Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban as the main character struggles to discover himself. A wise man once said‚ “You don’t have to be blood to be family” (Rowling). According to Harry Potter‚ this was very much so the case. Harry Potter was orphaned as a baby when his parents were murdered. He then fell into the care of his unaccepting and uncaring Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. Here‚ Harry felt like a burden and lonely. “Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia are as cruel to Harry as any fairy-tale
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Discuss Truman’s early life‚ including early business‚ his army service and his political life up through his career in the Senate. Harry S. Truman was born on May 8‚ 1884‚ in Lamar‚ MO. He was the son of John Anderson and Martha Ellen Young Truman. A family compromise between grandfathers middle names‚ Shipp and Solomon resulted giving him only the middle initial S. Sometimes he used a period (.)‚ sometimes he didn’t. In his early childhood‚ he moved yearly from farm to farm. In 1890 the
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Biography born 28 June 1971 South African/Canadian/American business magnate‚ engineer‚ and inventor. He is currently the CEO & CTO of SpaceX and CEO & Chief Product Architect of Tesla Motors. Musk was born in Pretoria‚ South Africa to a Canadian mother and a South African father. Elon taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. TIMELINE 1983 At the age of 12‚ designs a videogame called Blast Star and sells it to a computer
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Biography of Fernando Botero Fernando Botero was born in Medellin‚ Colombia in 1932. He was the son of a Colombian traveling salesman. At the age of twelve‚ Fernando Botero would receive training as a matador along with his usual school education. When he was sixteen‚ he attended his first exhibition along with other painter at Antioquia in Medellin. In 1951‚ at the age of nineteen‚ Fernando Botero moved to Bogota‚ Colombia’s capital. He shortly received his first solo exhibition at the Leo
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Biography of Steve jobs Early life Steven Jobs was born February 24‚ 1955‚ in San Francisco‚ California‚ and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up with one sister‚ Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and fixed cars as a hobby. Jobs remembers his father as being very skilled at working with his hands. As a child‚ Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively‚ but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry
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Character Analysis#2 In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ every character has different personality. J. K. Rowling uses both direct and indirect characterization to let them be vivid. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‚ Harry Potter is characterized as noble and brave in order to let readers know he has power to against Voldemort. Harry as the protagonist in this book‚ and he is brave. When Dumbledore and Harry discuss about the Horcrux‚ Dumbledore says that "the only protection that
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Biography of Ogden Nash Fredric Ogden Nash was an American humorist who lived from 1902 to 1971. He was born in 1902 in Rye‚ New York‚ where he grew up with well educated parents. Microsoft Encarta 95 said that his parents names were Edmund Strudwick Nash and Mattie Nash. During his childhood years‚ Nash was educated at several private schools. At these schools‚ he enjoyed writing his own comical and dramatic free verse poems. After graduating out of grammar school‚ Nash moved on to one of
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Bibliography: "August Wilson." Gale Group. Thomson Gale. 23 Feb. 2005 "Literature Online Chapter 43 -- Biography." Student Resources. 2001. Pearson Education. 23 Feb. 2005 < http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedycompact_awl/chapter43/objectives/deluxe-content.html >. Rawson‚ Chris. "August Wilson - a timeline." Pittsburg Post-Gazette 5
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Art Buchwald is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist/humorist‚ and is born on October 25‚ 1925 in Mt. Vernon‚ New York‚ to a Jewish family. His father‚ Joseph Buchwald‚ was a curtain manufacturer and his mother‚ Helen Buchwald‚ has a mental illness and spent 35 years of her life in a mental institution‚ rarely seeing her son. Art and his three sisters‚ Alice‚ Edith‚ and Doris‚ all grew up in foster homes. At the age of seventeen‚ he dropped out of high school (Forest Hills High School‚ Queens‚ NY)
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Nikki Giovanni Biography Nikki Giovanni is one of the best known mixed poets who has reached prominence in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Nikki has wrote many poems and books 1970-early 2004‚ most of what she writes is with passion‚inspiration and with lots of feeling. Giovanni’s poetry express strong racial pride and respect for family‚ giovanni has written Creation‚ Love Poems‚ The Collected Poems Of Nikki Giovanni and The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. She was born in Knoxville‚Tennessee in
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