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John Fitzgerald Kennedy And His Accomplishments In Office
Number of Words: 1581 / Number of Pages: 6
... challenge of working for a better life.
“Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty,” he stated. He finished with this now-famous call to the country, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
In the beginning of his presidency, John F. Kennedy and his staff brought many great changes to the White House and to Washington. Instead of letting his secretaries contact people for him, he would often dial ...
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Billy The Kid
Number of Words: 670 / Number of Pages: 3
... farmland and grazing rights. looked at Tunstall as a father and would do anything for him. But on February 18, 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a group of deputies who were under the authority of Sheriff William Brady who was a major Murphy and Dolan supporter. swore revenge and said he would not rest until the Murphy and Dolan group was dead. Billy had ended up killing most of the group but was still looking for Sheriff Brady. On April 1, 1878 Billy got his wish. Billy and a group of five friends positioned themselves behind an adobe wall and waited for Brady and his posse to come into to ...
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Maya Angelou
Number of Words: 780 / Number of Pages: 3
... her formative
years shuttling between St. Louis, Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked
as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published
Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under
the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance,
and studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for
the southern Leadership Conference. She Commission on the Observance of
International women's Year.
Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -Americ ...
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Hayden Carruth
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... Poetry Prize, the
Vermont Governor's Medal, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Whiting Award, the Ruth
Lily Prize, the National Book Award and The National Book Critics' Circle Award
for Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991.
In "Another" Carruth comments on the goal of poetry. He begins by
dismissing truth and beauty;
"Truth and beauty
were never the
aims of proper poetry
and the era
which proclaimed them
was a brutal
era."
-Another
The era mite have been brutal but "truth and beauty" where and still are
a large part of "proper poetry". The collected works of William Shakespeare and
Ro ...
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Robert Penn Warren
Number of Words: 1008 / Number of Pages: 4
... to more lucrative businesses.
Robert Warren did not always have ambitions to become a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.
Warren was an outstanding student but there were also many books at home, and he savored reading. His father at one time aspired to be a poet. His grandfather Penn, with whom he spent much time when he was young, was an exceptional storyt ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Number of Words: 2483 / Number of Pages: 10
... manuscripts, as well as one of his early literary works which he later retracted. The retracted piece's time set was early Salem, Massachusetts. The story involved a family structure much like that of Hawthorne's own family. The two siblings in the work, brother and sister, lived in deep affection, "lonely and sufficient to each other" since they alone survived an Indian attack. Mother and father having died, the sister becomes his, and throughout the work the theme of incest is heavily suggested. The events and family situations contained in the work closely mirror that of Hawthorne's family. ...
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Ernest Hemingway 3
Number of Words: 2997 / Number of Pages: 11
... he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't ...
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Isaac Asimov
Number of Words: 1664 / Number of Pages: 7
... be reading books with more value," his father told him (wilson). Sooner or later his father gave in and told him not to forget his library books (Erlanger 11). However, this reading material was the only thing that his dad would let him touch on the magazine rack.
Young Isaac was a brilliant student. He went through school more quickly than other students. But there was one thing holding him back which was him being a class clown. He was frequently in trouble for talking in class (Erlanger 16). The person he could really identify with was his friend, "Solly," Solomon Frisch. Solly made up sto ...
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Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, And J. Cooper
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... do this, along with many other freedoms.
Thomas Jefferson, America's 3rd president, and an accomplished one at that.
Jefferson helped bring into exhistance the Declaration of Independence.
He also bought a huge amount of land from Napolean, known as the Lousiana
Purchase for 15 Million dollars, what a deal! Napolean definately needed
money to finance his little war, tsk tsk.
A real thinker in the enlightenment also.
Washington Irving, named after George Washington was a famous writer who
very possibly invented the short story. Irving created such characters as
Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle. ...
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Laura Secord
Number of Words: 1072 / Number of Pages: 4
... By 1812, the Secord's had five children, two servants, a small pleasant house and a wealthy store. When they first got married, they lived in St. Davids and after being married for a while they moved to Queenston. Laura did not work but James was a Merchant. Life was good for Laura, James and their family, and it seemed the future held nothing but happiness.
On June 18, 1812, war was officially declared. It was Great Britain with the Native Americans against the United States. Queenston and Niagara Falls were long awaiting the attack of the US forces from across the Niagara River. James had ...
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