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- 4211: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... sold wood, and scraped mussel shells of the bottom of the Wabash River to sell by the ton to button makers. When his mother moved the family to Detroit , six years after her husband's death, Jimmy hauled ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood ... absence of the body was nearly as bad as the murder itself. The killers had inflicted a special kind of torture on the survivors. It allowed family members to think up a new form of death every day. There would be no ending, no funeral, no rush of sorrow, followed by acceptance and no rebuilding. There are many questions that have been left unanswered by Hoffa's disappearance. The most obvious ...
- 4212: Lady Audleys Secret
- ... mystery originated in a book called The Woman In White, by Wilkie Collins. Collin s tale is about a daughter who is bound to marry a man her father has chosen for her on his death bed, and the investigation by her half sister and a man named Walter Hartright into her mysterious death (Peterson, 41). Braddon s novel mimics several of the key devices and themes used in Collins tale, like making the hero the sleuth who solves the underlying mystery, rather than using a professional detective and ...
- 4213: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
- ... the family. To myself the lands on which I was born & live. He placed me at the English school at 5. years of age and at the Latin at 9. where I continued until his death. My teacher Mr. Douglas a clergyman from Scotland was but a superficial Latinist, less instructed in Greek, but with the rudiments of these languages he taught me French, and on the death of my father I went to the revd Mr. Maury a correct classical scholar, with whom I continued two years, and then went to Wm. and Mary college, to wit in the spring of 1760 ...
- 4214: Bill Cosby
- ... charity and other causes and has lived a very good life. If I were to meet Bill Cosby I would first ask him: What were your feelings when you first heard about your son=s death? I would ask this because the book is entitled, ABill Cosby Family Man,@ and his son=s death must have had a great effect on his family. I would also ask him: When you were asked to go to court about your alleged daughter, what was your reaction? What was the first thing ...
- 4215: Biography: Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- ... Institute for the Blind in Britain. She campaigned to make Braille, the raised form of writing, the standard for printed communication for the blind. There had previously been five competing methods. Later life After the death of Anne Sullivan Macy in 1936, Miss Keller was assisted by Polly Thomson, who had joined her household in 1914. After Miss Thomson's death in 1960, a nurse-companion, Winifred Corbally, was with Miss Keller until she died a few weeks before her 88th birthday on June 1, 1968, at her home, Arcan Ridge, in Westport, Connecticut. Her ashes ...
- 4216: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... Ford 210 212). Georgia feels great pleasure over acting like this to Maya, because she finally feels in control of the relationship. She never talks to Maya again and doesn't find out about her death until months after the funeral. Munro brings realization to her short stories and she clearly shows that each character has personal values and beliefs and they each view things differently. The ability to deal with these problems vary distinctly in each character. The irony of the story "Differently" is not the loss of Georgia's husband, lover, or the death of her once best friend. Georgia reflects back to the evenings in the book store, the light in the street, the reflection in the window. These were the things she missed most in her life ...
- 4217: Spelling And Differently - Ana
- ... Ford 210 212). Georgia feels great pleasure over acting like this to Maya, because she finally feels in control of the relationship. She never talks to Maya again and doesn't find out about her death until months after the funeral. Munro brings realization to her short stories and she clearly shows that each character has personal values and beliefs and they each view things differently. The ability to deal with these problems vary distinctly in each character. The irony of the story "Differently" is not the loss of Georgia's husband, lover, or the death of her once best friend. Georgia reflects back to the evenings in the book store, the light in the street, the reflection in the window. These were the things she missed most in her life ...
- 4218: The Life of Sid Vicious
- ... be hated, loathed and despised by me, he naturally went for her." They thought she was picking on Sid's weaknesses to get what she wanted, and was the one that lead him to his death. Nancy was found dead in their hotel room in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. She had been stabbed by no one knows. It is still a mystery in which all fingers seem to ... February 2, 1979. Sid had a feeling he would die early. He had earlier said, "I'll die before I'm very old, I don't know why, I just have this feeling." Sid's death was a tragic end to a tragic story. Sid Vicious was a symbol of punk rock; he had all the makings of a legend. His short-lived tragic life is known by many. He so ...
- 4219: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... was too great for him to stop, and the left back wheel crushed Pierred as he lay stunned in the road. Pierre Curie died instantly. Marie was shattered by the news of her husband's death but soon recovered the determination to carry on with her work. The French govern-ment proposed to recognize Pierre's work to the nation by granting Marie a pention for herself and her children. She ... at last showed her final feeling on the matter by the way in which she gave her first public speech lecture to a packed crowd. In the year of 1910, four years after Pierre's death, Marie published a long account of her discoveries of radioactivity. This led to her being awarded a second Nobel Prize. Not for another fifty years would anyone accomplish such a remarkable honor. This time, Marie ...
- 4220: Symbols in Poe's Writing
- ... and rose quickly to the rank of sergeant major. After a while Poe became tired of the same daily routine of military life. Poe wrote several letters to his foster father, quite regularly. After the death of Frances Allan, Poe met with John Allan in February of 1829. On July first of 1830, Poe enlisted in West Point. While Edgar was at West Point, John Allan, who had remarried, continued to ... edition of his poems called The Raven and Other Poems. Poe also became the editor of the weekly Broadway Journal. Poe fell in Love with Virginia and she died of in January of 1848, her death sent Poe into deep depression. The following year, 1849. Poe's stories and poems contain several symbols. Some symbols are very obvious while other symbols are subtle. The Raven is one of Poe's greatest ...
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