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A Political Biography On Jfk
Words: 1979 - Pages: 8.... the United Nations. While there he noted the ‘belligerent Russian attitude' ( Lawson, 1998, p. 1) and decided to pursue a career in politics. Early in 1946, he began an aggressive campaign against nine other candidates for a seat in the House of Representatives from the Democratic 11th Massachusetts Congressional District. His election in November of 1946 was an overwhelming success. From there, Kennedy was re-elected in 1948 and 1950. He had a pattern of mixed voting, often disagreeing with many of the policies of President Truman. Kennedy agreed with the administrations Fair Deal policies, fighting for issues such as .....
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Thomas Hobbes
Words: 1558 - Pages: 6.... pg.117) The laws that are enacted are contrary to our self-interest, so without the terror of some ever-present power to instill fear in all man, we would abstain from no measure in order to preserve our own well being. In a state of war man is in "a Continual fear and danger of a violent death; and the life of man (is) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Hobbes. Pg. 107)
The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the Author, t .....
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William Wordsworth
Words: 842 - Pages: 4.... and whether or not he enjoys it. Wordsworth makes it seem appealing to want to go and do this through his descriptions and thoughts, so that you get a feeling of what is there and what is being lost. He makes the reader want to go and see if those things, the budding twigs, the hopping birds, and the trailing periwinkle, really do exist and if they really are as alive as he says.
Wordsworth’s line "What man has made of man" (7) refers to what human men are doing to the other man on Earth, Nature, whom man is fighting for the top spot. To Wordsworth, Nature is alive and has feelings, the same as the human man. He proves .....
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The Life Of Chief Seattle
Words: 1596 - Pages: 6.... little south of Seattle. Seattle was the son of Suquamish leader named Schweabe and a Duwamish woman named Scholitza. He became Chief of the Suquamish, Duwamish, and allied Salish speaking tribes by proving his leadership qualities in a war that pitted his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish .....
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The Life Of Harry Houdini
Words: 2044 - Pages: 8.... German Zoin Jewish Congregation in
Appleton. His mother's name was Cecilia Steiner Weiss. Houdini's original
family pictures are on display at the Houdini Museum in Scranton,
Pennsylvania in the Pocono region.
His parents spoke only Yiddish, Hungarian, and German. The family
was quite poor so most of the children began to work at an early age. From
the age of eight young Ehrich Weiss sold newspapers and worked as a shoe
shine boy. Please note that when coming to the United States there were
often many spellings of names as people adjusted to English. At the age of
12, young Ehrich left home to make his way in the world in an attempt .....
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David Livingstone
Words: 3810 - Pages: 14.... the entire length of Lake Tanganyika. Had his health not failed he would surely have succeeded in also discovering the source of the Nile. He never lost sight of one of his great objectsbringing Christ to Africaalthough healing and exploring were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factory as a piecer to aid in the earnings of .....
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Alice In Wonderland
Words: 546 - Pages: 2.... this time there was no table, "There was no label this time with the words 'Drink Me' ... 'I know something interesting is going to happen' ... ' I'll just see what it does',". Alice is like a little girl that is still exploring the world around her, but she finds that she is more mature than the creatures in Wonderland.
Alice is very well mannered in Victorian ways to the creatures of Wonderland. Alice shows her good manners when she enters the white rabbits house and the rabbit tells Alice to go fetch his gloves and fan, "I'd better take his fan and gloves- that is if I can find them", since Alice is a guest, uninvited, she follows .....
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Bruce Campbell
Words: 735 - Pages: 3.... and then started to experiment with filmmaking, doing cheezeball super-8 flicks with a neighborhood pal. In 1975 he then met director Sam Raimi in his high school drama class who he became friends with. They made about fifty or so super-8 movies. In 1976 he volunteered as an apprentice in northern Michigan at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse - a summer stock company where he worked eighteen hours a day putting up sets, being assistant stage manager, doing errands and so on. He got to work with television actors and considers it his first taste of Hollywood. He then briefly attended Western Michigan University where he took theate .....
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Socrates
Words: 2031 - Pages: 8.... of Athens, telling people of his ideas. His voice was heard, and he was soon declared to be the wisest of all men. ’ was skilled in the art of arguing. He developed a method by which he would win every debate. His favorite hobby was going to the marketplace and debating philosophical issues with other men in front of an audience. The result of these debates was that embarrassed the wise men in front of the crowd. This caused many to dislike him. After being named the wisest man, attempted to prove that this was not true. He debated with many men in the streets. These debates are some of his most famous argument methods. He start .....
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Joseph Stalin
Words: 1232 - Pages: 5.... Seminary. He attended this to prepare him for the entrance to priest hood.(Red Tsar) At the Seminary School Stalin converted to Marxism and was a devoted follower by 1897.() Before he graduated from the Seminary, he left and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1899. He started as the distributor of propaganda.(Red Tsar) This is the start of Stalin’s political career.
Stalin had many political jobs that helped him to assume the position of dictator. In 1902 Stalin was arrested and spent one year in prison and then was exiled to Siberia. He escaped the prison camp two years later. In 1902-1913 Stalin was arrested eight time .....
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