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Walt Whitman 2
Number of Words: 741 / Number of Pages: 3
... the greatest presidents in the history of the United States after the war just as something to revolt about due to the loss by the South. It’s hard to imagine how someone could do something like this to such a great man, especially after all he had done to help, and encourage the rights, and goodness for the people of America. This event gave Whitman the idea, and moved him in such a way that he wanted to show the pain that he himself felt inside. This poem was a poem for how the entire country felt at the same time.
Another great breakthrough at this time was the development of the new nati ...
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Compare And Cantrast Web Du Bois & Booker T Washington
Number of Words: 1340 / Number of Pages: 5
... as a junior. During college he preferred the company of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at the University of Berlin on a Slater Fund Fellowship.
W. E. B. Du Bois traveling widely in Europe, was delighted by the absence of color consciousness and impressed by their mellow civilization. Still, he knew that his life's work was at home, and returned to America in 1894.
His wor ...
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Domitian
Number of Words: 677 / Number of Pages: 3
... and mother’s family.” (Jones, 1992)
was an educated person, although it is unknown where he got his education. He loved to write and wrote poetry. His poems were very sensitive no matter what the topic. Later on even wrote and published a book about baldness. Apparently, was interested in many different types of literature. People often said that he spoke intelligently, and made memorable comments. In his later years, began to read Tiberius’s commentaries. He established a way of thinking and developed his own ideas on standards and morals.
Around 70 AD married Domitia Long ...
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Al Capone 2
Number of Words: 952 / Number of Pages: 4
... other alcoholic beverages. Torrio's uncle did not agree with this idea but within the next month he was shot and killed. Capone and Torrio took over Torrio's uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld which left Capone to run the empire alone (Kobler 34). At the age of 26, Capone was managing more than 1,000 employees with a payroll of more than $300,000 a week. He demanded total loyalty from all of his employes (URL:http://www.nara.gov/nara/events/calendar/capone.html 2). During this time Ca ...
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Napoleon 3
Number of Words: 1263 / Number of Pages: 5
... located in Valence. A little over ten years later he decided to get married to Joshephine de Beauharnais from Martinique in the Indies. After many years of marriage, Napoleon realized that his wife was getting older and he had no heirs, so in 1809 he divorced her to look for a younger bride. In 1810 he met and married Archduchess, Marie Louise the eighteen-year-old daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. During their marriage Napoleon and his new wife conceived one child, a boy also named Napoleon.
Napoleon was a man known for his greatest powers and successes as a leader. One of the many succ ...
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Charles Darwin And Herbert Spencer
Number of Words: 1277 / Number of Pages: 5
... a man of science, John Steven Henslow. It was
Henslow who recommended him for the unpaid position of naturalist on the H.M.S.
Beagle.
Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 to study the Pacific coast of South
America and the Pacific Islands. His other duty was to set up navigation
stations in the area. He also studied the geology and biology of these areas.
Upon his return in 1839, Darwin married his cousin, Emma Wedgewood, and was
admitted to the Royal Society. He moved to Downe, Kent in 1842, and was plagued
by ill health until his death. He apparently transmitted Trypanosomiastis from
fre ...
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Biography On Guy De Maupassant
Number of Words: 394 / Number of Pages: 2
... was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, in
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
entered the French civil service. He first served with the Ministry of Navy and
later with the Ministry of Public Institution. During the between 1873 and 1880
he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time,
Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his
skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short
stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans.
Maupassant wor ...
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Benito Mussolini 2
Number of Words: 283 / Number of Pages: 2
... a bully), but while being all of that he was also smart. Then he went and became a schoolmaster. In 1909, Musolini fell in love with a 16 year old Rachele Guidi. A month later, she went to live with him in a damp, cramped apartment in Forli, soon after they were married. Soon after the marrige, Musolini was imprisioned for the fifth time. After getting out of prision, Mussolini was appointed editor of the Socialist paper "Avanti!". Mussolini was best known for his involvement in World War 2. Before the war even started Mussolini knew that peace was essential to Italy's well-being. To him the ...
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Neil Simon
Number of Words: 2466 / Number of Pages: 9
... to label since she seems to alternate between the two types of feminism. The discussion of first wave feminism is problematic as feminists are branded as maternal or equal rights feminists, terms which were not even applicable at the time. Maternal feminists, for example, sought the vote in order to reinforce the influence of women and the family in Canadian society, and to introduce "feminine morality" into Canadian politics. On the other hand, equal rights feminists fought for the vote based on the assumption that men and women are equal, and therefore everyone shares the right to participate in ...
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Bill Clinton
Number of Words: 682 / Number of Pages: 3
... young Bill had his last name legally altered from Blythe to Clinton.
Clinton's life continued and during his High school years he was awestruck by two successful leaders, John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was inspired by them so much that thrived on fulfilling their dreams. He raised money and organized charity events, but most of all he learned how to work with people and the concept of being a good citizen. In his spare time, he endulged himself in literature and played a saxophone. He loved music, and each summer he would attend a band camp in the Ozark Mountains. His hard ...
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