Caedmon and Cynewulf. Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer’s(1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales‚ Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess‚ The House of Fame‚ The Parliament of Fowles‚ The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ‚Truth‚ Gentilesse‚ Merciles Beaute‚ Lak of Stedfastnesse‚ Against Women Unconstant Thomas Malory’s (1405-1471) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia‚ The History

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    Famous People

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    a daughter. To top it off‚ rap labels continue to reject him because of the color of his skin‚ regardless of his rap skills. Juggling the responsibility of a father with less than stable career choice‚ aspiring white rapper‚ is enough for any sane person to go crazy. The fight‚ for Eminem‚ never really stops. Eminem has literally been to hell and back‚ but if he hadn’t experienced that journey‚ it is highly unlikely that he would be the iconic figure he is today. I hope to one day also be an entrepreneur

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    that survived through the Middle Ages were a major influence on scientists during the Renaissance. Archimedes produced the first known summation of an infinite series with a method that is still used in the area of calculus today. Archimedes was a famous mathematician whose theorems and philosophies became world known. He gained a reputation in his own time which few other mathematicians of this period achieved. He is considered by most historians of mathematics as one of the greatest mathematicians

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