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On Discovery by Maxine Hong Kingston

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Name: Maxine Hong Kingston
Variant Name: Maxine Ting Ting Hong
Birth Date: October 27, 1940
Place of Birth: Stockton, California, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, professor, feminist

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Biography of Maxine Hong Kingston
8594 words, approx. 28.6 pages
One of the most outspoken contemporary feminist writers, Maxine Hong Kingston states in her autobiographical book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976), "The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. . . . What we have in common are...
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Biography of Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston
7776 words, approx. 25.9 pages
One of the most outspoken contemporary feminist writers, Maxine Hong Kingston states in her autobiographical book The Woman Warrior (1976), "The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar.... What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for...
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Biography of Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston
6797 words, approx. 22.7 pages
Maxine Hong Kingston easily is the most influential Asian American author of the twentieth century. Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), was an instant commercial and critical triumph. Since its first appea...
 


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Discoveries
10/16/2006: 443 words, approx. 2 pages
GENETICS A bacteria that lives with less DNA than any other organism Scientists have found a cellular organism with less DNA than any known before. The organism, a bacteria called Carsonella ruddii, lives inside some insects. Its DNA is a mere...
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The Boston Globe
An homage to discovery
10/09/1992: 348 words, approx. 1 pages
Without becoming entangled in the considerable controversies over how best to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' epic voyages to the Americas, the Massachusetts groups handling the celebrations here took their own different and laudible route. Rather than focus on the man...
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AP News
NASA says Discovery launch on track
10/17/2007: 470 words, approx. 2 pages
NASA's senior managers cleared space shuttle Discovery for liftoff Tuesday, overruling a safety group that called for further studies and wing repairs, if necessary, before next week's launch.The potential problem is with the critical thermal shielding on Discovery's wings. A new inspection method uncovered possible...
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AP Features
Doctor who performed plastic surgery on Kanye West's mother says procedure wasn't to blame
11/14/2007: 598 words, approx. 2 pages
The doctor who performed a tummy tuck and breast reduction on Kanye West's mother expressed his condolences for her subsequent death but said the surgery wasn't to blame.Dr. Jan Adams, through his spokesman Kevin Williams, confirmed for The Associated Press that he operated on Donda...
 


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On Discovery by Maxine Hong Kingston

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