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Shailene Woodley
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Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Woodley was born in San Bernardino County, California, but grew up in Simi Valley and her mother, Lori, is a school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, is a school principal. She also has a younger brother, at the age of fifteen, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to stop her spine from curving further. Woodley attended Simi Valley High School and modeled at the age of four and she also took some acting classes with Anthony Meindl. She also originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in The O. C. and appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the television film Felicity and her performance received another Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special. Following this, Woodley appeared in numerous guest roles in television series, including Everybody Loves Raymond, My Name is Earl, CSI, NY, Close to Home. Woodley was then cast as the character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends, ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly praised her performance stating that Woodleys performance lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch. Popular among viewers, the show one of ABC Familys most watched telecast throughout its five-season run. In 2011, Woodley made her film debut in The Descendants, where she played Alex. Her performance received reviews from critics. Scott from The New York Times said, Ms. Woodley. one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory. Peter Debruge from Variety said that her performance is a revelation, receiving accolades for her performance, Woodley received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age, Woodley was also considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazines Young Hollywood Issue. Woodley starred in the adaptation of Tim Tharps novel, The Spectacular Now, as Aimee Finecky. The film premiered at Sundance on January 18,2013, additionally, Woodley won the Special Jury Award for Acting, alongside Teller, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She had also signed on to star in White Bird in a Blizzard, in the film she plays teenager Katrina Kat Connors, whose life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears. In October 2012, it was announced that Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, on June 19,2013, it was announced that she was cut from the film
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Marcia Gay Harden
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Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Millers Crossing and she followed this with roles in films including Used People, The First Wives Club, and Flubber. For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock and she earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River. Other notable film roles include American Gun, and 2007s The Mist, Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Angels in America, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She returned to Broadway in 2009 as Veronica in God of Carnage and her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was nominated for her second Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, in September 2015, she began starring in the CBS medical drama Code Black, in which she plays the lead role of Dr. Leanne Rorish. Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Texas natives Beverly, a housewife, and Thad Harold Harden, one of Hardens brothers is named Thaddeus, as is her former husband. Hardens family frequently moved because of her fathers job, living in Japan, Germany, Greece, California, Hardens first film role was in a 1979 student-produced movie at the University of Texas. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in television programs, including Simon & Simon, Kojak. She appeared in the Coen brothers Millers Crossing, a 1930s mobster drama in which she first gained wide exposure, even so, at the time, living in New York City, she had to go back to doing catering jobs because I didnt have any money. In 1992, she played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the made for TV miniseries Sinatra, throughout the 1990s, she continued to appear in films and television. In 1993, Harden debuted on Broadway in the role of Harper Pitt in Tony Kushners Angels in America, the role earned her critical acclaim and she received a Tony Award nomination. The winner in that category was Debra Monk in Redwood Curtain, Harden was awarded the 2000 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of painter Lee Krasner in Pollock. In 2003, she was nominated in the same category for Mystic River. Harden guest-starred as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis posing as a white-supremacist in Raw, in 2007, this role earned Harden her first Emmy Award nomination for best guest actress in a drama series. She reprised the role in the eighth season premiere and again in the twelfth season episode Penetration as a rape victim. In 2007, Harden appeared in films, including Sean Penns critically acclaimed Into the Wild. Also in 2007 she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, in 2008, she appeared in Home playing a woman who has had a mastectomy
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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American Girl
