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- 5941: George Washington
- ... enemies. Always opposed to factions, his two administrations prepared the rivalry of the Federalist and Anti-federalist parties. Though unopposed for re-election, his second administration was the subject of uncommon, and sometimes indecent and abuse. He had one such attack to an alarm raised against a rabid dog: "Such exaggerated terms as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." The Whiskey ...
- 5942: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- ... s early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the family to be extremely dependent on the wealth of his grandfather's estate. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy as a child. In 1911 he entered the Newman School in Hackensack, NJ. Growing up with a father who was out of work and who relied on his wife's inheritance gave Fitzgerald a mixed feeling of guilt ...
- 5943: Frank Lincoln Wright
- ... given free run of the playroom filled with paste, paper, and cardboard. On the door were the words, SANCTUM SANCTORUM (Latin for: place of inviolable privacy). Mr. Wright was seen as a dreamy and sensitive child, and cases of him running away while working on the farmlands with some uncles is noted. This pattern of running away continued throughout his lifetime. WRIGHT'S FIRST BREAK In 1887, at the age of ...
- 5944: Emily Jane Bronte
- ... home. In other ways her life was unusual and even eccentric, contributing to the originality of her great novel. Emily Jane Bront was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire. She was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Reverend Patrick Bront and Maria Branwell Bront . When she was two years old, the family moved to Haworth. This remained her home until she passed away in December of 1848 at ...
- 5945: The Life of Helen Keller
- ... the one handed alphabet which gave her a way of communication with the outside world. Helen learned quickly and with great excitement. Her tantrums ceased and her manners vastly improved. She was a very bright child and person. Her generosity never ended and her handicap day by day was overcome. Helen Keller's goal in life was, to help others help them selves. That is what Anne did for her, and ...
- 5946: Thomas Paine: Propaganda and Persuasion
- ... anecdote. Paine told the story of a common man who wanted to see freedom in his lifetime. A noted one, who kept a tavern at Amboy, was standing at his door, with as pretty a child in his hand, about eight or nine years old, as I ever saw, and after speaking his mind as freely as he thought was prudent, finished with this unfatherly expression, Well! give me peace in ...
- 5947: The Ideal American: Malcolm Little
- ... things. His cruel life all pointed him towards these beliefs. A much more honest and religious man, may have come to the same conclusions had he have lived the life that Malcolm lived. One of abuse, poverty, murder, and hopelessness, all at the hands of the white man. His actions were not justified, but can almost be considering his plight. It is this partial justification that I offer as an answer ...
- 5948: Biography of Katharine Hepburn
- ... Hepburn Kathrine Hepbrun, the winner of more acting awards than any other actress in history, is a very dynamic woman. She was born in Hartford Connecticut, on May 12, 1907. She wass the second oldest child of six. Kate,as she was called by her family members, had two sisters, Peg and Marion, and three brothers, Tom, Dick, and Bob. She attended Bryn Mawr college in Connecticut. She majored in acting ...
- 5949: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... enough food to go around, and meat was a luxury, only to be eaten once a week. The only clothes he had, were hand-me-downs from his older brother (Davis 60-61). As a child John impressed his teachers as having an uncontrollable temper. A trait which he would someday value. He was constantly getting into fights with older boys who tried to take his lunch money. He soon got ...
- 5950: George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
- ... Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes The author George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an undomestic mother. He developed an interest in literature, music and painting at a very early age, but was never enabled to go to university. At the age of fifteen ...
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