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Theodore Roosevelt Was Qualified For The Position Of President Of The United States
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... congressman in New York City and the Governor of New York. Roosevelt’s experience proved that he was a capable leader suited to the position of President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt had experience and a strong will to form him into a President more than capable of leading the United States.
Roosevelt was the Secretary of the Navy and a Colonel in the United States army. He possessed a necessary grasp on military tactics, weapons, and the mindset of the troops. These abilities would enable him to effectively conduct the actions of the United States military when needed and allow Roosev ...
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John Dalton
Number of Words: 1477 / Number of Pages: 6
... studies and in mathematical problems he was good and seem to be tireless of them. John Fletcher was Dalton's teacher, he was a smart man who didn't use a rod to hammer in learning to Dalton, he was to provide Dalton with a excellent back-round and lifelong quest for knowledge. Then came Elihu Robinson a rich Quaker gentlemen. who become Dalton's mentor, and was another person to lead Dalton to mathematics , science, and specially meteorology. had an intense fascination for meteorology he even in fact kept careful daily weather records for forty six straight years. When Dalton was twelve he opened ...
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T.S. Eliot
Number of Words: 1231 / Number of Pages: 5
... reflected this association with a traditional culture.
His first drama was 'The Rock' (1934), a pageant play.
This was followed by 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935), a play dealing with the assassination of Archbishop Thomas a Becket, who was later canonized. 'The Family Reunion' appeared in 1939. 'The Cocktail Party', based upon the ancient Greek drama 'Alcestis' by Euripides, came out in 1950 and 'The Confidential Clerk' in 1953. The dialogue in his plays is written in a free, rhythmical verse pattern. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 and other major literary ...
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... India.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established
a congregation called Missionaries of Charity. She began her work by
teaching the children of the streets how to read. Mother Teresa also
began to care for lepers. In 1965, Pope Paul VI desited to expand Mother
Tere ...
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Sheyann Webb
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... Frank Butler. Annie shot all 25 birds while Frank shot only 24. Later, Frank would say that he lost two things to Annie that day: the match and his heart.
Annie and Frank went on the road as a team. Annie wanted a fancy name, so she settled on Oakley, a suburb outside of Cincinnati.Annie loved showbiz. She liked to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. When the Butler and Oakley team joined the Sell's Brother Circus, Frank stopped shooting and became Annie's manager and assistant, managing the money and the schedule, throwing up targets for Annie to shoot at, and loading Annie's gun ...
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Bartleby
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... The irony lies in the fact that the narrator, while trying to isolate , becomes affected by it, so much so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring person, very different from the cold, unsympathetic person at the beginning of the story. "To befriend , to humor him in his strange willfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul w ...
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
Number of Words: 1653 / Number of Pages: 7
... Divine
Comedy. His early writings attracted the attention of Guido Cavalcanti, a
popular Italian poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more defined the
two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the
Guelphs, as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle and
emerged victorious. It was around this time, 1290, that Beatrice died,
after she died he began studying philosophy, he read the works of Boethius
and Cicero. He soon after married Gemma Donati, a mem ...
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Cone, James A. Black Theology Of Liberation
Number of Words: 811 / Number of Pages: 3
... the pain of injustice on earth. Rather it is hope which focuses in order to make men refuse to tolerate present inequalities. To see the future of God, as revealed in his resurrection in Christ, is to see also the contradiction of any earthly injustice with existence in Christ." The purpose of Black theology is not only to find eternal salvation, but also to create heaven on earth. In order to create heaven on earth, the oppressed must be liberated. “The blackness of God means that the essence of the nature of God is to be found in the concept of liberation.” Cone's main focus is ...
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Serial Killer: Ted Bundy
Number of Words: 1726 / Number of Pages: 7
... mother, Eleanor Louise Cowell. Ted’s father, whom he never knew, was an air force veteran. After Ted was born his mother moved him from the home for unwed mothers to her parents house in Philadelphia. Bundy later referred to his grandparents as his mother and father and his natural mother was known to him as his sister. Bundy grew up believing his mother was his much older sister. When Ted was four, he moved with his mother to Tacoma Washington to live with relatives. A year after the move Ted’s mother married an army cook, Johnnie Culpepper Bundy. Ted assumed the last name and it later beco ...
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Josephy P. Kennedy II
Number of Words: 260 / Number of Pages: 1
... of the United States. His formal education includes a
bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts in l976. He is married
to the former Beth Kelly and is the father of two children. His father was the
late Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and his uncle was the late President
John F. Kennedy.
Congressman Kennedy's political background includes a strong family
history in public service. Upon his graduation, his occupation was to form a
non profit company devoted to providing heating oil at affordable prices for the
poor and the working poor. He successfully manged this ...
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