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- 4221: Charlie Chaplin
- ... United States and begun his career as a top comedian. Although most of us recognize him as only a comedian, Charlie was much more. He was the first, and to date the last, person to control every aspect of the filmaking process- founding his own studio, United Artists and producing, casting directing, writing, scoring, and editing the movies he stared in. Charlie Chaplin revolutionized the entertainment industry by transforming it into ...
- 4222: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- ... from choosing rationally between passion and good sense and keeps him from maturing into a wholesome, sensible person (Bloom, Swift 15). Swift has no desires to eliminate passion. He only wants man to have some control over it (Knowles 36). Critics incorrectly argue that much of Swift's work is simply absurd and overly imaginative (Knowles 36). Gulliver's Travels includes many "absurdities," such as gods being frightened by puppies, a ...
- 4223: James Fenimore Cooper and His Writings
- ... Arpin, et al 120.)" The setting of his stories represented an unspoiled America we cannot return to, explored by an ideal character we cannot attain to. His characters achieve difficult goals in circumstances beyond their control. They do so with unerring adherence to their principles. Cooper's books, are often sought after for his exciting stories. As Brookhiser states in his essay, "readers went to Cooper not for his sociology but ...
- 4224: Louis XIV
- ... rather his ability to play the part of a great leader. All of this was possibly because of his emphasis on materialistic splendor. He knew that by enticing his rivals with riches, he then could control Europe. When it is said that Louis XIV had an ability to play the part of a great leader there is often misunderstanding. He was a powerful ruler, but more importantly that , he took his ...
- 4225: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... sober two days." In August 1961, to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West, the Communists ordered a wall built on the border between East and West Berlin. West Berlin had been under the control of the United States, France, and Britain since the end of World War II, although the city lay deep inside East Germany, a state that was an ally of the USSR. Kennedy and other Western ...
- 4226: Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway
- ... He had gone to the mayo clinic in Massachusettes, to recieve electro-shock therapy, but it didn't work out for him at all. Later that same year, Hemingway ended his life, with a shot gun. Bibliography 1)Baker, Carlos H. Hemmingway:A Life Story Scribner, 1969 2)Lynn, Kenneth S. Hemmingway Simon & Schuster, 1987 3)McDowell, Nicholas. Hemingway Rourke, 1989 4)Meyers, Jeffrey Hemingway:A Biography Harper, 1985 5)Lovelock ...
- 4227: Classical Economist - Adam Smith
- ... a more decent society. The freedom made possible by a commercial society, Smith thought, would only be desirable when coupled with supporting institutions, including the law, family, and religion, which fostered the virtues of self-control and altruism that people need to manage their new liberty. He also explained how human passions could be harnessed to that goal. In doing so, he laid the ground for much of modern social science ...
- 4228: Harry Shippe Truman
- ... with his men to Northeastern France where the fighting was light so they could train. The first fight with the Germans, Got everyone scared and they all ran everywhere. When Harry got the Battery under control, He led them to safety and screamed at them for acting the way they did. The next fight, they were the only Battery that was still there fighting and beet the Germans. They turned into ...
- 4229: Calvin Coolidge
- ... Other measures at his list included the steady growth of civil and military aviation, expansion of the services offered by the departments of the Agriculture and Commerce, regulation of radio broadcasting, development of waterways, flood control, and the encouragement of cooperative solutions to farming problems (Touchman 178). Coolidge also endorsed Jeffersonian ideas of minimal government. His do-as-little-as-possible policy fit the style of the times in which America ...
- 4230: The Henchmen: German Government Officials in WWII
- ... at the time, in an eventual successful campaign. After Hitler was elected as the new dictator over Germany, Goebbels was elected as the official Propaganda Minister. He had under his legal jurisdiction the power to control Germany's common society. He tried to convince Nazis to become more devout and to convince people who weren't Nazis to join the party. He controlled all the publications, radio programs, films, and arts ...
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