Biography Of Carolyn Chute
.... published novels; Merry Men, Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts, and her critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine. She was quoted as saying, “This book was involuntarily researched,” when interviewed by a reporter. Carolyn’s pain and humiliation, which she had suffered earlier in life, only fueled a fire to produce a novel of higher quality. She connected to thousands of people through her book, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, because she portrayed the harsh reality of poverty.
Carolyn Chute did not believe that fictional works were enough to demonstrate her ideas about the government and big business. She soon founded the Second .....
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The Maturing Of Achilles
.... large quantities of glory is in war. Nobody has ever heard of a farmer becoming famous for raising the largest pig. But people have heard of the famous captain that planted the American flag on Hamburger Hill. Achilles was out to become famous and this was the best way.
Achilles was the Argives main fighting force against the Trojans up until Achilles was shamed and refused to fight. The Leader of Men, Agamemnon was forced to return his prize Chryseis to her father. This was done to appease the Lord Apollo who was striking down Argive soldiers day and night. But Agamemnon took, as reparation, Achilles’ favorite prize Bris .....
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The Biography Of Husband E. Kimmel
.... as an aide to the Fleet command until his superiors retired or were sent into the Atlantic at the onset of World War II.
Once he entered the position of Fleet Commander, he tried to maintain the efficiency of the fleet by ordering training maneuvers for preparedness conditioning. It was at this time that the Purple Machine had been running with excellent success.
The Purple machine was developed and used for cracking the Nazi codes. One such code alluded to an immanent attack by the Japanese on some pacific location. Washington received this information and neglected to inform Admiral Kimmel. The Saturday before, Washing .....
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Benito Mussolini
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In Italy he persisted and gave public speeches, the people loved his ideas. He became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialist. In November 1914 he published, Il Popolo d'Italia, and the prowar group Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria. Mussolini's lifeblood went into Il Popolo d'Italia. Benito Mussolini became a national force; groups supporting intervention in the war sprang up everywhere. His expectations for the war, was the collapse of society that would bring him to power. His socialist comrades were enraged by his article committing Socialist support to Italy's entry into the World War. .....
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Ray Bradbury
.... Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing numerous short stories to periodicals. In 1945 his short story "The Big Black and White Game" was selected for Best American Short Stories. In 1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year he gathered much of his best material and published them as Dark Carnival, his first short story collection.
His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950 (published .....
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Bill Gate's Biography
.... software for personal computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft, and plays an important role in the technical development of new products. A significant portion of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in contact with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.
Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission is to continually advance and improve software technology and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more .....
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John Dalton
.... Meteorological Observations and Essays. He then became interested in preparing collections of botanical and insect species. In 1787, he began observations about aurora phenomena--luminous, sometimes coloured displays in the sky caused by electrical disturbances in the atmosphere.
Some of his studies in meteorology led him to conclusions about the origin of trade winds involving the Earth's rotation and change in temperature--unaware, perhaps, that this theory had already been proposed in 1735 by George Hadley. These are only some of the subjects on which he wrote essays that he read before the Philosophical Society: others in .....
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Levi
.... the form of memoir, Se questo č un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignity, and brought about annihilation of the internees. Levi's alert moral consciousness blocked any hate for the oppressors, in spite of the brutality to which he was subjected. LA TREGUA (1963) was its sequel, and portrayed the wanderings that Levi and his companions followed at Russian directive through a devasted eastern Europ .....
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Hitler's Ambitions
.... put upon Hitler (Flood, p6-7). When the time to choose a secondary school came, Hitler wanted to go to a classical school but was forced to go to a technical school by his father. In secondary school Hitler’s grades dropped dramatically (Heyes p21). Hitler was however very interested in German Nationalism and figures such as, Bismarck and Frederick despite his low grades (History place). This is a marked beginning of his ambitions and his career. After Hitler’s father’s death Hitler was left alone to do what he wanted. At the age of sixteen, Adolf Hitler dropped out of secondary school. For the next few years Hitler spend hi .....
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Clement Richard Attlee
.... Attlee, visited Newfoundland in 1942, and he was followed the next year by a "goodwill mission" of three British members of parliament. These soundings showed that while very few people seemed to support confederation, there was widespread unease about an immediate and unconditional return to responsible government status.
That there had been no democratic government since 1934 was of particular concern to Attlee, who thought that a process of political education had to take place before Newfoundlanders decided on their future. Another factor worried the British. They were concerned that once the wartime boom ended the Newfou .....
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Julius Caesar's Personality Was What Killed Him
.... she can be cured of sterility if she is touched by one of the holy runners. In this case the holy runner is friend Mark Antony who is with him until the end. Two other men in the crowd, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, are nobles and conspire against Caesar. They plan to assassinate Caesar and his friend Mark Antony. Caesar starts to sense this and says to his friend “Cassius has a lean and hungry look;/ He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”(Act I Scene II) Caesar was right. They were planning to eliminate him. They found his weaknesses and sought allies. One of these allies was named Brutus. Brutus was a slick .....
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Shih Huang Ti
.... What Shih did not know was that the construction would cause many deaths and much suffering to the builders of the wall. The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attacking tribes. The soldiers at the towers signalled to each other by day using smoke signals, ! waving flags, blowing horns, and ringing bells; by night by lighting firework-like objects in the sky. The wall, itself, was approximately fifteen hundred miles long, thirty feet high and, at the base, twenty-five feet thick. It was ma .....
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