The Life Of Walt Disney
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the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Walt Disney left the company and moved to Hollywood. He wanted to
make longer animated cartoons in stead of short animated ads. Disney's
first character with a personality, was Oswald the Rabbit. But, in a
scandal, he lost the character and several animators. Outraged by the loss
he vowed," Never again will I work for somebod .....
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Oscar Wilde
.... and became known for his eccentricity as well as his
academic ability. His rooms were filled with various objets d'art such as
sunflowers, peacock feathers, and blue china. Wilde frequently confided that
his greatest challenge at University was learning to live up to the perfection
of the china. Wilde won numerous academic prizes while studying there,
including the Newdigate Prize, a coveted poetry award, for his poem Ravenna.
In 1879 Wilde moved to London to make himself famous. He set about
establishing himself as the leader and model of the aesthetic movement. Besides
his hair and breeches, he added loose-fitting .....
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HG Wells
.... 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 an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History.
Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote
voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was
a member of the Fabian Society. He envisioned a utopia in which the vast
and frightening material forces available to modern men and women would be
rationally controlled for progress and for the equal good of all. His
later works w .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and
started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars.
Poe discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support.
His foster father refused to pay his debts, and Poe had to withdraw from
the University (Asselineau 410).
In May of 1827, Poe enlisted in the ar .....
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Biography Of Robert Cormier
.... for a local radio
station, and soon switched to newspaper work. He was a writer and editor at
the Fitchburg Sentinel for 23 years, where he won three major journalism
awards. He later wrote short stories for popular magazines such as McCall's
and the Saturday Evening Post. Cormier married in 1948, and despite his own
childhood experiences, he and his wife sent their four children to local
parochial schools.
Cormier's first three books were moderately successful, but in 1974 The
Chocolate War launched him into the young adult market where he has had
tremendous success. Cormier still lives in Leominster and still writes f .....
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Jimmy Carter: The 39th President Of The United States
.... was born James Earl Carter, Jr., on October 1, 1924,
in Plains, Georgia. His parents were James Earl Carter and Lillina Gordy
Carter. His family lived there for the first three years of Jimmy's life,
and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there
until he was seventeen years old, participating in the family's peanut farm.
In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated from high school, which wasn't common
for a farm boy at the time. He then spent a year at Georgia Southwestern
College, then left for another year at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
After his college education, Jimmy started his career in t .....
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Yasir Arafat
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independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern
the area. In 1993, the PLO-under Arafat's leadership, signed an agreement
with Isreal for the star of a plan for Palestinian self-government for and
Israel's withdrawals from the Gaza strip and the west bank. In 1994, this
plan went into effect in the Gaza strip and the west bank city of Jericho.
The PLO and Israel also gave recognitio .....
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Nathan McCall
.... learned to hate myself by the time I was 12 years old," he said. McCall
said he and his friends did not believe they had a future. Self-
destructive behavior was the result. He credits his 12 year prison sentence
for changing his attitude. His fellow inmates told him "don't do what
we've done," and encouraged him to change his lifestyle. He read books as
part of the prison programming and was influenced by authors that wrote
about being Black.
In February '94 he landed a contract with Random House; the hard-back
edition of his book made The New York Times best-seller list.
"I'm one of those brothers who slipped through the c .....
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Richard Nixon's Presidency
.... th e for what he alleged to be her pro-Communist sympathies. He won
the election, but his campaign tactics were widely criticized.
Vice-President
In 1952 the Republicans nominated Nixon to be the running mate of
presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. When it was disclosed that as
a senator Nixon had accepted an $18,000 fund fo r from California
businessmen, he was nearly dropped from the Republican ticket. Nixon's
televised self-defense, called th e speech because of a sentimental
reference to his dog Checkers, saved his political life. As vice-president,
Nixon emerged as a vigorous Republican spokesman during the Ei .....
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Gaius Marius: Savior.. Or Destroyer?
.... suited to the life of a warrior than that of a philosopher. He had
little tolerance for the aesthetic, finding more use with the sword than
the pen. He cut his military teeth under Scipio Aemilianus in the
Numantine war In Spain c.134, making an excellent impression on his
commander as did another up-and-coming young officer, Jugurtha, who would
later become king of Numidia and a hated enemy of Rome. After serving in
this campaign with distinction, Marius returned to Rome to stand for
Tribune of the People. Backed by the powerful family of Caecilius Metellus,
a hereditary patron, Marius won easily .
Shortly after winning the t .....
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Richelieu And Olivares: The Quest For European Domination
.... demonstrate the chess match between Richelieu and Olivares in which
there was to be only one winner. The book compared the two leaders to show
what conflicts the two men had, how they dealt with them, what they thought
of each other and why one came out on top of the other. “They shared many
of the same problems; they came up with many of the same answers; and in
the end they reached the conclusion that the world was too small to contain
them both.” (6).
The first time that the book notes an unfriendly atmosphere between
Richelieu and Olivares came after the War of Mantuan Succession. The two
men blamed each other for the probl .....
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Lorenz's Work In The Chaos Field And Basic Chaos
.... not very close and growing farther
apart as the sequence progressed. Lorenz then thought there was a bug in
the system. After much double checking, he found the problem. When he had
entered the data into the second run, he had shortened one decimal. He had
cut 0.506127 at 0.206 thinking it would not make a difference. Having
understood the importance of one thousandth of a part, Lorenz had
understood the basis for a chaotic, non-linear system.
Another very important experiment of Lorenz's is known as “the
dueling calculators.” Lorenz used two calculators to perform the same
iteration. Calculator one had ten significant digits, .....
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