James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in a small place called Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio. He was born and raised fatherless‚ so he grew up strong-willed as the man of his house. When he became of age to start going of to college‚ Garfield chose the prestigious Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Garfield studied to become a politician and his hopes and dreams came true as he was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Northern Republican. Garfield was well known as a loyal Unionist and kept his ways
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James Baldwin Has writing ever changed your life? Have you wondered about the author of the amazing work? James Baldwin was the author of books‚ plays‚ and essays that broke literary ground. His work explored social and racial issues regarding discrimination. James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem‚ New York in August 2‚ 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones and an unknown father. His stepfather was David Baldwin‚ a Baptist preacher and a factory worker. Baldwin grew up with an abusive father and a poor family
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James A. Garfield James A. Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio‚ in 1831. His father died in 1833‚ when Garfield was only two years old and so his mother had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his father‚ the family feel into poverty. Even though they had very little money‚ his mother made sure that her children went to the neighborhood school to get a good education. He belonged to the Desciples of Christ Church. While growing up‚ James drove canal boat
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Lebron James‚ a NBA player for the Miami Heat is recently all the talk in sports news‚ but why? I think it is all just a lot of hype for no reason‚ I mean all this publicity for a single basketball player seems kind of outrageous. Miami’s season tickets were sold out after He made the trade to the Heat. Who buys season tickets to see one player? People really thought that he was going to change that team and make it an unstoppable force. He has taken advantage of this attention and banked off of
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Title: Trurl’s Machine Author: Stanislaw Lem As a boy Stanislaw Lem showed an early interest in science as well as in the imaginary worlds of fantasy and science fiction. The young Lem’s interest in tinkering mechanical devices of all sorts was put to use by secretly damaging the German vehicles during the Nazi occupation. Later on‚ he became a full time writer establishing himself as leading science fiction writer in Eastern Europe. This writer from Lvov Poland (now Ukraine) worked on serious
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THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN ART Cubism New attitudes towards pictorial space and geometric abstraction with geometric planes (but still based on real objects) - Influenced by African tribal masks/ breaking natural objects into planes/shapes. - Figures simultaneously seen from more than one view through relationships of geometric planes. - Analytical cubism based on process of human vision‚ eyes scan a subject then compile it into a whole. - Introduced collage‚ allowed for composition free of
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The problem with today’s youth is their addiction to technology. We have an undeniable hunger for entertainment. The hunger must be fed and sustained or we cannot function properly‚ yet it is never filled. We yearn for more and more. This‚ in turn‚ produces new technology to meet consumer needs. MP3 players‚ cell phones‚ and laptops are all objects to entertain our dulled minds. Rarely do we cure our boredom with a book or another form of "intellectual" entertainment. We would rather let the screen
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The Colomber Dino Buzzati‚ translated by Lawrence Venuti When Stefano Roi was twelve years old‚ he asked his father‚ a sea captain and the owner of a fine sailing ship‚ to take him on board as his birthday gift. “When I grow up‚” the boy said‚ “I want to go to sea with you. And I shall command ships even more beautiful and bigger than yours.” “God bless you‚ my son‚” the father answered. And since his vessel had to leave that very day‚ he took the boy with him. It was a splendid sunny
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Part 1: Estimation of demerged entities’ future earnings Tabcorp Holdings Limited (ASX: TAH‚ “Tabcorp”) announced a demerger on 18th October‚ 2010. The Company separated into two entities: the casino business was operating as an independent entity‚ Echo Entertainment Group (“Echo”) ever since‚ and the waging business was still operating under Tabcorp. The two entities announced their respective annual report for financial year 2011. Based on the historical financial data‚ we applied pro-forma
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director’s other films. For example‚ all the movies (except for Piranha 2) started on either the letter A or T. Another example is actor Michael Biehn whose characters have been bitten in the hand in one way or another in all of Cameron’s films. James Cameron began his Hollywood career by working with special effects. He built‚ among others miniatures for various low budget films. In 1980‚ he was art director of the science fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars. His first assignment as director was
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