Serial Murderer Ed Gein
.... was often a coward to his
wife and cowered in fear of her. This led him to become an alcoholic to
escape the verbal abuse. His wife would often pray in front of their sons
for the death of him. Her wishes finally came true when he died in 1940 of
causes unknown (Woods 22).
Gein's mother Augusta emerged as the dominant parent, settling most
family decisions on her own. Devoutly religious, she warned her two sons
against premarital sex, but Gein recalled that she was "not as strong" in
her opposition to masturbation(Gollmar 31). She always impressed on her
children the importance of doing the right thing. She tried to instill .....
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Jane Austen: Her Life And Work
.... a candle-lit table. After the game, the girls
sewed or embroidered while the boys read aloud." (Wright, pg. 7)
Jane and Cassandra spent their whole life together, from birth till
Austen's death, where Jane died "with her head pillowed on Cassandra's
shoulder." (Wright, pg. 11) At age 7 , Cassandra and Jane "sent to a small
school run by a relative. (Wright, pg.7) They didn't stay there long
because Mrs. Cawley, the teacher and relative, moved away to Southampton.
(Wright, pg. 11) Soon after Jane left Mrs. Cawleys school, she caught a
horrible fever. It was called " putrid throat, a septic throat
characteristic of typhus f .....
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
.... and married
Virginia who was not yet 14 years old. In January 1837 Poe annouced his
withdrawl as editor in the Messenger.
He stayed in New York City then in Philadelphia and again in New
York to establish himself as a force of literary jouranalism. Over the
years he discovered new forms of poetry. He exemplifies a form in Ligeia
(1838), he conidered his best piece of work The Fall Of The House Of Usher
(1839). The Murders In The Rue Morgue (1841) was his first detective story,
his musical mellifious verses are The Raven (1845) and The Bells (1849).
Virginia died in 1847 it was very straining on Poe but he conti .....
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Important People In History
.... a
book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic
theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant
in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams
revealed more about a person's sexuality.
Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936)
Pavlov won a nobel prize for medicine in 1904. He was interested in the
relationship between stimulus and response.
Pavlov tested his theory with dogs. He discovered that by ringing a bell
and giving them food the would salavate. He called this an uncontrolled
response. Then again he'd ring the bell and give them food. After doing so
for .....
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Biography Of Christopher Columbus
.... the earth was 25
percent smaller than was previously thought, and composed mostly of land.
On the basis of these faulty beliefs, he decided that Asia could be reached
quickly by sailing west. In 1484 he submitted his theories to John II, king
of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the Atlantic
Ocean. His proposal was rejected by a royal maritime commission because of
his miscalculations and because Portuguese ships were already rounding
Africa.
Soon after, Columbus moved to Spain, where his plans won the support of
several influential persons, and he secured an introduction, in 1486, to
Isabella I, queen o .....
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Biography Of Moshe Dayan
.... He was, however,
blamed for Israel's unpreparedness in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, and he
subsequently resigned (1974). Named foreign minister in Menachem Begin's
government in 1977, he played an important role in negotiating the peace
treaty with Egypt signed in 1979. Later that year he resigned in protest
against Begin's policies concerning the disputed West Bank territory.
Moshe Dayan made great contributions to the state of Israel. On May
18, 1948, Major Dayan, during Israel's War of Independence, successfully
defended a Jordan Valley sector against a much larger Syrian Army. On
October 29, 1956 General Dayan led his well-trai .....
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Biography: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
.... Barcelona, but without success. His austerities had also undermined his
health. After considerable delay he was finally admitted into the Society
of Jesus as a lay-brother, 31 January, 1571. Distinct novitiates had not as
yet been established in Spain, and Alfonso began his term of probation at
Valencia or Gandia -- this point is a subject of dispute -- and after six
months was sent to the recently-founded college at Majorca, where he
remained in the humble position of porter for forty-six years, exercising a
marvelous influence on the sanctification not only of the members of the
household, but upon a great number of people w .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
.... York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (1906), James
(1907), Elliott (1910), Franklin, Jr. (1914) and John (1916). Roosevelt
was reelected to the State Senate in 1912, and supported Woodrow Wilson's
candidacy at the Democratic National Convention. As a reward for his
support, Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of .....
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Gandhi: A Man With Virtues
.... attacked and beaten by white South Africans,
Gandhi began to teach a method of “passive resistance,” to, the South
African authorities. _Part of the inspiration for this method came from
the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Christ and Henry David Thoreau, a 19th
century American writer, also inspired Gandhi. In 1914 the government of
the Union of South Africa made important concessions to Gandhi's demands.
They included recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax
for them. When his work is South Africa was complete he returned to India.
Following World War I, Gandhi launched his movement of passive resistance
to Gr .....
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Charles Wang
.... company could help him to succeed in a
variety of situations. For example, when Wang wants to retire, he would
not have to worry about the way his company was run. Since he taught his
own executives exactly how to run the company, they will most likely
continue this, even after Wang is working at the company. Also, if Wang
became low on funds, he wouldn't have to fire any of his employees.
Because of the fact that Wang trained his own executives, he could simply
move around the company's managers to fill in the positions that the
company needed to better flourish.
Bibliography
Leaders of the Information Age: Charles Wang. CI .....
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
.... to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established
a congregation called Missionaries of Charity. She began her work by
teaching the children of the streets how to read. Mother Teresa also
began to care for lepers. In 1965, Pope Paul VI desited to expand Mother
Teresa's Order to other countries by put the Missionaries of Charity under
the control of the Papacy and gaving more authorization t .....
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Winston Churchill: A Biography
.... wanted to become a politician. Early in his life
he envisioned himself at political debates. His wish came true in 1900,
when he was elected to the Parliament as a Conservative, and he quickly
made his mark. ************ His political sympathies began to change,
however, and he "changed sides" in 1904, when he abandoned the Conservative
party for the Liberals.
When the Liberals came to power in 1905, Churchill entered the
government as secretary of state for the colonies. In 1908, the year of
his marriage to Clementine Hosier, he became a member of the cabinet as
president of the Board of Trade. Winston's political missions b .....
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