Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
.... been
more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night
to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gauntly” (16). Soon
after the disappearance of Richard's father, he begins to notice constant
starvation. This often reappears in his ensuing life. The type of hunger
that Richard describes is worse than one who has not experienced chronic
hunger can even imagine. “Once again I knew hunger, biting hunger, hunger
that made my body aimlessly restless, hunger that kept me .....
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Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
.... administration, he continued his attack on the Mofia.
Robert Kennedy had no sympathy for the mob, nor did he care that he was
being criticized by the media for his “harsh measures” such as his
extensive use of wiretaps .
In 1964 he resigned as Attorney General to subsequently gain a Senate
seat from New York. While being a Senator, his views on government slightly
changed. He was now paying more attention to the needs of the poor
minorities, and was criticizing the involvement of the United Stat .....
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Robert Mannyng Of Brunne
.... Synne is a collection of moralistic tales, also known as
epiphanies, meant to show the English the errors of their sinful life. Its
intimate descriptions of daily life provides a fine social history of
fourteenth-century England - it is far more history than literature. On the
other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based
on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of
Avalon, Geoffrey Monmouth, Wace, Shakespeare,Pierre Langtoft and Bede .....
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The Work Of Robert Frost
.... and may in fact not know that he has it: but
there in his poems it is, and it is what makes them so solid, so humorous,
and so satisfying.
His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are
the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like,
America, or better yet, the world. He has been able to believe, as any good
artist must, that the things he knows best because they are his own will
turn out to be true for other people. He trusts his own feelings, his .....
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The Life And Work Of Robert Browning
.... indifference and largely
misunderstood. It was not until the 1860's that he would at last gain
publicity and would even be compared with Alfred Lord Tennyson, another
very famous poet of the time. Some of his early poetry was influenced by
his unusual education. The poet also had an anxious desire to avoid
exposing himself explicitly to his readers. The first poem he wrote
called Pauline, was written in 1883 at the age of twenty-one, but he did
not sign it because of his fear of exposing himself to .....
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Colt: A Man And His Guns
.... in
Amherst, MA.
During the years of 1830 - 1831 Colt voyaged to India.. It was during
these years that Colt first conceived the idea of a revolving firearm. Some
think it may have come from watching the revolving wheel of the ship, turning
and locking. While on board ship, Colt must have seen other revolving firearms
in London or India. He carved a wooden model of his ideal gun while he was at
sea. None of what Colt may have previously seen on revolving guns could have
led to his invention .....
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
.... a Roman
Catholic could win in a predominantly Protestant state.
When the convention opened, it appeared that Kennedy’s only serious
challenge for the nomination would come from the Senate majority leader,
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. However, Johnson was strong only among
Southern delegates. Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot and then
persuaded Johnson to become his running mate.
Two weeks later the Republicans nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for
president and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., w .....
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The Life And Works Of Samual Clemens
.... of tea. He then became a reporter, but he was
quickly moved up to editor of the Virginia City, Nev., Enterprise, this is
when he began using Pseudonym “Mark Twain”. In 1864 Twain joined the staff
of the Morning Call, which is when he met Bret Harte, the first purely
literary figure he had ever known. The next year he wrote The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. After his publishment he was sent around
the world by the Sacromento Union. Later in Twains life he faced many inner
struggles which .....
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Biograhy Of Arnold Schwarzenegger
.... enthusiasts, hollywood, and most importantly, an
inseparable bond with the American Dream make a superstar of the man who is
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Born in the tiny village of Thal-By-Graz , Austria, young Arnold
Schwarzenegger did not seem destined for grandeur. "In the beginning
Arnold seemed an unlikely figure to become a cultural icon" (Flynn 10).
Living in poor, medieval-like conditions, Schwarzenegger was raised
alongside his older brother Meinhard in a strict, Catholic hous .....
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The Works Of Sinclair Lewis
.... portrays a type of hypocritical and mercenary religious
leader. In another of these crusading novels, Dodsworth (1929), Lewis
depicts the egotistic, pretentious married woman sometimes found in
American upper-middle-class circles.
Among his later works are It Can't Happen Here (1935), the chilling story
of a future revolution leading to Fascist control of the U.S., and
Kingsblood Royal (1947), a novel on racial intolerance. Lewis was
fascinated by the theater. He collaborated on a dramatization of Dod .....
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The Work Of Stephen King
.... violent tales of vampires and ghosts. "You never
have to ask yourself who's afraid of the big bad wolf?--You are" (Yarbro
220). "King has a talent for raising fear from dormancy. He knows how to
activate our primal fears" (Nolan 222). Where does he get these fears?
His own personal fears in (descending order) are the fear of someone else,
others (paranoia), death, insects (especially spiders, flies, & beetles),
closed in places, rats, snakes, deformity, squishy things, and his number
one fear is .....
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Stephen King: The King Of Terror
.... Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his
adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen's
father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to
buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a
big indirect impact on King's life. In the autobiographical work Danse
Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my
father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My
brother and I didn't see a great d .....
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Robert Boyle
.... field led him to chemistry. At first Boyle was mainly
interested in the facet of chemistry that dealt with the preparation of drugs,
but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it
in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists
as John Wilkins and John Wallis, and together in 1660, they founded the Royal
Society of London for the Advancement of Science.
From this point onwards, Boyle seriously undertook the reformation of
science. .....
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The Nomination OfAndrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
.... He was orphaned at age 14. After studying law and
becoming a member of the Bar in North Carolina later he moved to Nashville
Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by
William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later
remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794.
Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional
convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator
in 1797, bu .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
.... Britain(Anderson
98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John on
frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary
history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had
been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the
country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the
country(Anderson 12). The Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and
their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, a .....
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