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20th century figure for a day, who would you be? (essay)

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EAST~COAST
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looking for an essay for a scholarship that I gotta do, anyone have one written? If you could be one person from the 20th century for a day, who would it be and why?
May 28 2012 9:47PM
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PJS.
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Patton, either Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Chuck Yeager, member of the beatles or led zeppelin, or a participant in d-day. Thats just a small portion of possibilities, just for myself.
May 28 2012 9:50PM
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TheBlueMtSkier
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First person off the top of my head would be John Rockefeller.
May 28 2012 9:51PM
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1337
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My grandfather landed on omaha beach and drove a duck boat back in WWII. He never talks about it, but you just get that vibe that he was a fucking badass way back when.


I'd go with Einstein
May 28 2012 9:52PM
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Jeffmnicholas
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Hunter S Thompson or Jim Morrison
May 28 2012 9:54PM
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Poems
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Someone who was involved in WWII. Either landing on Normandy and being part or the largest land-sea invasion ever, or someone who helped liberate Auschwitz, or someone who fought in Stalingrad. Possibly someone who was part of the pacific campaign flying a Black Cat. Also I'd like to MLK Jr. I'd want to know what it's like to change the world. Also I am a history nerd. WWII is my favorite subject in anything my teachers will teach me. Ever.
May 28 2012 9:58PM
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blackmamba.
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Off the top of my head...

Rosa Parks on her infamous day. (kinda gay but whatever)

or

Any troop member storming up the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. (hard to pick out a polarizing figure)
May 28 2012 10:01PM
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Poems
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I know the conditions quite well. I would never want to be them for an extended period of time. I understand how rapidly Typhus and other infectious diseases passed rapidly through there. But I'd just want to see what it's like. Remember the context.. For a day.
May 28 2012 10:15PM
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Nathn
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Jimi Hendrix
May 28 2012 10:21PM
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PJS.
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May I add this to mine.
May 28 2012 10:27PM
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Nathn
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FUCK JIMI HENDRIX, DUDES A SELLOUT









MARK ME DOWN AS RAS KASS
May 28 2012 10:41PM
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Jewschoolers
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MLK
May 28 2012 10:44PM
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Literature
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Shane McConkey.

And if you don't like that, I'd be Rainer Maria Rilke or Pablo Neruda.
May 29 2012 1:16AM
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ryano
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Major Richard "Dick" D. Winters, or anyone in his company.

those were men. and i wish i could've met all of them.
May 29 2012 2:51AM
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sir_drums_a_lot
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A young Hugh Hefner.

May 29 2012 2:53AM
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alex=
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I'd personally do MLK, but he only changed America for the most part, not the world. Whoever wrote D-day, vibes to you for the idea, also vibes to the person's g-pa who fought on d-day
May 29 2012 7:53AM
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MANDER
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Salvador Dali. That guy was so awesome yet so crazy. I would love to know what goes on in his head.

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
May 29 2012 8:29AM
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midget.
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Definitely do James Mcgonigal the guy was such an inspiration
May 29 2012 8:41AM
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JzD.
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Beatles/led zepp. Fame for a day would be soo sick
May 29 2012 9:07AM
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TijmenDal
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Ding-ding-ding.
May 29 2012 9:14AM
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Dreamcatchers
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Agreed. I'd be a lander or liberator
May 29 2012 9:24AM
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yuck
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my grandpa drove a landing craft at Juno /pride, and he won't really talk about it unless you ask him. But if you ask him, he'll tell you every single detail like it was a week ago lol

I like the einstein idea but I would choose someone more exciting if you were to actually be that person for a day... I'd wanna say one of the Beatles or a WW2 vet

but for essay purposes, go with Oppenheimer (guy who spearheaded the atomic bomb in the 40s). you could pump out a really good essay a lot easier than with other figures. lots goin on in that guys head hahaha
May 29 2012 9:42AM
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Bar_Down
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Maurice Richard yoo
May 29 2012 10:23AM
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digiac
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A few good options:

Salvador Dali
Ernest Hemingway
John Lennon
Elvis Presley
Marlon Brando
Hunter S. Thompson
Mother Teresa
May 29 2012 10:37AM
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1337
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Oops read that as be WITH. Being someone else, hmm, need to think that one over
May 29 2012 4:47PM
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Jeffmnicholas
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quoting for more emphasis, this guy was one crazy fucker
May 29 2012 5:34PM
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aussieskier
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I have a few i guess:

bob Marley, not the whole weed part but singing awesome reggae and being as happy as he was when he wrote 2 little birds.

A heroin addict, with a shit load of gear, for the day just see what it feels like without fucking my life up.

any member of the Manhattan project the day we test the first bomb.

michael shummacher winning monaco

May 29 2012 7:47PM
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walshie
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Harry S Truman... That's our school code for emergency needless to say sounds like hairy ass Truman
May 29 2012 10:41PM
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Rafiki
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i'm gonna go with Jim Jones or Charlie Manson.
May 29 2012 10:47PM
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miroz
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Choose someone with a good life. Rockefeller must've been stressed as shit, same with the famous people. Remember, while they may be famous now, they were gritting their teeth and getting shit done then. Hard work, being Truman.

I'd be someone from the Roaring Twenties (assumed to be wealthy). Sorry I don't have an essay written on it, but that sounds like just a baller fucking time. Cruising around in this new invention called a car, going to wild house parties, Speakeasys, just living a crazy life pre-Great Depression. Straight retro raging.
May 29 2012 10:48PM
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Jeffmnicholas
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that was my immediate reaction to that too haha
May 30 2012 7:27PM
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wesley.
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Garcia
May 30 2012 7:30PM
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Caspaaa
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interesting quote this reminded me of


"Would you give up your sanity to be a genius?"
May 30 2012 7:34PM
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no_steeze
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stalin
May 30 2012 7:49PM
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