There are many athletes doing extreme sports. One of them is Dolly Jacobs. She is a legendary circus performer. She is one of the best American circus aerialists of all time. The story about her professional career as a circus aerialists is exciting. Dolly was born in 1957 in Sarasota‚ Florida. She is the daughter of a circus family. Her father is Lou Jacobs. He is farmed circus clown and her mother is an adventurous women. Dolly was a circus child. She began training at Sailor’s Circus
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One the most distinguished artists of the twentieth century‚ Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City and spnt part of his child hood in Pennsylvania. After his parents split up in 1924‚ he went with his mother and siblings to New York‚ settling in Harlem. "He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop‚ inside the New York Public Library’s 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s‚ Lawrence was also at an angle to them:
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MLA CITATION "Marc Jacobs Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television‚ 2013. Web. 22 Mar. 2013. | DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE SOURCE “Jacobs’ grandmother also allowed Jacobs to enjoy a permissive adolescence full of self-exploration. "No one ever said ’no’ to me about anything‚" he said.” “In 1993‚ after Perry Ellis shuttered its manufacturing operations—and after Jacobs sent out a "grunge" collection for the label that critics loved but the company hated—Jacobs struck out on his own. With
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Kitino Jacob was born in Gulu in north of Uganda he comes from an acholi tribe. He lives far from the capital city because that is where the LRA is the lord’s resistance army is. The LRA is gang/army that steals boys and girls and turns them into child soldiers. The LRA fights with the government so they can get the whole city to be Christians and they will call that Acholiland. Jacob gets caught by kony’s army and becomes a child soldier. The story is not easy to read the life of Jacob‚ come with
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Although all the slave narratives are similar in some respects; Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was comparatively different from Olaudah Equiano’s and Venture Smith’s slave narratives. The major contrasts start in the beginning; Jacobs’ was born into slavery‚ whereas Equiano and Smith were native Africans who were captured and brought to America. By being born into slavery I believe that she had a different mentality of what being a slave was‚ unlike the other two authors who
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So ..After twenty-year separation I finally found my sister Jane. We talked a lot about our childhood‚ the forest home‚ and generally our lives after that. Here is a small part from our dialog. Me: How did you know that they’re gonna take me away? Jane: Well‚ it was that night that I decided to bring you a candy bar I had stolen after the Christmas morning. When I came closer to your bunkbed ‚ I heard them talking near the dormitory door. They were discussing the day that they were planning
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When Harriet Jacobs published her autobiographical work “Incidents in the life of a slave girl” she believed that it was her duty to tell the country about her life as a slave in the south. She believed that by putting her story out there‚ she could influence more people to join the abolitionist movement and to humanize slaves in the eyes of white people. Jacobs uses the pen name Linda Brent to narrate her story in a first person point of view. Linda Brent was the literary representation of Harriet
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Published in 1890 and sub-titled “Studies Among the Tenements of New York”‚ this book was written by Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ to expose the ill treatment of the tenement poor in New York City. The book grew out of both his personal experience in the neighborhoods he wrote about‚ and his work as a reporter for the New York Tribune‚ where he started working as a police reporter in 1877. He pioneered the use of flash photography‚ allowing him to capture and communicate in a very concrete way
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Arminius 1 Jacob Arminius During the seventeenth century‚ the Calvinist or Reformed tradition within Protestantism defined and determined what it would henceforth consider orthodox theology. A well-respected Dutch pastor named Jacob Arminius (1560-1609) was the lightning rod of controversy that helped to generate this movement. Arminius was a Calvinist of impeccable credentials. He had traveled to Geneva to study with Calvin’s successor‚ Theodore Beza. When he returned to Holland‚ he enjoyed
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Beth Slutsky 12/4/14 Harriet Jacobs a former slave and author of Incidents in the life of a slave girl began working on her autobiography while she lived in Rochester‚ New York in the year 1853. It takes Jacobs five years to finish writing the accounts of her life‚ but when she finishes she tells a completely different story from those that were written from the male perspective‚ where narratives focused mainly on the physical abuse of slavery. Jacobs tells the story of “Linda Brent” a slave
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