John Kerry The Volkswagen Beetle body style was commissioned by Adolf Hitler‚ one of the world’s worst dictators (“History of the 1949-1967 Volkswagen Beetle”).John Kerry’s first car in 1962 was a Volkswagen bug. Kerry was born on December 11‚ 1943‚ in Denver‚ Colorado. Kerry’s career in the military was very successful. While on a tour in Vietnam‚ Kerry was a gunboat officer. Kerry earned a bronze star‚ a silver star‚ and three purple hearts. After his military career‚ Kerry pursued a political
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John Berger definition of mystification through Hal’s painting In John Berger’s reading‚ he states that “Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident” (pg 103). To my understanding‚ Berger is saying that mystification is a way of what we think may be clear to our understanding of something. It seem as though Berger express mystification in ways that one may not grasp something clearly even though it may seem to be evident. By expressing this‚ Berger used the passage
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cayla ***** December 2‚ 2013 John Milton essay John Milton (1608 - 1674) was an English Poet with controversial opinions. He became blind in 1651‚ which in no way affected his writings and in his sonnet‚ "When I consider how my light is spent"‚ and “How Soon Hath Time”‚ the poet refers to his blindness and the use of time. From the death of his infant son‚ to the death of his wife‚ down to Milton becoming blind‚ surprisingly‚ he had yet to let these obstacles stop him from being the amazing
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Muir in my eyes remains a hero to the wilderness and the natural world. He sought to preserve the Yosemite national park. Through this he tried to bring awareness and knowledge to the common people with the hopes that they would learn and come to appreciate nature in the ways he did. He desired for people to experience the love he had for the wilderness. The excitement he got from the simplest things nature brought him was indescribable. From childhood where he was brought up in Scotland‚ he
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The author‚ David Foster Wallace. He gave his only one speech so far in public‚ in which he talked about his view of life in the city. The speech happened in a commencement of Kenyon College in 2005. Now‚ the widely distributed video has been into a thin book‚ which name is “this is water”. At the beginning of the article‚ author talked a story about the fish‚ and he points out that “the fish story is merely that the most obvious‚ important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and
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John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821)‚ yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary. His writing career lasted a little more than five years (1814-1820)‚ and three of his great odes--"Ode to a Nightingale‚" "Ode on a Grecian Urn‚" and "Ode on Melancholy"--were written in one month. Most of his major poems were written between his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years‚ and all his poems were written by his twenty-fifth year. In this brief period‚ he produced poems that
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Regarded by many as one of Australia’s greatest Prime Ministers‚ John Curtin assumed office just six weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and led Australia through the darkest hours of World War II. No prime minister has had a more profound effect on Australia and no man has given more in the service of his office. Curtin was born in the Victorian mining town of Creswick on January 8‚ 1885. His parents were Irish immigrants. His father worked first as a policeman‚ then as a publican‚ and the
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John Steinbeck  O’Connor Pd 3 Nick Marks 5/7/13 Steinbeck as an author always seemed to have a niche for writing stories that made you think about the importance of life. Respect for life was highlighted in his stories many times‚ whether it’s the presence of or the lack of. A few stories that involved this were The Pearl‚ Of Mice and Men and Travels with Charlie. He knew how to tug on peoples heart strings and make them really think about what life truly means to us even after we close
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John Green John Michael Green (born August 24‚ 1977) is an American author of young adult fiction and a YouTube video blogger and creator of online educational videos. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel‚ Looking for Alaska‚ and reached number one on a New York Times Best Seller list with The Fault in Our Stars in January 2012. Green was born in Indianapolis to Mike and Sydney Green and his family moved three weeks after he was born to Orlando‚ Florida. He attended Lake Highland Preparatory
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Wall is the son of Frances Pulley and John Carroll Wall‚ Sr. When Wall was 8 years old‚ his father was released from prison but died of liver cancer a month later‚ on August 24‚ 1999 at the age of 52. Throughout his childhood‚ Wall’s mother worked multiple jobs to support Wall‚ his sister‚ Cierra‚ and his half-sister‚ Tonya.[2] Wall played AAU basketball for D-One Sports.[3] High school career [edit] Wall played his first two years of high school basketball at Garner Magnet High School in Garner
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