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Lyndon B. Johnson
Words: 1462 / Pages: 6 .... D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known
as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset
to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and
Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the
White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age
27, to head the National 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 .....
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David Livingstone
Words: 3810 / Pages: 14 .... Falls, and probably the first individual to traverse the entire length of Lake Tanganyika. Had his health not failed he would surely have succeeded in also discovering the source of the Nile. He never lost sight of one of his great objectsbringing Christ to Africaalthough healing and exploring were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factor .....
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Emperor Constantine I
Words: 843 / Pages: 4 .... become a Christian. Because of her good works, she was made a Christian saint after her death. Constantine’s father was a career military officer named Constantius. Constantine was married at least twice and had four sons: Crispus, Constantine II, Constantius, and Constans.
Constantius, his father, was in charge of the Roman Province of Britannia. When Constantius died Constantine he was immediately proclaimed emperor by the army. However, it took many years of political struggle and actual civil war before he could consolidate his power. Constantine finally became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire in 323 CE when he defeated the eastern Emper .....
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Five Against The World - Perl Jam
Words: 8827 / Pages: 33 .... Site, and the track's fate hangs in the balance. It's a song about suicide . . . but it's too "catchy."
The choice of the studio seemed perfect back in February, when the band decided to record the new album here. This idyllic studio compound in the hills of outside San Francisco offered privacy and focus. Keith Richards had recorded here; his thank-you note to the studio framed on the living room wall. This is gorgeous country, where locals look out at the expansive green horizon and say things like "George Lucas owns everything to the left." This is where Pearl Jam would face the challenge of following up "Ten," one of the most successful debut a .....
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Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
Words: 1414 / Pages: 6 .... a contempt for the pantomime of parliamentary democracy, and a hatred of military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US dollar/imperialism. Yet although his parents, notably his mother, were anti-Peronist activists, he took no part in revolutionary student movements and showed little interest in politics at Buenos Aires University (1947) where he studied medicine, first with a view to understanding his own disease, later becoming more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle, and for the first time coming into contact with the very poor and the r .....
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The Life And Death Of 2Pac
Words: 716 / Pages: 3 .... motion the black BMW roared to life, accelerating across the
traffic flow and towards the oncoming cars, retreating from the scene as the
dark figure collapsed li mply back into the vehicle.
This incident is not a scene from a DeNiro/Pacino mobster movie. Nor is
it an episode from an Oliver Stone or Quentin Tarrantino film. In fact, it is
not a scene from any movie, although the story will likely wind up as a made-
for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of the life of
rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times during this escapade
while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby club on September 7th. He
later .....
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Alexander Hamilton
Words: 2887 / Pages: 11 .... thereafter, his mother died in 1768. At twelve, Alexander entered the counting house of Nicholas Cruger and David Beekman. There, young Alexander served as a clerk and apprentice. At the age of fifteen, Mr. Cruger left Alexander in charge of the business. Early on, Hamilton wished to increase his opportunities in life. This is evidenced by a letter written to his friend Edward Stevens at the age of fourteen on Nov. 11, 1769 where he stated, "[m]y ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk or the like … and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." During adolescence, Hamilton ha .....
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Machiavelli - The Prince
Words: 820 / Pages: 3 .... they had a bountiful relationship.
Machiavelli’s intent, it would seem to the naked eye, was not to taunt the Prince, but to give him advice about how to survive on the throne and to also keep the dynasty in his family after his death. It appeared that he wanted to help the Prince to keep the nation free from invasion and occupation and also how to handle internal problems; such as when to bribe, oppress, cajole etc… Machiavelli’s real objective in writing The Prince was far different from the words that are found composed by him.
The letters from Machiavelli to the Prince of Florence were not messages of suggestion as much as .....
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Death Of A Salesmen
Words: 267 / Pages: 1 .... through college. Charely worked consistently throughout his life, never trying to shoot for too high hopes. Because of this, Charley later in life, had a steady enough income to live comfortably and put his son through college. He even had money to spare so that he could loan it to the needing Willy Loman. Charley placed good ethics on Bernard, like working hard to become successful. By the later part of Charley's life, he was living comfortably because of all his hard work, and he set his son Bernard in the right path. Bernard had obviously succeeded in life through his hard work in his younger days while Biff just played around. Bernard i .....
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Andy Warhol
Words: 2813 / Pages: 11 .... technological society of the late 20th century.
A graduate of the Carnegie Institute in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City and gained success as a commercial artist. He got his first break in August 1949 when Glamour Magazine wanted him to illustrate a feature entitled "Success is a Job in New York". But by accident the credit read "Drawings by " and that's how Andy dropped the "a" in his last name. He continued doing ads and illustrations and by 1955 he was the most successful and imitated commercial artist in New York. In 1957 he won the Art Directors Club Medal for a giant shoe advertisement. In 1960 he produced the first of his paintings dep .....
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