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enjoyed playing other sports coached by his father during his young years.(Gretzky & Reilly 8)Some of the sports Gretzky enjoyed besides hockey included, baseball, basketball, and cross-country.(Gretzky & Reilly 8) One of Wayne’s biggest inspirations was his father.”No matter how good you are there is always someone better” is something Walter has said to Wayne and it has stuck with him since.(Gretzky & Reilly 8) After Wayne turned sixteen he moved up into Junior A hockey.(Josephson)While balancing school and hockey, Gretzky also had a job pouring gravel in potholes for $5 an hour.(Gretzky & Reilly 33)Later in the year of 1977, Gretzky moved to Sault Ste. Marie to play for the Soo Greyhounds.(Gretzky & Reilly 27)This had been one of the many other times Wayne had moved somewhere for his hockey career.One plus to moving to Sault Ste. Marie was that Wayne enjoyed his billet family, the Bodnar’s.(Gretzky & Reilly 28) The first hockey season of being in his new town was the year he decided to be number 99. (Gretzky & Reilly 28) To continue Wayne’s hockey career he signed a large professional hockey contract.(Gretzky & Reilly 33)During the 1978-79 hockey season Gretzky appeared on the Indianapolis Racers of the WHA’s hockey roster.(“Gretzky’s”)The home opener drew eleven thousand people that season.(Gretzky & Reilly 34)Gretzky realized that he was now a rookie of the new league he was in and all the attention wasn't necessarily focused on him. After only eight short games, Wayne…

Marie Antionette 's full name was Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna. She was born November 2, 1755, in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa, empress of Austria. When Marie was young she lived a happy and carefree life. (“Marie Antoinette”). Her education mainly focused on religious and moral principles as well as music, embroidery, painting, and tapestry. Marie 's reading and writing skills were poor and she did not study academic subjects. She spent most…

Another reason that crown was in a huge amount of debt was the frivolous spending of the queen, Marie Antoinette which angered the public as she was living a lavish lifestyle while they were starving. The war could be viewed as another mistake or misjudgement on Louis behalf which could explain the downfall of constitutional monarchy. Despite saying ‘the physical condition and morale of France, is such that it will be unable to sustain even half a campaign’ meaning he thought France could easily…

France, and increasing anger towards the monarchy. Additionally, the beginning of the French revolution was a terrible time for Marie Antoinette and her family. Just before the events of the French revolution began, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI lost their son, Louis Joseph, to tuberculosis at age seven. The prince’s death added immeasurable grief to the lives of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI before the revolution began. As quoted by Munro Price: “Although the boy had been ill for some time,…

Harrison 1 (Attention Getter). Guillotines played significant role in the history of England and France during the French Revolution. According to Susan Banfield, the guillotine was first introduced in France in 1792. A guillotine consisted of a large, heavy knife blade that could be raised and allowed to fall between two grooved posts connected at the top by a crossbar (136-137). The killing machine of the French Revolution is what the guillotine in commonly known as. Deaths of many noteworthy…

Meursault and Marie “would have lunch together” (35), swim together, and watch movies together. Meursault had become physically attached to Marie, yet he was not emotionally attached to Marie. Meursault felt that Marie’s “tan made her face look like a flower” (34), and he would feel attracted towards Marie’s laugh. Camus uses a simile to emphasize on Marie’s physical beauty. Camus compares Marie’s tanned face to a flower in order to indicate Meursault’s physical attachment towards Marie.…

pre-revolutionary France. France aided the colonist in their fight against Britain with ships, weapons, soldiers, and money. The French helped America gain her independence, but it severely weakened the French economy. “After the victory at Saratoga, from 1778 thru 1783, Ben Franklin and Silas Deane negotiated with France to give America six huge loans which just about broke the French Treasury.” (Smith). In addition to this debt, Louis XVI borrowed from other countries to cover the excessive…

amount of wealth and power they have. Meanwhile, Dickens contrasts the appearances of the queens from the two countries. Marie Antoinette of France had a fair face compared to the plain face possessed by Queen Charlotte Sophia, meaning that the queen of France was more attractive and had more beauty. The purpose of Dickens’s doubling technique,in this case, is to show the readers how even though England and France were somewhat similar during this time (through the kings), they were also…

In the 1780’s, France conditions were bad. The food prices were way up , and the crops were not good at all. The taxes in France were up because of King Louis XVI. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were spending so much money, they put themselves far into debt. The taxes were so bad, poor people were left even poorer because they were spending their paychecks on taxes. Only Nobles and other higher classes/ranking people didn 't have to pay taxes. The king and queen didn 't care about the…

Marie Antoinette, a name synonymous with extravagance and luxury, yet also with massive debt. The former Princess of Austria become Queen of France, was famously known to her subjects as Madame Deficit for her lavish lifestyle and wasteful spending. Her depiction in the movie Marie Antoinette is one of many varying portrayals of The Queen of France and analyzed through the overall summary of the film, the setting, and the accuracy of the information. To begin, the overall summary of Marie…