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    perform in many different ways. Comics can make a good amount of money, though many don’t stay with stand-up their whole lives. Stand-up comedy has changed the lives of many people. Many famous people were great stand-up comedians. Roseanne Barr, the star of television show Roseanne, was a comic before her show began in 1988. Chris Rock was another great comedian. Rock lived in New York, and was doing stand-up by the time he was a teenager. He went to a nearly all-white school, and was discriminated against

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    known as the funniest comedian since Eddie Murphy. People might also know him as lil kev,which was his stage name for the stand up comedy shows that he did at comedy night clubs. Kevin Hart was born July 6,1979 and his current age is 36 years. He currently stands at 5’4 and weighs 141 pounds. How did Kevin Hart become famous? Kevin Hart became famous from the stand up comedy he did at comedy night clubs. His career started when he was a young adult, at this time he was known as lil kev

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    The Impact of Burlesque and Vaudeville on Stand-up Comedy “The struggle of the funny performer has remained a symbiosis of drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph-- existing then as it exists now. Perhaps the only other constant is comedy’s unfailing popularity” -K. Nesterkoff, 2016 Richard Pryor, arguably one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, credits his comedic abilities to many comedians, one being Charlie Chaplin. You may be thinking, “how does Charlie Chaplin, the guy who played

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    delivered to you, than stand-up comedy? Over the years I have not met many people that do not enjoy going to a comedy show. The one thing that I have found is that most people either do not know that comedy shows are going on all around them or; they will not go to a show if the person is not famous. As a stand-up comedian myself I know how hard it can be

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    Dominic Lascuola’s Not Plagiarized Paper Actor Seth Rogen, born on April 15, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, rose to fame in his twenties as one of the comedy icons of his generation. He began his career performing stand-up comedy during his teenage years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. Rogen and his comedy partner Evan Goldberg co-wrote the films Superbad, Pineapple Express, This Is the End, and directed both This Is the End and The Interview; all of which Rogen

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    Fifteen minutes. That’s one stand rotation at the pool. I climb up the white, grooved ladder rungs of the lifeguard stand. One, two, three, turn around, sit down. I slip off my shoes, exposing the painfully obvious tan lines on my feet. With the rescue tube strap tossed over my head and arm, and the tube resting on my lap, ready to go, I bring the red whistle to my mouth. A shrill, rolling sound is released: a signal to every family in the neighborhood that the day has officially begun. The pool

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    Aden: A Short Story

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    Mike demanded for some help with a tree stand or two. When he strolled out to the first stand on his 4-wheeler Mike asked him to hook a rope to the tree stand and to his fourwheeler and gun it. As Aden did his he observed that the giant tree stand came to a crumpling fall. As the dust cleared aden could barely make out the stand on the ground covered in grime and excrement. As Mike loaded up and drove up to Aden he told him to follow him while dragging the stand behind him. As they set off on their

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    participated in helping to make a charity walk for Crohn’s and Colitis successful with a couple of my peers. So much happened in six hours of volunteering it began with confusion of what to do to lots of fun with the children I was interacting with in my stand. A charity walk was the perfect way to feel involved into the community, I received a very meaningful experience while I was helping out at the charity walk. I am proud to say that I enjoyed my time organizing awareness of Crohn’s and Colitis and involving

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    many who was convicted of committing a crime without being given the ability to have equal rights to defend his liberty with due process of law and therefore went into his first trial not knowing where to begin in questioning the witnesses on the stand, hence being found guilty without a fair and balanced trial. Nevertheless, from Gideon's fight for truth during the 2 years, he spent in prison is what changed the whole course of legal history in America. The second trial proved to all the no matter

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    King Arthurs Narrative

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    them. They were covered with metal. He felt like he was wearing leather. He looked at himself. I’m wearing knight’s armor! He looked around. He was standing in a large field facing wooden stands draped in colorful decorations. Hundreds of strangely dressed people sat on the stands. At the center of the stands was a much more grandly decorated chair, and on it sat a

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