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- 241: John Gough
- 29 September 1802 Dear Mr. John Gough, It has been a long time since I’ve talked to you last. You would be very proud of my accomplishments thus far. I was threatened by a lot of older boys for the ... on the law of multiple porportions, but I’m still trying to acquire as much as I can on it first before I make a public advent with it. Take care Sincerely, Jonathan Dalton Mr. John Gough was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman who taught Dalton almost every thing you possibly could have needed to acquire the brilliance that John Dalton had. Dalton really flourished with Mr. Gough and they were very good friends during this period of learning for Dalton. Any further research can be found on John Gough on my reference to ...
- 242: 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 ...
- 243: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... Warren wake Betty. Betty accuses Abigail of "drinking blood" and says that Abigail will be whipped. Abigail threatens the other girls with grievous harm if they admit too much to the elders. At this point, John Proctor, a farmer who had an affair with Abigail, enters. Abigail tells John of her continuing love and desire, but Proctor rejects her saying nothing happened between them. Soon the Rev. John Hale, a specialist in witch hunting arrives and examines Betty who has fainted again. He then questions Abigail and Tituba. Tituba, afraid of being hung as a witch, professes faith in God and confesses ...
- 244: 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 ...
- 245: John Adams
- John Quincy Adams was the only son of a president to become president. He had an impressive political background that began at the age of fourteen. He was an intelligent and industrious individual. He was a man of strong character and high principles. By all account, his presidency should have been a huge success, yet it wasn't. John Quincy Adams' presidency was frustrating and judged a failure because of the scandal, attached to his election, the pettiness of his political rivals, and his strong character. John Quincy Adams was born on July 1767, in Braintree Massachusetts. His parents were John and Abigail Adams. "Quincy, had every advantage as a youngster. At the time of his birth, his father was an ...
- 246: 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 ...
- 247: Isolation And The Individual I
- ... a satiric novel and was published first in the 1960’s. The novel’s protagonist follows many of the trends that satirists apply to their main characters. The main character in Cat’s Cradle is John—or Jonah—and he is an outsider like Huck Finn and Yossarian. His trip to Illium is the first place that the reader comes in contact with John, and his actions and words seem only to accentuate his pessimism. When he first meets Breed, John contrasts himself with him. “Breed…was civilized, optimistic, capable, serene. I, by contrast, felt bristly, diseased, cynical. I had spent the night with Sandra. My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat ...
- 248: 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. Adam’s decided to steer free from fighting and not enter the war at all. It was this ...
- 249: 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 ...
- 250: John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
- John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model? A role model can be looked up upon and imitated. Many would argue that Sir John A. Macdonald is not someone of this stature, but I have different opinions about him. By studying some books about him I concluded that this humble man is someone who deserves to be known as a good role model. Here are some reasons to why. It is John A. Macdonald's outstanding qualities that made him a upright leader. He won the hearts of people because he could relate to them and their problems. Showing humility, Mr. Macdonald considered himself as one ...
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