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- 541: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... History place). Luck was a major factor. The war however ended with the Germans losing and Germany becoming a republic (Heyes p13-15). This upset Hitler a great deal. He spent many days in great depression. The most important part of Hitler’s life was joining the German Worker’s Party. This was the true start of Hitler’s political career. For the first time in Hitler’s life he has ... was the greatest achievement of all. The Nazi party, overnight, had become the second largest party in Germany from the smallest. All of this was done by the will of Adolf Hitler. Now the Great Depression is two years before, millions of people were unemployed and thousands of businesses failed. People now turned to Hitler in hopes of a better future (History place). Hitler’s ambitions for power gave him hope ...
- 542: Abraham Lincoln
- ... Lincoln set an example that all Presidents are still measure by for eloquence and brevity. During Lincoln’s presidency, the Civil War broke out. For Lincoln the country was out of control. Falling into a depression that would plague him throughout his life. Lincoln underwent endless crises that would have shattered a weaker man. Lincoln was a president that lacked administrative experience, suffered from depression, and was thrust into the middle of the Civil War. Lincoln became a tough wartime President. He flexed his powers whenever necessity demanded. He became a “warrior for the American dream”. Putting aside he hate ...
- 543: Hitler
- ... Hitler undertook a series of measures designed to rid Germany of its obligations under the Treaty of Versailles (imposed on Germany after World War I), restore the economy which had been devastated by the Great Depression, rearm the country, and acquire Lebensraum ("living space") for Germany. In Mein Kampf, he had written of the need for this "living space" which he said could only be acquired at the expense of countries ... 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 ...
- 544: The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan
- ... Life and Times of Ronald Reagan The life of Ronald Wilson Reagan is a story of unlikely successes. Born into a poor family, he came of age during the hard economics times of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Yet he was able to achieve great successes in two quite different fields-as an actor and in politics. Ronald Reagan is one of America's most interesting Presidents because of ... a shoe salesman. Alcoholism cursed the life of Jack Reagan. His older son Neil said bluntly that it prevented him form becoming a business success. However, Ronald blames the twin curse of drink and the Depression. Both boys escaped much of the bitterness which can afflict the children of alcoholics because their mother consoled them that their father's drinking " was a sickness" which deserved their compassion. Nelle Reagan dominated the ...
- 545: Ernest Hemingway
- ... at Oak Park High School, where his first writings where in the school's magazine. His mom liked to spend money and spent too much, creating problems between her and her husband. Then, the Great Depression worsened their financial problems. By 1928 Dr. Hemingway was in a terrible financial state, and killed himself. The act of suicide was repeated by two of Ernest's siblings, and later himself. When he was ... he won the Pulitzer Prize for Old Man and the Sea. He won the Nobel Prize for that work in 1954. Hemingway died on July 2, 1961. He committed suicide as a result of mental depression. In most of Hemingway's books there is charector with certain traits. This character is usually the main character. This character is called the code hero. A code hero follows all the traits below. Nada ...
- 546: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... gates ajar and rays of truth you cannot seeare flashing through eternity(Moran 24) Poe died the following morning. It is reported that Poe ended up dying of Lobar pneumonia complicated by transient retardation or depression which is excessive nervous prostration affecting the brain and resulting from exposure and encephalitis or inflammation of the brain (Scarlet 365). With Poe’s burial there has bean a lot of mix up. Poe was ... which is referring to Hell. There are also a lot of themes in "The Raven" that relate to Poe’s life. In "The Raven" Poe talks a lot of loneliness. Poe suffered from loneliness and depression, both clinical and chemical. It is also said that Poe had a bust of Pallas over his door when he lived in New York city (The Raven). Poe also writes of imagining that there is ...
- 547: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... ajar and rays of truth you cannot see are flashing through eternity (Moran 24) Poe died the following morning. It is reported that Poe ended up dying of Lobar pneumonia complicated by transient retardation or depression which is excessive nervous prostration affecting the brain and resulting from exposure and encephalitis or inflammation of the brain (Scarlet 365). With Poe's burial there has bean a lot of mix up. Poe was ... which is referring to Hell. There are also a lot of themes in "The Raven" that relate to Poe's life. In "The Raven" Poe talks a lot of loneliness. Poe suffered from loneliness and depression, both clinical and chemical. It is also said that Poe had a bust of Pallas over his door when he lived in New York city (The Raven). Poe also writes of imagining that there is ...
- 548: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... ajar and rays of truth you cannot see are flashing through eternity (Moran 24) Poe died the following morning. It is reported that Poe ended up dying of Lobar pneumonia complicated by transient retardation or depression which is excessive nervous prostration affecting the brain and resulting from exposure and encephalitis or inflammation of the brain (Scarlet 365). With Poe's burial there has bean a lot of mix up. Poe was ... which is referring to Hell. There are also a lot of themes in "The Raven" that relate to Poe's life. In "The Raven" Poe talks a lot of loneliness. Poe suffered from loneliness and depression, both clinical and chemical. It is also said that Poe had a bust of Pallas over his door when he lived in New York city (The Raven). Poe also writes of imagining that there is ...
- 549: Willem De Kooning
- ... Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New York City. Then in 1935, he landed a job with the Works Progress Administration, a government agency that put artists to work during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in the downtown art scene among his fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman ... Kline gave himself away to a heart attack at 52. Three years later David Smith died in a car crash at 59 and in 1970 Mark Rothko, slit his wrists while battling ever-deepening alcoholic depression. Willem de Kooning was the principal member of the Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism gave birth as a reaction to years of struggle against conservative taste, improvised circumstances and reinforced by confused feelings created after World ...
- 550: Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, and Harrison
- ... Buren was elected president, this time I think voters used their heads and knew Van Buren was the only candidate really ready to face the economic conditions. Soon after Van Buren took over there a depression began, This was a time when virtually everyone was poorer. Many people blamed Van Buren for the Depression because he was president at the time, but it wasn't really his fault. Van Buren made a long term solution by creating "The independent Treasury Bill", which in essence took away the banks dominant ...
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