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- 4091: Richard Nixon
- ... between the US and Vietnam. During the campaign, five men connected with Nixon's reelection committee were discreetly arrested for breaking into the Democratic Party's national headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington D.C., attempting to steal documents and place wiretaps on the telephones. Secret peace meetings continued between the Untied States and Vietnam. Once an agreement was met, Nixon announced an official cease-fire over national television ... 1972. It was clear that he would be impeached by the House and convicted in the Senate, so on August 8, 1974, Nixon announced - without admitting guilt - that his resignation would take effect the following day and Vice - President Ford would take his place as president. One month later, President Ford issued a pardon for all federal crimes Nixon may have committed while president. Through traveling and writing, he gradually regained ...
- 4092: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... Nicholas became spiritual leader of the community. The community was very strict under the supervision of Nicholas. They read daily offices of the Book of Common Prayer, including the recital of the complete Psalter. every day. Day and night there was at least one member of the community kneeling in prayer at the alter, that they were keeping the word, "Pray without ceasing". They taught the neighborhood children, and looked after the ... He was fleeing from defeat from the battle of Naseby and was heading north to try to enlist support from the Scots. John brought him secretly to Little Gidding and got him away the next day. The community was now in much danger. The Presbyterian Puritans were now on the rise and the community was condemned with a series of pamphlets calling them an "Arminian Nunnery" (Ariminius was a Dutch ...
- 4093: Robert E. Lee
- ... he surrendered his near starving, depleted army to General Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander in chief, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. He penned a farewell address to his men and set off the next day to Richmond, where his family had been living since they had abandoned Arlington. His home confiscated, his family impoverished, and his heart heavy, with the burden of defeated South, Lee turned to the task of ... medicine, he refused saying "it was no use". For the next two weeks he stayed in bed. On October 10, Lee's pulse and breathing sped up and he suffered shivering spells. On the following day, Lee became delirious, and his mind wandered to the past. He occasionally called out some long forgotten names. "Tell Hill he must come up," he cried. His wife sat holding his hand the whole night ... gain an offensive position. On April 9, 1865, he surrendered his near starving, depleted army to General Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander in chief, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. He set off the next day to Richmond, where his family had been living since they had abandoned Arlington. After the war he applied immediately for pardon and restoration to citizenship, feeling that this example might lead other Confederates to ...
- 4094: Knute Rockne - Coach and Legend of Notre Dame
- ... to learn a spectacular art form. Football was no longer a sport of physical being, but more of a science which anyone could master. After the victory against Army, Knute decided to stay at N.D. and become a teacher. This was because he loved all the people so much. He would not stay long though, for he still grasps on dream of becoming a pharmacist. In Rockne's deal he ... coach of ND. His salary was increased to $5,000 a year. It was at this time that he loosened his grip on becoming a pharmacist and decided to devote his life to football. From day one Rockne's goal was to establish ND as a national sports power. Rockne once said about coaching, "We can all be geniuses, because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains ...
- 4095: John Lennon
- ... apartment of a suicidal overdose. This caused many problems for the group. John later admitted that "The Beatles were finished when Eppy died. I knew, deep inside me, that that was it, without him, we'd had it." John met a Japanese artist name Yoko Ono in 1967. In just a few weeks, the two were inseparable. This new relationship destroyed John's marriage with Cynthia and eventually destroyed his relationship ... Signature" solo album: Imagine in 1971. One song on the record, entitled "How do you Sleep?" includes the lines: The only thing you done was Yesterday And since you've gone you're just Another Day How do you sleep? These lines were directed to Paul McCartney. John Lennon recorded seven albums during 1970-1975 which included Imagine--1971 and Rock and Roll--1975. John semi-retired from music in 1975 ...
- 4096: Jerry Seinfield
- ... has made a difference in many peoples lives. For example, on Thursday night almost every one I know snuggles up in front of there television to watch Seinfeld, a sitcom staring Jerry Seinfeld. The next day you can hear them using dialogue from the show and laughing amongst themselves. It is as it his dialogue and situations he creates are being reenacted by everyone I know Jerry Seinfelds contribution is a ... one. He has set an example that, for a joke to be funny it doesn't have to be dirty. Seinfeld brings to people a source of relief and happiness at the end of the day . If his jokes can make someone's day a better one, or maybe just make a person smile, then his mission is complete. Jerry Seinfeld gives people the gift of happiness, and as far as I'm concerned that's one of ...
- 4097: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... Classical School, he had become qualified as a school teacher. He left his brothers at the now failing fur company and became a teacher at a one-room schoolhouse outside of Pittsfiesd. On his first day of the new job, the inexperienced teacher was confronted with thirty students of all ages and levels of skill. Some were his age, and a few utterly illiterate. In such extreme conditions Herman found it ... ship reached Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it had 150 barrels of oil in its hold. These were transferred to another New England ship to be sent home, and the Acushnet left Rio after only one day ion the scenic port Melville called the bay of all beauties. As they approached Cape Horn, Melville heard many dire stories from his fellow crewmen about these wild southern waters. The men also told whaling ... crew in August 1842. Ironically, the voyage on the Lucy Ann proved to be even more miserable that that of the Acushnet. When the ship docked in Tahiti, Melville managed another daring escape. That same day he boarded the Charles and Henry as a member of her crew, and they set sail for Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. This was the final destination of the ship, and in November ...
- 4098: Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky
- ... despite their faults they are still a good role models, like President Clinton, because he has done well for our country, he cares about the people and his family, and finally people have affairs every day of their lives. First of all, our President has done very well for our country. Economically, we have actually started paying off our debt and we are in very good shape. He has helped the ... father can. This shows the young person that he is a loving father and they can look up to him for that. Finally, everybody complains about our President having an affair. People have affairs every day of their lives and whose to know if their kids know or not. Parents kids could be watching from the other room and their parent is supposed to be a good role model? At least ... hurt anyone physically, emotionally but not physically. In conclusion, even though President Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, he can still be a role model for the young people, because people have affairs every day of their lives, he has done well for our country, and most of all he cares about the people and his family.
- 4099: Henry David Thoreau was a Rebel
- ... he would not founder and go to the bottom and make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. (Krutch 173) Thoreau believed life to be too complicated and such things as internal improvements to ... live with such hurry and waste of time? We are determined to be starved for we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches to-day to save nine to-morrow. As for work, we haven't any of any consequence. We have the Saint Vitus' dance and cannot possibly keep our heads still. ... Hardly a man takes a half hour ... of purification. By getting rid of the frantic pace dictated by technology and the enslaving grasp of material luxuries, man has the chance to purify himself through communion with nature (13). The renewal of the day, signaled by the dawn, also becomes a signal to renew the dawn in us, and rise with the sun to an intellectual level, by reading the best works of the best writers (184). Finally, ...
- 4100: The Crime at Compiegne
- The Crime at Compiegne Proving herself to be a good deal more than ordinary, Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of Orleans and patron saint of France, united her nation at a critical hour in history and decisively turned the Hundred Years' War in France's favor, forever ending England's dreams ... cannot fail to be criminals" seemed to be written especially for Jeanne. As a female in the early 1400s, Saint Jeanne managed to break two stereotypes rigorously supported by the Roman Catholic Church of the day, that God could speak directly to the people, even a peasant like Jeanne, and that God not only showed himself to women, but that he also could command the "inferior sex" to serve Him gloriously ...
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