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The Last Leaf by O.Henry
Johnsy is an inhabitant of an art colony in Greenwich Village, where pneumonia is taking its toll.Eventually, Johnsy is stricken with the disease and gives up all desire to live.Outside her window resides an old ivy vine on which only a few leaves remain.Convinced that she will die when the last leaf falls, Johnsy watches the vine inceantly.This morbid fascination distrees her big hearted neighbor Mr.Berhman, an old painter scraping by as an artist’s model and still dreaming of painting his masterpiece.Time paes, Johnsy remains fascinated by the withering vine.Toher growing astonishment, a single last leaf attaches itself firmly to the vine.Taking this as an embodiment of hope, Johnsy’s condition ameliorated.In the meantime, her neighbor has been taken to hospital with pneumonia, where he later dies.It is later discovered that he had contracted the disease after staying up all night to paint the perfect image of a single leaf on the brick wall outside Johnsy’s window.
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Charles Schulz
Charles Monroe Schulz is an Americancartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts is considered to be one of the most popularand influential in the history of the medium.Although Charles was a shy, timidteenager, he was steadfast and persistent.It is his self-defeatingstubbornne and admirable perseverance in trying his best against all oddsthat made him a popular figure.He can never win a ballgame but continues toplay baseball; he can never fly a kite succefully but continues to do so.Although his drawings were first rejected by his high school yearbook and thenrefused by Disney, he persevered and created the world renowned Charlie Brownand Snoopy, known as Peanut comic, which reflects his own life.Peanuts ran for50 years, and, at its peak, appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75countries.(138字)
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison is considered to be one ofthe most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 US patents under hisname.He is one of the first inventors to apply the principles of maproduction and large teamwork to the proce of invention, and therefore isoften credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.To find a long lasting material for the light bulb, Edison and his team workedfor many years and experienced more than 1,500 failures through the
proce.However, their research was not hampered by setbacks and their hard work wasfinally paid off in 1879.Using a small carbonized bamboo filament, Edison andhis team were able to produce a light bulb that was able to last over 40 hours.After soughting further improvements, Edison finally filed for US patent 223898in
November4, 1879.His invention of the light bulb not only revolutionized thenascent electric industry, but also made electricity viable to mankind.(161字)
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford, the American founder of theFord Motor Company, had been stimulated by Thomas Edison in his youth andfollowed Thomas Edison’s career then.In 1896, while attending acompany-sponsored convention in Manhattan Beach, New York, Henry Ford was introducedto the great inventor Thomas Edison.During their conversation, Edison askedthe young Henry Ford a host of questions and when the conversation was
over,Edison emphasized his satisfaction by banging his fist down on the table.\"Young man,\" he said, \"that\'s the thing! You have it!” To HenryFord, as he later indicated, that bang on the table was worth worlds.
After receiving the complete approval fromThomas Edison, Henry Ford strived to accomplish his invention of the cheap andconvenient Model T.After further improvements, the price of Model T decreasedfrom $850 to $225, a price that is affordable to most social claes.Thedesign later revolutionized the
transportation industry in America becauseprior to its introduction, cars were a
form of luxury that is only affordableto the upper echelons.And in just 19 years after the first introduction, thesales of the Model T had reached an astounding 15,007,034, a record which stoodfor the next 45 years.(204字)
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Jack Welch
Jack Welch was the former CEO of GeneralElectric.He joined the company in 1960 and worked as a junior engineer.Aftera year at GE, he was displeased with the strict bureaucracy regarding pay risewhich led to a mere $1000 increase in his salary after his first year.Welch,who then harbored thoughts of leaving the company, was convinced by ReubenGutoff to stay.He then started questioning the decisions made by theauthorities and moved up the ranks quickly.When he became the CEO of GE in1981, he worked to streamline the company by trimming inventories anddismantling the bureaucracy that almost led him to leave the company.Eachyear, he would fire the bottom 10% of his managers, while rewarding the top 20%with bonuses and stock options.By pushing his managers to perform, theperennial problem with regards to perceived inefficiency was effectivelyeradicated.When Welch left GE, the company had gone from a market value of $14billion to more than $410 billion at the end of 2004, making it the most valuableand largest company in the world.(186字)
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Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve was an American actor whois best known for his portrayal of the superhero Superman.However, unlike theman of steel he was in his movies, Reeve became quadriplegic after being thrownfrom a horse in an equestrian competition in 1995.As a result, he required awheelchair and breathing apparatus for the rest of his life.Despite thesetbacks, Reeve was reinvented by that experience and brought
the kind ofenergy and enthusiasm that made him succeful as a film star to an entirelydifferent iue, with huge effect.He lobbied on behalf of people with spinalcord injuries for human embryonic stem cell research and established
theChristopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, a non-profit research organizationwhich raises money for research in spinal cord injuries.Also, he lobbied forscientists to be allowed to conduct stem cell research in the hopes ofeventually curing
paralysis and other current incurable diseases such as Alzheimer’sand Parkinson’s.Through this, Reeve will be remembered as “Superman” not only inthe movies, but also in reality.(175字)
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Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was the 32nd presidentof the United States who rose to prominence during the Great Depreion.Duringthat time, President Hebert Hoover’s economic program was unsatisfactory andineffective and kept millions of people under poverty and hunger.In the midstof despair, Franklin Roosevelt, who had long been questioning Hoover’s economicprogram, was elected as the President to combat the economic crisis.Heaembled a group of elites and constructed a more effective economic programcalled New Deal.The new program provided money and supplies to needy familiesand created jobs for the unemployed.As a result, President
Roosevelteffectively rekindled hope to millions of despondent Americans.New Deal provedto be an important turning point in the history of America.It made a powerfulstart of a strong government role in the nation’s economic affairs thatremained and developed to the present day.(146字)
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