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Joeseph McCarthy
<view this essay>.... He was a very smart man and, at the age of 20, managed to finish four years of high school in just one year. In 1930 he enrolled in Marquette University in Milwaukee where he soon succeeded in getting his law degree in 1935. He ended up moving north to Waupaca. There he ran and won the judgeship for the Tenth District of the Wisconsin Curcuit Court.
In 1942, Joe enlisted in the Marine Corps even though he was exempt for the draft due to his public position. In his first two years as a lieutenant, he went on many flying missions, broke his leg on a ship during a party and gained a lot of attention from the press along the way. Although later he claimed .....
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Stephen King
<view this essay>.... and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of the elderly couple. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the retarded.man2.html
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-w .....
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John Paul Jones: The Undaunted Sailor
<view this essay>.... in times of hardship. John Paul Jones set the standard for future naval officers. It was this standard which became his lasting legacy. From his existence on, his uncommon valor, persistence, and courage in the greatest times of hopelessness would never be forgotten.
Benjamin Franklin once considered John Paul Jones as the "chief weapon of American forces in Europe and Thomas Jefferson had described him as the principal hope of American in their struggle for independence." His commerce raiding and naval battles against the HMS Drake and the Serapis clearly support their statements.
John Paul Jones's victories were made possible through a combination of .....
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William Shakespeare And His Life
<view this essay>.... impossible to list all of his contributions to language, literature, and drama. No other person has ever invented so many words and phrases that are still in use today. His plays are such of the Western society that many quote him without even realizing it. Many, if not all, of his plays are still watched, studied, learned, performed, and enjoyed today. Shakespeare never thought that people would be studying his work. He wrote his play for entertainment and would be amazed at how much we learned from his work.
Shakespeare also had a major impact on the English drama. He changed it from the stiff formalism of the Greco-Roman tradition to something more r .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
<view this essay>.... his own special formula of paint. His style was characterized by scattered shadows and subtle hues and marked the beginning of the High Renaissance period. Just like many great original efforts, Leonardo’s artistic style was largely unpopular for the next quarter century. Later Da Vinci became the court artist for the Duke of Milan. He completed only six pieces during seventeen years in Milan. They included Portraits of Cecilia Gallerani, "The Virgin of the Rocks", "The Last Supper", a ceiling painting of the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. Also there were three other paintings that either disappeared or never existed in the first place. Th .....
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SAMUEL SEABURY
<view this essay>.... and sexual assault, which opened up the preaching position. Samuel filled the position and preached in an uneventful ministry. He also ran a school in Westchester.
As the tensions between Britain and the colonies grew stronger, Samuel stayed loyal to the crown. He viewed the American government as very primitive and dependent on the British government. When talk of the First Continental Congress arose, he began to voice his opinion. He tried to stop the election of the delegates by writing various pamphlets. His attempt proved futile and the delegates were elected and met together on that fateful day in Philadelphia when a new nation was envisioned. .....
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Selena
<view this essay>.... they sang English songs. By the time reached age 10, it became very obvious that was a natural born performer and that she had a great amount of singing talent. Abraham decided to start a band, he was afraid that the same thing would happen to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, only knew how to speak English, so went on with most of her life not even knowing what the words meant that she was singing. Well in order to start the band they would need more then so Abraham made Abraham III (nicknamed A.B.) her older brother, and Suzette, her older sister. A.B. already knowing the drums, Suzette already knowing the drum, an .....
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Woodrow Wilson
<view this essay>.... letters until age 9, not reading until age 12, being a slow reader all your life. Rather than being a prescription for a life as a nonintellectual ditchdigger, this was part of the background of a man who became a professor at Princeton University and the author of a popularly acclaimed book on George Washington.When Professor Wilson was 39, he suffered a minor stroke that left him with weakness of the right arm and hand, sensory disturbances in the tips of several fingers, and an inability to write in his usual right-handed manner. As often happens following minor strokes, there was recovery: his
right-handed writing ability returned within a year.
Was his ca .....
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