Chairman of the Board Frank Sinatra was known by many names such as The Sultan of Swoon‚ The Voice‚ and Ol’ Blue Eyes. Choose whichever you like. There were very few entertainers who stood the test of time and are still as popular in their hay day as they are in the current generation. Presley‚ Sinatra‚ and Bing Crosby are the select few who are still as popular‚ if not more so‚ than they were in their respective times. Time Magazine even considered him the most influential vocalist of the 20th
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Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright was a very successful architect‚ writer‚ interior designer and educator born on the 8th of June 1867 and died on the 9th of April 1959. He designed more than 1000 structures and completed 500 works. Style Wright’s creations took his concern with organic architecture down to the smallest details. To all his work‚ he included so much detail‚ same on the external and interior design. He was one of the first architects to design and supply custom-made‚ purpose-built
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named Frank McCourt the age of nine is the main character of this story‚ “Typhoid Fever”. Told from his perspective‚ he explains his experiences of having typhoid fever in bed rest at a hospital in Ireland. While in the hospital‚ Frank gets to know a girl named Patricia‚ who is a patient in hospital for diphtheria. Disregarding the nun’s warnings‚ they continued to talk to each other and share poetry. In the middle of telling a poem‚ “The Highwayman”‚ the nun punishes them by putting Frank in a different
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In this hard world where winning is more important than participating you would sometimes almost forget to be generous from time to time. But when I read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt I got a completely different view on generosity and the importance of it. This memoir is about the miserable Irish Catholic childhood of the writer. And I think that after this essay you will see that acts of generosity can make the lives of the poor better and that those people afterwards can also help other poor
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Anne Frank Elie Wiesel is one of the most eminent Holocaust survivors for his writing and his actions for bringing awareness and memorial for those who were not as fortunate as him during WWII. He was an extraordinary man with such a great personality‚ especially after all he had gone through as a child. He has written many novels about his experiences during the Holocaust‚ one of which called Night which tells of his experiences inside a Nazi death camp. His writing has been influential for all
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The Diary of Anne Frank is based on a true story where her and her family had to go into hiding for 2 full years before the Green Police caught them in a warm summer. The Frank family started to go into hiding in early July‚ 1942‚ it wasn’t until a week later the Van Danns showed up to the secret Annex. Sure enough it wasn’t until a couple months they had to let another person in the secret Annex it was Mr. Dussel‚ a local dentist in Amsterdam. Later in those years all 8 of them were caught by the
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humans and so believe it or not when we do things like finding shelter in danger and eating food when hungry we are doing this to stay alive because to us that is more important than anything else. The tragic story of a young teenage girl named Anne Frank trying to survive while being a Jew during the time of the Holocaust was shared through the finding of her diary. The diary put us all in her shoes so we can have a way to be able to really feel the emotions of a teenage girl going through the horrors
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Diary of Anne Frank Analytical Essay The Diary of Anne Frank is well known around the world today. In the play‚ The Diary of Anne Frank‚ the use of dramatic conventions such as asides‚ monologues‚ and apostrophes were used to contribute to the overall serious yet hopeful tone of the production. To begin with‚ there is multiple times where the families used asides to help the audience understand the lack of things and such an unfortunate life they lived. For example‚ each person talked about
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1. Who invented the BALLPOINT PEN? A. Biro Brothers Explanation: The Hungarian brothers‚ Laszlo and George Biro‚ made the first ball point pen in 1894. It followed the first workable fountain pen which was invented by L.E. Waterman in 1884. 2. In which decade was the first solid state integrated circuit demonstrated? A. 1950s Explanation: On September 12‚ 1958‚ Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working IC while working for Texas Instruments‚ although the U.S. patent office awarded the first
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Lester Ward’s Contributions to American Sociology Lester Frank Ward was a man of science. Sometimes dubbed as the “Father of American Sociology” or the “Social Darwin” Lester Ward was first a botanist and paleontologist. He understood the power of science. Ward wrote Dynamic Sociology and a few other works with the hopes to reinstate the importance of experimentation and the scientific method to sociology. He served as president of the American Sociological Society in 1906 and appointed assistant
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