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George Bush
Number of Words: 1083 / Number of Pages: 4
... he later on developed a strong interest in politics which led to his position as Senator of Connecticut. Bush had three brothers and one sister who were all brought up strictly and well-mannered. He attended private Greenwich Day School and exclusive Phillips Academy where he was indeed popular. Along with his good grades, Bush was president of the senior class, captain of the baseball and soccer teams, and also played varsity basketball. After graduating prep school in 1942, his original plans of attending Yale University had been delayed due to the U.S. interest in World War II. He enlisted ...
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David Livingstone
Number of Words: 2826 / Number of Pages: 11
... goals.
By age 17, Livingstone had decided he wanted to leave the mill and become a
doctor. Livingstone’s father, a deeply religious man, wanted him to go into a
religious field, and would not allow him to go. Livingstone eventually convinced
his father to let him go to school and become a missionary in China. After
finishing school, Livingstone had planned to go to China to perform his missionary duties, but because of the Opium War, Livingstone’s plans were altered. He continued his studies, and became a respected member of the medical community. Soon though, he offered ...
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Drew Barrymore
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... she could hardly hide it from the outside world. Drew first started using cocaine when she was 13 years old, at the time she didn’t think she would become addicted to the drug. But she was mistaken, before long she found herself using increasingly large quantities of the drug. Drew’s mother became concerned and dragged Drew to a Family Treatment Center, in Van Nuys, California. Drew attended many therapy sessions with other patients her own age. She spent only 12 days in the hospital and proved she was satisfied with the program. She left the hospital early, due to a prior commitment for a sho ...
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Princess Diana 2
Number of Words: 1026 / Number of Pages: 4
... On February 24, 1981 the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced (Delano 36). The couple later was married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The wedding ceremony attracted global television and radio audiences. It was estimated that around one thousand million people watched or heard the wedding. In addition, thousands of people lined the route the royal carriage took to the cathedral. Diana was the first English woman in three hundred years to marry an heir to the British throne. Diana wore a silk dress designed by the Emanuels, which trailed a twenty-five fo ...
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JFK: The Death Of A Conspiracy
Number of Words: 1748 / Number of Pages: 7
... without taking the time...to wash off the blood
and debris” (1542). The doctors removed the President’s clothing to check
the body for other wounds. While Dr. Perry began the tracheostomy, Dr.
Jenkins recalled, that Mrs. Kennedy was circling the room with something “
cupped” in her hands. As Mrs. Kennedy passed by, she nudged Jenkins with
her elbow and handed him “a large chunk o! f her husband's brain.” Dr.
Jenkins took the brain matter and handed it to a nurse (Breo 2806). The
Parkland Hospital staff worked for twenty-five minutes on the President to
no avail. Dr. Clark, who arrived in the trau ...
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Lord Kelvin
Number of Words: 988 / Number of Pages: 4
... four years later. Kelvin then went on to Paris to carry out work in a laboratory in order to gain practical experience and competence in experimental work.
At the age of only 22 Kelvin was elected to professor of physics (the 'chair of natural philosophy') as a result of a very well organized campaign run by his father, who was still a professor of mathematics. Kelvin remained at the University of Glasgow for the rest of his working life. He was a practical man, and on occasion during lectures on the conservation of momentum he would give a demonstration of this to his students. At one end of the ...
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The Life Of Hitler
Number of Words: 1929 / Number of Pages: 8
... failed again. In
fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.
He could not apply to the school of architecture, as he had no high-school
diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot
the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians
like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town
boy would have had a bit more talent.... or IF the Dean had been a little
less ...
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Aristotle
Number of Words: 269 / Number of Pages: 1
... anti-macedonian agitation after Alexander's death fled to Chalcis
where he later died in 322 B.C. His extant writings, largely in the form of
lecture notes made by his students, include the Organum (treatises of logic);
Physics; Metaphysics; De Anima (on the soul); Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian
Ethics; Politics: De Poetica: Rhetoric; and works biology and physics.
Aristotle held philosophy to be the the discerning, through the use of
systematic logic as expressed in Syllogisms, of the self-evident, changeless
first principles that form the basis of all knowledge. He taught that knowledge
of a thing ...
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Billie Holiday
Number of Words: 643 / Number of Pages: 3
... the superficial tension between Billie and her mother, they did their best to remain loyal to one another and provide for each other (W 201).
As Billie grew older, life grew harder and reality slowly became more and more real for her. At age 10, Billie was raped, further strengthening Billie's image of reality. As Billie grew older she became carefree and grew to have a strong temper. One musician remembers Billie as "a child, 11 or 12 years old, shouting the worst words she knew in the street, anxious to be grown up" (W 35). And on the numerous occasions when Billie's mother was out of town, she ...
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Jack The Ripper
Number of Words: 1270 / Number of Pages: 5
... She was a sad, destitute woman, but one that most people liked and pitied.
Annie Chapman, known to her friends as “Dark Annie”, was a 47 year old homeless prostitute. Suffering from depression and alcoholism, she did crochet work and sold flowers. Eventually she turned to prostitution despite her plain features, missing teeth and plump figure. She was found murdered on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Hey throat was cut and she had been very mutilated. Her abdomen had been cut open and the intestines had been removed and placed on her shoulder. The contents of the pelvis including her ...
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