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Why Mark Twain Is The Greatest American Author Of All Time
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... isn't
ready to grow up.
Tom Sawyer is one of those type of friends that everybody has,
crazy enough to get everybody's attention but smart enough to know when to
stop. I read some of the things that Tom had done in the book and some of
the lies he would tell and I thought "man he is crazy for doing that" but
as I thought about it more it seems reasonable to a kid at that age and why
wouldnt he act the way he did ?
Mark Twain takes a big step to the side when he writes about one of
Miss Watsons slaves. Jim is a strong black slave in about his mid-twenties.
As you read about Jim and see what he's had ...
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John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
Number of Words: 2818 / Number of Pages: 11
... and naval battles against the HMS Drake and the Serapis clearly support their statements.
John Paul Jones's victories were made possible through a combination of strategy, training, and preparation. Jones was notorious for maintaining professionalism and discipline among his crewmembers. Jones's crew consisted of 380 men which only 60 were Americans. The rest was comprised of men from eight different nationalities including Britain. Due to the diversity of his crew, Jones had to concentrate on training his men to work together diligently and efficiently. At every spare moment he and his c ...
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Joseph Kennedy
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... forced First National to give up. When the merger was called off, the Columbia directors rewarded him with the top job. At 25 he had become the youngest bank president in the country.
In 1914, now the successful bank president married the love of his life, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Rose was the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald, a leading Irish figure in Boston. Together they had 9 children, Joseph Patrick Jr., John Fitzgerald, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice Mary, Patricia, Robert Francis, Jean Ann, and Edward Moore.
By the age of 30 he had amassed a great fortune through ...
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Allen Ginsburg In America
Number of Words: 1606 / Number of Pages: 6
... and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising gay bars in Greenwich Village. At this point in Ginsberg life he and Kerouac thought they were working towards some kind of great poetic vision, which they called the “New Vision.” Ginsburg’s friends acted crazy in a sort of joyfull way, that co ...
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The Influence Of Henry David Thoreau On Mohanda K. Gandhi
Number of Words: 347 / Number of Pages: 2
... soul then your government. His protest was never based on violence he took a stand with out having to go that route. Then Gandhi’s development of Satyagraha, a direct social action based on principles of courage, nonviolence, and truth, took place. This method meant that the way people behaved was more important then what they achieved. This is how Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohanda K. Gandhi.
In conclusion the lives of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi was like a domino effect. Emerson influenced Thoreau by giving him opportunities, by inspiring Thoreau to write Walden. Emerson was full of ideas and T ...
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Leslie Marmon Silko
Number of Words: 841 / Number of Pages: 4
... the loss of her two children to the welfare board. They were either sick or she wasn’t providing for them. She wasn’t taking care of them in a way that pleased the whites; however, she raised her children beautifully in the Native American tradition.
“Lullaby” is full of Native American cultural traits. On page 1139 Silko says, “he used words to speak of the dead” which is an example of Navajo Culture. The Navajo do not use the names of the dead and speak carefully about as to not upset their soul. In addition, when they said not to send the body back home ma ...
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Albert Einstein From Start To Finish
Number of Words: 1114 / Number of Pages: 5
... and study
electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for
hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to
school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he
was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When
he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein.
When Albert was going through high school he had many problems. He
didn't get any recognition for his efforts in math or science. He felt
hopeless. He did not do the subjects he fell to be pointless. In 1896, he
entered the Federa ...
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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
Number of Words: 820 / Number of Pages: 3
... medical cases together and one of
Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on.
Breuer discovered that if he hypnotized her, she would talk of things she
did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were
relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Paris for
further study under , a neurologist known all over E ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
Number of Words: 1179 / Number of Pages: 5
... taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a
prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (1906), James
(1907), Elliott (1910), Franklin, Jr. (1914) and John (1916). Roosevelt
was reelected to the State Senate in 1912, and supported Woodrow Wilson's
c ...
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Ferdinand Magellan
Number of Words: 1143 / Number of Pages: 5
... The Malays attacked the Portuguese who went to shore, and Magellan helped rescue his comrades. In 1511, he took part in an expedition that conquered Malaka. After this victory, a Portuguese fleet sailed farther to the Spice Islands which were called the Molucca Islands. Portugal claimed the islands at this time. Magellan’s close personal friend Francisco Serraro went along on the voyage to the Spice Islands and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao’s letters helped establish in Magellan’s mind the location of the Spice Islands, which later became the destination o ...
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