Ray Charles Robinson
.... noticed him and
Charles had his first album: "Confession Blues." Afterward Charles went on
the road for a few years. He played at bars around the country. It was
known by musicians as the chitlin' circuit.
Soon Charles stopped imitating other musicians, as he had been doing up
until this point, and began to combine gospel and rhythm and blues, and, in
doing so, created soul. He is still called the "Genius of Soul" today. In
1955 Charles made recorded "I've Got a Women", and made history. It helped
pave the way for soul for years to come.
In the 1960's Charles recorded "I Can't Stop Loving You" (a piece of
country music) wi .....
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Biography Of Katharine Hepburn
.... Hopkins, the director, watched her act. “Fine,” he said, “Just
don't ever be sorry for yourself.”
One night at midnight, Jimmy Hagen, the writer of the play, asked
her if she still knew her part. Hope was sick and they needed her to
perform. She spent all day the next day memorizing her lines. Katharine
did her best.
“I lived through it ... so did the cast.” She did have one
disappointment. Aurthur Hopkins didn't come to watch her perform.
In the spring of 1930, Kate played roles in the plays The Admirable
Crichton and The Romantic Young Lady. During the second week of The
Romantic Young Lady, Katharine quite. She tho .....
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The Biography Of Kurt Donald Cobain
.... band mate with Nirvana, and many other groups,
Krist(Chris) Novoselic. Krist was an immigrant from Croatia and he and
Kurt became friends instantly. Later Kurt and Krist formed Nirvana with
Chad Channing as drummer and recorded Bleach in 1989 for only $600.
Channing was replaced with Dave Grohl, now of the Foo Fighters, who went on
to record their other five CD's as Nirvana's new drummer.
Drug were easily found for the youths living the town. Kurt was
smoking hash and tried any kick that came his way. Kurt had been
experimentin drugs for some time, probably developing from the Ritalin he
was prescribed as a child. He was kno .....
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Biography Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
.... Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel
Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He
entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there for the remainder of the war.
Vonnegut was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany.
He witnessed first-hand the bombing of Dresden by the British and Americans.
He uses Slaughterhouse-Five to show that the human race has a tendency to
inflict destruction on itself(World Book Encyclopedia).
Before he wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, he published The Sirens of Titens
in 1959. This was a story about a playboy millionaire that is .....
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John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
.... an
exaggeration of social standards, such as cleanliness, punctuality,
consideration for others. The dynamic formula is similar to bookkeeping in
which on the one side of ledger are the asocial tendencies which the
patient tries to balance precisely on the other side with moralistic and
social attitudes... Every asocial move must be undone by an opposing
one..." The term "ego-alien" refers to thoughts, emotions or material which
are consciously detestable to the patient (though not he may not
necessarily be conscious of the reason). This summary is important, and we
will return to it later.
Rockefeller was born in 1839 and .....
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Letter To Charles Darwin
.... observing as much as I
could. I noticed the Pickerel under the ice in the pond, I never pondered
the possibility of the different kinds of Pickerel to be originated from
the same species. When you were observing nature in the Galapagos Islands,
you saw all the different types of plants and animals and postulated that
some of the different species of each came from a single ancestor.
Emerson, whom I mentioned previously, says,"Great geniuses have the
shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them," I
believe that to be true in your case. You didn't do much in terms of
accomplishments and kept your accou .....
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An Autobiography: Tom Landry
.... because the great things that he was doing for the Cowboys.
Jerry Jones, coach of a Florida college team, had plans for buying the team.
After he bought it, he fired Tom Landry. The firing happened on February
25, 1989. Jerry Jones named himself head coach. Up to this day Jerry
Jones has never been the coach that Tom was.
Tom Landry's life really was significant to people across America,
because he was so upstanding. Tom had a lot of morals, probably one reason
was because he was a Christian. He was so looked up to that Dallas made
"Tom Landry Day" on April 22. In 1990 he was elected to the Pro Football
Hall o .....
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The Literary Contributions Of King Alfred The Great
.... to her (Fadiman 14, Keynes 75). This talent was the foundation
of Alfred's later reputation as a scholar, translator, and patron of
learning.
As Alfred's role as king and patron began, he solemnly noted on
several occasions his disappointment in the state of educational
opportunity in England. "Formerly," the King wrote bitterly, "men came
hither from foreign lands to seek for instruction, and now when we desire
it we can only obtain it from abroad" (Collins 329, Smyth 249-250). But
his efforts were far from being imprisoned within his own island. He sent
shipmasters to the seas and coasts of the continent and surroundin .....
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Daniel Webster
.... Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National
Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing
federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had
shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster
decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new
manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the tariff,
and South Carolina's John C. Calhoun argued that South Carolina had the
right to nullify or ignore the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert
Hayne in a Senate de .....
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Willem De Kooning
.... Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major
painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of
thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York.
Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in
Europe and one in America. He combined classical European training in
Holland with a love for popular American culture. The restlessness and
energy of American life was a source of great inspiration and passion for
him. Gary Garrells, the chief curator at the San Fransisco Museum of Modern
Art said, " He had the wildness of Poll .....
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Alfred Nobel
.... no prizes for architects, artists,
composers or social scientists, he was generous to those working in physics,
chemistry, physiology and medicine—the subjects he knew best himself, and in
which he expected the greatest advances.
Throughout his life he suffered from poor health and often took cures at
watering places, “less to drink the water than to rest.” But he expected great
improvements in medicine, and the profession has since realized many of them.
Once he employed a young Swedish physiologist in Paris to test his own theories
on blood transfusions. Although these efforts were not successful, problems
related to trans .....
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Aristotle
.... of the Prime Mover (God), form has no separate existence but is
immanent in matter."
Aristotle's work was lost following the decline of the Roman Empire but
was reintroduced to the West through the work of Arab and Jewish scholars,
becoming the basis of medieval scholasticism.
In my opinion Aristotle was one of the greatest and most important of
the philosophers and scientists of the world's history.
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