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J. Edgar Hoover
<view this essay>.... wedding, she was a full time librarian. Today, she is his full time research assistant. He attended the University of Colorado and graduated from San Francisco State College in 1957. He is associated with the Democratic party.
He had a couple of jobs before he became a writer. He served in the United States Air Force for a few years. He spent one of those in Korea during the war as an editor for an Air Force newspaper.
He has had numerous other works published. His most famous is Helter Skelter. Most of his other works have gone without much notice. The hardcover sleeve of the book states that he is coproducing a movie based on this book. That is rea .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
<view this essay>.... “circumference,” as she says in her own words. Death is
perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination.
Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to
Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left
her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she
rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved
sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her
a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps
increased her interest in death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in A .....
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Sir Thomas More
<view this essay>.... was put to the ultimate test in faith, choose to go against his belief or be executed.
chose always to be against the King divorce to Catherine of Aragon. He shows this when Cardinal Woolsey summons him to attend a matter concerning the "Kings business". In their meeting the topic of the Kings re-marriage is what the Cardinal wanted to talk to More about, When Woolsey says "...that thing out there is at least fertile, Thomas". More shows that he is against the divorce by saying "But she's not his wife". More again shows his beliefs that a dispensation was given so that Henry could marry Catherine and Thomas knows that the Pope will not give a dispensat .....
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Karl Marx
<view this essay>.... asked to contribute to the Rheinische Zeitung, a German paper, in Cologne. At the time Marx started, the paper had only 400 subscribers. Marx in October of 1842, became editor-in-chief, and decided to move from Bonn to Cologne. As the paper became more and more revolutionary and widely read, the government decided to censor, and eventually suppress it. The paper was banned in March of 1843. At this time, it had more than 3,400 subscribers from all over Germany. was married to his childhood friend Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843. Later in the fall of that year Marx along with another Left Hegelian, Arnold Ruge, moved to Paris and began publication of a radical .....
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Muhammed Ali 2
<view this essay>.... By the time he was eight he lost both his mother and his grandfather. Muhammad came under the care of a famous trader named Abu Talib, and is reputed to have accompanied him on trading journeys to Syria. About 595, on such a journey, he was in charge of the merchandise of a rich woman, Khadijah , and so impressed her that she offered marriage. She is said to have been about 40, but she bore Muhammad at least two sons, who died young, and four daughters. Muhammad appears to have been of a reflective turn of mind and is said to have adopted the habit of occasionally spending nights in a hill cave near Mecca. The poverty and misfortunes of his early life d .....
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Abraham Lincoln
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Queen Victoria
<view this essay>.... the expiration of William IV. Victoria became queen at the age of 18.
Early in her power Victoria developed a serious concern with goings on of state, guided by her first prime minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Melbourne was leader of that wing of the Whig Party that later became known as the Liberal Party. He exercised a immovably progressive command on the political thinking of the sovereign.
Marriage
In 1840 Victoria married her first cousin, Albert, ruler of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who she had known for about four years. Although this was a wedlock of state, it was a highly extravagant and prosperous one, and Victoria was devoted to her family re .....
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Andrew Johnson
<view this essay>.... through politics, to state government and on to national office. He married Eliza McCardle, who was a school-teacher and was a big part of Johnson’s education, she helped him learn how to write and do arithmetic. He had three sons and two daughters.
was a democratic and had served in the Senate from 1857- 1862. In the early months of the Civil War, Johnson was forced to flee his own state to avoid arrest. When federal troops conquered Nashville, he resigned his Senate seat in March 1862 to accept President Lincoln’s appointment as military governor of Tennessee. He served as vice president for a month in 1865, and as president for the balance .....
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