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Winston Churchill
Words: 1348 / Pages: 5 .... by the Boers. His daring escape made him an overnight celebrity.
Churchill always wanted to become a politician. His wish came true in 1900, when
he was elected to the Parliment 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 became more .....
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Pierre Trudeau
Words: 1561 / Pages: 6 .... I was also able to discover the fundamental principles that
Trudeau would advocate in order to establish a strong and productive
influence in Canadian politics.
Born in 1921, Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home
located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the
University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the
Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat
anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered
radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as
Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned .....
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Neve Cambell
Words: 693 / Pages: 3 .... she was 15 years old. She also had been a model for two months but found that modeling had no satisfaction and very low. After this she turned towards the theatre for a career, since she wanted to be a performer.
Another contribution to her career was when Neve was involved in the theatre. After her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in "The Phantom of the Opera". She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in "The Phantom of the Opera" Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part .....
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FDRs Influence As President
Words: 3610 / Pages: 14 .... in the hearts of many Americans. Roosevelt threw his hat in the ring in 1931 in order to prepare for the election of 1932. Democratic Party chairman James A Farley directed his campaign. He started a nationwide radio address, outlining a program to meet the economic problems of the nation. He coined the term "forgotten man" to mean all of those who had been hard hit by the evils of the depression. These radio addresses were the start to what he called the "fireside chats". Overall, Roosevelt was the most energetic and dynamic candidate, and he was nominated by the party on the fourth ballot. Although he displayed excellent characteristics, his com .....
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Robert Frost
Words: 1214 / Pages: 5 .... and everything. Discouraged by his unsuccessful life as a poet, he packed up his bags and moved to England. He continued writing and published his first two books of poetry, which would gain him the recognition in America he had been in search of (ExpLit 1). One of Frost's most famous poems is "The Road Not Taken." This poem is about someone who comes to a fork in a path. One path is well beaten and treaded, while the other is less traveled and more difficult. Is the traveler happy with the decision he has made to take the road less traveled? Many critics think he may have had second thoughts. Magill's Survey of American Literature states th .....
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Jean Lamark
Words: 328 / Pages: 2 .... on evolution. He published an impressive seven-volume work, Natural History of Animals without Backbones. Lamarck's theoretical observations on evolution, referred to in the early 19th century as transformism or transmutation, preceded his extensive observational work on invertebrates. With his colleagues, Lamarck accepted the view that animals in nature were arranged on one continuous natural scale. According to Lamarck, once nature formed life, the arrangement of all subsequent forms of life was the result of time and environment interacting with the organization of organic beings. From the simplest forms of life, more complex forms emerged n .....
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Lorenz's Work In The Chaos Field And Basic Chaos
Words: 1075 / Pages: 4 .... One time, after he completed a particularly long weather sequence,
he decided to let it run longer and to start the program over again at the
previous sequence's mid-point. He entered the information and supposedly
went for coffee. When he returned, he was confused to find results of the
beginning of the new sequence not matching up with the results of the
middle of the last run. The numbers were not very close and growing farther
apart as the sequence progressed. Lorenz then thought there was a bug in
the system. After much double checking, he found the problem. When he had
entered the data into the second run, he had shortened one decimal. He had .....
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DOROTHY
Words: 585 / Pages: 3 .... Sisters" danced with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in "The Big Broadcast of 1936." The same year she sang at legendary Cotton Club in Harlem, where she first met Harold Nicholas, her future husband. Harold was the younger member of the "Nicholas Brothers". They danced with Gene Kelly in "The Pirate". At 17she was performing in Benny Goodman's musical, "Swinging the Dream". Dandridge had a natural beauty, and an ideal figure to match! Dottie suffered from severe stage fright, but despite this, she played the best hotels in Miami and Las Vegas, although she couldn't stay in them. One, in 1953, drained its swimming pool to keep her out of it. In 1954 Dan .....
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Pablo Friere
Words: 1205 / Pages: 5 .... contradiction. The teacher (oppressor), is there to educate/teach the student (oppressed) but is he really? As Freire indicates "Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," "receptacles" to be "filled" by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are." (67). He also goes on to say "Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of .....
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Langston Hughes
Words: 802 / Pages: 3 .... Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". It spoke of Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration", where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself'. He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If whit .....
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