Robert Frost: Biography And Review
.... had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move.
In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish himself quickly and would reap the awards of immediate success. In 1894 at the age of twenty Frost sold and published his first poem “My Butterfly:An Elegy” to The Independent, a New York liter .....
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Mother Teresa
.... of Calcutta. There lives were horrible, living on other peoples scraps and letting babies that they couldn’t support die in trash bins. She decided to ask the archbishop if she could stop her teaching and dedicate her life to helping the "less fortunate." When Mother Teresa received a written consent that it was okay, she began her work.
In 1948 Pope Pius XII gave Mother Teresa permission to be a totally independant nun, so she became an Indian citizen. After studying about nursing, she founded the "Missionaries of Charity." This was a group of nuns who go around and help the sick and dying. All the nuns that agreed to work in .....
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Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
.... and he was also suspended from the Nation of Islam because he planned to return to boxing. After being barred from the ring, Muhammad displayed his tenacity by touring colleges and giving lectures to earn money while filing suit against the New York State Athletic Commission for violating his 14th amendment rights. When Ali won his lawsuit and his boxing license was reinstated, Ali fought Joe Frazier for the heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden and lost for the first time. From 1974 to 1978, Muhammad fought against George Forman, Joe Frazier and Leon Spinks maintaining his heavyweight title. After Ali fought Leon Spinks, .....
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Comparing Hitler And Stalin In Their Rise To Power
.... Hitler and Joseph Stalin are synonymous with the word propaganda. In order to understand how Hitler and Stalin used propaganda, an understanding of what the word means, is required. According to Merriam-Webster, "propaganda is the spreading of ideas to further or damage a cause; also the ideas or allegations spread for a purpose". Hitler and Stalin each used propaganda as their tool to further their ideas and help them gain the backing of the people in their countries. The form of propaganda that Hitler used, and was successful in using, was his words. Hitler made many speeches, but the one speech that was a famous one, was his fi .....
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William Faulkner
.... the past and present, as well as for his meticulous detail and comprehensive knowledge of the South in his writings.
William Faulkner’s background is a very important detail that will help his readers understand the psychological implications of what he wrote and to appreciate his work. William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His parents were Murry and Maud Faulkner. He married Estelle Franklin in 1929. They had two children together, both daughters. The first daughter was named Alabama, and she died nine days after her birth. Jill, the second daughter, outlived her father. William Faul .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
.... and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career in science.
The Fluxional Method Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves, and he recognized that the two procedures were inverse operations. By joining them in what he called the fluxional method, Newton developed in the autumn .....
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Ralph Ellison’s Life
.... Ellison was endowed with learning and intellectual curiosity. Ellison was introduced to a new world, one that he would make his own. His history, folktales, and music were already important to him. He often wrote about his Afro-American heritage:
“There is no point in complaining over the past or apologizing for one’s fate. But for blacks, there are no hiding places down here, neither in country or city. They are an American people who are geared to what is and who yet are driven by a sense of what is possible for human life to be in this society. The nation could not survive being deprived of their presence because, b .....
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Madonna
.... out of the University of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted to either continue in the field of dance or somewhere in the music industry. She believed that she had greater opportunities in these careers in a large, diversified metropolitan city like New York City.
Once in New York City, she joined a band and began writing musical notes, lyrics, and songs. This was the start of her music career. However, she still wanted to pursue her dance career. She always had two career objectives in mind and believed she would definitely achieve one or both of them.
She joined Alvin Alley Theater .....
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Death Of Pol Pot
.... Son Sen. Each person in the group adopted a peseudonym. Sar choice of “ Khmer Da’em,” whice mean “ Original Cmbodian.” stood out. Sar later change his name to Pol Pot.
A movement for independence from France was gaining strength, and Pol joined the Cambodian and Vietnamese Communists who were fighting in the French in a common cause. The Vietnamese taught Pot how to organize peasants for resistance. But Pol felt this was a patronizing slight for someone rasied in the palace, and this, combined with his failure to quickly assume leadership despit his oversea experience, made him resent the Vietnamese.
Pol Pot rose in the rank .....
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Alexander The Great
.... Greece. The Greek army was no match for the Macedonian army and was defeated at the Battle of Chaeronia. In 338 BC, Philip became ruler of Greece.
Philip could have ended Greece's independence, but he didn't. After he defeated Greece, he ordered that Athens not be destroyed because he admired their culture.
When Philip defeated the Greeks, he reorganized their armies and combined them with his troops. Philip then set out to conquer the Persian Empire with his powerful army. However, shortly before his first expedition, he was murdered. Philip's son Alexander was left to fulfill Philip's dreams.
Alexander’s mother was Ol .....
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Fidel Castro
.... of them were cut down by soldiers with let's just say "very large weapons." Fidel escaped into the wooded mountains of the Sierra Maestra. Patrols were launched around Santiago and Abel Santamtia and his men were backed into there building and slaughtered. Castro was finally caught and sentenced to 15 years in prison but was eventually sent to Mexico in 1955. When Fidel landed on the shores of Mexico he vowed to free his country from Batiste and his reign of terror. Fidel rallied many men to his cause, but one especially stood out among the rest, Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guavera. The young doctor had seen his share of third wor .....
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Nelson Mandela
.... bless Africa!
MANDELA 1994
When elected, Nelson Mandela spoke words the entire country had been longing to hear. He spoke of freedoms and luxuries that many Black South Africans had never been given the privilege to experience. Beginning with colonization and through to the present, South Africa has been stricken with racial tensions. The election of Nelson Mandela in 1994 marked the first time all race elections were held in South Africa and the end of all White rule. Prior to 1994, only White people held political control with the majority of people living in South Africa having little to no real representation in gov .....
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