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Charles Lindbergh
Words: 2129 / Pages: 8 .... the 1930's. Charles Lindbergh, the famous
American aviator, was born February 4, 1902 in Detroit, Michigan. As a boy he
loved the outdoors and frequently hunted. He maintained a good relationship
with his parents "who trusted him and viewed him as a very responsible child".
His father, for whom young Charles chauffeured as a child, served in the U.S.
Congress from 1907 to 1917. Lindbergh's love of machinery was evident by the age
of 14; "He could take apart a automobile engine and repair it". Attending the
University of Wisconsin, Lindbergh studied engineering for two years. Although
he was an excellent student, his real interest was in flyi .....
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George W. Bush
Words: 2537 / Pages: 10 .... near future. His namesake child, the current governor of Texas, has recently announced his bid for the Republican nomination on the 2000 ballot. However, even if he makes it past the primaries it will take more than a “brand name” to win this election. According to the June 21, 1999 issue of Newsweek 65% of voters they polled still knew nothing or little of .
When looking at a possible future President of the United Sates of America it is not uncommon to start with their past and work forward to see their progress and failures. attended a preparatory school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Like many young men he was in .....
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Jeffrey Dalhmer
Words: 2043 / Pages: 8 .... not have a Jeffrey Dahmer to raise, too many have seen their children succumb to drugs, alcohol, crime despite their very best and, often frantic, efforts to intervene.
"It is a portrayal of parental dread... the terrible sense that your child has slipped beyond your grasp, that your little boy is spinning in the void, swirling in the maelstrom, lost, lost, lost."
Lionel seems to be fairly straightforward in recognising the negative influences in Jeff's life. No family is perfect. Jeff's mother had various physical ailments and appeared to be high strung, coming from a background in which her father's alcoholism deeply affected her life. .....
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Walt Disney
Words: 659 / Pages: 3 .... Los Angeles to become a film producer or
director. When he failed to find a job, he returned to producing cartoons.
He set up his first studio in the back half of a real estate office. For
several years, Disney stuggled to pay his expenses. He gained success in 1928,
when he released the first short cartoons that featured Mickey Mouse. Earlier
filmmakers had found that animals were easier to animate than people. Mickey
Mouse, drawn with a series of circles, proved ideal for animation.
In 1927, sound that had been added to motion pictures, and a process for
making movies in color was developed a few years later. Disney and his staff
made imagina .....
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Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
Words: 2549 / Pages: 10 .... in comfortable economic circumstances, and of Maria Gansevoort
Melvill, only daughter of “the richest man in Albany,” the respected and
wealthy General Peter Gansevoort, hero of the defense of Fort Stanwix during the
American Revolution. In total, Allan and Maria had eight children. On his father'
s side, his ancestry, though not so prosperous as on his mother's, was equally
distinguished. Major Thomas Melvill, his grandfather, was one of the “Indians”
in the Boston Tea Party during the events leading to the war and who had then
served his country creditably throughout the hostilities. The Melvill family
kept on their mantelpiece a bottle of .....
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Words: 1744 / Pages: 7 .... own hands, because his father was either too sick or drunk to fulfill his daily work at home. Doyle’s mother, Mary Foley, was a homemaker who took care of her son Arthur and his brothers and sisters, and also worked and cleaned the house everyday.2 Doyle’s early education started when he was about seven years old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that H .....
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Robert E Lee
Words: 648 / Pages: 3 .... 26, 1829, Lee's mother died. Robert was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended episcopal Church where he was raised.
On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor. When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. Lee's will said that he was worth about $38,750 with few depts. He only had .....
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Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
Words: 2104 / Pages: 8 .... the basis of the heretical elements
in her poetry.
To understand why personal expression may be considered heretical,
the society in which Bradstreet lived and wrote must be examined in order
to comprehend what kinds of human activities and behaviors were acceptable
and how Bradstreet deviated from these behaviors.
Bradstreet was not truly unorthodox in that she did not dissent
from accepted beliefs and doctrine. She was a woman of the 17th Century
and lived in a male dominated, intensely religious society. She lived
within the limitations not only of the beliefs and standards of her society,
but of her sex. A woman's place was definitely in .....
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King Arthur
Words: 397 / Pages: 2 .... of information with his work but
most scholars believe it to be a fictional bibliography added only to give
his book some credibility. Therefore his work is considered to be
literature not factual history. Geoffrey is the one responsible for the
portrayal of Arthur as a splendid King who conquered the British Isles and
much of Europe Introduced by Geoffrey are Guenevere, Merlin, information
about Arthur's strange birth and death and the concept of chivalry. Due to
the tremendous popularity of Geoffrey's book, authors like Robert Wace and
Chretien de Troyes continued on with the development of King Arthur and his
life, adding yet more detail .....
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Martin Luther King Reflection Essay
Words: 323 / Pages: 2 .... King's leadership blacks started acts of civil disobedience
against discriminatory laws. King followed the methods of Mohandas Ghandi
and Henry David Thoreau. King and his followers held sit-ins at lunch
counters and rode on segregated buses. Others in the country boycotted
discriminatory companies and their products, that practiced legal
segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in
Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people attended. This was where
King gave his famous " I have a Dream " speech.
Although King insisted on nonviolent ways, violence persistently
occurred. Marchers and protesters were atta .....
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