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John F Kenendy
Number of Words: 735 / Number of Pages: 3
... and Marine Corps medal,but his earlier back injury was aggravated and he contracted Malaria.He had to have an operation on his back which was successful but he would not be able to walk for months,and after that would have to walk with crutches,and he had to leave the war.While having the operation he found out that his oldest brother Joe jnr was shot down and killed while piloting R.A.F Liberator over the English channel on August 12th 1944.This was a shock to everyone in the Kennedy family,and this meant that John was to become in politics like his father. ...
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Lucille Ball
Number of Words: 1101 / Number of Pages: 5
... birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so great that even today, everyone knows that "Lucy Ricardo, of course, achieved eternal life" (Brady 342).
Prior to her television success, she also had much success on her radio show My Favorite Husband. The show was a comedy based on based on "the delightful stories of Isobel Scott Rorick's gay, sophisticated Mr. & Mrs. Cugat, starring with Richard Denning" (Brady 159). The show soon became a hit, thanks to Ball's humor. "Just before C ...
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Bob Dylan
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... the public's attention from a time of mass confusion until today, opening up the expressive possibilities of rock.Composing over 100's of songs, performing worldwide including Woodstock 1969, following his own path and believing in his own causes, Dylan has become an idol, young artists everywhere can admire.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Duluth Minnesota to Beatrice and Abraham Zimmerman, Dylan was soon to move to Hibbing in 1947. It, like many other small towns felt the optimism, prosperity, and conformism that followed WWII. Hibbing became more directly touched by national events ...
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Stephen Crane Biography
Number of Words: 296 / Number of Pages: 2
... critic, journalist, and as a poet. He was original in his field of work. Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball.
Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then h ...
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Gandhi: A Man With Virtues
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... stayed in South Africa for 20 years, being imprisoned many
times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans,
Gandhi began to teach a method of “passive resistance,” to, the South
African authorities. _Part of the inspiration for this method came from
the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Christ and Henry David Thoreau, a 19th
century American writer, also inspired Gandhi. In 1914 the government of
the Union of South Africa made important concessions to Gandhi's demands.
They included recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax
for them. When his work is South A ...
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Leo Tolstoi
Number of Words: 363 / Number of Pages: 2
... during further travels to Europe (1860-61) educational theory and practice, and published magazines and textbooks on the subject. In 1862 he married Sonya Andreyevna Bers (or Behrs). Between the years 1865 and 1869 appeared Tolstoy's major work, War and Peace, an epic tale depicting the story of five families against the background of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's other masterpiece, Anna Karenina (1873-77), told a tragical story of a married woman, who follows her lover, but finally at a train station throws herself in front of an incoming train. In the 1880s Tolstoy wrote such philoso ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of Words: 476 / Number of Pages: 2
... because it adds knowledge to the
Empire. Another was a knew constitution, in this he presented to the public in
a plebiscite that required them either to accept fully his version or to allow
him to govern without the restrictions of a constitutions. This was a lose,
lose situation for the people. The support of the army was a major factor in
his successful dictatorship. Napoleon put the three consuls in charge of the
new executive branch in which he was the first consul.
Napoleon also introduced many foreign policies. One was the continental
system, this forbade the impotation of British good ...
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Roy Jones Jr.
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... Roy Sr. used his
own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s
tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though because he
had to ask others that he knew for money to take the kids to boxing
tournaments in neighboring states. The only form of transportation was an
old rickety van, which doors were held with metal wire.
By the time Roy was 19 he had a amatuer record of 106-4 and became
the yungest member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic boxing team. In public the
team teased Roy but when in the private they asked him for advice. They
saw how he do ...
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Baron De Montesquieu
Number of Words: 786 / Number of Pages: 3
... different governments get corrupt. He believed that the only reason a despotism starts is because of a corruption in a republican or monarchy government.
Montesquieu believed that all things were made up of rules or laws that never changed. He set out to study these laws with the hope that knowledge of the laws of government would reduce the problems of society and improve human life. He was very active in his economy and had a joy for doing so. This made him a very influential person in his society.
Despite Montesquieu’s belief in the principles of a democracy, he did not feel that all peo ...
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Theodore Roosdevelt
Number of Words: 576 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act. Ro
attitude toward the poor and towards the labor movement was that of an
enlightened conservative. He supported many labor demands such as shorter
hours for women and children, employers' liability laws and limitations on
the use of injunctions against workers in labor disputes.
In reform, Roosevelt wanted gradual change. He moved in the direction of
the reformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive party in the
Bull Moose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub
lican party.
In 1907 immigration reach ...
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