Theodore Roosevelt And Saddam Hussein Comparison
.... have been dubbed co-conspirators. These practices are fairly common thorough the world, however when someone other than the US has one of these circles then they are an evil aristocracy which is oppressing the populace.
Thus with these examples it is shown that they are similar men with similarly aggressive governing styles, why then has Saddam Hussein been demonized? Because he is not the leader of the United States is why, nearly any transgression can be forgiven of the president of the US, a country with an enormous arsenal of weapons to back up all of itís edicts. So when a comparatively small time leader of a comparativel .....
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The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
.... of jobs and became very handy with the ax in which he used to help his father build and reconstruct.
While on the job lincoln read every chance he could, he was interested in law and the life of George Washington.
Lincoin was a powerful young man tought, muscular, and not so hard working. By nineteen he was six feet four inches tall. Despite a relatively small chest and a slim waist he had powerful shoulders and large limbs. In February 1830, lincoln moved to Macon county in Illinois. The next year Linciln struck out on his own and he got a job working on a flatboat, carrying goods to New Orleans. During one of his tr .....
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John Wilkes Booth
.... letters from his fans. His last tour was in 1862.
Booth did not fight in the war. The war split Booth's family apart. Half of his brothers went on one side and the rest went on the other side. Booth decided to support the North. After a while, Booth wanted to support the South because he thought they were winning the war. He was a "violently pro confederate". He smuggled quinine across enemy lines to the confederates.
Later Booth had a plan. He was going to ransom Abe Lincoln for rebel prisoners. He was also thinking about kidnapping Secretary of State, William H. Seward and Vice President, Andrew Johnson. Then he changed his m .....
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Thomas Edison And His Inventions
.... of Thomas Edison’s inventions including the carbon transmitter were in response to demands for new products and improvements. In 1877, he achieved his most unique discovery, the phonograph. During the summer of 1877 Edison was attempting to devise for the automatic telegraph a machine that would transcribe a signals as they were received into a form of the human voice so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages. Some researchers had theorized that each sound, if it could be graphically recorded, would produce a distinct shape resembling short hand, or phonography, as it was known then. Edison hoped to make .....
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Hugh Of Balma
.... desire of tending toward God. This type of anagogic prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing, which was also written by Hugh of Balma, is evident. The works of Hugh of Balma that teach the way of unitive prayer have inspired many teachings of known people like Henry of Herp, Bernardino of Laredo, Jean Gerson, and many others.
Hugh of Balma, thoroughly influenced by Gallus and perhaps the most immediate source of the Cloud, stresses the importance of the intellect in the first two stages of the mystical ascent, like virtually everyone else in the tradition. For both Gallus and Balma, sapientia is the highest achievement of the contem .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... to run away and join the army( under the name Edgar A. Perry).
Poe spent three years in the army, during this time he began experimenting with writing. In his last three months in the army, Poe decided he did not desire to be a professional soldier. He left the army set on becoming a professional writer. In 1833 Poe had written three books of poems, a few short stories, and became a literary critic. His criticism was excellent, and full of sharp wit. Poe could never keep a job as a critic for long though because he was fast becoming an alcoholic.
Poe, at this time is fully estranged from his foster father and sought help fr .....
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Two Great Men: Franklin And Jefferson
.... work hard in order to succeed. In the "The Way to Wealth," one of his most popular articles which help shape American culture, he wrote, "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, As Poor Richard says; and he that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him, as we read in Poor Richard, who adds, drive thy business, let not that drive thee, and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" (494). Franklin felt that a working man should be proud of his accomplishments. He writes that "a .....
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Walt Disney
.... Roy’s leaving very well; neither did Mr. Disney. Mr. Disney would sometimes take his anger out on Walt.
Walt took drawing lessons at the Kansas City Art Institute, when their family was still in Kansas City (Montgomery 16). Walt’s family moved again before Walt was finished with high school – to Chicago (Montgomery 18). Left behind, Walt finished high school and relocated to Chicago (Montgomery 18). After moving to Chicago, Walt took art lessons at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and studied cartooning by mail (Montgomery 19).
Walt became irritated with his father’s excessively harsh treatment and cruelty and joined th .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... worked out by lifting weights and boxing. He believed that if he grew up muscular he would somehow compensate for his weakness as a child. He believed that strength and power were synonymous. Thus if he became the macho man, like those he surrounded himself with, he would be manly virtuous and great. There was no greater accomplishment in his eyes.
All of his aggressive tendencies proved to have a downfall though. TR suffered from anxiety. He constantly worried about how the world perceived him and how weak he appeared that he consumed his world with fear and anxiety. Heartlessness also arose from his obsession with ph .....
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Margaret Bourke-White
.... one of her first works of art and the owner of the store became one of her best friends.
One of Margaret's early dreams was to photograph the inside of a steel mill but women weren't allowed inside. Being a woman didn't stop her and the pictures were a success. Her shots were published in magazines all over the country and got Margaret her first big job, at Fortune magazine in New York. With Margaret's photos Fortune became one of the leading photography magazines. The magazine had also made her a star but Margaret still kept her studio, which had grown to a staff of eight and moved to the Chrysler building.
In 1930 Fortune s .....
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Michael Collins And Eamon De Velera
.... Commander-in-Chief of the IRA, (3) Sinn Féin member of the Dail, (4) Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, (5) Minister of Finance in the 1919 Provisional Government of the RoI, and (6) Cabinet member in the first post-treaty government. He is best know for his brilliant work during the Anglo-Irish war in setting up the IRA's extremely effective intelligence and counter-intelligence unit that time and time again saved the IRA forces to fight another day. He and Griffith were the leaders of the team that negotiated the treaty that gave near independence to the 26 counties, while partitioning off 6 counties. During the post-t .....
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A Queen Adored: England's Elizabeth II
.... and 30% of the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role in her country's politics as an important aspect of the modern nation's identity. As she has proved neither conservative nor liberal in her stance, she has so come to symbolize a popular democracy.
It was raining on the sunless April day in 1926 when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon announced to her husband of three years that it was time. The Duke and Duchess of York were anticipating the bi .....
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