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Franklin Delino Roosevelt
Number of Words: 973 / Number of Pages: 4
... came due and with the richest farm land in the country being abandoned by the farmers with total crop loss the stock market crashed taking the American dollar with it. President Roosevelt turned many state problems into national one by making it the federal government responsible for providing jobs to anyone who was willing to work
To do his he created companies and federally funded program that would be useful to the states and improve the condition of the country. He created programs that paid citizens to maintain the old road and build new ones and building dams, bridges and irrigation canals ...
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Derek Morris: A Personal Bio
Number of Words: 277 / Number of Pages: 2
... hope someday to play at the utmost level, the pros. It probably won't
come true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success.
I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to
Bryant College. On the baseball field I have also received various honors and
awards. I was captain of the baseball team in my junior and senior year and was
named most valuable player in my junior year.
Shrewsbury is not were I've always lived. I was born in Natick, lived
there for a few months then moved to Framingham. I lived in Framingham for
eleven years then mov ...
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The Style And Influences Of Lewis Carroll
Number of Words: 1987 / Number of Pages: 8
... his obligation towards the science of logic did influence his novels. Heath explains this by pointing out that his works are not actually nonsense, but rather absurdity. He defines the two as being at the opposite ends of a spectrum with nonsense on one end, logic in the middle, and absurdity on the other end. Nonsense completely defies and casts away all rules of logic, whereas absurdity overuses them to the point of confusion (47). An example of this absurdity can be found in Chapter 7 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, called "A Mad Tea Party." After the Mad Hatter asks the famous ridd ...
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Who The Book Is About: Hans Christian Andersen
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Prussia, order of the lady of Guadeloupe, and honored Danish Councillor of State.
Hans Christian Andersen collected fairy tales. Reitzal was the first of several collections published among 1835 and 1872. The first illustrated Edition was done by Richard Pederson. He wrote other familiar books, such as, "The Ugly Duckling" in 1843, "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 1837, "The Snow Queen" in 1844, "The Red Shoes" in 1845, and "The Little Mermaid" in 1837, were innovative in their Handling of sophisticated feelings and ideas and in their use of the vocabulary and constructions of spoken language.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Number of Words: 1114 / Number of Pages: 5
... Skelter. Most of his other works have gone without much notice. The hardcover sleeve of the book states that he is coproducing a movie based on this book. That is really all I could find on the man. I do not believe the man had any relation to the subject at all before he wrote the book, however, he did do a lot of research to enhance the book with numerous facts.
The book’s organization is something of fascination. The begining of the book has J. Edgar found dead in his bedroom. I found that completely interesting. It then follows throughout the next couple of days and how his files are destroy ...
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Booker T. Washington
Number of Words: 615 / Number of Pages: 3
... the wider arena of race leadership. He convinced southern white employers and governors that Tuskegee offered an education that would keep blacks "down on the farm" and in the trades. To prospective northern donors and particularly the new self- made millionaires such as Rockefeller and Carnegie he promised the inculcation of the Protestant work ethic. To blacks living within the limited horizons of the post- Reconstruction South, Washington held out industrial education as the means of escape from the web of sharecropping and debt and the achievement of attainable, petit-bourgeois goals of self-empl ...
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John Wilkes Booth
Number of Words: 728 / Number of Pages: 3
... He traveled intensively. The fans loved him a lot. He got hundreds of love letters from his fans. His last tour was in 1862.
Booth did not fight in the war. The war split Booth's family apart. Half of his brothers went on one side and the rest went on the other side. Booth decided to support the North. After a while, Booth wanted to support the South because he thought they were winning the war. He was a "violently pro confederate". He smuggled quinine across enemy lines to the confederates.
Later Booth had a plan. He was going to ransom Abe Lincoln for rebel prisoners. He was also thinking about ki ...
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Benito Mussolini: Biography
Number of Words: 137 / Number of Pages: 1
... party News Paper. Mussolini rise to power In tribute to the
postwar Milan, Mussolini and other war vetrines founded Fasci di
Combattimeto in March 1919. The Nationalistc,antilieral, and antisocialist
movement attracted the lower and middle-class support and took its name
from the faces, an ancent Roman symble of Roman disciplen. When the Fascist
thretend to march on King Victor Emmanuel 3rd he invited Mussolini to a
coalition goverment. By this time the fascist leader transoformed the
country in to a single-party totalitarian regime. The party controlled
representing groups differnt sectors ...
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John Gotti: The Man Behind The Mob
Number of Words: 1420 / Number of Pages: 6
... called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys (Davis 61-63).
At the age of 16 Gotti dropped out of school, and began to model
his life after Anastasia. John got a job with the gang he had earlier
joined, as a debt collector. He was required to bust a lot of heads to
complete his job. This got him noticed by Angelo Bruno, who was a soldier
under none other than Anastasia. John was required to do many odd jobs for
Bruno.(Davis 63-64).
In 1957 Carlo Gambino had Anastasia killed(Davis 72). Gambino took
in Gotti as an apprentice at the age of twenty. John soon married Victoria
DiGiorgio. The two later had four child ...
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Nathanial Hawthorne
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and
the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut
to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but
obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. His rival arrived
at the settlement about 30 to 40 years after Maule had been there. Colonel
Pyncheon, an ambicious and determined man, had a high position in the town.
It was said that Colonel Pyncheon was very much for the execution of those
who pr ...
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