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Biography Of Rasputin
Number of Words: 822 / Number of Pages: 3
... Proskovia Fyodorovna, who bore him
four children. Marriage did not satisfy him, so he left home and wandered
to Mount Athos, Greece, and Jerusalem living off peasant donations as a
self-proclaimed holy man with the ability to heal the sick and predict the
future.
Rasputin's travels took him to St. Petersburg where he was welcomed
with open arms. The court circles at that time were entertaining
themselves with mysticism and the occult. So Rasputin's alleged
extraordinary healing power was warmly accepted. In 1905 Rasputin was
introduced to the royal family, and in 1908 was called to the palac ...
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
Number of Words: 1132 / Number of Pages: 5
... Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie industry.
Reagan’s first national political scene was when he did a speech supporting Republican presidential candidate Senator Barry Goldwater. Even though Goldwater lost the election, he brought in money and praise from fellow Rep ...
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Comparison Of Marcus Garvey And David Duke
Number of Words: 1066 / Number of Pages: 4
... that black people were being mistreated, especially when it came to work. He observed the inferior status of black workers around the world. In an attempt to help relieve the plight of these workers he founded the UNIA. The UNIA was, in fact, the first, dominant black interest group, even before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In just a few years after it was founded in 1914, the UNIA had four million members in 1920 and six million in 1923. David Duke’s famous interest group was the infamous Ku Klux Klan. Duke became a member of the KKK when he w ...
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Alexander Graham Bell
Number of Words: 401 / Number of Pages: 2
... the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
1871 Bell started teaching deaf students in Boston.
1874-75 he began work on his great invention.
Bells attorney had applied for a patent on February 14, 1876
1880 Bell received the French government’s Volta price for the telephone.
1898 Bell succeeded his father-in-law as president of the National Geographic Society.
He died at his estate on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia on August 2. 1922.
Major Contributions
Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest contribution to mankind was ob ...
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Marilyn Monroe
Number of Words: 1611 / Number of Pages: 6
... legendary status. The first ever issue of
Playboy magazine features Marilyn Monroe as the covergirl. By decoding
meaning from this magazine cover, the visual and written text becomes a
communicator for both obvious and subtle meaning conveyed through her image.
Marilyn Monroe's image is communicated through signs and their codes. The
paradigm (her facial expression, gesture, body language, positioning,
written text, background, dress, colours, lighting and camera angle)
carries meaning and can be considered signifiers. In the second order
semiological system, the signifiers become signs which ...
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William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
Number of Words: 1418 / Number of Pages: 6
... him to Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bible (DISC 1). To further
elevate his level of knowledge, Williams attended the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Medicine, and later
visited the University of Leipzig, for post-graduate study (Bloom 4338).
Williams fulfilled his parents' lofty standards by becoming a general
practitioner with his degree from Pennsylvania. Their standards,
unfortunately, did not match up with those of Williams himself. He did not
wish to become
a doctor, but found himself becoming infatuated with poetry. He often
found himself t ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Number of Words: 1154 / Number of Pages: 5
... influenced Fitzgerald greatly. Even as a young boy he was aware of this situation. The theme that arose from this about a wife's inherited money appears frequently in Fitzgerald's writing (Magill 679). When the Fitzgeralds fell into financial trouble, the family had to depend on Mollie's family's money. When times like that came Mollie "abandoned the attempt to Tarleton 2 keep up her personal appearance (neglecting both grooming and fashion), which embarrassed her fastidious son. Scott later recorded a dream in which he admitted being ashamed of her" (de Koster 15). Furthermore, Fitzgerald's ...
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Michael Faraday
Number of Words: 635 / Number of Pages: 3
... In 1821, soon after the Danish chemist, Oersted, discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction. These experiments form the basis of modern electromagnetic technology.
On 29th August 1831, using his "induction ring", Faraday made one of his greatest discoveries - electromagnetic induction: the "induction" or generation of ele ...
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Kurt Cobain
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... was ashamed. He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead he lived in a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he had few friends, and was beat up alot.
On his 14th birthday Kurt recieved his first guitar. He had been writing poetry since he was 13, so he started using his poetry to write songs. He was in several bands throughout highschool, some of them were named Fecal Matter, Skid Row, Brown Cow, The Sellouts, and Pencap Chew.
Around the time of Kurts senoir year he formed Nirvana with high school friend, Krist (Chris) Novoselic. A fe ...
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Life Of Fredrick Douglass
Number of Words: 703 / Number of Pages: 3
... the novel Douglass never encounters a slave who is not black. “Why am I a slave,” Douglass asks (Douglass 73). This is surely a question asked by every victim of prejudice. Another piece that illustrates discrimination is Joseph Brant’s, “Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization.”
Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, or Thayendanega, was educated at Wheelock’s Indian school in Connecticut. He served the British in the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. Being a Mohawk Chief, Brant was subject to ...
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