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Richard Nixon
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... such as the Caracas Mob incident, where Nixon was
taken hostage. The "Kitchen Debate", noted as a high point for Nixon,
where he and the Russian leader discussed issues in a kitchen. With
Eisenhower, he served two terms. Nixon's next goal was to become the
President of the United States.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon ran for the presidency. As it
turned out, Kennedy and Johnson won by a mere 120,000 votes. It was
believed Kennedy had bought Texas and Illinois. Johnson soon became
president after Kennedy's assassination. Now, Nixon would try again. Nixon
beat Hubert Humphrey with some pol ...
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John F. Kennedy 2
Number of Words: 678 / Number of Pages: 3
... good reviews.
In March of 1941, Kennedy volunteered for the army, he was rejected shortly after for a back injury he obtained playing football at Harvard. He took classes to strengthen his back and was accepted into the navy. In 1943, Kennedy was on a navy boat when it was detroyed by the Japnese. He was thrown from the boat, and forced to swim the seas for a rescue ship. He received a Purple Heart for his brave actions. He also recieved a Navy and Marine Corps. medal. But after having more problems with his back and operation he was discharged in 1945.
Kennedy had many jobs after he was dis ...
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Paul Dunbar Research Paper
Number of Words: 2075 / Number of Pages: 8
... of twenty, wrote his first book, Oak and Ivy . At the age of twenty-one, while Dunbar was still working as an elevator boy at a local hotel, he received the welcomest news that he had ever heard. Dunbar received a personal invitation to recite some of his poetry at the 1893 Worlds Fair. While at the Worlds Fair later that year, Dunbar was introduced to Fredrick Douglass, who not only took Dunbar on as an employee, but as a student to his great legacy.
At that point, Dunbar buckled down and got to work, he was soon publishing one book after another, each one better than before. Dunbar got the atten ...
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Andrew Carnegie On The Gospel
Number of Words: 1226 / Number of Pages: 5
... of steel. With this recognition, he resigned and started the Keystone Bridge Company in 1865. He built a steel-rail mill, and bought out a small steel company. By 1888, he had a large plant. Later on he sold his Carnegie Steel Company to J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel Company after a serious, bloody union strike.
He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he crushed their unions. The richest man in the world, he railed against privilege. A generous philanthropist, he slashed the wages of the workers who made him rich. By this time, Carnegie was an established, successful millionaire. He was a gre ...
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The Writings Of Ernest Hemingway
Number of Words: 740 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the handout, Hemingway, like his character Frederick, participated in World War I, as an ambulance driver, and fell in love with Agnes, a nurse who cared for him while he recovered from a wound.
Though Hemingway denied the accusations, the events of his life assembled those of Frederick's. A Farewell to Arms, conveys several major themes, however the one that was emphasized the most was that of a search of order and belonging.
Hemingway conveys this theme through Frederick's own personal search during the chaos of World War I. Catherine has found strength within herself to lead her through life ...
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Upton Sinclair
Number of Words: 1278 / Number of Pages: 5
... but he still didn’t have that one book to put him over the top. In 1900 Sinclair married his first wife. This was a start of a whole new era of writing for him. By 1904 Sinclair was moving toward a realistic fiction type of writing. He had become a regular reader of the "Appeal to Reason", which was a popular socialist-populist weekly magazine at that time. Upton’s big break came in 1906 when he published a book called, " The Jungle." As a writer this is where Sinclair gained most of his fame. This book gave him not only fame, but it also led to the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. This book ha ...
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Benito Mussolini
Number of Words: 550 / Number of Pages: 2
... Fascists restored order in Italy by force, breaking up the Socialist and Communist organizations of the workers. Guided by Mussolini, they aimed to seize power and bring to an end to parliamentary democracy, which they most wanted to.
When the Fascists marched on Rome in 1922, King Victor Emmanuel III decided to hand over the government to them. Mussolini was selected Prime Minister. For three years he was head of a coalition government, but in 1925 he took the powers of government into his own hands. He forbade all political opposition and all criticism in the press, and Mussolini ruled Italy ...
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Simone De Beauvoir
Number of Words: 682 / Number of Pages: 3
... has been made, it can still be said that societal maxims enforce the incorrect notion that women are inferior to men. In matters of economics, women are offered far fewer employment opportunities, and I believe that this can be validated by the fact that many women have been conditioned to "marry well and let him take care of you". Unfortunately, this is often times a tempting choice, and as a trade-off women are content to settle for a less rewarding profession, leading to a downward spiral. As Beauvoir states, "Parents still raise their daughters with a view toward marriage rather than t ...
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Gailileo 3
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... in 1598, Galileo had stated that he was a
Copernican (believer in the Theories of Copernicus). No public sign of this belief was to
appear until many years later.
In the summer of 1609, Galileo heard about a spyglass that a Dutchman had shown
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in Venice. From these reports, and using his own technical skills as a mathematicians and
a workman, Galileo made a series of telescopes whose optical performance was much
better than that of the Dutch instrument. The astronomical discoveries he made with his
telescopes were described in a short book called Message from ...
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Emily Jane Bronte
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... Elizabeth, came to live as a housekeeper and was responsible for
training the girls in the household arts.
While at home doing housework, Emily secretly worked on poetry. In 1845,
Charlotte discovered some of Emily's poems and confessed that she, too, had
written some poetry. As it turned out, so had Anne. After much persuading, the
poems were published in a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton
Bell. Pseudonyms were used because the girls wanted their poetry to be taken
seriously. Only two copies were sold. The failure led all three to begin work on
novels: Emily on Wuthering ...
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