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American Girl is an American line of 18-inch dolls released in 1986 by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray eight- to eleven-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities and they are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls. Originally the stories focused on periods of American history, but were expanded in 1995 to include characters. Aside from the original American Girl dolls, the buyer also has the option to purchase dolls that look like them, the options for the line of Truly Me dolls range from eye color, eye shape, skin color, hair texture, and hair length. A variety of related clothing and accessories is also available, Pleasant Company was founded in 1986 by Pleasant Rowland, and its products were originally purchasable by mail order only. In 1998, Pleasant Company became a subsidiary of Mattel, the company has been awarded the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award eight times. This product line aims to teach aspects of American history through a series from the perspective of a girl living in that time period. In 1995 Pleasant Company released a line of dolls called American Girl of Today. In 2006 the product line was renamed Just Like You, it was changed again in 2010, to My American Girl and this line has included sixty-six different dolls over the years. Each doll has a different combination of face mold, skin tone, eye color, American Girl states that this variety allows customers to choose dolls that represent the individuality and diversity of todays American girls. A wide variety of clothing, accessories, and furniture is also available. Each year, a Girl of the Year doll is released who has her own special talent. For example, Mia St. Clair, the Girl of the Year for 2008, did ice skating, and Marisol Luna, Bitty Baby is a line of baby dolls targeted to children aged three and older. They are half the price of full-size American Girl dolls, the Bitty Twins line debuted in 2003 to represent slightly older toddlers and/or preschoolers. The Bitty Twins were the size as the Bitty Baby dolls. They were discontinued in June 2016, hopscotch Hill School was released by American Girl in 2003. The dolls were 16-inch tall, came with jointed limbs and painted eyes and they, along with the stories which came with the dolls written by Valerie Tripp, were aimed at elementary-age girls from four to six years old, and were sold until 2006. The line also coincided with the relaunch of Samantha Parkington, whose collection was discontinued in 2008
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American Revolution
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The British responded by imposing punitive laws on Massachusetts in 1774 known as the Coercive Acts, following which Patriots in the other colonies rallied behind Massachusetts. Tensions escalated to the outbreak of fighting between Patriot militia and British regulars at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, the conflict then developed into a global war, during which the Patriots fought the British and Loyalists in what became known as the American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress determined King George IIIs rule to be tyrannical and infringing the rights as Englishmen. The Patriot leadership professed the political philosophies of liberalism and republicanism to reject monarchy and aristocracy, Congress rejected British proposals requiring allegiance to the monarchy and abandonment of independence. The British were forced out of Boston in 1776, but then captured and they blockaded the ports and captured other cities for brief periods, but failed to defeat Washingtons forces. After a failed Patriot invasion of Canada, a British army was captured at the Battle of Saratoga in late 1777, a combined American–French force captured a second British army at Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the war in the United States. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the conflict, confirming the new nations complete separation from the British Empire. The United States took possession of all the territory east of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes, with the British retaining control of Canada. Among the significant results of the revolution was the creation of a new Constitution of the United States. Historians typically begin their histories of the American Revolution with the British victory in the French and Indian War in 1763, the lands west of Quebec and west of a line running along the crest of the Allegheny mountains became Indian territory, temporarily barred to settlement. For the prior history, see Thirteen Colonies, in 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act to restrain the use of paper money which British merchants saw as a means to evade debt payments. Parliament also passed the Sugar Act, imposing customs duties on a number of articles, none did and Parliament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765 which imposed direct taxes on the colonies for the first time. All official documents, newspapers, almanacs, and pamphlets—even decks of playing cards—were required to have the stamps, the colonists did not object that the taxes were high, but because they had no representation in the Parliament. Benjamin Franklin testified in Parliament in 1766 that Americans already contributed heavily to the defense of the Empire, stationing a standing army in Great Britain during peacetime was politically unacceptable. London had to deal with 1,500 politically well-connected British officers who became redundant, in 1765, the Sons of Liberty formed. They used public demonstrations, boycott, violence, and threats of violence to ensure that the British tax laws were unenforceable, in Boston, the Sons of Liberty burned the records of the vice admiralty court and looted the home of chief justice Thomas Hutchinson. Several legislatures called for united action, and nine colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress in New York City in October 1765, moderates led by John Dickinson drew up a Declaration of Rights and Grievances stating that taxes passed without representation violated their rights as Englishmen. Colonists emphasized their determination by boycotting imports of British merchandise, the Parliament at Westminster saw itself as the supreme lawmaking authority throughout all British possessions and thus entitled to levy any tax without colonial approval
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