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- 9161: The Work of Robert Frost
- ... it sounds like hostility. For there can be a harmony of separate sounds that seem to be at war with another, but one sound is like no sound at all, or else it is like death. Let each thing know its limits even as it strains to pass them. No limit will ever be passed, since indeed it is a limit. Which does not mean that we shall never stare across ...
- 9162: Reflections of Milton in is Works
- ... job within it. But, England became tired of the strict Puritan rule, and Cromwell's son was defeated, and hastily replaced by Charles II. Everyone who supported Cromwell and the civil war was sentenced to death. Because of his standing in the community, Milton was allowed to retire in peace. As punishment he lost everything he had including his reputation. He would use the events of his life to help him ...
- 9163: The Biography of Kurt Donald Cobain
- ... world because of his loud guitar playing. Kids heard his music and just said wow I want to play like that. Some other people he influenced was his band member David Grahl because after his death David went on and played with the Foo Fighters. Kurt was influenced by others more because some parents don't let their kids listen to his music because he did drugs and he killed him ...
- 9164: John F Kennedy
- ... for your country." As president he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. Before his death, he laid plans for a massive plans for assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty. John F. Kennedy was called the dreamer President. This inspiring president challenged America to be the first country to ...
- 9165: Thomas Jefferson
- ... abroad an agent to select the faculty, he chose the books for the library, drew up the curriculum, designed the buildings, and supervised their construction. The University finally opened in 1825, the winter before his death. Despite his preoccupation with the University, he continued to pursue a multitude of other tasks. In his eightieth year, for example, he wrote on politics, sending President Monroe long expositions later known to the world ...
- 9166: John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success
- John D. Rockefeller: Obsession Into Success John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate who, by the time of his death in 1937, was probably worth close to a billion dollars, is perhaps one of the best historical examples of an obsessive-compulsive. An obsessive-compulsive is one who is driven to an act or acts ...
- 9167: Martin Luther King
- ... Luther King Jr. was a fine and strong man and should be viewed as such, along with other American heroes, such as Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. He truly believed in his philosophy till his death. Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 19, 1929, to Albert and Martin Luther King Sr. He was the second child in the family, with an older sister, and a younger brother coming later ...
- 9168: Hubert H. Humphrey
- ... S. president in 1968, but was unsuccesful in his attempts. Humphrey gained his national reputation as a U.S. Senator from the years 1949-1964 and then he was senator again from 1971 until his death. Hubert Humphrey became in his later years, one of the most respected political figures. However one thing that did put a damper on his political stature, was his contriversal support of the Johnson administrations vietnam ...
- 9169: Henry Ford: A Life in Brief
- ... was not around to see it. In 1947 Henry Ford fell ill and took to his bed. On April 27, alone with his wife and one servant, Henry died at age eighty-four. After his death, a foundation was formed to administer his vast fortune. The foundation gave substantial support to various projects in the arts, in medicine and in other important areas of American life. Ford was a great man ...
- 9170: Wilson, Woodrow
- ... the League, won in a landslide. In December 1920, Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919. The former president and his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, whom he married in 1915, after the death of his first wife, continued to make their home in Washington, D.C. Wilson died there on Feb. 3, 1924. Bibliography: Baker, Ray S., Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, 8 vols. (1927-39; repr. 1968 ...
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