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- 161: John Cabot
- John Cabot In 1497, an Italian sea captain, sailing under the English flag, reached the coast of North America. John Cabot may have been the first European to set foot on this conttnent after the viking explorer, Leif Erickson, who had landed there 5 centuries before. Joh Cabot's became the basis for the English claim to America. John Cabot's Italian name was Giovanni Caboto. He was born in Genoa probably in 1451. Later, his family moved to Venice, where John Cabot became a merchant. On one of his trading voyages, he ...
- 162: Pope John XXIII
- Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, on November 25, 1881. He was educated in Bergamo and Rome and ordained a priest in 1904. During World War I he served as a ... after Pope Pius XII died. He was became pope on October 28, 1958, when he was 77. Although many people thought that due to his advanced age, he would do very little as pope, Pope John XXIII actually accomplished a lot during his papacy. Pope John XXIIIs greatest accomplishment was calling the Second Vatican Council, unfortunately he died before it had been completed. The Councils purpose was to ...
- 163: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man "I never wrote two books alike", once said John Steinbeck (Shaw, 10). That may be true, but I think that he wrote many of his novels and short stories based on many of the same views. He often focused on social problems, like the haves verses the "have nots", and made the reader want to encourage the underdog. Steinbeck's back ground and concern for the common man made him one of the best writers for human rights. John Steinbeck was born in Salians, California and spent most of his life there or around Salians, because of that he often modeled his stories and the characters around the land he loved and the ...
- 164: The Greatest Accomplishment of President John Adams
- The Greatest Accomplishment of President John Adams To fight, or not to fight? This is the very choice that John Adams faced when he was elected President of the United Sates of America. Britain and France had been fighting in Europe and, although they were both stealing our ships, they could have each used our help. It was up to John Adams to decide whose side to fight on and whether or not to fight at all. Adams decided to steer free from fighting and not enter the war at all. It was this ...
- 165: The Death of John F. Kennedy
- The Death of John F. Kennedy On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. The shots came at 12:30 p.m. This took place just as the presidential motorcade slowly passed through downtown Dallas. President Kennedy was shot twice and fatally wounded. Also wounded was Governor John B. Connally of Texas who was sitting directly in front of the President. The President was immediately rushed to Parkland Hospital where he died at 1:00 p.m. Desperate efforts to save his ...
- 166: John Muir
- John Muir The story takes place at Yosemite National Park from 1838-1914. John Muir was a botanist, geologist, and writer. He had overcome earthquakes, glaciers, and he climbs mountains. John Muir had impressed by overcoming all the dangers like animals. He was an expert on wilderness. He knows survival skills to stay alive. He studies nature and he writes about nature. He made a ...
- 167: The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlo
- ... the narrator get better. She moves upstairs in this horrid room with yellow wallpaper. Throughout the story she studies the wallpaper because she isn t allowed out of the room that much because her husband, John, a physician, says that it is best that she stays inside. As she learns more about the wallpaper she realizes that she sees a woman inside it and she spends a lot of time plotting how to free the woman. She locks her room and tears off most of the wallpaper and frees the woman. At the end John comes into the room, sees what she has done and faints. Everyone deals with their personal obstacles differently and The Yellow Wallpaper is a perfect example because there are many different obstacles throughout the story. The narrator and John both handle them differently and a result of which, is an essential change by both of them. First of all, John handles everything to an extent but he doesn t solve the problem at ...
- 168: Edgar Allan Poe - Life And Works
- ... at a very young age. His mother died at the young age of twenty-one and his father disappeared from his life soon after, Poe was only two. He was given to the care of John and Francis Allen in Baltimore. Poe was a bright and very intelligent young boy who impressed his teachers and made John Allen a proud foster father. He went to school in Richmond where he received praises from his master. His parents spoiled him and this is what supposedly ruined him. His parents allowed him to carry extravagant amounts of money, which enabled him to get into all manner of mischief, according to his masters. John Allan took his family and moved to Great Britain to set up business in 1815. The Allan family stayed in Britain for five years where Poe did not excel in school but his performance ...
- 169: Brave New World 3
- ... permanent relationship with a woman. The object of his desire is Lenina, and he convinces her to visit an Indian reservation with him to pursue his wish. At the reserve they meet a savage, named John who is the son a woman born in the civilized world, and got lost in the reserve many years before. His father turns out to be the director of the hatcheries where both Bernard and Lenina work. His mother has appalled the Indians and even her son in her attempt to remain decently promiscuous in the reservation. John is quite literate and is very familiar with the works of Shakespeare; from whom he has learned about behaviors and feelings that had been conditioned out of the minds of all civilized people. John represents what Huxley thought man fundamentally is.10 John and his mother are brought back to London with Bernard and Lenina for an experiment to find out how savages will react to the civilized ...
- 170: John Dillinger
- On June 22, 1903 a man named John Dillinger was born. He grew up in the Oak Hill Section of Indianapolis. When John was three years old his mother died, and when his fatehr remarried six years later, John resented hes stepmother. When John was a teenager he was frequently in trouble. He finally quit school and got a job in a machine shop in Indianapolis. He was very intelligent and a good ...
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