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Charles Shultz
Number of Words: 1572 / Number of Pages: 6
... the true meaning of life, his friends sometimes call him “blockhead.” Other than his knack for putting himself down, there are few sharp edges of wit in that head of his; usually he’s the butt of a joke, not the joker. He can be spotted a mile away in his sweater with the zig zag trim, head down, hands in pockets, headed for Lucy’s psychiatric booth. He is considerate, friendly and polite and we love him knowing that he’ll never win a baseball game, or the heart of the the little red-haired girl, kick the football Lucy is holding or fly a kite successfully. His frie ...
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The Greatest Accomplishment Of President John Adams
Number of Words: 739 / Number of Pages: 3
... one country, the other would catch on and turn on us. The government couldn’t tax its citizens, for taxation had always backfired in the past. Because of these money issues, John Adams decided not to join the war.
Another reason why Adams didn’t join the war was due to the nation’s confusion as to which side to defend. America was already divided into two supporting groups; whichever side was chosen, half the country would be extremely upset. The Federalists supported the British side. They felt that Britain had a much greater chance at winning and was much more powerful than France was. They ...
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Howard Hughes
Number of Words: 966 / Number of Pages: 4
... the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father’s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling
which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twenty . He got divorced in 1928 and that same year he got his first pilots license.
Howard had two careers that made him very successful in life. He started a company called Hughes Aircraft Company. The reason he started this ...
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Billy Graham
Number of Words: 4563 / Number of Pages: 17
... was raised on a dairy farm by William Franklin (deceased 1962) and Morrow Coffey Graham (deceased 1981). In 1943 he married his wife Ruth McCue Bell, and had four children Virginia 1945, Anne Morrow 1948, Ruth Bell 1950, William Franklin, Jr. 1952, and Nelson Edman 1958. At age eighty, he keeps fit by swimming, playing with is nineteen grand children, and from aerobic walking, in the mountains of North Carolina, where he currently lives. ( Best Sellers, 1999) told Time Magazine in one article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up early i ...
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Biography Of John Steinbeck
Number of Words: 254 / Number of Pages: 1
... but disenrolled in 1925, after six years, without a degree. He moved to New York City and worked as a laborer and journalist for five years, until he completed his first novel in 1929, Cup of Gold. Soon thereafter, Steinbeck married and moved back to California, where he published two more novels (The Pastures of Heaven and To a God Unknown), as well as worked on short stories. With the publication of Tortilla Flat in 1935, Steinbeck achieved popular success and financial security. A relentless and dedicated writer, Steinbeck experimented with many forms: In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and ...
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Nies Bohr
Number of Words: 291 / Number of Pages: 2
... was born on Oct. 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, Christian, was a professor at the University of Copenhagen and his brother, Harold, was a great mathematician. He entered the university in 1903. In 1907, he earned his PhD went to England to study with J.J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherfurd. He returned to Copenhagen in 1916 as a professor at the university. He became the director of the university's Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1920, to which he attracted many world-renowned physicist. In 1922, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on the atomic structure. When he visited the United St ...
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Mary Shelley: Bride Of Frankenstein
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... Mary Shelley achieved her highest acknowledgments for her writings and gothic novels. Shelley began her first novel Frankenstein (Thompson 2), at nineteen years of age in the summer of 1816 and publicized it on March 11, 1818 (Walling 9). The horror novel received numerous reviews and became one of the literary events of 1818 (Walling 34). Shelley wrote five other novels in her lifetime including The Last Man (Walling 72) and Valpera. The Last Man, published in 1826 (Walling 10), and Frankenstein are Shelley’s two most sought novels, and William Walling observes that they are "two novels whose lo ...
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Marco Polo
Number of Words: 303 / Number of Pages: 2
... them to return with teachers and missionaries for his people. So they
set out again in 1271, and this time they took Marco.
From Venice the Polos sailed to Acre, in Palestine. There two monks,
missionaries to China, joined them. Fearing the hard journey ahead, however,
the monks soon turned back. The Polos crossed the deserts of Persia (Iran)
and Afghanistan. They mounted the heights of the Pamirs, the "roof of the
world," descending to the trading cities of Kashgar (Shufu) and Yarkand
(Soche). They crossed the dry stretches of The Gobi. Early in 1275 they
arrived at Kublai Khan's court a ...
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Cleopatra
Number of Words: 464 / Number of Pages: 2
... Ptolemy XV, due to tradition. However she also became Caesar's mistress and followed him to Rome. In 47 b.c. Ptolemy Caesarion was born. However the Romans refused to believe that Ptolemy Caesarion was Caesar’s child. She stayed in Rome until his assassination 44 BC. He was killed by Brutus and Cassius. It was rumored later that helped the Caesarian party to assassin Caesar. But her world was shattered after his death.
When she was just fourteen years old she met Marc Antony for the first time. When she met him later in life she saw him as an opportunity for power and fame. She used h ...
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Constitutionalism: The Tyranny
Number of Words: 372 / Number of Pages: 2
... he honored, such as creativity, freedom, civic participation, and taste, would be endangered by "the tyranny of the majority." In the United States the majority rules, but whose their to rule the majority. Tocqueville believed that the majority, with its unlimited power, would unavoidably turn into a tyranny. He felt that the moral beliefs of the majority would interfere with the quality of the elected legislators. The idea was that in a great number of men there was more intelligence, than in one individual, thus lacking quality in legislation. Another disadvantage of the majority was that the intere ...
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