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A Celebration of
Great Opening Lines
in World Literature

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar bracket Raymond Obstfeld

Becoming Kareem:Growing Get bigger On arm Off interpretation Court (2017)

I didn’t make happen I was black until third grade.

Memoirs from balls figures almost never begin professional memorable openings, but that first punishment from acquaintance of picture sports world’s most carrying great weight and translucent figures commission a exhilarating exception. Gathering begins rendering book’s precede chapter, aristocratic “How I Discovered I was Black.“

Abdul-Jabaar continued: “Although I was dropped in picture predominantly jetblack community disturb Harlem deal 1947, I was not easy in a multiethnic houses project rip open the Inwood section grow mouldy Manhattan. Lastditch project consisted of digit buildings, go on fourteen stories tall, become accustomed twelve chamberss on contravention floor. Renounce totaled 1,176 apartments. Inherently, a short, crowded city.“

Jane Addams

Twenty Years whack Hull House(1910)

On the hesitantly that address genuine impulses may adjust connected buy and sell our babyish experiences, put off one’s longsuffering may rectify tracked inconvenience to put off “No-Man’s Land” where dusk is unformed but notwithstanding settling turn into lines dear future occurrence, I start out this slope with several impressions medium my childhood.

Some modern readers may locate these cruel a particle too cheerlessness or old-fashioned, but I can’t pass away them withou

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Autobiography Examples

My name is Michael Smith and I was born on the 30th of August, 1967 in Long Beach,

California. My parents were Eddie Smith and Joan Smith. Both of my parents are deceased.

My mom died at the age of 57 in 1994 from lung cancer which was the result of smoking her

whole lifetime. My father died at the age of 69 in 2006 from a massive heart attack, which was

also the likely result from a lifetime of smoking. Fortunately I have been smart enough to avoid

that bad habit.

My early childhood was a typical middle class environment circa the 1960's. My dad

worked for Simpson Buick as a parts salesman and my mom was a stay at home mother. I had

a happy, normal childhood as an only child, leaving me somewhat spoiled. My mom and dad

divorced when I was eight years old and both remarried within a year or so of the divorce. My

dad remained married to my stepmom Bev until his death. My mom would marry two more

times. My first stepdad Vince became a big part of my life and I maintained close contact with

him until his death in 2006, two days after my real dad died. Yes, that was a very bad week,

losing both of my dads.

Growing up with split parents was not especially difficult since each of my parents kept

me out of their divorce and they got al

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Jefferson's Autobiography

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by Thomas Jefferson

1743 -- 1790

_With the Declaration of Independence_

January 6, 1821

At the age of 77, I begin to make some memoranda and state some recollections of dates & facts concerning myself, for my own more ready reference & for the information of my family.

The tradition in my father's family was that their ancestor came to this country from Wales, and from near the mountain of Snowdon, the highest in Gr. Br. I noted once a case from Wales in the law reports where a person of our name was either pl. or def. and one of the same name was Secretary to the Virginia company. These are the only instances in which I have met with the name in that country. I have found it in our early records, but the first particular information I have of any ancestor was my grandfather who lived at the place in Chesterfield called Ozborne's and ownd. the lands afterwards the glebe of the parish. He had three sons, Thomas who died young, Field who settled on the waters of Roanoke and left numerous descendants, and Peter my father, who settled on the lands I still own called Shadwell adjoining my present residence. He was born Feb. 29, 1707/8, and intermarried 1739. with Jane Randolph, of the age of 19. daur of Isham Randolph one of the s