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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, Reform
Words: 1100 / Pages: 4 .... time of Roosevelt’s inauguration, one out of every four people was unemployed. Since FDR was intent upon ending human suffering first and foremost, he decided to be open about using federal money to aid the unemployed. With the okay from FDR, the Hundred Days Congress passed much legislation in order to help in the first short range goal - to give immediate relief. In 1933, Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which provided employment in fresh - air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men. Their work included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage. Also new in 1933 was the Federal Em .....
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Joan Of Arc
Words: 1059 / Pages: 4 .... as Jeanne la Pucelle (Joan the Maid.) Joan, like most other children, spent much time praying to the statues of saints that stood around the church in her
village.
At the age of 13 in the summer of 1425, she began having religious visions and hearing what she believed were voices of saints. They started occuring once a week and as she got older they happened daily. She said the voices told her to always behave, obey her parents, pray, etc. She claimed they were the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She was said to be a Clair Voyant,
a person who has knowledge of events happening far away or in the futures withou .....
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Willem De Kooning
Words: 1590 / Pages: 6 .... moved to Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a
carpenter in New York City. Then in 1935, he landed a job with the Works
Progress Administration, a government agency that put artists to work
during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in
the downtown art scene among his fellow artists.
By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major
painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of
thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York.
Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only pa .....
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Words: 1053 / Pages: 4 .... longer being able to
pay for the rent of the mill, the Soubirous were forced to quit their dwellings,
give up the millers trade and take on whatever work they could find for
themselves. Francois Soubirous recalled that another relative owned a building
in the Rue des Petits Fossés - this building was the former Lourdes jail. The
old jail was locally known as "the Cachot". The Soubirous were allowed to remain
there rent-free. Each evening, the family gathered around the old fireplace for
family prayers. This concluded with the recitation of the Rosary - often led by
one of the Soubirous girls, Bernadette.
BERNADETTE
The .....
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Howard Hughes
Words: 966 / Pages: 4 .... $2,000,000 and Hughes Tool Company. His uncle was Hollywood writer Rupert Hughes. Howard took his first airplane ride when he was fourteen years old.
attended private elementary and high school in California and Massachusetts. He attended the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father’s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling
which made much money. In 1925 Howard got mar .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Words: 4751 / Pages: 18 .... of a greatness that the entire nation embraced.
Little Teddy Roosevelt was a puny child. Suffering from asthma, there was little the fragile boy could do athletically. When he first entered school, the other children mocked him for his weak stature.
This incident molded the future president. He became obsessed with strength and the “macho” attitude of men. He constantly worked out by lifting weights and boxing. He believed that if he grew up muscular he would somehow compensate for his weakness as a child. He believed that strength and power were synonymous. Thus if he became the macho man, like those he surrounded himself with, he w .....
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Billy Graham
Words: 4563 / Pages: 17 .... a considerable amount of information concerning that topic. Finally I will be talking about his personal achievements, books written, and how he has been a companion to some of the American Presidents. William Franklin Graham Jr. was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 17, 1918. Graham was raised on a dairy farm by William Franklin (deceased 1962) and Morrow Coffey Graham (deceased 1981). In 1943 he married his wife Ruth McCue Bell, and had four children Virginia 1945, Anne Morrow 1948, Ruth Bell 1950, William Franklin, Jr. 1952, and Nelson Edman 1958. At age eighty, he keeps fit by swimming, playing with is nineteen grand children, and f .....
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Albert Einstein And His Theories
Words: 1938 / Pages: 8 .... who was then 15 years old, used the opportunity to
withdraw from the school. He spent a year with his parents in Milan, and when it
became clear that he would have to make his own way in the world, he finished
secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swiss National
Polytechnic in Zürich. Einstein did not enjoy the methods of instruction there.
He often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play
his beloved violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying
the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and would
not recommend him for a university position.
Fo .....
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Herbert George Wells
Words: 348 / Pages: 2 .... devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which depict members o! f the lower middle class and their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels. Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay, attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History. Throughout hi .....
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The Life Of Charles Dickens
Words: 922 / Pages: 4 .... Dickens' earliest and clearest
memories were formed (Mankowitz 9-14).
Charles' education included being taught at home by his mother,
attending a Dame School at Chatman for a short time, and Wellington
Academy in London. He was further educated by reading widely in the
British Museum (Huffam).
In late 1822, John was needed back at the London office, so they
had to move to London. This gave Charles opportunities to walk around the
town with his father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the
area. This gave him early inspiration that he would use later on in his
life when he started to write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of .....
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