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- 4621: Alan Turing
- ... Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. Turing s father, Julius, was an officer in the British administration in India when he decided that his son would be raised in England. Turing had an older brother named John, who also had a childhood determined by the demands of the class and the exile in India of his parents. Alan and his older brother lived among various English foster homes while they were children ...
- 4622: Albert Einstein 2
- ... start a nuclear program. Only Einstein s signature was on the letter showing that to me that he was the only person bold enough to stand up for what he believed in firmly, just like John Hancock and his famous signature in the Declaration of Independence. Einstein s Letters to Roosevelt whom he sent stated, (Partial Letter One) Sir: Some recent work by E.Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been ...
- 4623: Elvis Presley
- ... too. Elvis had a twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, who was stillborn just a couple of hours before Elvis himself was born. Elvis was named after his father, Vernon, and Vernon s best friend, Aaron Kennedy. Elvis s parents, Vernon and Gladys, married on June 17, 1933. Gladys was 21 and Vernon was only 17. His mother worked as a sewing machine operator while his father was farm hand. When Elvis ...
- 4624: Great Expectations: Pip
- ... Australia, to build a fortune to give to Pip. Underneath his outward frightening appearance, "a fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg." Magwich is a sensitive and charitable man. John Wemmick, one of the books openly good people, lives two lives. The "London Wemmick" has a mouth like a "post box," and follows the business procedures learned from Mr. Jaggers. The "Walworth Wemmick" is calm ...
- 4625: The Civil War
- ... And so the Civil War was over. Yet even the ending of the war did not bring real peace. On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil ...
- 4626: Faulkner's "The Unvanquished"
- ... the time. The Southern Code was entirely idealistic. Throughout the book, idealism seems dominant over pragmatism. For example, all of the Sartoris women were idealists; almost everyone in Yoknapatawpha was an idealist. The fact that John Sartoris was able to get away with murder and be elected into public office soon after is a strong example of this. There were not many pragmatists in the novel. By definition, a pragmatist is ...
- 4627: Definition of Integrity
- ... believes that he is good now in God's light. God, to her, will show her the right way, and she believes that by following God's moral code she will be right and just. John Proctor, Elizabeth's husband, also shows his integrity when he refuses to confess to crimes of witchcraft. Even though confessing would save his life, he won't confess to a crime he didn't commit ...
- 4628: A. A. Milne
- ... the-Pooh. And though his life may not have always been perfect, Milne s wonderful tales never failed to create a utopian setting. A. A. Milne was born on January 18, 1882. His parents were John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Milne. (Second Plays) As a child, he attended the school for young boys that his father ran. Milne was never terribly close to his mother and would often eschew her ...
- 4629: Aaron Kornylos Struggle In Crossbar
- ... the accident and his present life, he will regain the sense of purpose that made him such a great athlete. Works Cited Gault. Crossbar The Writer s Voice 2 Ed. William Boswell, Betty Lament, and John Martyn. Toronto: Gage 1998. 60-62.
- 4630: Book Review: Darkness, Be My Friend
- Book Review: Darkness, Be My Friend Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden's series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent ...
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