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Walt Disney
714 Words - 3 Pages.... that she would wait for him. When he was out on the field on day he found a puppy and had it shipped back to her so she could take care of it. When he got back she was married 3 months before his return and his dog died.
He then move back to Kansas City, lived with his brother Roy, and tried to get a job as an artist. Walt had many jobs but couldn’t keep one for very long. There was very few artistic jobs available then and the ones that where available, the employers found something wrong with Walt. Then Walt started his own business. His brother Roy went in on it to, so they called the business Disney Brothers. Later it changed to Productions.
His first anim ....
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Abraham Lincoln - Civil War President
733 Words - 3 Pages.... such as suspension of
habeas corpus (the right to protest unlawful imprisonment of a person and
take it to court) for certain Confederate supporters who were too loud in
their support, but it prevented unrest when unity was needed to fight the
Confederacy. Lincoln appointed generals that, though not always successful,
were competent, including the famed Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln kept
national unity, moderating his own views of slavery to keep the border
states of Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. He managed to stop
and European nations from interfering with his foreign diplomacy and his
speeches, such as the famed Gettysburg address, held the peoples's support
to ....
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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy - Rebirth By Death
321 Words - 2 Pages.... his life was meaningless.
As his illness progressed, Ivan Ilyich felt increasingly the need to be loved.
Only in front of death he knew what real feeling is. Ivan Ilyich felt real
empathy and pity from peasant Gerasim and son Vasya. His moral misery was worse
than physical. The result of this was that Ivan Ilyich in dying became the
individual that he never was in his typical life. He understood that his notion
about his decent and helpfulness was just illusion. He felt as if he were
being squeezed down into a black hole and there at the bottom was light. This
metaphor serves as image of physical death and spiritual rebirth. His death
gave birth to new consciousness. ....
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Herman Melville 2
564 Words - 3 Pages.... traits to his literary characters that were similar to the ones he himself possessed.
Melville had a strong desire to reveal the complexities of human life, so mystery was often a trait of his characters. An example of this would be his character Bartleby. Throughout the story, the reader has no clue what Bartleby is thinking, so Melville creates an air of mystery about this character. Another of Melville’s characters that show this quality is Claggart in the book Billy Budd. Claggart is constantly referred to as being mysterious, “…a nut not to be cracked by the top of a ladies fan (Billy Budd).
Besides being mysterious, Melville is stubborn ....
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Maurice Sendak
2104 Words - 8 Pages.... child who was not allowed to go outside often. Therefore, being the youngest child in a family of three, he was left alone with his imagination. He enjoyed drawing and reading from an early age, but was often dissatisfied with the children books that were available to him. He attempted to read what he called "real books" even when he was a young child; he felt it was an embarrassment even to enter the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited by any effort to make things so simple for children that they become mundane.
Sendak's greatest influence as a writer was his father. ....
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Francisco Pizarro
530 Words - 2 Pages.... returned with more supplies. Pizarro's expedition almost seized
ant that locatio2 but he demanded to continue.
Francisco Pizarro had to give up his expedition later on and return
to Panama because he got into a skirmish with hostile natives and got
wounded6. His second expedition was more successful. On his second
expedition he reached the capitol of the Inca Empire, Cuzco7. Pizarro and
other Spaniards were migrating to Cuzco and inconspicuously taking over the
Inca Empire.
The complete takeover of the Inca's was a very big accomplishment
because the Incas had the most formidable and successful military societies
of the Americas, served by generals, with ine ....
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Babe Ruth
2398 Words - 9 Pages.... new ball, which is also the current ball, was introduced; this new ball was tightly wound which made it much easier for more home runs and created more of an active game; this also was the year which Ruth's home runs increased from twenty-nine to fifty-nine, hitting a career total of 714. With an increase in the action of the game, the media coverage increased drastically as well, including both paper coverage and radio coverage. The idea of the home run was more of a new concept and with Ruth's improvement it became a symbol of The Babe. The idea of the home run also symbolized the creation of a strong willed nation and self-confident young men, enforcing the idea that ....
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Louis XIV
1021 Words - 4 Pages.... Louis served with the French army during France's war with Spain. His biggest battle, however, was sacrificing his love for Mazarin's niece for politics. In 1660 he married the daughter of the king of Spain to bring peace between the two countries.
Mazarin died March 9, 1661. On March 10, Louis claimed supreme authority in France. Not since Henry IV had such a claim been made. Louis saw himself as God's representative on earth, therefore, infallible. He oversaw roadbuilding, court decorum, defense, and disputes within the church.
He had the support initially of his ministers, then that of the French people. He had given France the image it desired-youth and vitality ....
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