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Winston Smith
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... lusts for her. She appears to be a faithful party member devoted to purity and Winston suspects that she may also be a member of the Thought Police.
Winston shares his doubts about the Party with O`Brien even though he realized that this may be very dangerous. The Parsons' are neighbours of Winston. Their apartment smells badly. The Parson children are members of the Spies, a party organization and Mr.Parson a fellow employee is a dedicated party member who stupidly and blindly follows the party's doctrine. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth. His assignment is the rewriting and falsification of ...
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President Millard Fillmore
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... and conciliatory temper commanded respect and admiration. His popularity in Erie County marked him as one of the outstanding political leaders in western New York, and in 1832 he won election to Congress on the Anti-Masonic ticket.
During the 1840's Weed led the New York Whig party's liberal wing, which was hostile to slavery. Fillmore disliked slavery but disapprove of attacks on it. For he regarded the South's peculiar institution as untouchable in the states where it existed. The influx of foreigners into New York State posed another political issue, and Fillmore sympathized with those who were ho ...
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Biography Of Roger Maris
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... When he went
to the super market, to his apartment, to the ballpark even to the bathroom
the press was there to ask him questions about "The Race." As a result of
this he started to lose his hair faster than normal and he smoked more then
he normally did.
I admire Roger Maris because even though the press bothered him all
the time he did not buckle under all the pressure. He remained cool and
just waited out all the hard times. In the end everything worked out for
the better.
This book is a great inspiration to young people. When Roger was
young kids told him that he was not any good and some ...
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Malcom X
Number of Words: 368 / Number of Pages: 2
... did). When Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a Black Muslim temple in Detroit, and took the well known name of Malcolm X. In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and together they had six
daughters.
By the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most known and popular speaker. In 1963, however, the Black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular black nationalist grou ...
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Wyatt Earp
Number of Words: 2127 / Number of Pages: 8
... that same year, Urilla died. How Urilla died is another small mystery in the life of . At least two references, Editor Glenn Boyer's comments in Josie Earp's memoirs states that Urilla died in childbirth. I married , page 38, note 4 Bob Boze Bell notes the same on page 19 of his book, "The Illustrated Life and Times of ". But in Lake's 1931 book, ", Frontier Marshal", he notes very briefly on page 29 that Urilla died in a Typhoid epidemic. In the 1994 A&E Network documentary, ", Justice at the OK Corral", Doctor Paul A. Hutton, Professor, University of New Mexico, echoes the same cause of a death. On ...
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Biography Of Arthur Clarke
Number of Words: 467 / Number of Pages: 2
... to be
one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written
many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to
Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night;
Childhood's End; Expedition to Earth; Going into Space; and Earthlight.
Arthur has also written a few Nonfiction books, like Interplanetary Flight,
and The Exploration of Space. Also, one day, he had an argument with a
colleague, and said, “ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states
that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states
that somethin ...
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The World View Of Bertrand Russell
Number of Words: 2454 / Number of Pages: 9
... believes to understand if a man's morals are to be a sign of believing in God that must be proven (138). He believes that distinguishing between good and bad are like seeing the difference in blue and yellow. You distinguish by looking at colors but you distinguish good and bad by feelings (139). People can make mistakes in that as they can in other things. Moral obligation, from Russell's view is that "One has to take account of the effects, and I think right conduct is that which would probably produce the greatest possible balance in intrinsic value of all the acts possible in the circumstance ...
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Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist
Number of Words: 1497 / Number of Pages: 6
... novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-
volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime
writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. Two of her most famous books are:
Clearing In The West and The Stream Runs Fast. All this served as a "pulpit"
from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social
transformation. She was convinced that God's intention for creation was a "Fair
Deal" for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a
perfect place to begin to bring that about. Women's suffrage, temperance and
t ...
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Dr. Harvey Wiley: Courageous Pioneer And Crusader
Number of Words: 894 / Number of Pages: 4
... foods necessary. Corporations and large manufacturers took on the business of supplying food and were prepared to make more profit at any cost. Honest manufacturers were put at a competitive disadvantage and were forced to adopt the practices that could enable them to meet the prices of the less ethical competition. These practices were evident in the debasement of food, and in "patent" medicine.
At the turn of the century selling goods under another name, and substituting cheaper ingredients was common practice. Over-ripe apples were cooked, doctored with chemicals, and sold as "currant" "blackbe ...
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Vincent Van Gogh
Number of Words: 677 / Number of Pages: 3
... from his position in 1876 and leaves for Ramsgate, England. There, he takes a job as a teacher and curates with the local minister. The more obsessive his interest in religion gets, the worse his physical and mental state get. He leaves England a year later to take up religious studies in Amsterdam. He soon comes to an end of his formal religious studies, and travels to a small coal-mining district in Belgium. Conditions for the miners are terrible, but Van Gogh reads them the bible and gives them hope. Soon enough, he devotes all of his time to helping the miners by bringing food and clothing ...
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