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Alice Malsenior Walker
... to move forward. Mama struggles to decide which daughter should receive the family quilt. Quilts have a special symbolic meaning to Mama. When she moves up to ... interpretation:This was a time, when African-Americans were struggling to define their personal ...
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Impacting moment in my Life
... To find out that my parents decided to stay in the island for one more year because they hadnt thought of where to move ... Roosevelt roads. Everything happened when my father decided it was time to retire the military service because he had given 20 years ...
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Maya's Notebook
... suggested Maya to move in with one of her close friend that she had known for a long time in Chiloe named Manuel. Moving Maya ... that I never had before, when I used to spend time examining myself in the mirror to count up all my defects" (184). Realizing ...
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Biography and Criticisms of Ernest Hemingway
... useful introduction was Sherwood Anderson, who convinced the newlyweds to move to Paris to help Hemingway get a jump-start on his writing. ... time together, and although he wanted to marry her, she fell in love with an Italian man. In 1919, the writer moved to ...
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Mark Twain.
... time to time, he would write articles in his brothers newspaper. Growing tired of restriction and limitations put on him by his brother Samuel Clemens decided to go to ... that year him and his brother moved to Nevada territory to try his hand in silver mining ...
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Indian Chief Sitting Bull.
... end. He therefore decided to move his people up north to Canada, where he and his tribe eventually surrendered due to the lack of food ... tribes they forced the U.S. army to retreat. When the army came back the second time, Sitting Bull was ready for them. ...
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Buddy Holly.
... chartered a small plane to get the musicians to the next town. He had hoped to get them there with extra time to rest. On the ... agree, and this caused Holly to leave the group. Soon afterwards, Holly and Maria Elena moved to New York where he performed with ...
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Woody Guthrie Life in the 1930's
... " swept through Texas and left the land barren. Woody decided to move to Los Angeles, where his cousin Jack worked in the entertainment ... , Mary Jennings. Unemployment was at an all-time high, and farmers struggled to make a living as crop prices dropped. ...
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MALCOLM X
... and heard what happened, he decided to move as soon a Malcolm was born to Lansing, Michigan. Here was where ... time in jail educating himself and learning more about the Nation of Islam (later known as the Black Muslims). Their belief, which was contrary to ...
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Walt Whitman's Life in Words
... she loved his poetry and decided to move with her three children to Philadelphia. She rented an apartment ... time. The stroke destroyed his health and he was forced to give up his work. That same year, his mother died. He moved to Camden, New Jersey and moved ...
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