Biography Of Carolyn Chute
.... seemed to help her writing because soon after she published her first fictional works for magazines. After her success with magazines she decided to write for herself.
To date she has three published novels; Merry Men, Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts, and her critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine. She was quoted as saying, “This book was involuntarily researched,” when interviewed by a reporter. Carolyn’s pain and humiliation, which she had suffered earlier in life, only fueled a fire to .....
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The Maturing Of Achilles
.... Argives in conquering Troy and getting Helen back. Achilles joined this fight not because the Trojans had ever wronged him. Achilles starts in this fight for one reason, glory. The easiest place to acquire large quantities of glory is in war. Nobody has ever heard of a farmer becoming famous for raising the largest pig. But people have heard of the famous captain that planted the American flag on Hamburger Hill. Achilles was out to become famous and this was the best way.
Achilles was the Argives main .....
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The Biography Of Husband E. Kimmel
.... to the sea and eventually found himself stationed in Hawaii. When the depression hit in the early 30's, he had finally rose to the position of Captain and then later to Commodore. He maintained his position as an aide to the Fleet command until his superiors retired or were sent into the Atlantic at the onset of World War II.
Once he entered the position of Fleet Commander, he tried to maintain the efficiency of the fleet by ordering training maneuvers for preparedness conditioning. It was at this time t .....
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Benito Mussolini
.... get the people's blood racing on church issues. One thing Benito Mussolini was not afraid of was the rage of other men. For these articles he spent time in prison and was then deported back to Italy.
In Italy he persisted and gave public speeches, the people loved his ideas. He became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialist. In November 1914 he published, Il Popolo d'Italia, and the prowar group Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria. Mussolini's lifeblood went into Il Popo .....
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Ray Bradbury
.... four issues of Futuria Fantasia, his own fan magazine, contributing much of the published material himself. Bradbury's first paid publication was "Pendulum" in 1941 to Super Science Stories. In 1942 Bradbury wrote "The Lake," the story in which he discovered his distinctive writing style. By 1943 he had given up his job selling newspapers and began writing full-time, contributing numerous short stories to periodicals. In 1945 his short story "The Big Black and White Game" was selected for Best America .....
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Bill Gate's Biography
.... to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft, and plays an important role in the technical development .....
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John Dalton
.... until the end of his life. It ultimately to contained 200,000 entries of meteorological observations recording the changeable climate of the Lake District in which he lived. In 1793 Dalton published Meteorological Observations and Essays. He then became interested in preparing collections of botanical and insect species. In 1787, he began observations about aurora phenomena--luminous, sometimes coloured displays in the sky caused by electrical disturbances in the atmosphere.
Some of his studies in m .....
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Levi
.... had occupied for three generations. In 1961 Levi became the general manager of a factory producing paints. He retired in 1977 to become a full-time writer.
His prison recollections Levi wrote in the form of memoir, Se questo è un uomo. It was reprinted in an enlarged edition ten years later. The book sold over half a million copies in Italy, was translated into eight languages and adapted for the theater and radio. It documented how the camp deprived each individual of his and her identity and dignit .....
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Hitler's Ambitions
.... the army. Another event happened that year, Hitler’s half-brother, Alois Jr., ran away from home because of the constant beatings he had received from his father. Now Hitler’s father’s abuse was put upon Hitler (Flood, p6-7). When the time to choose a secondary school came, Hitler wanted to go to a classical school but was forced to go to a technical school by his father. In secondary school Hitler’s grades dropped dramatically (Heyes p21). Hitler was however very interested in German Nationalism a .....
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Clement Richard Attlee
.... officials, like their Canadian counterparts, thought Newfoundland should join Canada. But this could only be done by consent. So what did Newfoundlanders want?
The Dominions Secretary, Clement Attlee, visited Newfoundland in 1942, and he was followed the next year by a "goodwill mission" of three British members of parliament. These soundings showed that while very few people seemed to support confederation, there was widespread unease about an immediate and unconditional return to responsible gove .....
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Julius Caesar's Personality Was What Killed Him
.... Scene II), he was told. He was warned several other times also. Even though Julius Caesar was a superstitious man, he chose to ignore the warnings. His superstition shows when he claims his wife, Calpurnia, she can be cured of sterility if she is touched by one of the holy runners. In this case the holy runner is friend Mark Antony who is with him until the end. Two other men in the crowd, Marcus Brutus and Cassius, are nobles and conspire against Caesar. They plan to assassinate Caesar and his frien .....
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Shih Huang Ti
.... wall would serve as a barricade to keep out all tribes that wanted to invade China. It also served to separate the civilized acts of the farmers in China to the barbaric acts of the nomadic tribes. What Shih did not know was that the construction would cause many deaths and much suffering to the builders of the wall. The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attack .....
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Christopher Columbus Was A Villain
.... in 1453. The Muslim Ottoman Turks conquered and took control of the eastern Mediterranean, which was at that time, the only way to India and China for all the luxurious, exotic, Asian goods. Inevitably, the Turks marked up prices having control of the entrance to the east. This ultimately forced the rest of Europe to find new routes to the East. During this period, besides Portugal, who was the prominent exploring country trying to find a route to the East from South Africa, Spain offered very pro .....
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Herman Melville
.... and clerk at his brother’s fur company. After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor.
Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After spending a month as a captive of cannibals in Types, he escapes aboard the Lucy Ann and is sent ashore as a mutineer. He escaped there and ended up working on a potato farm. Later that year he leav .....
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JFK: His Life And Legacy
.... to Great 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, Rosem .....
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