President Gerald Ford
.... 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing within 5 sports, his best being
Football. Being good at Football, he got a M.V.P, a scholarship to
Michigan with a Football scholarship and was offered a contract by the
Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. He finally took a job as
assistant Football coach at Yale.
While at Yale, he became interested in law and asked to take courses.
He was soon invited to learn law in the college and didn't graduate till he
was 27 because of his late start. 1941, he set up a practice in Grand
Rapids Michigan which closed aft .....
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Harry Shippe Truman
.... lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the
children lessons and noticed that Harry was especially gifted with the
piano. So, she sent him to get professional lessons with a woman named Mrs.
Edwin C. White. Everyone in his family thought that Harry would become a
concert Pianist. Harry thought so too. Harry had experiences that the
other kids did not have while playing the piano. Harry's teacher once was
a student of one of the greatest pianists ever to live named Ignacy Jan
Paderewski. When he was having a concert in their town, Harry's teacher
brought him to the concert and introduced Harry to Ignacy. Ignacy showed
Har .....
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Herbert Hoover
.... believed in peace, was appalled by
the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public
service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war-
torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
This position brought him public attention as the "great humanitarian," a
well-earned reputation that he lost only after the 1929 Wall Street debacle.
The commission fed 10,000,000 people during the war and left funds for
Belgian postwar reconstruction.
When the United States entered the war in April 1917, Hoover was called
to Washington to serve as food adminis .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large
expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis
of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana
territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the
constitution, nowhere in the constitution is the acquisition of land a
right of the government, Jeffersons' predisposition was to strictly go by
the constitution (as seen with the national bank controversy), this is
another contradiction during his administration. Since the appropriation of
the Lousiana territory was important for the expansion of the united states, .....
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Similarities Between Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain
.... suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a
mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family
history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along
with the fact that there were a lot of dysfunctional marriages and
alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would jerk around as if he was
being electrocuted. After his death, the sale of Nirvana memorabilia
increased dramatically.
As you can see, both Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain have some
characteristics in common. They had both been hospitalized for an illness.
However, one was physical while the other was mental. .....
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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
.... 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York,
and became the person in charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also
began the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Douglass became friends with another well
known American abolitionist, John Brown. Brown was involved with the
Underground Railroad, and later wanted Douglass to join him on terroristic
attacks on a United States government arsenal at Harper's Ferry. Douglass
declined to participate in such activities. He fled, once again, to Europe,
fearing that his association with John Brown might threaten him. He
returned .....
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Frederick Douglass And Slavery
.... and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was
literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory
victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose." The louder
she screamed, the harder the master seemed to whip her. Douglass witnessed
this first as a child. As he grew older, many more of these incidents would
occur. "It struck me with awful force. It was the blood stained gate, the
entrance to the hell of slavery, though which I was about to pass."
An old slave master of Douglass was Captain Anthony. Captain
Anthony was, at times, a kind and gentle man. However, slavery made hi .....
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John Quincy Adams
.... was
usually away in foreign countries. This didn't affect me very much since I
joined up with him when I was 11 on his operations after my persistent
asking. As President, I worked scrupulously to work out problems and
provide leadership for the country. This was acknowledged by my fellow
officials in office and by the country, as I'm thought of as a person with
integrity and honesty. Louisa Catherine Adams, my wife, holds a special
place in my heart. She has always been trustworthy and nice. As a child
she had to deal with ill health frequently, (which often recurs), and as
First Lady she held brilliant parties for my Cabi .....
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Gather Together In Maya Angelou's Name
.... in America, 1974): "Continuity is
achieved by the contact of mother and child, the sense of life begetting
life that happens automatically in spite of all confusion- perhaps also
because of it."
Annie Henderson is a God-fearing, independent woman whose firm hand
leads Maya throughout many rough spots in her childhood. It is through Mrs.
Henderson's values of self-determination and personal dignity that Maya's
idea that she is "shit color" slowly fades away (Vermillion 33).
Maya fails to see her grandmother's negative traits. She sees only
a woman that many people, both white and black, respect. The general
store that .....
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George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia In The Russian Manner On English Themes
.... a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war
pamphlet ‘Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the ‘Woman's guide to
Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928.
Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature,
art and music for a number of important magazines. During this period he
started writing his first play, ‘Widowers' Houses', inspired by the plays
of the Norwegian playwright Hendrik Ibsen, whose social awareness and
nonconformism appealed more to Shaw than the fashionable hypocritical drama
of those days. In 1893 followed ‘The Philanderer', Mrs. Warren's
Profession (1893), and ‘Candida' (1895 .....
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Lyndon B. Johnson
.... Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which
Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain
employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive
potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he
championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war
came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During
World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in
the Pacific (1941-42) but returned to Capitol Hill when Roosevelt recalled
members .....
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1984: Winston's Hatred Of Big Brother
.... was totally under Big Brother's power he wouldn't have felt
the urge to return the love, and have the anxiety of wondering if she did
really love him rather then just throwing away the incriminating message.
Winston felt the feeling of hatred toward the Party and was willing to
search for the Brotherhood to try to overthrow the government.
O'Brien asked Winston and Julia, "...what are you prepared to do?"
Winston replied, "Anything that we are capable of ." Winston's strong
hatred toward the Party made him willing to murder, commit acts of sabotage,
to cheat, and commit suicide. Followers of the Party would not have felt
the fe .....
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