Student 20 Section H English 101 20 September 2013 Life With a Glass of Lemonade “When life gives you lemons‚ you make lemonade.” This is a common saying because in life people have situations that come up and they just have to get through it the best that they can. To add to this saying‚ some try asking themselves‚ “What has gotten me to where I am today?” When someone begins to make decisions for themselves in life‚ they tend to find out what traits impact their life the most. My decisions
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holding it still." -Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange was a great photographer of the Great Depression. She focused on the small things in life‚ the little details of her time‚ and today once looked back upon: are great photographs of history. Biographical Sketch: Dorothea was born in New Jersey‚ May 26‚ 1895. As a seven year old‚ she contracted polio and was left with a weakened right side. After her sickness‚ her mother seemed to be embarrassed of her daughter‚ even though she loved her dearly. She was intelligent
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is! Good morning respected Dignitaries & my dear friends. These words were famously said by the author of one of the world’s most famous book series‚ JK Rowling. Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on the 31st of July at Yate England. Born to Peter and Anne Rowling‚ she had a fixed ambition from a very young age‚ to write. JK Rowling was on a train trip when an idea of a young boy attending a wizarding school came to her mind. Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated $15 billion
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interpret the writings of J.K. Rowling and thus prove that the novels within the Harry Potter series are indeed not sexist. It is argued that Rowling works to reimagine every day terms such as love and power and consider such topics in new and exciting ways that in fact do not reflect a world filled with sexism. Within the wizarding world‚ while there is a representation of traditional and modern women in the sense of gender roles‚ in no way do Rowling’s characters reflect such women to be weak or
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J.K. Rowling’s commencement speech conveys the good in failure‚ while also telling the importance of imagination through informing the graduates of her own personal experiences and explaining how both can make a positive impact in a person. Rowling relates her fear of failure‚ and her parents fear of her living in poverty. Both factors tie together. She then goes on to tell how she did end up failing. This helps the audience to realize failure is okay because someone with as much success as her
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Biographical Sketch: Kasturba Gandhi Kasturba Gandhi was a renowned figure for all of India and was always there to help Mohandas Gandhi out. Kasturba was born on April 11‚ 1869 to Gokuladas Makharji‚ a wealthy business man. She married Mohandas Gandhi in 1882 when she was only 13 years old. At that time she could not read or write because she hadn’t had the proper schooling. Mohandas taught to both read and write and that would come in handy later when she was delivering speeches that led
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Biographical Sketch of Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was born on May 6‚ 1856‚ in Freiberg‚ Moravia. His family settled in Vienna in 1860‚ where Freud attended school. In 1873 he went to the University of Vienna to study medicine. He later received his degree in medicine‚ specializing in anatomy and physiology in 1881. Freud was interested in the clinical uses of cocaine and went to Paris to study in October 1885. After he returned from Paris in 1886‚ he did all of his important work developing
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A biographical sketch on Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey‚ born Orpah Gail Winfrey (Harpo productions 2013)‚ a top American talk show host‚ actress‚ producer‚ entrepreneur and philanthropist‚ was born on January 29 1954 in Kosciusko‚ Mississippi (A +E television networks‚ 1996). She lived in this small rural community with her mother‚ and underwent a troubled adolescent life experiencing sexual harassment from close male relatives and family friends. It is after her adolescent troubles that she moved
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Comparison Essay We have always been told or somehow educated to be ourselves and not to be distracted by others‚ but for J.K Rowling and David Foster Wallace‚ they both encourage college graduates to think independently yet broadly. J.K. Rowling Starts her speech with a humor -“win-win situation” saying that preparing this lecture helps her lose weight and the way she releases her pressure is to regard Harvard as “Gryffndor”-- one of the Hogwarts Schools of Wizardry from her masterpiece “Harry Potter”
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word eventually. Failure is defined as having a lack of accomplishment. Everyone has or will experience failure‚ what you take from it will determine your success. Influential people such as Michael Jordan‚ J.K. Rowling‚ and Thomas Edison all experienced failure in their lives. J.K. Rowling‚ author of the famous Harry Potter series described herself as the “biggest failure she knew”‚ Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team and expertly stated‚ “I have missed more than 9‚000 shots
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