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The Work Of Robert Frost
2840 Words - 11 Pages.... suppressed by any circumstance; it is partly, too,
because his education has been right. He is our least provincial poet
because he is the best grounded in those ideas--Greek, Hebrew, modern
Europeans and even Oriental--which make for well-built art at any time. He
does not parade his learning, and may in fact not know that he has it: but
there in his poems it is, and it is what makes them so solid, so humorous,
and so satisfying.
His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are
the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like,
America, or better yet, the world. He has been able to believe, as any good
artist must, tha ....
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Mickey Mantle
925 Words - 4 Pages.... His dad and grandpa always got some games going after school with some of Mickey's friends (Falkner 22).The people who taught him how to play the game were his father and grandfather. He practiced with them for at least 2 hours a day (Falkner 23). Mickey played sports and games whenever he could. He just could not stay away from the game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because swimming almost cost him hislifeOnce him and his friends were swimming in a river,and they were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell o ....
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Moll Flanders
1164 Words - 5 Pages.... is much greater then the wealth that she eventually achieved? The answer is that the suffering that Moll experienced was not worth the final outcome. Although Moll reached her goals in the end, she would have had a more fulfilling and gratifying life had she suppressed her vanity and price and accepted her role in society and lived accordingly.
Moll began life in the low class. Not much nobility or status was expected of the orphan born in Newgate Prison, and in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this class. But Moll had the blessing of the kind "nurse" who raised her, kept her out of the dreaded servitude, and found a high class family for ....
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Herbert George Wells
348 Words - 2 Pages.... Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which depict members o! f the lower middle class and their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote ....
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The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
998 Words - 4 Pages.... mother died her father was placed in an asylum because of his alcoholism. Eleanor’s father was deemed unworthy to parent. Eleanor was sent to live with her very strict Grandmother. For many years Eleanor wanted her father to come and take her to live. She would sit on the stairs in her grandmother’s home and wait crying for her father to come take her. Even though Eleanor’s grandmother was very strict she gave her the love and the family atmosphere that she needed. Many years later her father died and she was left alone with only uncles and her grandmother. In 1899 at the age of 15 her uncles out of control drunkenness scared Eleanor’s grandmother of Eleanor’s safe ....
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Martin Luther King- I Have A D
698 Words - 3 Pages.... Montgomery buses were desegregated in December 1956, after the United States Supreme Court declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional. King's leadership took place during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Under his guidance, the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years.
King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with a system that saw his people or people of any color, as second class citizens. H ....
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Grace Kelly
879 Words - 4 Pages.... members. Grace served many roles in her life as an actress, princess and mother.
When first walked on stage as Virgin Mary at age six, people knew she was magic. She had a passion for the stage that her father could not understand. He had a poor opinion of the acting profession, but then his daughter had always been a mystery to him. Being so energetic and outgoing himself, he found it hard to understand a daughter who enjoyed sitting still, reading or writing. Grace begged him to enroll her in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and he reluctantly agreed. Her mother also disapproved of sending her to New York. She worried about the dangers lurking in w ....
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Michael Jordan
421 Words - 2 Pages.... and 1993. He led the Bulls again to win the NBA world championships three times in a row, in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
And along the way Jordan picked up five regular season Most Valuable Player(MVP)awards, six Finals MVPs, 10 scoring titles, and made 12 All-Star appearances and many amazing, magical moments from the last-second shots to phenomenal scoring outbursts. Jordan also was named by the NBA as one of the 50 greatest players of all-time.
He leaves a series of records, including a career record for highest points per game average in a regular season;31.5; Bulls' all-time leading scorer and third all-time leading scorer in the NBA with 29,277 points; set NBA record ....
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