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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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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Garbage! Absolute Garbage! That would have been my response and opinion of John Baldessari’s work if the field trip to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla was held in the first week or second week of this Art History course. Admittedly‚ I had to make a concerted effort not to raise that “shield of indifference” that I normally bring up when exposed to modern or contemporary art. Prior to the museum visit I did not do much research on Baldesarri other than lightly glancing through
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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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Rabbits‚ war‚ & speech By: Kira 10/23/2014 John Steinbeck-- a famous man that made great additions to literature. Steinbeck wrote classics such as Of Mice and Men‚ Once There Was a War‚ and many others. All of his stories were quick to talk about human nature of some sort. In 1962 when he received the Nobel Prize‚ he openly expressed his opinion on what a writer should be making their readers feel. Mankind can either win or lose the battle internally as well as externally. Humans can conquer
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John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska tells the story of Miles Halter‚ a shy teenager who transfers to Culver Creek Boarding School for his junior year of high school‚ in search of the “Great Perhaps”. His roommate‚ Chip “the Colonel” Martin‚ takes Miles under his wing‚ nicknames him Pudge‚ and introduces him to smoking‚ drinking‚ pranks‚ and Alaska Young. Alaska is a beautiful moody‚ self-destructive girl who catches Pudge’s attention. One night‚ after getting drunk with the Colonel and briefly
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