are classified as “troubled”. She was only 9 years old when this took place‚ so that made her one of the youngest girls there. August of that same year‚ she was returned to her mother and life resumed itself like before. Donald Clark‚ who wrote a biography about Holiday called Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon‚ stated that she only returned back to her mother after she’d been sexually assaulted. Throughout her difficult early life‚ she considered music as an important aspect of her life. Two of the
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Biography of Christopher Bruce Christopher Bruce was born on the 3rd of October 1945 in England‚ he started studying dancing at 11 years old‚ and he began with tap and ballet. After studying at the Rambert School Christopher Bruce joined Rambert Ballet in 1963‚ where he quickly became the leading male dancer. Bruce appeared in works such as Don Quixote in 1964 and Coppelia in 1966. Then the company began to experiment with ballet and modern‚ combining them to form‚ specifically the Martha Graham
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Cited: "Joseph Stalin." Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage. 2011. Web. 13 Apr. 2011. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/stalin.html. "Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin ’s Forced Famine 1932-33." The History Place. Web. 13 Apr. 2011. http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm.
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Aaron Burr’s Life Biography Aaron Burr was born on February 6‚ 1756 in Newark‚ New Jersey. When he first arrived‚ a little sister named Sally had already preceded him. Their father was Reverend Aaron Burr‚ and their mother was Ester Edwards Burr‚ daughter of the famous Jonathan Edwards‚ a high honor at the Calvin school. Aaron Burr Sr. was also the second president of Princeton. He represented all that was austere and hopeless in Puritanism. But Aaron‚ Jr. inherited only one tenet out of
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Stevens 1 Biography of Cam Newton By: Heath Stevens Heath Stevens 9/9/12 Gardner-Webb University Dr. Lisa Cantrell English 102-C Stevens 2 Thesis- Cam Newton is a phenomenal quarterback who has overcame many obstacles in his personal life in order to be where he is today. Outline I. Introduction II. High School III. College IV. NFL V. Conclusion Stevens 3 Cameron Jerrell Newton‚ or Cam as he is better known‚ was born on May 11‚ 1989 to Cecil Newton Sr
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Sam Walton: A Biography America ’s richest man‚ Sam Walton‚ was not always rich. Growing up during the depression‚ he struggled to help his family then‚ not knowing he would one day own a multi-billion dollar business‚ and then struggle to help the poorest of America becoming one of the top philanthropists in the United States. Also seen as a great leader‚ not everyone agrees on the "greatness" of the man who laid the foundation of some of the most significant management concepts used today in
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Biography Tim Winton began his first novel‚ An Open Swimmer (1982)‚ at the age of 19‚ while on a Creative Writing course at Curtin University‚ Perth. It won the Australian/Vogel National Literary Award‚ and he has since made his living as a full-time writer. Born in Perth‚ Western Australia‚ in 1960‚ he is the author of several novels for adults‚ including Shallows (1986)‚ a novel set in a whaling town‚ and Cloudstreet (1991)‚ the tale of two working-class families rebuilding their lives‚
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| | | Television journalist. Born September 25‚ 1931‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. She was the daughter of nightclub impresario Lou Walters (owner of New York ’s swanky Latin Quarter) and his wife‚ Dena. In 1937‚ Lou Walters expanded his business‚ which caused his family to adopt an itinerant lifestyle‚ moving from Boston to New York to Miami Beach. Walters attended the all-female Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville
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During his imprisonment‚ Bakhtin began suffering health problems caused by chronic osteomyelitis‚ a painful inflammation of the bone marrow‚ and while his exile to the frozen isolation of Kazakhstan was no doubt severe‚ it undoubtedly saved him from a certain death in prison. During exile‚ Bakhtin was prevented from teaching and instead supported himself as a bookkeeper. In 1936‚ he was released from exile and taught for a time in Saransk until renewed purges led him to resign and move to a small
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Indira Gandhi’s biography Indira Gandhi was born on the 19th of November in 1917 in Allahabad. She was part of the Nehru Family. Indira Gandhi’s dad was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mom was Kamla Nehru. Her grandfather‚ Motilal Nehru‚ was a Indian nationalist leader. Her father‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ was a important person in the independent movement of India. In 1934–35‚ after finishing school‚ Indira went to Shantiniketan‚ a school invented by Rabindranath Tagore. Then‚ she went to England and sat
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