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The Life Of Helen Keller
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... not communicate with others
what she wanted.
Anne would not tolerate any of this. After much trial and error she
taught Helen the one handed alphabet which gave her a way of communication
with the outside world. Helen learned quickly and with great excitement.
Her tantrums ceased and her manners vastly improved. She was a very bright
child and person. Her generosity never ended and her handicap day by day
was overcome.
Helen Keller's goal in life was, to help others help them selves.
That is what Anne did for her, and that is what she wanted to do for others.
Handicap is just a word. It is a very dec ...
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Joseph Stalin
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... punches the man out and
threaten to kill them all.
Years after that incident Lenin end up dying and Stalin takes over
as the leader of Russia. Because Trotsky was hated by many of the
influential political figures in Russia, Stalin becomes the leader of
Russia even after Lenin's dying last wishes.
1929 was the first of many years in which Stalin stunted Russia's
growth. In that year the "Engineer Trials" were held. During these trials
the Russian elite was brought forth by Stalin on the account of treason.
Confessions by the elite which consisted of engineers, doctors, lawyers, ...
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Pierre Trudeau
Number of Words: 1560 / Number of Pages: 6
... the
University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the
Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat
anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered
radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as
Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned to Canada
in 1949 and resumed his social science endeavors. At this time in Quebec,
the province was experiencing tremendous cultural and political differences
with the rest of the country. The Union Nationale had taken possession of
political m ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1463 / Number of Pages: 6
... family to England. While there, Poe was sent to private
schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of
Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He
had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost
at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his
fees and other necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He
learned to play cards and started drinking. Soon he was in debt in
excess of two thousand dollars. Poe discovered that he could not
depend upon Allan for financial suppor ...
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Michael Collins And Eamon De Velera
Number of Words: 712 / Number of Pages: 3
... as (1) President of the Supreme Council of the IRB, (2) A leader, but not Commander-in-Chief of the IRA, (3) Sinn Féin member of the Dail, (4) Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, (5) Minister of Finance in the 1919 Provisional Government of the RoI, and (6) Cabinet member in the first post-treaty government. He is best know for his brilliant work during the Anglo-Irish war in setting up the IRA's extremely effective intelligence and counter-intelligence unit that time and time again saved the IRA forces to fight another day. He and Griffith were the leaders of the team that negotiated t ...
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Benedict Arnold
Number of Words: 6671 / Number of Pages: 25
... Quebec. They left on September 16th from Washington's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On September 19th, they sailed for the Kennebec River from Newburyport on eleven schooners, and on the twentieth, they camped on Swan Island in Merrymeeting Bay. Some of the men, along with the supplies, continued up the Kennebec in a bateaux, and the rest continued along on foot (Encarta).
By September 23rd, they had arrived at Fort Western. They continued marching to Fort Halifax in Winslow, where today there is a rock in Lithgow Street, marking where they stopped. Continuing, they reached Ticonic Fal ...
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General George Patton
Number of Words: 3667 / Number of Pages: 14
... however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School that he began to catch up on his academic skills; he managed to find plenty of time for athletics as well. While at school, the path toward his goal became focused he planned on attending West Point as the next major step in the pursuit of his general's stars.
When he graduated from ...
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Emily Dickinson: Her View Of God
Number of Words: 919 / Number of Pages: 4
... will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky- (78)".
After she dies and God answers all of her questions, Dickinson then says:
" I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now-that scalds me now!"
This shows Dickinson's anger toward God. She does not want to have to die
to have her questions answered. She wants to be able to live without these
questions of what God wants, because they are deeply affecting her.
As time goes by, one could say that Dickinson is learning to live
with the questions she has for God. She does not look at death as a bad ...
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John Haigh
Number of Words: 487 / Number of Pages: 2
... to live.
Early adulthood was a problematic time at best for Haigh. He was imprisoned several times for fraud and forgery. But his true criminal nature began to manifest in middle adulthood, just after World War II had ended.
In 1944 Haigh rented a basement in London to use as a workshop. It would soon become the grisly testament to his growing need for blood. He killed his first victim in that basement on September 9, 1944. He drained the fresh corpse (William Donald McSwan) of enough blood to fill a cup, and drank it. To dispose of the body, Haigh placed it in a tub and proceeded to pour bucket ...
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Georges Seurat - Hi Painting
Number of Words: 1600 / Number of Pages: 6
... and the painting style, pointillism, make this painting very realistic. The question is, how does Seurat go about making the painting look so lifelike?
Pointillism was a major reason in why Seurats painting looks so lifelike. During the painting of La Grande Jatte, Seurat simplified his brushwork to such an extent that his painting seems to be composed of nothing but tiny, more or less circular dots. Seurat’s experiments with color led him to paint in small dots of color which are arranged in such combinations that they seem to vibrate. Individual colors tend to interact with those aroun ...
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