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Ronald Reagan
Number of Words: 1133 / 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 Republi ...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1463 / Number of Pages: 6
... 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 support.
His foster father refused to pay his debts, and ...
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Serial Murderer Ed Gein
Number of Words: 2396 / Number of Pages: 9
... he was not working he would often visit the
local bars and drink himself drunk(Hotvedt). He was often a coward to his
wife and cowered in fear of her. This led him to become an alcoholic to
escape the verbal abuse. His wife would often pray in front of their sons
for the death of him. Her wishes finally came true when he died in 1940 of
causes unknown (Woods 22).
Gein's mother Augusta emerged as the dominant parent, settling most
family decisions on her own. Devoutly religious, she warned her two sons
against premarital sex, but Gein recalled that she was "not as strong" in
her opposition to ...
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John Quincy Adams
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... trial. He spoke out against mob violence and other forms of social disintegration.
In 1774 to 1776 Adams was a deligate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He was a champion of American rights in Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
John Adams' presidency that lasted from 1797 to 1801 was a troubled one. Adams made many contributions during his term. He gave the Government stability by continuing practices established under Washington. The crisis he faced was the difficult relations with France.When in the XYZ affair peace commissioners retuned from Paris with sto ...
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D.h. Lawrence
Number of Words: 766 / Number of Pages: 3
... Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another
wonderful example of the nature in ’s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the images he has given to a person, make it seem like they really are there. “She closed her sunshade and walked slowly among the many flowers. All around were rose bushes, big banks of roses, then roses hanging or tumbling from pillars, or roses balanced on the standard bushes.” The nature in his books truly surrounds a person.
His writing contained heightened sensation. liked to leave his reader’s hanging on ...
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Gertrude Stein
Number of Words: 814 / Number of Pages: 3
... His method of “automatic writing, in which subjects wrote down their unedited, free-associative thoughts” (Gombar 42), was often the way Gertrude wrote many of her literary pieces.
In 1897, she was denied her bachelor’s degree, but the next year, she graduated magna cum laude with the class of 1898. Because of high recommendations from James and her other professors, she was granted admission to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where her brother was also studying. They lived together in Baltimore, and Leo would gather friends on the weekends for their infamous salons. Leo, from his familiar post leani ...
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Us Presidents 30-42
Number of Words: 5544 / Number of Pages: 21
... equanimity and the economic upturn. But 1924 was a sad year for Coolidge, for in July his younger son, Calvin, Jr., died of blood poisoning.
Coolidge was fairly successful in getting what he wanted during his full term as president. Heading the list were paring the national debt and reducing income taxes, so that there would be more money for consumer spending. Other measures included orderly growth of civil and military aviation, expansion of the services of the departments of Agriculture and Commerce, regulation of radio broadcasting, development of waterways, flood control, and encouragement of coo ...
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Sagan
Number of Words: 1681 / Number of Pages: 7
... in words.
The book is split into three parts; "The Power and Beauty of Quantification", "What are the Conservatives Conserving?" and "Where Hearts and Minds Collide". In the first section begins by teaches the reader about large numbers and what innovations in the past allowed us to use them. moves slowly and tactfully building the readers understanding of these basic concepts of large numbers and exponents, then applies them to such problems as exponential growth of populations, radioactive decay and nuclear chain reactions. . He exposes scientific concepts like a traditional narrative. Buildin ...
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Sigmund Freud
Number of Words: 790 / Number of Pages: 3
... conscious discharging the “affect” of the memory. In time Freud came to realize that a more productive method of recalling the memories was through “free association” or just talking about whatever is in your head. When this was performed on patients and the feedback was studied Freud was amazed that an abundance of it dealt with sexual childhood experiences.
This type of feedback became common in Freud’s free association sessions. What the patient talked about was not perfectly straight forward it was instead disguised. This disguising was common because it was a tool used buy the conscious in or ...
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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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