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Patton
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... forces were going to ambush his troops, through an intercepted message, staged his own ambush. This was the first American victory in Northern Africa. The Allied forces, Gen. Montgomery, and Gen. , had divided and destroyed the German North African Core. recommended a plan used by the Ancient Greeks for the invasion of Italy.
wanted to lead the attack on Sicily. This plan was rejected. Montgomery would lead the invasion on Sicily. The goal was to capture Messina , In charge of the seventh Army, and Omar Bradley in charge of the second Armored Division would cover Montgomery's flank. Mon ...
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of Words: 3080 / Number of Pages: 12
... grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and had little money. Napoleon spent little time ...
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The Presidency Of Woodrow Wilson
Number of Words: 622 / Number of Pages: 3
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the consumer was a big subject as well The Jungle was a book about the meat
inspections of 1906. The Meat Inspections Act of 1906 was to outlaw
incorrectly labeled meat.
Woodrow Wilson was next in the line of presidents. He was a strong
jawed, leader, and moral man. He did not like any republicans, including
Teddy Roosevelt, and in this light he ridiculed them at every chance.
During the elections in 1912 Wilson received 435 electrical votes, smashing
Roosevelt in to the ground with 88 and Taft had about a tenth of what
Roosevelt with only 8 votes, last and least was Eugene ...
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The Works Of Sinclair Lewis
Number of Words: 297 / Number of Pages: 2
... with one that was realistic and even bitter. Lewis was born in Sauk
Center, Minnesota, on February 7, 1885, and was educated at Yale
University. From 1907 to 1916 he was a newspaper reporter and a literary
editor.
In Main Street (1920) Lewis first developed the theme that was to run
through his most important work: the monotony, emotional frustration, and
lack of spiritual and intellectual values in American middle-class life.
His novel Babbitt (1922) mercilessly characterizes the small-town American
businessman who conforms blindly to the materialistic social and ethical
standards of his environme ...
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Number of Words: 2199 / Number of Pages: 8
... She would spend her working day walking around the city with her camera capturing citizens’ reactions to issues of the day. At a Georgetown dinner party, Jackie was first introduced to John F. Kennedy who was a newly elected senator from Massachusetts. From there, Jackie and John’s relationship progressed. Upon her return from Europe, where she covered the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth for the Washington Times-Herald, Jacqueline accepted John Kennedy’s proposal of marriage (24). They were married on September 12, 1953 at St. Mary’s Church in Newport. There was a crowd of 3,000 on-lookers who ...
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John Lennon
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... was 1970's /Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov.
There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character captured in the ongoing diary of his life in song. Many of his post-Beatles compositions - "Imagine," "Mind Games," "Instant Karma," and "Give Peace a Chance" – have rightfully become anthems, ...
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Geoffery Chaucer
Number of Words: 2362 / Number of Pages: 9
... eminent fear was a influence of writing for all.
Though Chacuer was an amazing writer most of his life is
fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then
were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet
who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat.
The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from common life
and bawedy talkes to puritanical religion.
He knew an assortion of people of all backgrounds from French to
Flemish. His attitudes ranged from sentimental feeling for small
children, to a deep in ...
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Princess Diana
Number of Words: 2991 / Number of Pages: 11
... delivered a boy to carry on the Spencer name. Although Diana had a beautiful christening at Sandringham Church with well-to-do Godparents, her brother Charles’s christening was a major event at Westminster Abbey. The Queen was the principal Godparent. The Spencer children were privileged but not snobbish. They were taught to accept people for what they are and not their position in life. The children never understood their titles until they went to school. Occasionally one of the royals would make a visit to the Spencer home and once in a while they would play with Princess Margaret’s sons, Princ ...
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Martin Luther King
Number of Words: 472 / Number of Pages: 2
... I was to choose
one I would choose the memorization method. During the speeches of
King we viewed he never losses eye contact with the audience. This is one of
the reasons why I choose the memorization method. I also feel King's
speeches came straight from his heart. King was a Baptist minister and was
without a doubt filled with the spirit of god. I feel King's speeches were
influenced by the spirit that lived within his heart. The book states that
your appearance should be in harmony with your message. King's speeches were
all based on serious spiritual and political issues and a suit and t ...
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Carol Causs
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wrote down the correct answer. Carl came to the conclusion that the sum of the integers was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to one hundred and one, thus simple multiplication followed and the answer could b ...
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