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- 1091: Richard M. Nixon
- ... little sleep. His junior year he decided to study law and become a politician. In 1929, his senior year, he won a part scholarship to Harvard University, but couldn't accept. Due to the economic depression that was over the country, Nixon didn't have enough money to pay for the rest of the immense cost to go to Harvard. But in 1930, he entered Whittier College. In 1933, tragedy struck ...
- 1092: John Lennon
- ... in 19 days. On their next album, Beatles For Sale, the material reflected how unhappy John and Paul were with life on the road. Songs like "I'm a Loser" and "No Reply" spoke of depression and the frenzy of life in the spotlight. John once said, "It's like we're four freaks being wheeled out to be seen, shake our hair about, and get back into our cage afterwards ...
- 1093: Al Capone
- ... today to see a white collar individual use their professional look to bring about money to themselves. Money was an immense thing and was always needed in the years of Capone's lifetime. With the depression and war, it made it difficult for people to even cut even with the cost of living. People always saw themselves in contention with life, and it wasn't becoming easier. For Capone, cutting even ...
- 1094: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... relationships, problems related to jobs, problems in school, loss of loved one (like Sylvia’s loss of her father), their financial situation being bad, body image, or various abuses like physical, mental, emotional or sexual. Depression and stress are considered as the major factors in suicide. Different people deal with stress in different ways. It also depends on what kind of society and atmosphere you live in. Not everyone attempts suicide ...
- 1095: Silent Cal: An American President
- ... vacationing in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he issued the most famous of his laconic statements, "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country, Coolidge was in retirement. Before his death in January 1933, he confided to an old friend, ". . . I feel I no longer fit in with these times."
- 1096: The Life of Hitler
- ... source of all their problems. Since the country was in chaos after the war, and was forced to pay billions in damages, The Germans saw hope in Adolf Hitler. In the late 20's the depression hit which made the situation even worse. Hitler in his speeches blamed the Jews and Communists for their misfortunes and many listed. Unemployment was very high at that time standing at about 25%. Hitler also ...
- 1097: Jane Addams
- ... in life was to benefit others in some form or another, after graduating from Rockford, she went to the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia. Unfortunately, her stay in this college was short-lived because depression and a back surgery caused her to drop out. Besides being educated in academics, she wanted to learn about people…all types of people. She did this by traveling abroad in Europe for a few ...
- 1098: WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People
- ... thing up until the gates of the public opinion are opened and the walls of segregation fall down. (Paschal 144). A lot of blacks suffered in the 1930's during the affects of the Great Depression. At the time DuBois was bringing blacks together in what was called " voluntary segregation", that is, blacks making up their own organizations and working together. Only at that time he said that if they would ...
- 1099: Marie Curie: A Pioneering Physicist
- ... insisted that Polish schools teach the Russian language and Russian history. The Poles had to teach their children their own language and history in secrecy. Manya enjoyed learning but her childhood was always overshadowed by depression. At the young age of six, her father lost his job and her family became very poor. In the same year of 1873, her mother died of tuberculosis. As if that wasn't enough tragedy ...
- 1100: Symbols in Poe's Writing
- ... 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 poems, which is about a ...
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