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    Marian Anderson was an American contralto concert performer from Philadelphia. Born in 1897 to a schoolteacher and ice and coal seller, Anderson showed musical talent from an early age. She started singing in her church choir at age 6 and at age 14, with her powerful and beautiful voice, she moved up to the adult choir. The other members were so impressed with her abilities that they started “Marian Anderson’s Future Fund” to help raise money for professional training (Biography 2015). After her

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    Aaron Siegler Mrs. Rapp English/P6 30 November 2015 I. Introduction President Harry Truman, the 33rd president, was a honorable man as shown in this quote, "The heroism of our troops was matched by that of the armed forces of the nation 's that fought by our side they absorbed the blows and shared to the full in the ultimate destruction of the enemy.” This quote shows how the president was caring. He was a great man and is able to do many things such as ending World War II and he has also used

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    Eleanor Roosevelt was a writer, activist, and wife of the 32nd U.S President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Using her influence, she made a new meaning of what it meant to be a female member in the upper classes of society, First Lady of the United States and in the end, she enlarged the role of women. Eleanor was born on October 11th, 1884. She was the oldest of three children. Her father was wealthy and never held a professional position, though he was listed as a partner in a real estate firm, and

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    prosperity and economically stable future. However, the Conservatives criticized the New Deal during the whole period of the reforms. It was expressed by Herbert Hoover in Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech in 1936 and Minnie Hardin in 1937 in a Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt. [1: (notes)] The legacy that President Hoover passed to his successor was disastrous. The country experienced an unprecedented economic depression. However, in his speech during the presidential campaign in 1936, he expressed a deep

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    Marian Anderson

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    Marian Anderson is remembered as one of the best American contraltos of all time. She was the first African American singer to perform at the White House and also the first African American to sing with New York's Metropolitan Opera. Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia on Feb. 17, 1902. She never had much money, but she was happy. All of them, her mother, dad, and younger sisters Alyce and Ethel just liked to be together. One thing that may have been different from other childhood is that she

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    Analysis Of Eleanor Rigby

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    Eleanor Rigby is a pop ballad written by the Beatles, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, that was included on the 1964 album, Revolver. This album marked a huge lyrical change in the Beatles catchy British pop songs that had taken the whole world by storm. Instead of focusing on young, first love as in their older music, Eleanor Rigby is a song about loneliness and two characters that inhabit the same space, yet do not comfort each other in their loneliness, they continue to attempt to improve their

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    Despite a mixed critical reception by contemporaries, the 1959 film Sleeping Beauty marks one of the greatest artistic achievements of the Disney studio during its early decades. Featuring fantastically detailed backgrounds and character designs that blend period sensibilities with both traditional and modernist forms, the work is markedly more stylized than previous projects. Places and protagonists alike are executed in a dramatic and almost architectural style, which implies the lines seen in

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    My film is the movie Robin Hood, it was made by Walt Disney studios, and the executive producer was Michael Costigan. The film was directed by Ridley Scott. The running time is eighty-three minutes and the main characters are Robin Hood (Brian Bedford), Little John (Phil Harris), Prince John (Peter Ustinov), and the Rooster (Roger Miller). It was released on November 8, 1973. Robin Hood steals from the rich to feed the poor people of Nottingham. The film’s story comes from a collection of different

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    Speech On Perseverance

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    Perseverance; The Key to Greatness Whether it reveals itself in time of distress, or moments of hardships, hidden beneath the grime and gloom of the catacombs within our illustrious brains, lies an, almost mythical power that moves mountains and carves canyons. This compulsion is the lifeblood that fuels the impossible and empowers the ordinary. This power is not a work of God or a mutation of fictional proportions, gifted to only superheroes and metahumans, but a tiny instinct that lies in all

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    successful leader of England. Richard I was born on September 8th, 1157, the third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard’s father was the grandson of Henry I of England and his mother was the daughter of William X of France. King Henry II Richard had an older brother, young King Henry, and an older sister Matilda. He also had two younger brothers, Geoffrey and John, and two younger sisters, Eleanor and Joan.

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