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Woodrow Wilson
<view this essay>.... Woodrow's
life was different from mine by the way he went to school.His father taught him
till he was nine,and then he went to school. Woodrow spent some of his spare
time with his gang, called the Lightfoot Club.Also when Woodrow was fourteen,his
education was continued at a private school with fifty boys enrolled that cost
seven dollars an hour.
One of the parts of the book that I liked was when Woodrow Wilson won the
Presidency.One of the things that helped him win was when he made two
alliances.One alliance was made with Colonel Edward M. House.The other was made
with William McCombs.
Both of these alliances profound effect o .....
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Guy Fawkes
<view this essay>.... on 13th April, 1570. was the only son of Edward Fawkes of York and his wife Edith Blake of Cambridge. Followed by ’ birth, Edith had given birth to daughter Anne Fawkes on 3rd October 1568, but the infant lived a mere seven weeks, being buried on 14th November of the same year. Two other sisters were born followed by Anne, another Anne, who later married Henry Kilburns in Scotton on 12th October1572, and Elizabeth, who later married William Dickenson also in Scotton on 27th May 1594. Edward Fawkes who was advocate of the consistory court of the Archbishop of York. On his mother’s side, he was descended from the Harrington family who were eminent merchants and .....
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Martha Graham
<view this essay>.... and her family moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1908 (Harmon et al. 182). This was where she started studying modern dance in her earlier years.
Martha's father played a big role in her life. Dr. Graham inspired his daughter to search for the meaning behind people's actions. As she sat in her father's office, she would look at the patients in bewilderment. The patients would blurt out words and move their arms and legs in a wild manner, making her even more curious about people's actions (Pratt 13). Dr. Graham then took his daughter to a performance of Ruth St. Denis in 1911 where she was mesmerized by the dancers (Harmon et al. 182).
Martha entered .....
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Robert Schumann
<view this essay>.... had medical problems which affected his life and music. He had tinnitus, which is ringing in the ears. He was also diagnosed with dementia praecox (Slonimsky 904). An injury to his index finger caused by a machine he invented put an end to his career as a pianist (Stanley 147). He had “auditory hallucinations which caused insomnia” and he also “suffered” from acrophobia and melancholy. He even talked of suicide (Slonimsky 903). In 1852, Schumann had a “rheumatic attack” accompanied by sleeplessness and depression (Sadie 847-848). This affected his speech and ability to move. He soon became apathetic (Sadie 848).
He became sick with depression .....
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President Gerald Ford
<view this essay>.... long national nightmare is
over (4, page 422)" which started his presidency.
Early Life
Ford had a more interesting early life than he had during his
presidency. He was born in Omaha Nebraska on July 14, 1913. He wasn't
always called Gerald Ford, his original name was Leslie Lynch King Jr. His
parents were Leslie and Dorothy King. When his parents got divorced while
he was two, his mother married a man named Gerald R. Ford from whom he got
his most widely known name. Together, they moved to Grand Rapids Michigan
(1, Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and compe .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
<view this essay>.... thought anyway, until an uncle recognized how smart he was. Newton's mother removed him from grammar school in Grantham where he had shown little promise in academics. Newtons report cards describe him as 'idle' and 'inattentive'. So his uncle decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered his uncle's old College, Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Newton had to earn his keep waiting on wealthy students because he was poor. Newton's aim at Cambridge was a law degree. At Cambridge, Isaac Barrow who held the Lucasian chair of Mathematics took Isaac under his wing and encouraged him. Newton got his undergraduate degree withou .....
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Herman Melville 2
<view this essay>.... characters Billy Budd and Bartleby. Herman Melville portrayed himself in his writing by giving personality traits to his literary characters that were similar to the ones he himself possessed.
Melville had a strong desire to reveal the complexities of human life, so mystery was often a trait of his characters. An example of this would be his character Bartleby. Throughout the story, the reader has no clue what Bartleby is thinking, so Melville creates an air of mystery about this character. Another of Melville’s characters that show this quality is Claggart in the book Billy Budd. Claggart is constantly referred to as being mysterious, “… .....
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Mohandas Ghandi
<view this essay>.... India) are harvested and shipped to the Mother country (i.e. Britain.) The raw materials are manufactured into goods that are shipped back to the colony where they can be sold for a great profit. Britain had a firm grasp on the cotton market in India. The Indians were forced to sell their raw cotton to the British, and the British would manufacture it into clothes that were sold back to the Indians. Ghandi saw how England was able to railroad the Indian population with its strangle hold on the cotton market. Ghandi hand-spun his own cloth and inspired others to do as well. By making and using their own cotton the Indian people were protesting the British w .....
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