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Presdent James Abram Garfield
Number of Words: 2032 / Number of Pages: 8
... helped Mrs. Garfield with the farm work. She herself also sewed for the neighbors, and her girls learned to card wool and weave cloth. James early showed a love for books and his mother determined that he should have an education. When he was four years old, a log schoolhouse was built on the Garfields' lot.
The Boy on the Towpath
When he was 15, James was big enough and strong enough to do a man's work. He hired out to the neighbors for chopping wood, washing sheep, planting, plowing, and sowing. When he was 16, he decided to become a sailor and see the world. "Nautical novels did it," he said, ...
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Eternal Authoritative Leaders
Number of Words: 1206 / Number of Pages: 5
... to be an artist, he was in fact dismissed from the Arts Academy twice. Soon after World War I started, Hitler volunteered for the army where he worked as a messenger in some of the bloodiest battles. He was wounded and received two medals of valor. The medals he got were the “ Iron Cross Second Class,” and the , “ Iron Cross First Class.” After the German war was over he took up political work and joined the tiny German Workers’ Party. By 1920, he was in charge of the party’s propaganda schemes, and left the army in order to build up the party. Hitler renamed the party, Nationalsozialistische Deu ...
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Sigmund Freud
Number of Words: 816 / Number of Pages: 3
... They often discussed medical cases together and one of Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on. Breuer discovered that if he hypnotized her, she would talk of things she did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Paris for further study under Jean-Martin ...
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Booker T Washington
Number of Words: 429 / Number of Pages: 2
... age 16, Booker T went to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. This had been established the Freedman’s Bureau’s chief to educate former slaves. Booker T earned money by sweeping and dusting classrooms. After he graduated he became a teacher. Booker taught in Malden, W. VA and at Hampton.
When the board of commissioners asked the head of Hampton to send a principal of their new school which had expected a white person, but they got , a black person, in June of 1881. He began class with 30 students in July, in a black church. Washington than borrowed money to buy an abandoned plantation where ...
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Queen Elizabeth
Number of Words: 1227 / Number of Pages: 5
... first wife, Catherine, he had a daughter, which they named Mary. Between the time of Elizabeth’s mothers death and 1537 Henry married yet again. The woman was named Jane Seymour and she cared greatly for Elizabeth. She forced Henry to take Elizabeth back into the house, as it was, Elizabeth had been sent away for schooling and whatnot. In 1537 Elizabeth’s new stepmother, Jane Seymour, gave birth to a son, the birth of this son however brought about the death of Jane from bed fever. The child was named Edward.
Once Edward had been born Elizabeth faded into the background, everyday receiving ...
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Style Of J.D Salinger
Number of Words: 1940 / Number of Pages: 8
... Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny.
The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick
71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden
Caufield, the protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his
girlfriend, so Caufield reads a passage in the Bible. This helps
Holden change his outlook on life (Salzberg 75). Holden was all alone
at this point and had no one to turn back on, until he found the Bible
(Salzberg 76). In both stories the characters had ...
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Dwight David Eisenhower
Number of Words: 5324 / Number of Pages: 20
... executive in the world's biggest job, and they
showed the difference in attitude and tone that twelve months in the White
House have worked on John F. Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy -- Man of the Year for 1961 -- had passionately sought
the presidency. The closeness of his victory did not disturb him; he took
over the office with a youth-can-do-anything sort of self-confidence. He
learned better; but learn he did. And in so doing he not only made 1961 the
most endlessly interesting and exciting presidential year within recent
memory; he also made the process of his growing up to be President a sa ...
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Ernest Hemmingway
Number of Words: 1599 / Number of Pages: 6
... This was definitely a most terrifying moment for the young Hemingway. After being seriously injured weeks later, Hemingway found himself recovering at a hospital in Milan. After his stay at the American Hospital in Milan, Hemingway was relieved of duty (Mitran 1). Having no other purpose in Europe, he returned unhappily to Oak Park, Illinois. The impression left on Hemingway by his stay in Italy had changed him profoundly. He never really returned to America as an America(Meyer 115).
When Hemingway returned home from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park dull compared to the adventures of war ...
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Charles Dickens 3
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... was a reporter for the Doctor's Commoner's Courts. In 1832 he ,was a reporter on the Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons, and he became a reporter for a newspaper. In 1834 he adopted his famous pseudonym " Boz." Soon his father was put in jail for another count of debt and he came to his aid time. During his lifetime Charles' family would always be on his back for money.
In 1836 the first series of the "Sketches of Boz" was released , also during this year he was hired to be a short writer to go along with his humorous sport illustrations by Robert Seymour. Robert committed suicide af ...
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Ernest Hemmingway
Number of Words: 2937 / Number of Pages: 11
... 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 get outside, he escaped to his room and rea ...
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