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William Butler Yeats
Number of Words: 1186 / Number of Pages: 5
... hermetic society he joined the Rosicrucians, Madam H.P. Blavavtsky’s Theosophical Society, and MacGregors Mather’s Order of the Dawn. Yeats consulted spiritualists frequently and engaged in the ritual of conjuring the Irish Gods. The occult research Yeats made was apparent in his poetry. The occult was a source of images to use in his poems, and evedence of this is in all of his works. In1885 Yeats met John O’Leary an Irish Nationalist and Fenian leader. O’Leary played a large role on getting Yeats’s his work first published in The Dublin University Review and directing Yeats’s attention to native Iris ...
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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 1250 / Number of Pages: 5
... but “like Shakespeare, Miss Dickinson is without opinions” (Tate 86). “Her verses and technical license often seem mysterious and can confuse critics, but after all is said, it is realized that like most poets Miss Dickinson is no more mysterious than a banker. It is said that Miss Dickinson’s life was starved and unfulfilled and yet all pity is misdirected. She lived one of the richest and deepest lives ever on this continent. It was her own conscious choice to deliberately withdraw from society into her upstairs room…” (Tate 83). She kept to “only a ...
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King Henry Iv
Number of Words: 672 / Number of Pages: 3
... Richard was absent in Ireland in 1395 and for his efforts was made Duke of Hereford in 1397.
Henry soon quarreled with the Duke of Norfolk, each accusing the other of arranging the murder of the Duke of Gloucester and calling for a trial by battle. Both men were banished from the realm. Norfolk for life and Henry for 10 years with a proviso that he would be allowed to inherit from his father. But on the death of John of Gaunt in 1399, the Lancastrian estates were confiscated by the King, and Henry decided to return, seemingly to claim his promised inheritance.
Taking advantage of the King’s ...
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Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
Number of Words: 1671 / Number of Pages: 7
... not of brainwashing but a form of brain molding that was customary for all slaveholders to take part of. Since the slaves did not know their birthday, they were more easily treated like cattle or other property of the plantation, which was the objective of the slaveholders. The slaveholders felt that the more ignorant and little minded that slaves were, then the more effective they would be in the fields. This example of depriving the slaves of their natural right as humans to know their date of birth was just the beginning of the many examples that Frederick Douglass used to show reasons for th ...
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Jomo Kenyatta
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... (1938).
On returning to Africa, Kenyatta was elected president of the new Kenya
African Union (later, Kenya African National Union, or KANU). In 1952 he was
charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion against the British, and, despite his
denials, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and two years in exile.
Released in 1961, he assumed the presidency of KANU. In 1963, when Kenya gained
independence, Kenyatta became prime minister. He was elected president of the
new Republic of Kenya in 1964 and held that post until his death in Mombasa on
August 22, 1978.
Yassir Arafat is a Palest ...
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Jessie James
Number of Words: 599 / Number of Pages: 3
... had no choice but to turn to crime.
. Ironically Jesse’s father was a Baptist preacher, but he did not have much if any influence on Jesse considering that his mother married three times. Jesse’s childhood abruptly ended when he was 14 years old. During this time, Civil War had broken out, dividing the United States into two parts. Not wanting to be left out, Jesse joined a Confederate regiment led by Lieutenant Bloody Bill Anderson. Unlike most other confederate regiments, Bloody Bill Anderson’s regiment would "use small gang hit-and-run attacks" and raid mostly northern cities in ...
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Oprah Winfrey
Number of Words: 1152 / Number of Pages: 5
... have encountered in their own lives. She had to deal with poverty, sexual abuse, racism as a child, and her lifelong battle with weight.
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954. As a child, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then moved back to Nashville. She has lived through poverty, repeated sexual abuse, and a sentence to a juvenile delinquent home. (Hyde 1997 p.57) Oprah was crowned Miss. Black Tennessee at age 19. In 1973. She left Tennessee State University and became a newscaster for WTVF in Nashville. Three years later, Oprah became a news anchor in Baltimore ...
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Pete Rose And The Hall Of Fame
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Roses' "close" friends say. These former friends of Rose are Tommy Gioiosa, Donald Stenger, Mike Fry, and Paul Janszen. This evidence is what prompted the banishment from baseball of Pete Rose, which he signed. The evidence was enough for the Commissioner. In 1989, baseball's Commissioner Bart Giammati suspended Pete Rose from association with professional baseball for life for gambling (Reston 1997). Rose also spent five months in a minimum-security prison for tax evasion in 1990. He did not report cash money he accepted for signing baseballs and photographs at baseball card shows (Reston 1997) ...
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King Henry VIII
Number of Words: 697 / Number of Pages: 3
... his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbidden, all payments
to Rome were stopped, and the pope's authority in England was abolished. In
1534 the Act of Supremacy declared Henry himself to be Supreme Head of the
Church of England, and ...
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Jon Philip Sousa
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... two successful, but limited tours with the Marine Band in 1891 and1892, promoter David Blakely convinced Sousa to resign and organize a civilian concert band.
The first Sousa Band Concert was preformed on September 26, 1892 at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1895 Sousa's first successful operetta, El Capitan debuts.
In 1895 Sousa's first big tragedy hit. While on vacation with his wife in Europe, Sousa's promoter (David Blakely) died. This was hard for Sousa to face but it also inspired him to write the great Stars and Stripes Forever.
Through 1900-1905 Sousa and his ...
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