Sir Wilfrid Laurier
.... promoted the building of
railroads needed for national expansion, and appointed a commission to regulate
railroad rates. After 15 years in office his government was defeated, presumably
on the issue of reciprocal trade with the United States. Laurier believed,
however, that his political defeat was caused primarily by opponents in Ontario
who considered him too partial to Roman Catholic interests in Quebec. Prior to
World War I, Laurier tried forcefully to support the formation of a Canadian
navy. His own Liberal party defeated this measure, however, and Canada entered
the war without a fleet of its own. During the early years of .....
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Stephen Vincent Benet
.... He described himself as a
positive-thinking and modest man, who is thin, attractive, vivacious, whereas
his wife and his mother-in-law would consider him a plain, tall, large biter-of-
nails who carries a foolish expression, but whose intellect is too much for
words (Parsekian 1).
He couldn't have been too foolish of a person due to his positive
upbringing. Benet's parents planned for him to be a success in whatever he chose
to do. Their open-mindedness encouraged him to explore books and ideas in a
professional state., as well as to appreciate and take literature and history
very seriously (Roache 102: 13). Because of this upbri .....
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The Life Of Sylvia Plath
.... where they shared poetry and
intellectualized discussions about death. Although they were friends, there was
also an element of competition between Sexton and Plath. Sylvia Plath's poem "
Daddy" was possibly a response to Anne Sexton's "My Friend, My Friend." It was
as if Plath was commenting that her writing skills were just a bit better than
Sexton's. Sexton frequently would express to Robert Lowell in his poetry class
her dissatisfaction with Plath's writing. She said that Plath "dodges the point
in her poetry and hadn't yet found the form that belonged to her." The
competitive nature of their relationship continued to the .....
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Ted Bundy
.... and psychotic character made him feared across the country. After
all was said and done Ted left behind a trail of bloody slayings that included
the deaths of 36 young women and spanned through four states. The biggest
question in many people's mind was how could someone as intelligent,highly
accomplished, and praised as Bundy do such a thing?
Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24th, 1946 in Burlinton, Vermont
to a 21 year old mother. Ted's mom never told him much about his father except
that he was in the armed forces and they had only dated a few times. Ted was
left in foster care for two months whil .....
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Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President Of The United States (1901-1909)
.... He
supported many labor demands such as shorter hours for women and children,
employers' liability laws and limitations on the use of injunctions against
workers in labor disputes.
In reform, Roosevelt wanted gradual change. He moved in the direction of the
reformers and ended up as the candidate of the progressive party in the Bull
Moose presidential campaingn in 1912. He had broken with the Repub lican party.
In 1907 immigration reached its all-time high 1,285,000 in one year. Theodore
Roosevelt said, "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he
is an American, but something else also, isn't .....
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Edward James Hughes
.... but thereafter he published prolifically, often in collaboration with
photographers and illustrators. The volumes of poetry that succeeded Selected
Poems include Wodwo (1967), Crow (1970), Season Songs (1974), Gaudete (1977),
Cave Birds (1978), Remains of Elmet (1979) and Moortown (1979). At first the
recognition came from overseas, as his Hawk in the Rain (1957) was selected New
York's Poetry Book Society's Autumn Choice and later the poet was awarded
Nathaniel Hawthorn's Prize for Lupercal (1960). Soon he became well-known and
admired in Britain. On 19 December 1984 Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate, in
succession .....
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Tennessee Williams
.... full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and
unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto. These have been translated into
at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil, Welsh, Marathi and Hindi. In
addition, there are two novels, a novella, more than sixty short stories, more
than one hundred poems, an autobiography, a published volume of letters,
introductions to plays and books by others, and occasional pieces and reviews.
PLAYS Baby Doll & Tiger Tail Camino Real Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Clothes for a
Summer Hotel Dragon Country The Glass Menagerie A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
The Read Dev .....
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Bill Gates
.... the verge of saying, 'But that's obvious.'" Gates
once said to a teacher that some day he would be a millionaire. A grossly
underestimated statement. Today Gates is one of the richest men in the world.
In the fall of 1968, Bill Gates was entering the 8th grade at lakeside School,
and his best friend Paul Allen, entered the 10th grade. Lakeside invested $3,000
into a Teletype machine which could connect to the business computer via a phone
line. When the computer courses began in January 1969, both Gates and Allen
discovered their passion for programming. Since very few teachers knew anything
about computers, the boys taught th .....
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
.... In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King
recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother,
struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn't see a great
deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low
paying jobs.” Stephen's first outlooks on life were influenced by his older
brother and what he figured out on his own. While young Stephen and his family
moved around the North Eastern and Central United States. When he was seven
years old, they moved to Stratford, Connecticut. Here is where King got his
first exposure to horror. One .....
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The Marquis De Sade's Attitude Towards Women
.... stylization of graffiti, the prick is
always presented erect, as an alert attitude.
It points upward, asserts. The hole is open, as
an inert space, as a mouth, waiting to be filled.
This iconography could be derived from the
metaphysical sexual differences: man aspires,
woman serves no function but existence, waiting.
Between her thighs is zero, the symbol of nothingness, that only attains
somethingness when male principle fills it with meaning (Carter 4).
The Marquis de Sade's way of thought is probably best symbolized in the
missionary position. The missionary position represents the myth .....
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
.... Connecticut, and graduated in 1935 at
eight-teen years old. In 1936, after a summer in England, John entered
Princeton University. After Christmas, of that same year, he developed
jaundice. Then in 1936 he entered Harvard University. At Harvard he
majored in government and international relations. In 1940 he graduated
from Harvard. He then enrolled at Stanford University, but dropped out
after only six months.
After serving in the United States Navy, where he won the Navy and
Marine Corps Medal as the skipper of a PT boat in World War II, John
decided to enter government. In 1946, he ran for the House of
Representatives .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
.... for public acknowledge plus the corrupt state of New York
led him to join a local Republican Reform Club. In 1881 he was elected to
New York assembly where he set out to stop the corruption in both party
machines. In 1884 the death of his wife and a defeat in his political career
made him retreat to the Dakota Territory. In 1886 he came back to New York.
He ran for mayor when he came back.He was third. For the next three years
he stayed out of public affairs, and attending to his personal affairs . In
those three years he married Edith Kermit Carow and built a home near Oyster
Bay, Long Island. He had been appointed to t .....
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