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- 3451: The House On Mango Street: The American Dream
- ... the car. He wanted everyone to know him for the crime he had done. He accomplished it, but was known as a thief. Secondly, Esperanza was unhappy with the neighborhood she was living in. She lived on Mango Street and hated every minute she was there. Her family always dreamed of a white house with trees all around it, with real stairs and a real hallway, and at least three washrooms ...
- 3452: Maus: The Holocaust
- ... return food, but because of the hunger experiences it seemed uncalled for for him not to. Vladek is also depicted as very tight with his money. No doubt this is because of the poverty he lived with for so long. In the book, he was said to have reused tea bags, kept his burner on all day to save matches, make sure to put his storm windows on in early september ...
- 3453: Materialism And The Great Gatsby
- ... were preoccupied with the pursuit of private wealth. Jay Gatsby flaunted his material possessions in order to impress Daisy, but even though he was incredibly wealthy, he was probably very unhappy. Even if he had lived and won Daisy back, together they would have only found true fulfillment if they would have realized the need to switch from a philosophy of selfishness to a philosophy of caring. No amount of material ...
- 3454: The Life Of Author Harper Lee
- ... In the 1950’s she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC in New York City. In the late 1950’s Lee decided to devote all her time to writing. She lived in a cold-water flat, and was supported by friends who believed in her writing. Lee began writing at a very young age. She never tried to get her works published until she met a ...
- 3455: Socrates
- ... of being a hermit? Well for that was the way his whole life was. He was one of the many scientists in ancient Greece to go beyond the beliefs of the church. was born and lived in Athens all his life. Through out his life he married Xanthippe, and had 3 sons. He was never very rich, but he never excepted money for his great teachings, but he would except food ...
- 3456: Hank Williams
- ... body, he was raised by his mother, Lilly, because his dad moved to a Veterans Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana(Scott 14). The name Hiriam was actually supposed to be Hiram, but it was misspelled. Hank lived a poor childhood as a result of his father’s going away. The family ended up moving to Georgina, Alabama. There, Hank was forced to shine shoes, sell peanuts, and peddle seed packets- anything that ...
- 3457: Marie Curie
- ... and Edmond Bouty at the Sorbonne. There she met physicists who were already well known--Jean Perrin, Charles Maurain, and Aimé Cotton. Sklodowska worked far into the night in her students'-quarter garret and virtually lived on bread and butter and tea. She came first in the licence of physical sciences in 1893. She began to work in Lippmann's research laboratory and in 1894 was placed second in the licence ...
- 3458: Candidate Profile Paper On Alan Keyes
- ... catching people’s attention and making them think, even if they don’t agree with his position. Alan Keyes was born in New York into a military family. He and his sister and three brothers lived the traditional military life, moving around constantly. When asked where he went to school, he said “In a number of places. Since I was an army brat I went to different schools when I ...
- 3459: Life Of John F Kennedy
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children. As an infant he lived in a comfortable but modest frame house in that suburb of Boston. As the time went by, the family’s wealth grew, as well as the size of the family. The Kennedy’s moved to ...
- 3460: Malcolm X
- ... he got discouraged by his teacher and left school after the eighth grade to go live with a relative in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1942 he moved to a black section of New York City. He lived as a gambler, cheating to make money. He sold drugs and became addicted himself. Then in 1946 he was sent to prison for burglary. While serving in prison Malcolm adopted the Islamic religion. After he ...
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