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- 4941: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... in 1930, Roosevelt began to campaign for the presidency. While the economic depression damaged Hoover and the Republicans, Roosevelt's bold efforts to combat it in New York enhanced his reputation. His activist approach and personal charm helped to defeat Hoover in November 1932 by seven million votes. The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment ...
- 4942: Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
- ... His fellow cadets helped to contribute the funds for publication of his poems. Poe later on took up residencecy in Baltimore with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter, Virginia. He later on started writing fiction aas a way to support himself. In 1832 the Philadelphia Saturday Courier pulished five of his stories. Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger ...
- 4943: WEB DuBois's Influence on Literature and People
- ... what a difference one person can make. Even if the time they did it was not according to the time today. The people of today should fight for their beliefs by using the pen and writing about the cause. Education is the key to wining fights in or out of classrooms. Through his writings, speaking, and political activism, WEB DuBois devoted his life to advancing black movement to a higher level ...
- 4944: I Stand Here Ironing Literary
- ... to have them all together." We both did what we had to do. Charles and Kevin have always been as diametrically opposite as two people can be. Charles has always preferred quiet times by himself 'writing', coloring or drawing. It is not often he shows the natual exuberance of a child. He's like Emily, "she had a physical lightness and brightness twinkling by on skates, bouncing like a ball up ...
- 4945: Robert Andrew Millikan
- ... it. After teaching for a period Millikan decided that physics could only be taught properly through the practice of experimentation and getting your hands in it just as many other things are. Thus, he began writing better textbooks for the University of Chicago, "In fact he spent the morning of his wedding day reading proofs of his textbooks" ( http://physics.uwstout.edu/sotw/millikan.html ) During his 12 hours of teaching ...
- 4946: Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- ... winnable war. One would walk away having brought the other to its knee. Some treat the nuclear weapon like a curse, others the single most important tool in protecting our liberty. I feel that my personal well being has been the result of the nuclear bomb. Since the end of WWII until today, there has been less bloodshed between world powers than in centuries, if not millenniums. Although Einstein was hated ...
- 4947: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- ... ocean. When he was 13 years old, he constructed his own telescope, and changed a bike light to transmit sound along the path of light it gave off. Arthur made his first literary connections by writing in the school newspaper. He attended elementary, Middle, and high school in his home town, and then later went to King's College in London, where he made honors in Math and in Physics in ...
- 4948: Jane Eyre 3
- ... for another, someone who needs and appreciates her, and someone who treats her with respect. These are the things that she has wanted all of her life, and she is willing to put aside her personal freedom to enjoy them and to for once be loved, accepted, and appreciated. Throughout the book Jane serves many different masters, and her situation, thoughts, and desires change greatly as she develops, as do her ...
- 4949: Juror 10
- ... coming from a poor neighborhood is less than human. We can see right from the start that the verdict that the defendant is undoubtedly guilty is locked in his mind simply because he has a personal grudge against people like the defendant. Next, on page 10 and 14, he states You can t believe a word they say and The kids who crawl outa those places are real trash . Clearly it ...
- 4950: King Lear--a Man More Sinned A
- ... for the other sins that Lear has committed. Lear is an old retired king who certainly doesn t deserve to treated in the manner his two ungrateful daughters have done so. Lear might have lacked personal insight in banishing his two most beloved people around him, and lacked self-control and discipline in controlling his temper, but there could be no reason to justify the immoral actions that Goneril and Regan ...
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