50 Cent (born Curtis James Jackson on July 6‚ 1975[1] in Queens‚ New York) is a popular African-American rapper‚ also known as Fitty or Fifty‚ who rose to fame following the success of his 2003 debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Biography Once almost unknown outside his hometown of Southside Jamaica‚ Queens‚ 50 Cent is currently one of the most well-known and commercially successful rappers of the decade. Because the success of an artist in gangsta rap often depends on street credibility and
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Biographical Paper Peter Griffin Biography Peter Löwenbräu Griffin is the protagonist of the show Family Guy and its title character. He’s a man of Irish descent currently residing in Quahog‚ Rhode Island. He was‚ however‚ born in Mexico‚ where his mother had tried unsuccessfully to abort him.Peter was raised by Francis and Thelma Griffin in the Roman Catholic faith. However‚ he discovers that his biological father is a man named Mickey McFinnigan. Peter has a wife named Lois Griffin whom he has been married
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JORDAN BELFORT Biography / Background Nicknamed "the Wolf of Wall Street‚" Jordan Belfort made millions in the 1990s through his investment company‚ Stratton Oakmont. His memoir is the basis for the 2013 Martin Scorsese film The Wolf of Wall Street‚ starring Leonardo Dicapro. Born in Queens‚ New York‚ on July 9‚ 1962‚ Jordan Belfort had a natural talent as a salesman at an early age‚ operating a meat and seafood business in the 1980s. After that company went bust‚ Belfort began selling stocks in
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BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN KEATS Born in London‚ England‚ on October 31‚ 1795‚ John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery‚ great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion on that trip brought on the first symptoms of the tuberculosis‚ which ended his life. Quotes "If Poetry comes not as naturally as Leaves to a tree it had better not
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Book review of “For the love of India” (A biography of Jamsetji Tata ‚ written by R.M.Lala) Jamsetji Tata‚ the founder of Tata sons‚ was a pioneer of Indian Industry. He is credited with giving Indian Industry a new direction by creating a vision for first steel plant & hydroelectric plant. Prior to that‚ Business community in India was basically a trading community‚ with only major exports in cotton‚ jute & tea. He was the one who changed India’s industrial & economic character. He fulfilled
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Charles Dickens Biography Charles Dickens was one of the most influential and greatest novelists/writers ever born during the Victorian era. He was born on 7 February 1812 in Land port (Portsea)‚ Hampshire to John Dickens who was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office and Charles’s his mother’s name was Elizabeth. Charles was second of the eight children in the Dickens family. Charles’s family moved to London In 1814‚ when he was just two years and. Further after two years in 1816‚ the Dickens family
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The Giver By Lois Lowry Chapter 24 It has been a year since Jonas left his community with Gabriel in search of "elsewhere." Jonas reached this place of "elsewhere" only one week after leaving his community. Luckily‚ nothing had happened to Gabriel. But Jonas wasn’t as fortunate. His entire right arm had gotten frostbite‚ and he needed it to be amputated. Fortunately‚ with the technology this city of "elsewhere" had‚ this was possible. They were even able to make a moving mechanical hand that responded
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From the mid-’80s to the mid-’90s‚ Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist Bryan Adams was one of the most successful recording artists in popular music worldwide. Usually dressed in blue jeans‚ sneakers‚ and white T-shirts‚ the energetic performer stalked stages around the globe‚ electric guitar in hand‚ singing his own up-tempo pop/rock songs and ballads before audiences numbering in the tens of thousands. He released a series of multi-platinum albums containing chart-topping singles featured
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A Biography of Alan Turing‚ with Mathematics. From the middle name one may suspect a certain class value‚although the "Math" bit is a strange coincidence. His father went to Oxford and then worked for the Indian Civil Service. His mother’s father also worked in India. He was born in 1912‚ their second son. 1926 his father retired so perhaps he had something of normal family life from then on. Went to Sherborne‚ one of older public schools. Whilst there he became a close friend of Christopher
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BIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLA TESLA 1994 Brotherhood of Life‚ Inc.‚ 110 Dartmouth‚ SE‚ Albuquerque‚ New Mexico 87106 USA "SPECTACULAR" is a mild word for describing the strange experiment with life that comprises the story of Nikola Tesla‚ and "amazing" fails to do adequate justice to the results that burst from his experiences like an exploding rocket. It is the story of the dazzling scintillations of a superman who created a new world; it is a story that condemns woman as an anchor of the flesh which
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