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- 4701: A Clean Well Lighted Place
- ... social situation of the times with the woman as prisoner of her husband. It is common knowledge that marriages are not always about mutual love between two people and during the time that Chopin was writing, this was more often the case. Marriage was as much about monetary comfort, social status and acceptance as it was about possible love. There are no children mentioned in this story, which makes me wonder ...
- 4702: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... of settling down with Sally is presented he light's out for the Territory to distance himself from a restrictive, formal education. Twain ends his novel by setting Huck up for a new experience and personal growth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn taught an important lesson, one that showed the importance of the self in the maturing process. We saw Huck grow up by having the river as a place of ...
- 4703: Andy Warhol
- ... realized that he now had the mode of reproduction that he was after. "Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems." This once again shows Warhol's personal desire to become a robot, because of the simplicity and efficiency. This is what he wanted for his work, a sense of effortlessness by humans, just mass quantities of mass produced objects. The silk-screening ...
- 4704: Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
- ... of John Locke and the other great thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Even in the case of The Declaration of Independence he generally quotes John Locke. Locke said, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of personal property. Jefferson perfected that by saying "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Some would ask how would Jefferson pursue happiness. Jefferson pursued happiness by seeing others happy. He cared much for others and he ...
- 4705: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... for the presidency, chose Roosevelt as his running mate because of his family name, but the Cox-Roosevelt ticket proved to be no match for the Republicans under Warren G. Harding. Roosevelt faced the greatest personal crisis of his life when he was stricken by poliomyelitis at his Canadian summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, in 1921. He veiled his deep physical agony with a cheerful demeanor and rejected his ...
- 4706: Al Gore
- ... Boys. In Tennessee, he worked on his familys farm. Gore then attended Harvard, where he roomed with future actor Tommy Lee Jones. He earned a degree with high honors in government in 1969 after writing a senior thesis titled "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947-1969." After struggling with his conscience about his opposition to the Vietnam War, Gore, who was drafted for service that ...
- 4707: Stephen King
- ... Maine at Orono and earned a Bachelor's degree for English in 1970. He married Tabitha, also a writer, the same year. After graduation, he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same. Today, Stephen King is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies ...
- 4708: Mononucleosis
- ... pits and groin. It can last anywhere from one to two weeks to six to eight weeks, some people suffer from mononucleosis for months at a time, but as an individual it depends on your personal recuperation time. Recuperation is a very slow process, which demands a lot of sleep and rest. Being sick for a length of time such as two weeks drains you of strength and energy and as ...
- 4709: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- ... the strength gained from literacy to hold a Sabbath school that taught other slaves how to read. Douglass also used literacy in an escape attempt. When Douglass tried to escape for the first time his writing skills were used to make fake "protections". These were pieces of paper which stated that the named slave was allowed to be away from his plantation. Eventually, Douglass did escape to freedom and he wrote ...
- 4710: Red Grange
- ... Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bill Tilden, and so many more. In those days sports writers held nothing back and reams of colorful copy were turned out about the heroes of the day. In later years sports writing took on a more businesslike attitude as the reading public developed a healthy cynicism in regard to some of its heroes. Undoubtedly the game that sprang Red Grange into the nations headlines was the ...
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