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- 4691: John F. Kennedy 2
- ... of the senate office he wrote a book, "Profiles of Courage", which won a Pulitzer Prize in Biography. It is yet indeed President John F Kennedy led an exciting life. He did everything from attending great colleges to earning purple hearts for courageous behavior. He married a beautiful woman with whom he shared lovely children. Although he did live a great life, in the peak of his presidency his life was put to an end. As the nation joined and mourned his death, people from all over the world gathered at the funeral in Washington D ...
- 4692: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. He was a child who was wanted and adored, in spite of the difficulties of Joyce's pregnancy. He was a normal, healthy child whose birth was the occasion of great joy. As a tot, he was a happy bubbly youngster who loved stuffed bunnies, wooden blocks, etc. He also had a dog-named Frisky, his much loved childhood pet. Despite a greater number than usual ... that most serial killers stop once the victim dies. Everything is leading up to that. They tie them up; they like to her them scream and beg for their lives. It makes the killer feel great, superior, powerful, dominant...In Dahmer's case, everything is post-mortem...all of his 'fun' began after the victims died...He led a rich fantasy life that focused on having complete control over people...That ...
- 4693: Jean Sartre
- ... No one is complete until death when self-definition ceases. Then, how others interpret the individual is based upon the individual s accomplishments and failings In reality this concept is correct if someone was a great man or woman that means they did great things when they were living. If someone did not do anything worthwhile means the person did not accomplish much. But now days having a family, living a good honest life is an accomplishment. No, the ...
- 4694: Jackie Robinson
- ... Jewish, perhaps because the Robinsons found Jews far more ready than other whites to accept them socially (Rampersad 221). Jackie Robinson was able to live successfully in Brooklyn, and not only because he was a great athletic superstar but because he had many friends and supporters that didn t consider him an outsider. They let him live amongst them, supported him, and befriended him and his family. Rachel Robinson (Jackie s ... Charles Dexter. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1964. 4. Robinson, Rachel, and Lee Daniels. Jackie Robinson, An Intimate Portrait. Ed. Sharon AvRutick. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. 5. Tygiel, Jules. Baseball s Great Experiment, Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. New York: Oxford, 1997.
- 4695: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... the portrait. In Rome, where his art came to life, he died; in the year 1520. Raphael is out of favour today; his works seem too perfect, too faultless for our slipshod age. Yet these great icons of human beauty can never fail to stir us: his Vatican murals can stand fearlessly beside the Sistine ceiling. The School of Athens, for example, monumentally immortalizing the great philosophers, is unrivaled in its classic grace. Raphael s huge influence on successive artists is all the more impressive considering his short life (Web Museum 4). The life of Raphael Sanzio stands alone in the ...
- 4696: Hobbes
- ... Hobbes. Pg. 107) The only way to prevent entering a state of war is to erect one common power, which is known as a commonwealth or sovereign, who is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the If this indeed occurs, the sovereign is able to enforce laws that give the people an assurance that they are not in ... a subject, and before such judges that are appointed by the sovereign. Hobbes believes that any law enacted by the sovereign is a good law because the sovereign is "One person, of whose Acts a great Multitude, by mutuall Covenants one with another, have made themselves every one the In Thomas Hobbes Leviathan a convincing argument is given for the benefit of an absolute power in a governmental system. Whether or ...
- 4697: Helen Keller
- ... in Boston. Anne Sullivan, who was also a recent Perkins graduate, was suggested to be Helen's teacher by Michael Anagnos. Michael Anagnos was the professor of Samuel Gridley Howe, a gentleman who was having great success working with the deaf and blind at Perkins (Notable 389). Helen's greatest inspiration and life long companion, Anne Sullivan, arrived at her home in Alabama in March of 1887. In just a couple ... a purpose. Her beliefs were reflected through her work of this period. In 1910 A Song of the Stone Wall was published. This patriotic poem was 600 lines long. This was the last of her great poems. It is said that, "After Anne Sullivan and John Macy's marriage ended Keller never again wrote with such lyric power," (Notable 390). Also, a collection of socialist essays entitled, Out of the Dark ...
- 4698: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... items that had been uncovered seemed important enough to justify further digs (Duchκne 57). A section of wall that was found was identified by Schliemann as the fortification built by Lysimachus, lieutenant of Alexander the Great. Digging past that wall, the crew found fortifications that dated back to the 13th century B.C. (Duchκne 56). Some anthropomorphic vases were found, whose necks were decorated with what Schliemann interpreted to be the ... have discovered the tombs of Agamemnon, Cassandra, Eurymedon, and their companions In the sepulchers I have found immense treasure in archaic objects and pure gold. By themselves alone these treasures are enough to fill a great museum, which will be the world's most wonderful and which for centuries to come will draw thousands of foreigners from all countries to Greece" (qtd. in Duchκne 75). Early in 1878, Mycenae was published ...
- 4699: Grace Murray Hopper
- Grace Murray Hopper - A Life Story It was 1906 in New York City when the great pioneer in data processing, Grace Murray Hopper, was born to the parents Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horn Murray. Even as a young child Grace loved learning about mathematics and the new technological advances ... After serving in the Navy from 1943 - 1986, during which she received the rank of rear admiral, she retired to take her final job as the senior consultant with Digital Equipment Association. Grace Hopper, the great pioneer in data processing and computer technology, died in 1992 at the age of 86.
- 4700: Geoffery Chaucer
- ... was an amazing writer most of his life is fragmentary, but there is a lot of it. A lot of people's lives back then were difficult to document. He was an extraordinary man, a great poet who was courtier, soldier, learned man, much travelled minor diplomat. The range of his experience and interests is amazing, from common life and bawedy talkes to puritanical religion. He knew an assortion of people ... of the kings works. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1406, buried in Westminster Abbey. Even though Chaucer had a collection of works unlike any others he still had yet to be appreciated as a truly great writer. And along with this he still wasn't able to attaine knighthood but in the end did have a very decorated military career and a complete career in civic service. In his time he ...
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