List of
30 Facts, Events, Etc.
(Example)
This is an example of what you need to find for your list of facts, events, etc. You need at least 30 paragraphs or chunks of textual information. These chunks should be 4 - 5 sentences each. If you find shorter chunks, then you need more than 30. My example only shows you the first 16 pieces of information I have for my project. I actaully have around 90 because some of these are only 1 sentence, as you can see.
It is VERY IMPORTANT that you include the exact web page address that the actual text came from here in your list. You will need that information for your bibliography later when you put this information into your presentation. We will not break copyright laws!
1.Beowulf: The Origin of Horror? Who and originated the horror genre? "What about Beowulf's Grendel?" Who on earth is Grendel? Turns out Grendel is a man-eating, blood-thirsty monster!. You can imagine my surprise when, expecting Clive Barker/Stephen King type of writing, I find a 66 page E-text written in Old English.
2. Some history, the author is credited as Anonymous. The story was originally composed in the Eighth Century by an unknown person, it was not written down but spoken. In the Eleventh Century, two scribes finally wrote it down, but it was badly damaged in a fire. So, finally, in 1787 it was written once again. According to the Ramsey Library, "Beowulf" is both the first English literary masterpiece and the earliest European vernacular epic. The version that we have today is probably very close to the original spoken version, but we can never truly know.
http://www.horrorbooks.about.com/arts/horrorbooks/library/weekly/aa021600a.htm
Who is Stephen King?
3. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King.
http://www.stephenking.com/man.html
4. Stephen is of Scots-Irish ancestry, stands 6'4" and weighs about 200 pounds. He is blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and has thick, black hair, with a frost of white most noticeable in his beard and moustache which he grows during the winter. He has worn glasses since he was a child.
5. Stephen is a regular contributor to the American Cancer Society, provides scholarships for local high school students through Hampden Academy and contributes to many other local and national charities. (the little league field, children's wing at hospital, library)
http://www.stephenking.com/man6.html
6. Stephen, older brother David, and mom lived in many places when he was a toddler.(Fort Wayne, Indiana; Stratford, Connecticut; Malden, Massachusetts; and Pownal, Maine. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good.
http://www.stephenking.com/man.html
7. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966.
8. During his sophomore year at the U. of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional.
9. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.S. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured ear drums.
10. He and Tabitha Spruce married in January of 1971. He met Tabitha in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University of Maine at Orono, where they both worked as students.
http://www.stephenking.com/man2.html
11. Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
12. Stephen made his first short story sale to a mass market men's magazine shortly after his graduation from the University. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
13. In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
14. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co. accepted the novel Carrie for publication. On Mother's Day of that year, Stephen learned from his new editor at Doubleday, Bill Thompson, that a major paperback sale would provide him with the means to leave teaching and write full-time.
http://www.stephenking.com/man3.html
15. After having lived in and around Bangor since their marriage, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's failing health at the end of the summer of 1973. Renting a summer home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen wrote his next-published novel, originally titled Second Coming and then Jerusalem's Lot, before it became 'Salem's Lot, in a small room in the garage. During this period, Stephen's mother died of cancer, at the age of 59.
16. Carrie was published in the spring of 1974. That same fall, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. They lived there for a little less than a year, during which Stephen wrote The Shining, set in Colorado. Returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings purchased a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. At that house, Stephen finished writing The Stand, much of which also is set in Boulder. The Dead Zone was also written in Bridgton.
http://www.stephenking.com/man4.html
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