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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 857 / Number of Pages: 4
... in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia, on
April 13, 1743. His dad, Peter Jefferson and his mom Jane Randolph were members
of the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the bar in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the
courts were closed by the American Revolution.
He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and
doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayl ...
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Muddy Waters
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... to get things off of your chest. Waters would also teach himself to play instruments. When he was fifteen he knew how to play the harmonica and he would later teach himself the guitar. The young Waters followed in his fathers musician footsteps. He was part of a band at fifteen, with Scott Bowhandle on guitar and Sonny Simms playing the violin. They would play some Saturday nights in downtown Clarksdale and others he would sell fried fish on nights. And other nights he would watch the greats like Son House, Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton were great musical influences on Waters. The main influence o ...
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Johannes Brahms
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... the concerts of Singakademie. The next five years he spent travelling to various towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. .
After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made a Knight of the Prussian “Orde pour le merite,” and was also elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1889, Brahms was presented with the freedom of his native city, Hamburg, an ...
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John Brown
Number of Words: 268 / Number of Pages: 1
... is a strong hold for weaponry used by the military. , accompanied by a handful of abolitionists intruded on this governmental land with hopes of steeling the arms. The weapons were then going to be used in the attempted freeing of slaves.
It is true that Brown’s actions lasted only a short number of hours, involved only a few other kinsmen, and freed no slaves. However, are his actions wholly unjust and are they actions of a man with little or no sanity. The Northern Chronicle offers you another point of view.
Think of the horrid deeds being performed in the slave states of the south. Men, women, ...
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The Works Of William Faulkner
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... held by this narration allows readers only to see the town’s point of view. In criticizing Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that Faulkner learned “that he could achieve a variety of different effects through manipulation of authorial voice”(97 Ferguson). Faulkner desired the reader to dislike Emily, and therefore he created a narration that disliked Emily. This limitation of the third person is one of several of Faulkner's devices to steer the imagination of his readers.
One of Faulkner’s most famous works is The Sound and the Fury. This novel demonstrates one of ...
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Ernesto Guevara De Serna
Number of Words: 1097 / Number of Pages: 4
... medicine. He focused on understanding his own disease, and later became more interested in leprosy.
In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle. This was the first time Ernesto came into contact with the very poor and the remnants of the Indian tribes. It was during this leave of absence from schooling that Guevara, now nicknamed “Che” (Italian origin meaning chum or buddy), first experienced the depth of poverty and suffering of his fellows. In 1951, after taking his exams, he made a much longer journey. He visited southern Argentina, Chi ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... writing
and politics lured him away from a legal career.
His yearning for public acknowledge plus the corrupt state of New York
led him to join a local Republican Reform Club. In 1881 he was elected to
New York assembly where he set out to stop the corruption in both party
machines. In 1884 the death of his wife and a defeat in his political career
made him retreat to the Dakota Territory. In 1886 he came back to New York.
He ran for mayor when he came back.He was third. For the next three years
he stayed out of public affairs, and attending to his personal affairs . In
those three years h ...
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
Number of Words: 567 / Number of Pages: 3
... to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his
health program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many
money a chance to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay
hospital-bills yourself. It is something like our public health insurance
where the government pays for the ho¬ spitals. In US it is a problem that
the poor can not afford the medicine and therefore they sometimes do not
get any. This healthprogram was unfortunately voted down by the re ...
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Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President Of The United States (1901-1909)
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the passage of the meat
inspection act and the pure food and drug act. Ro attitude toward the poor and
towards the labor movement was that of an enlightened conservative. He
supported many labor demands such as shorter hours for women and children,
employers' liability laws and limitations on the use of injunctions against
workers in labor disputes.
In reform, Roosevelt wanted gradual change. He moved in the direction of the
reformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive party in the Bull
Moose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub lican party.
In 1907 imm ...
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William James: The Later Years
Number of Words: 1193 / Number of Pages: 5
... us alot about our mental life. This was for him, the most important of the investigative methods. Introspection required both concentration and practice, because inner states follow each other rapidly and often are blended and difficult to distinguish from one another. Just as with practice one can notice, observe, name, and classify objects outside oneself, one can do so with inner events. Introspection is in reality, immediate retrospection; the conscious mind looks back and reports what it has just experienced.
James admitted that introspection is difficult and prone to error. Who could be sure ...
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