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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
2727 Words - 10 Pages.... her. She
tried to put him into a foster home, but the arrangements fell through. As a
last resort she sent Charles to school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Mrs. Manson
failed to make the payments for the school and once again Charles was sent back
to his mother's abuse. At only fourteen, Manson left his mother and rented a
room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs and petty theft. His
mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys
Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total
of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria,
Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then ....
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John D. Rockefeller
2128 Words - 8 Pages.... the family moved to Moravia and later to Owego, New York, before going west to Ohio in 1853. The Rockefellers bought a house in Strongsville, near Cleveland, and John entered Central High School in Cleveland. While he was a student he rented a room in the city and joined the Erie Street Baptist Church, this later became the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Active in its affairs, he became a trustee of the church at the age of 21.
He left high school in 1855 to take a business course at Folsom Mercantile College. He completed the six-month course in three months and, after looking for a job for six weeks, was employed as assistant bookkeeper by Hewitt & Tuttle, a small f ....
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The Life Of Harry Houdini
2044 Words - 8 Pages.... early years.
Houdini's father was Mayer Samuel Weiss. His father was a Rabbi.
Mayer was Rabbi for a short time for the German Zoin Jewish Congregation in
Appleton. His mother's name was Cecilia Steiner Weiss. Houdini's original
family pictures are on display at the Houdini Museum in Scranton,
Pennsylvania in the Pocono region.
His parents spoke only Yiddish, Hungarian, and German. The family
was quite poor so most of the children began to work at an early age. From
the age of eight young Ehrich Weiss sold newspapers and worked as a shoe
shine boy. Please note that when coming to the United States there were
often many spellings of names ....
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Richard Lederer: His Works
2192 Words - 8 Pages.... Richard Lederer
Introduction and bibliography
Richard Lederer was the kind of child who, almost as soon as he could talk, saw
a butterfly and cooed, "Oh, goody. A butterfly will flutter by." Even as a high-
school student, Richard knew that Elvis Presley, born three years before him,
would become immortal because he recognized that "Elvis Lives" is a two-word
anagram.
Richard Lederer entered Haverford College as a pre-medical student but soon
found that he was reading the chemistry books for their literary value. Mr.
Lederer became an English major and then attended Harvard Law School, where he
found that he read the law cases for their literary va ....
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Edgar Allan Poe
3420 Words - 13 Pages.... tome, which causes confusion for readers immersed in this tradition. Daniel Hoffman reiterates Allan Tate's position that, aside from his atavistic employment of moral terminology, Poe writes as though "Christianity had never been invented." (Hoffman 171) Poe did offer to posterity one tale with a moral. Written in 1841 at the dawn of Poe's most creative period, Poe delivers to his readers a satirical spoof, a literary Bronx cheer to writers of moralistic fiction, and to critics who expressed disapprobation at finding no discernible moral in his works. The tale "Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Tale with a Moral" presents Poe's "way of staying execution" (Poe 487) for his ....
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Tennessee Williams
527 Words - 2 Pages.... of
small jobs. In 1939 he won a national drama award for a group of plays called
American Blues. Williams achieved his first great stage success with The Glass
Menagerie, which was produced in New York City in 1945. This play won the New
York Drama Critics' Circle Prize as the years best play. Williams averaged two
plays a year since that time. On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in
New York City. Throughout Williams' lifetime he has put forth more than twenty-
five full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and
unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto. These have been translated into
at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil ....
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Lena Horne
1333 Words - 5 Pages.... She became a chorus girl in Harlem’s Cotton Club where blacks entertained a strictly all white crowd. At that time she was making about $25 a week. It was here that Lena got to meet and observe now famous artists such as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Ethal Waters, and Billie Holiday. At the age of nineteen she met and married Louis Jones. Together they had two children Gail and Teddy (who later died in 1970 from kidney failure). While trying to get used to raising a family and having a career, she received a call from an agent, who had seen her at the Cotton Club, about a part in a movie. Her controlling husband allowed her to be in “The Duke is Tops” and ....
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Carl Gustav Jung
3703 Words - 14 Pages.... many funerals, taking his son with him.
Also, Jung saw many fishermen get killed in the waterfalls and also many
pigs get slaughtered. When he was eleven, he went to a school in Basel, met
many rich people and realized that he was poor, compared to them. He liked
to read very much outside of class and detested math and physical education
classes. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis)
and his father worried that Jung wouldn't make a good living because of his
spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.
He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology ....
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