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Benito Mussolini
<view this essay>.... Italy) which
later became the origin of the Fascist Movement. In 1916 Mussolini
enlisted in the military. After his promotion to sergeant he was
wounded and in 1917 he returned to his paper.
During the Chaos that Gripped Italy after the war Mussolini’s
influence grew swiftly. Mussolini and other war veterans founded
Fasci di Combattimento in March of 1919. This Nationalistic
antisocialist movement attracted much of the lower middle class and
took its name from the Fasces, an ancient symbol of Roman
discipline. The Fascist movement grew rapidly in the 1920’s,
spreading through the countryside where it’s Black Shirt Mil .....
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Madonna
<view this essay>.... father’s loved one. turned her perfect self into a bitter one when Sylvio married Joan Gustafson, the family’s housekeeper, three years after his wife’s death. The child resented her father’s betrayal and wouldn’t accept her step-mother authority.
While going through tough times, Ms Ciccone developed a passion for the arts. acted in high school productions, but ultimately dance became her interest in her childhood life. In addition to being a cheerleader, took up ballet classes while attending Rochester Adams High School. She found a mentor in dance instructor Christopher Flynn, who introduced her to the world of spunkiness and sophistication at Detr .....
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The Work Of Poet And Philosoher Archibald Lampman
<view this essay>.... of it in his numerous works situated in cities. A lover of nature,
Lampmans poems often immediately assumed a tone of life, mirth, and a feeling of
pleasure and warmth; the others formed a picture of death, hell, and hate all
held together by the one problem that is always present, Man.
With few close friends like Duncan Campell Scott, and other that were
poetically inclinded, Lampman formed a group through-out collage that met
frequently to write and discuss. Close friends like that influenced him to
write such popular pieces as "Heat" and "A sunset at Les Eboulements" and yet in
his darkest moments we get the main topic of this essay "The City o .....
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Biography Of Ogden Nash
<view this essay>.... American Poets stated that Nash then took a job in the
editorial and publicity department at the Doubleday and Doran Publishing
Company. He worked very hard at this position, moving up the "executive"
ladder very quickly. In only 5 years of work, he became a well-known
editor around the publishing business. Nash then realized that his name
was known all over the publishing companies; and he started to compose
works of free verse.
Mindscape Complete Reference Library CD stated that 1931 was the
greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of
Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse:
"Hard Line .....
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Stalin
<view this essay>.... rot. His complexion was sallow, the result of spending nearly all his time indoors in offices. Everyone called him Vozhd-leader.
His full name was Joseph Vissarionvich Djugashivli. He was born on December 27, 1879. He was born in the town of Gorion the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. This is glorious country. Swift rivers, fed by runoff from snow capped peaks, course through fertile valleys. His father was a very aggressive low life drunk cobbler. His mother was a housecleaner. His father died in a bar from wounds he got from a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. .....
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Moll Flanders
<view this essay>.... or did the pain, paranoia, and emotional trauma that came along the way extract a price that is much greater then the wealth that she eventually achieved? The answer is that the suffering that Moll experienced was not worth the final outcome. Although Moll reached her goals in the end, she would have had a more fulfilling and gratifying life had she suppressed her vanity and price and accepted her role in society and lived accordingly.
Moll began life in the low class. Not much nobility or status was expected of the orphan born in Newgate Prison, and in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this class. But Moll had the bles .....
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Henry David Thoreau
<view this essay>.... agrarian way of life that was quickly disappearing in New England. Second, by reducing his expenditures, he reduced the time necessary to support himself, and thus he could devote more time to the perfection of his art. And third, he and Emerson had asserted that one can most easily experience the Ideal, or the Divine, through nature; at Walden Pond, Thoreau was able to test continually the validity of this thoety by living closely, day-to-day, with nature.
Solitude was a noble thing in his experiment. His experiment was based on him leaving the town to find a place where he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the industrial revolution of America. He want .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
<view this essay>.... showed Haydn a cantata and he received Haydn's commendation. The Elector of Bonn paid for Beethoven's lessons and expences in to study with Haydn in Vienna. B. The studies Beethoven arrived in Vienna in 1792 and studied with Haydn for about one year. The arrangement proved to be a dissappointment to Beethoven. C. The relationship Outwardly in public the two were cordial, but there were troubles with the relationship--maybe professional jealousy caused the problems. D. Other teachers Beethoven turned to other teachers when Haydn went to London for the second time. He studied with Albrechtsberger, famous as a choir director at St. Stephens in Vienna an .....
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