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- 2161: FDRs Influence As President
- ... votes and his Republican opponent received 22,013,372 popular votes and 99 electoral votes. Many of the advisers who helped Roosevelt during his presidential campaigns continued to aid him after he entered the White House. By the time Roosevelt was inagurated on March 4, 1933, the economic situation was desperate. Between 13 and 15 million Americans were unemployed. Of these, between 1 and 2 million people were wandering about the ... The Tennessee Valley Bibliography Resources: William Slovzuch, F.D.R.; In his times, New York, Bantam Printing, 1985 Nathan Thompson, Our Great presidents, Boston, Little Brown, 1995 David Creaston, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York, Holiday House, 1992 www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/fr32.html Word Count: 3625
- 2162: The Life of Sid Vicious
- ... the bassist for the "Sex Pistols" and singer for "The Vicious White Kids", was an epitome of punk rock. John grew up in the slums of London in the 1960's in a shoddy flat house that contained only two rooms. His mother was an avid alcoholic and drug user. John and his mom were constantly moving. He always loved his mom though. He once said, "I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum." John was the image of his absent father, but tended towards picking up his mom's love for music in a house full of the sounds of jazz, in particular Ella Fitzgerald. Eventually Anne found a new man. His name was Chris Beverly. She later married him. Chris loved John, and made a request to legally adopt ...
- 2163: Helen Keller
- ... moved to the town of Wrenthan.(Howell 3) This town was only twenty-six miles from Boston and Helen knew it well. Her and Anne came to be very close friends. They now shared a house and farm together. Anne Sullivan was always known to Helen as teacher. Teacher was the first word that Helen new to say before water. Anne was very fond of Helen. Anne was sent to Helen ... She always taught to others the way that she was taught. Over the years Helen has received many awards and has achieved many of her goals. She has been asked to speak at the White House; her first time there was when Grover Cleveland invited her and then other presidents followed in doing the same thing. She also went to England when Queen Victoria invited her. Everyone can learn from Helen ...
- 2164: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... down from childhood through adulthood, and ultimately death. His thoughts, willingness, and competitive spirits will live on forever in the hearts of those who always seek the truth. WORKS CITED Bloom, Harold, ed. The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Volume 7. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. DISCovering Ostrom, Alan. The Poetic World of William Carlos Williams. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. Paul, Sherman. The Music of Survival: A Biography of a Poem By William Carlos Williams. Urbana: University ...
- 2165: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- ... wrote a public letter announcing that he would not be a candidate for a third term (World Book CD-ROM, 1995). In Grant's last message to Congress Grant surveyed his years in the White House. "It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. From the age of 17 I had never even witnessed the excitement attending a Presidential campaign but twice antecedent to my own candidacy, and at but one of them was I eligible as a voter (WWW Page, 1994)." On March 4, 1877 Grant retired from the White House (Encarta, 1995). When he returned home, his family and him took a world trip and left from Philadelphia (O'Brien, Steven. 1991).
- 2166: The Awakeing
- ... break that label; she fights to do as she wishes. Little by little she breaks free of society's' image, letting her independence shine through. She cancels her Tuesday socials and helps out around the house doing little chores. The biggest step she made was her decision to move away from her mansion and into the "pigeon house", a little cottage around corner. After this move she was free to explore her new profound freedom and desires. She succumbed to the passion in her heart and had a meaningless affair with Arobin, a ...
- 2167: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- ... The millionaire man was taken to Mars. Some regard this novel as Vonnegut's best novel. Next, Vonnegut signed a two-book contract with Fawcett. This contract was supposed to cover Canary in a Cat House and Mother Night. Canary in a Cat House was a series of twelve short stories that were published by other magazines. Mother Night emerged in 1962. This is one of few novels that does not involve any science-fiction or technology. Cat's ...
- 2168: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... worked in the Navy Pay Office. Through his work there, he met Elizabeth and eventually married her. By 1821, when Charles was four months old, John Dickens could no longer afford the rent on his house. John Dickens loved to entertain his friends with drinks and conversation. Throughout his life, he was very short of money and in debt. He often had to borrow money to pay off the debt and ... This novel was inspired by his childhood and was the first of his novels to be written entirely from the first person (Huffam). In Dickens' late period, he wrote four more books. They were Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), Great Expectations (1861), and his last novel to be completely finished, Our Mutual Friend (1865) (Huffam). His last works, were A Tale of Two Cities (1859), The Uncommercial Traveler (1861), and ...
- 2169: Vespasian
- ... provision that can be said to confer on him a naked autocracy. More important to him than any legal enactment, however, was the recognition of his extralegal authority (auctoritas) and the prestige of his upstart house. He carefully publicized the divine omens that portended his accession and also built up the titles surrounding his name. He held the consulate, for brief periods on each occasion, every year of his reign except ... The sum raised by Vespasian for public funds cannot be determined. But he was able to build his Forum and the Temple of Peace, to begin the Colosseum over the foundations of Nero's "Golden House," and above all to restore the capitol. His biographer Suetonius claims that throughout Vespasian's reign his firm policy was "first to restore stability to the tottering state, and then to adorn it." But, despite ...
- 2170: George Washington: Biography
- ... Assured that the Virginia frontier was safe from French attack, Washington left the army in 1758 and returned to Mount Vernon, directing his attention toward restoring his neglected estate. He erected new buildings, refurnished the house, and experimented with new crops. With the support of an ever-growing circle of influential friends, he entered politics, serving in Virginia's House of Burgesses from 1759 to 1774. In January 1759 he married Marth Dandridge Curtis, a wealthy and attractive young widow with two small children. After 1769, Washington became a leader in Virginia's opposition to ...
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