James Robert ‘Radio’ Kennedy is a 65-year-old handicapped man from Anderson‚ South Carolina‚ where the story of his involvement with T.L. Hanna High School takes place. This story was captured by the 2003 movie‚ “Radio”. The filmmakers condensed four decades of Radio’s story into one year from 1976 to 1977 in order to‚ what director Michael Tollin states‚ “show the convergence of events that led to Radio becoming an integral part of society in this small town”. What Tollin didn’t want to make was
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Roberts enrolled at the University of North Carolina‚ where he played college baseball for the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I. His father‚ Mike Roberts‚ was the head coach of the Tar Heels. No other Division I baseball program offered Roberts a scholarship.[3] During Roberts’ freshman year in 1997‚ he batted .427‚ with 102 hits‚ including 24 doubles‚ and 47 stolen bases. His batting average
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Robert L. Dear Jr.‚ the man responsible for the shooting at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs last year‚ has just been declared unfit to stand trial. According to Judge Gilbert A. Martinez‚ the suspect is “mentally incompetent” and announced that Dear must be sent to a mental hospital to restore his competency. The Courtroom Drama Judge Gilbert A. Martinez’s ruling was based on the reports of the two state psychologists who have met with Robert L. Dear Jr. Both psychologists reported
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Robert Browning was a very dramatic English poet. He created dramatic monologues and very dramatic poems. As he wrote he seemed to be a psycho killer or a person with a very abnormal way of thinking. Possibly two of his most famous poems are Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. Most would recognize quickly that the poems are similar due to their dark tone‚ evil similarities‚ and odd way of expressing love. The poems differ due to the fact that one seems to be happy in the beginning until he killed
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1- Dr. Roberts elucidates the different issues and disparities which nonwhites have experienced throughout history. These different issues enable health disparities which continues to affect our health care systems today. Dr. Roberts explains the use of people having different skin tones to justify their inferior treatment in many different situations. People of color have been used for experiments‚ carried out by white researchers and scientists. The problems which have been faced by people of color
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American Literature Mrs. Pratt January 26‚ 2011 A Very Romantic Writer Nora Roberts was born Eleanor Marie Robertson. She was born october 10th‚ 1950‚ in Silver Spring‚ Maryland. Robert ’s fathers worked at a local movie theatre and her mom stayed at home. Roberts is the youngest of five children and the only daughter. She believes that having all brothers helped her to adapt to men early on in life. Roberts attended catholic schools most of her life‚ but attended public school as a sophomore
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said that the compositions of Glasgow-based folk artist Alasdair Roberts sound as if they were written hundreds of years ago. This is certainly testament to the Will Oldham protégé’s nigh-on two-decade quest to promote the communal and social aspect of folk music‚ rather than the confessional and personal approach taken by many acoustic guitar-wielding singer/songwriters who have popularized the genre in recent decades. While Roberts has been acclaimed for successfully tackling whole albums of traditional
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Robert G. Mondavi‚ the son of poor Italian immigrants‚ began making wine in Califor¬nia in 1943 when his family purchased the Charles Krug winery in Napa Valley where he served as a general manager. In 1966‚ at the age of 54‚ after a severe dispute over control of the family-owned winery‚ Robert Mondavi used his personal savings and loans from friends to start the flagship Robert Mondavi Win¬ery in Napa Valley with his eldest son‚ Michael Mondavi. Robert’s vision was to create wines in California
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self-discovery and abandonment of her conventional society. (Kester-Shelton) Within that story is where we meet Robert LeBrun‚ A young‚ flirtatious and confident womanizer with a reputation to match and it is within this paper‚ that we will analyze the influential character of Robert LeBrun who without control‚ falls in a forbidden love affair with the protagonist‚ Edna Pontellier. Robert‚ a younger man with immature tendencies‚ clean shaven face‚ yellowish-brown hair‚ and quick bright eyes maintains
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Robert Robinson‚ a thirty year old social worker at a home for troubled youth‚ has lived a difficult life and overcome many obstacles to get where he is. Raised in a lower income community in Miramar‚ FL.‚ the concept of college was a faraway dream. In high school his main focus was to play football. He said “2 years of hard work and my grades were good enough to play‚ finally.” Robert’s goals were to complete high school‚ go to a 4year college‚ and go onto D1 football then the NFL. Robert experienced
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