"Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam"
.... but he confesses he only came to this way of thinking after his dismissal, when he and the nation saw for the first time just how much power the Queen and her representatives really had, despite their lack of control over day to day running of the Government. At the onset of his career, Whitlam was quite proud of his Queen - he had, after all, fought in the Airforce during the Second World War to defend Britain as well as Australia - but he always thought the Conservative parties held far too much attachment for time-honoured traditions which there was no longer a place for in Australia. Australia needed to mo .....
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The Health Of President Boris Yeltsin
.... claimed he has just not feeling well when in reality he had suffered a heart attack. How can we believe what they say now?
In conclusion, the health of Boris Yeltsin effects the world. What happens to him could change the whole condition of Russia. While his doctors claim he'll be better soon, what else will effect him before his term is up? Only time will tell.
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Adolf Hitler
.... performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean’s office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plunge it. .....
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Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
.... Gansevoort who carried the mother's maiden name was distinctly her favorite.” (Edinger 7) This was a sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel.
In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the natives, who were cannibals. He escaped aboard an Australian trader, leaving it at Papeete, Tahiti, where he was imprisoned tempo .....
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Stephen Vicent Benet: An American Poet
.... “Civilian service during World War I interrupted his education at Yale Univerisity. When the war was over he returned to Yale. In 1919, he received his master of arts degree, submitting his third volume of poems instead of a thesis” (Fenton). A Guggenheim fellowship took him to France, with his wife, the former Rosemary Carr. While there he wrote John Brown's Body (1928), which won (1929) a Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Hart 198). “Over 300 pages, the poem covers the Civil War from John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., to peace at Appomattox” (198). The second Pulitzer was given posthumously in 1944, for Western Star (1 .....
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Benito Mussolini
.... Maritime. “On September 13, 1937 he opened an offensive into British-garrisoned Egypt from Libya.”3 On October 4, 1937, while the offensive still seemed to promise success, Benito Mussolini met Adolf Hitler at the Brenner Pass, on their joint frontier. “The two of them discussed how the war in the Mediterranean, Britain’s principal foothold outside its island base, might be turned to her decisive disadvantage. Hitler suggested to Mussolini that Spain might be coaxed on the axis side, thus giving Germany free use of the British Rock of Gibraltar, by offering Franco part of French North Africa, and that France might be persuaded to .....
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William Shakespeare
.... obvious construction and by stylized verse. His earliest dramatic works are possibly four plays dramatizing the English civil strife of the 15th century. These plays, Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III (1590-1592) and Richard III (1593), deal with evil resulting from weak leadership and from national disunity. Shakespeare's comedies of the first period include The Comedy of Errors (1592), The Taming of the Shrew (1593), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594), and Love's Labour's Lost (1594). These plays we do not read much ins school, but they are studied extensively in college.
Shakespeare's second period includes his most important hi .....
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Michael Jordan
.... was more than just a basketball player, he is also a talented businessman. This man has the ability to sell $100 shoes to kids in the ghetto and then possesses the genius to turn around and sell cologne to Wall Street stockbrokers. This is a man who is so recognizable that some people know the shape of the shadow of his head. Michael is also so diverse that he can sport Armani suits, $50 cigars and a gold hoop earring one day, and the next star in a major movie with the likes of such acting veterans as Bugs Bunny and Porky the Pig. In another article I read about a year ago, Michael said that he enjoyed acting so much that h .....
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Malcolm X
.... of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most prominent spokesperson. In 1963, however, the black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular Black Nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).
In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, began .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... friends, family, and one of her spiritual mentors, Minister Charles Wadsworth. Although it has long been believed that various correspondents, including Higginson and editor Samuel Bowles, served as literary guides, there is no evidence that they influenced her writing.
Now, biographers are increasingly recognizing the vital role of Dickinson’s sister-in-law Susan Dickinson in her writing. For more than 35 years the two women lives next door to each other, sharing mutual passions for literature, music, cooking, and gardening. Emily sent Susan more than 400 poems and letter-poems, twice as many as she sent to any correspondent. S .....
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Joseph Stalin
.... of steel." Stalin was appointed to the mundane adminastrative posts (Grolier). In 1917, March 15, the Czar's abduction had led to even more social chaos in Russian. As a party member Joseph was chaired on April 11the national conference of Bosheviks delegates urged cooperation with the temporary existing successor goverment . The civil war in 1918 to 1921 had a huge effect on the new regime. It led to a comprehensive nationalizationof economy to establish the virtual one-party rule (Americana). After Lenin's death, Joseph used the control of the party to destroy his opponents. By 1928, Joseph had driven this opposition from its par .....
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Richard Joseph Daley
.... bosses. As a Democrat, Daley wielded a great deal of power in this largely Democratic city. He headed a powerful political machine that effectively dominated much of Chicago. He governed by the spoils system, and he delivered many local votes for Democratic presidential candidates. His support was often sought by state and national leaders. Daley gained national notoriety in 1968 when Chicago police brutally subdued demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention. Daley was an important figure in the national Democratic Party.
As the mayor of Chicago until his death in 1976 and as chairman of Chicago's Cook County D .....
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