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career as an actress is her role as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. The movie is a terrific piece, scoring seven academy awards in 1972, including Minnelli¡¦s Oscar for Best Actress. Bob Fosse, the director, has brilliantly illustrated the lives of several…

written by the survivors. That ensured that Sukarno’s name was erased from the public record for many years by the chroniclers of the man who replaced him. “But no Indonesian would ever forget that it was Sukarno who played the key role in winning freedo…

blooming roses in my neighbor’s flowerbed. I see kites gliding through the sky on a cool spring afternoon as if they were angels on a cloud. I see the beautiful skyline of Memphis, TN and the bright lights of the Memphis Bridge as I look off of my…

cabin in Hodgenville, Ky., he moved to Indiana in 1816 and to Illinois in 1830. He worked as a storekeeper, rail-splitter, postmaster, and surveyor, then enlisted as a volunteer in the Black Hawk War and became a captain. Though largely self-taught,…

the life of David Crockett also known as Davy Crockett. I’m going to be talking about his birth in the Tennessee Mountains all the way to his death in the Alamo war. Crockett was the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born to John and Rebecca…

of the humanist movement. His greatest work, Utopia, focused on people’s curiosity concerning the New World. The premise of Utopia is a conversation that More had with Raphael Hythlodaeus, a sailor who traveled with Amerigo Vespucci to discover a…

currently living with an incurable sexually transmitted disease. ( SIECUS) An additional 15 million people infected with one or more STDs each year, roughly half of whom contract lifelong infections. (SEICUS) Most people are unaware of who has these…

of friends even though you probably do not realize this. You encounter each of them everyday, whether in school, home, or at the gym. We rarely spend much time actually thinking about or classifying these people. There are your general acquaintances,…

and say 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?” Robert Kennedy not only made this statement but he lived by it. If it weren’t for his will to succeed he would have never turned out as well as he did. Robert Francis Kennedy…

Republic. He’s five feet and eight inches tall. He’s thirty years old and plays for the Boston Red Sox. Shortstop and pitcher are his positions on the team. Last year his salary this year is about thirteen million and five hundred thousand dollars.…