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Mary Warren
<view this essay>.... Proctor to help his wife Elizabeth with household chores. Mary proves to be a kind girl who gets along well with Mrs. Proctor. Although Mary has become a court official in Salem, she still gets up early in the morning to clean the Proctors’ house. While in court, Mary passes the time by making Goody Proctor a present of a small rag doll called a poppet. Upset by the court proceedings, Mary tells Mr. Proctor that she is "all shuddery inside" because Goody Osburn will hang. When the poppet becomes false proof of witchcraft against Elizabeth, Mary willingly explains that the poppet is hers. She also makes a vain attempt to comfort John Proctor as the co .....
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Law And Politics
<view this essay>.... the preservation of the other two (Felkins). Every person has the right to defend – even by force – his/her person, liberty, and property. On this basis, an individual can’t lawfully use force to destroy another person. Furthermore, the people of a nation (possibly through elected officials) should have the right to choose which laws are just and which ones are not.
If a nation were founded on this basis, it seems that order would prevail among the people. Furthermore, such a nation would have the simplest, easiest to accept, most limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring, government imaginable – whatever its political form might be .....
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Davy Crockett
<view this essay>.... For many years he was nationally known as a political representative of the frontier.
John, Davy's father, moved to Greene County where Davy was born. While Davy was still in dresses, his father moved the family to Cove Creek in Greene County, Tennessee, where he built a mill in partnership with Thomas Galbreath. When Davy was eight years old, the mill was washed away with his home. After this disaster John Crockett removed his family to Jefferson County where he built and operated a log-cabin tavern on the Knoxville-Abingdon Road. (This cabin has been restored and is now located at Morristown, 30 miles Southwest of Greeneville.) The young Davy no doubt he .....
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Eudora Welty: Her Life And Her Works
<view this essay>.... observe created her talent to precisely
tell situations as they would be seen. This talent brings her stories to
life. The in-depth accounts that she writes of jump off of the page and
into the readers' imagination. The descriptive passages in her fiction
bring about vibrant images in the readers' mind.
The short story "A Memory" opens up with a clear visual image.
"The water shone like steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind
a distant swimmer. From my position I was looking through a rectangle
brightly lit, actually glaring at me with sun, sand, water, a little
pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a
border o .....
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Wyatt Earp
<view this essay>.... of Typhoid fever. Wyatt was devastated and went off and got into some trouble for horse stealing. Later, he became a stagecoach driver and traveled to Los Angeles, Ca and Prescott, Arizona. Wyatt also hunted buffalo for so me time. There are rumors that it was during this tiem that Wyatt met Bat Masterson.
In 1876 he became chief deputy marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, a lawless frontier town. Within a year, having brought relative peace to Dodge City, he moved on to Deadwood in the Dakota Territoy.
In the fall of 1879, Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil journeyed by horseback down to Tombstone, Arizona. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfig .....
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Calvin Coolidge
<view this essay>.... States on the family Bible.
In his six years as president of the United States, was considered to be a heroic president; not for what he did, but for what he did not do. Therein lies his political genius as Walter Lippmann, a White House advisor for Coolidge in 1926, pointed out: "... his talent for effectively doing nothing. This active inactivity suits the mood and certain needs of the country admirably. It suits all the business interests which wants to be let alone... And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top heavy.." (Touchman 90).
It is no wonder, that Coolidge was k .....
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Theodore Roosevelt’s Domestic Accomplishments As President
<view this essay>.... government as a shield from public opinion.
Roosevelt established many national parks. He strengthened the position of labor forces. Roosevelt reversed the traditional federal policy of Lassez-Faire, and sought to bring order social justice and fair dealings to the American industry and commerce. He expanded the powers of responsibility of the presidential office, establishing the model of the modern presidency, which has been followed by most of his presidential successors in the White House.
One of his greatest achievements was his work for conservation. During his tenure in office he designated one hundred and fifty national forests, the first 51 f .....
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Malcolm X
<view this essay>.... jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity.
In 1946 Malcolm was sentenced to prison for burglary. While in prison, Malcolm became interested in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Black Muslims, also called the Nation of Islam. Malcolm spent his time in jail educating himself and learning more about the Black Muslims, who advocated racial separation (Islam itself does not encourge or accept racism or racial separation but the Black Muslims group of that time did). When Malcolm was released in 1952, he joined a Black Muslim temple in Detroit, and took the well known name of . In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and together they had .....
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