John Green John Michael Green (born August 24‚ 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction and a YouTube video blogger and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel‚ Looking for Alaska‚ and reached number one on a New York Times Best Seller list with The Fault in Our Stars in January 2012. Green was born in Indianapolis to Mike and Sydney Green and his family moved three weeks after he was born to Orlando‚ Florida. He attended Lake Highland Preparatory
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Regarded by many as one of Australia’s greatest Prime Ministers‚ John Curtin assumed office just six weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and led Australia through the darkest hours of World War II. No prime minister has had a more profound effect on Australia and no man has given more in the service of his office. Curtin was born in the Victorian mining town of Creswick on January 8‚ 1885. His parents were Irish immigrants. His father worked first as a policeman‚ then as a publican‚ and the
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In the short story “A&P”‚ John Updike makes the character Sammy fail in the end unlike a typical hero to show how heroes are irrelevant in society. When Sammy announces that he quits‚ he hopes the girls are watching and thinks of himself as “their unsuspected hero” (4). In Sammy’s eyes‚ he is a hero to the girls because he is the one standing up to the dragon and saving the three princesses from his wrath. He is doing the noble thing by quitting his job and fighting the dragon so the princesses can
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In the 1960’s there were many cultural changes in music. Rock and roll has been around for decades and has inspired many artists around the world such as The Beatles‚ Led Zeppelin‚ The Rolling Stones‚ The Eagles‚ Pink Floyd‚ The Who‚ and The Monkees. One of the great rock and roll bands that influenced new styles of rock is The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds formed in the 1960’s and had Eric Clapton‚ Jeff Beck‚ and Jimmy Page play in the band‚ all of which were legendary guitarist. These three figures
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JOHN LOCKE An English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists‚ following the tradition of Francis Bacon‚ he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau‚ many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers‚ as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to
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John Steinbeck  O’Connor Pd 3 Nick Marks 5/7/13 Steinbeck as an author always seemed to have a niche for writing stories that made you think about the importance of life. Respect for life was highlighted in his stories many times‚ whether it’s the presence of or the lack of. A few stories that involved this were The Pearl‚ Of Mice and Men and Travels with Charlie. He knew how to tug on peoples heart strings and make them really think about what life truly means to us even after we close
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The 1920’s was a time revolved around change and re-birth. This time was commonly referred to as the roaring twenties. This because of the clash of new and old. Many people welcomed the new ideas‚ but they also caused arguments. Though the innovations created some problems‚ they formed to world into what it is today. One of the biggest innovation created in the 1920’s was jazz. Jazz is a combination of African American rhythms and european melodies. Jazz clashed with the old mainly because it gave
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Wall is the son of Frances Pulley and John Carroll Wall‚ Sr. When Wall was 8 years old‚ his father was released from prison but died of liver cancer a month later‚ on August 24‚ 1999 at the age of 52. Throughout his childhood‚ Wall’s mother worked multiple jobs to support Wall‚ his sister‚ Cierra‚ and his half-sister‚ Tonya.[2] Wall played AAU basketball for D-One Sports.[3] High school career [edit] Wall played his first two years of high school basketball at Garner Magnet High School in Garner
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John Felix Anthony Cena[1] (born April 23‚ 1977)[4] is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE.[8] In WWE‚ Cena has won 19 championships in total‚ including 12 world titles (having won the WWE Championship a record 10 times[9] and the World Heavyweight Championship twice). In addition‚ Cena has also won the WWE United States Championship three times‚[10] and is a four-time Tag Team Champion‚ having held the World Tag Team Championship twice (once each with Shawn
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John Locke‚ an Englishman who lived from 1632 to 1704‚ promoted some of the most influential ideas of the Enlightenment. He pioneered the idea that humans are naturally good‚ and are corrupted by society or government to becoming deviant. Locke described this idea in hisAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding as the tabula rasa‚ a Latin phrase meaning blank slate. The idea was not original to him‚ however. In fact‚ Locke directly took the idea from a Muslim philosopher from the 1100s‚ Ibn Tufail
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