George Ryga Canadian playwright 1932 1987 George Ryga‚ one of Canada’s most prolific and powerful writers‚ was born in 1932 in Deep Creek‚ Alberta‚ of poor immigrant parents from the Ukraine. At the age of 16 one of his teachers encouraged him to enter a creative writing competition run by the Banff School of the Arts. The work he submitted won and he got a scholarship for the school sponsored by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. Unfortunately‚ his scholarship was revoked
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George Washington Biography By Justin Mendoza George Washington was born on February 22‚ 1732‚ in Westmoreland Country‚ Virginia. George Washington could trace his family’s presence in North America to his great-grandfather‚ John Washington‚ who migrated from England to Virginia. Washington’s fathers name was Augustine and his mother was named Jane. They both died when he was younger. In 1748‚ when he was 16‚ George traveled with a surveying party plotting land in Virginia’s western territory
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May 30th‚ 2008 Per . 5 Painting George Seurat Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2‚ 1859‚ in Paris‚ France. He was the youngest of three children in the family. His father was a wealthy lawyer‚ Chrysostome-Antoine Seurat‚ and his mother named Ernestine Faivre‚ she came from a prosperous Parisian family. During the early 1870s‚ Seurat was taking private drawing lessons from painter and uncle Paul Haumonte. His uncle took him on regular art expeditions. From 1875‚ he studied drawing
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Have you ever heard of one African American that was an amazing inventor and a great influence still today? Well now you have. George Washington Caver had used crops for many uses and helped the Southern agricultural. Carver was the best scientist/inventor in history. He was and is a great influence. Carver was a great man. He accomplished many things like‚ discovering three hundred ways to use peanuts and another one hundred ways to use other crops. He also studied in agricultural. He helped
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THE GEORGES HOTEL The Hotel ■ 163 guest rooms‚ 65-70 employees. ■ Front desk: 10 employees. ■ Valet parking services: 8 employees. ■ Housekeeping: 28 employees. ■ Engineering and facilities maintenance: 4 employees. ■ Management and administrative: 15-20 additional staff members assigned to departments throughout the hotel‚ including management‚ office support and sales. The Garden Terrace Restaurant ■ Approximately 35 employees. ■ The restaurant is open daily from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00
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After the colonists rebelled and declared independence‚ a war erupted as King George III wished to crush the “rebellion” leading up to the War of Independence or most commonly referred to as the Revolutionary War. The War of the American Revolution was a time of patriotism‚ nationalism‚ and an era of combat and battle. A primary figure from this time period was the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Continental Army‚ George Washington. Washington’s leadership role in the American Revolution was
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Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. George Orwell re-uses many of his themes in order to get his point across. In "Why I Write"‚ Orwell states that one of the reasons he writes is for political purpose. He expresses this theme in his essays‚ "An Episode of Bed-wetting" and "St. Cyprian ’s"‚ as well as his novels‚ "1984" and "Animal Farm". In "An Episode of Bed-wetting" and "St. Cyprian ’s"‚ Orwell expresses how he feels about the politics in the school
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The novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell takes place in a totalitarian nation that has full control of media and media production. Even the pornorgraphic films are produced by the state. The situation in 1984 represents the ultimate manifestation of what was close to becoming a reality in Soviet Russia‚ waging war on citizens. The Party controls all aspects of society in 1984 and everyone owes their allegiance to Big Brother. Under Stalin’s rule‚ people worshiped him as a god. The 40 million citizens who
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Georges Braque Georges Braque (May 13‚ 1882 August 31‚ 1963) was a French painter and sculptor who‚ with Pablo Picasso‚ developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art. Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine‚ France. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator as his father and grandfather were‚ but he also studied painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre from about 1897 to 1899.Braque’s paintings of 19081913
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to them as "the lost tribes of Israel." A movement called "British Israelism" claims to have found the ten "lost tribes‚" however‚ and in some very unlikely places. For many years‚ one of the leaders in the British Israelism movement was Herbert W. Armstrong‚ founder of the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Church of God." Especially for Americans‚ Armstrong was
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