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- 6711: Winston Churchill: A Biography
- ... democracy in a time when Europe was in shambles, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is the person of the century. Churchill's childhood was filled with disappointment and tediousness. He spent most of his time at school, something he didn't take seriously. His teachers characterized him as bright, but stubborn and obstinate. He avidly loved to read history and poetry, however, and was fascinated by the glories of battle. From childhood ...
- 6712: Jimmy Hoffa, His Life and Disappearance
- ... the ton to button makers. When his mother moved the family to Detroit , six years after her husband's death, Jimmy hauled ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his boyish ways and become the man of the house ...
- 6713: Terry Redlin: A Biography
- ... S.D., he was involved in a motorcycle accident which ended his dream of being a forest ranger. He then decided to work toward a degree in graphic arts. He graduated from the St. Paul School of Associated Arts and spent 25 years working in commercial arts as a layout artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and art director. In 1977, at the young age of 40, Redlin jumped into wildlife scenes of ...
- 6714: Manuel Noriega
- ... throughout Central America, and third world countries further extending the arm of Communism and the reach of the Soviet Union. During the same time Castro took control of Cuba, Noriega was in the Peruvian military school. America fearing that these third world military schools would be a breeding ground for future communist leaders, implanted many agents to keep watch over them. One of these recruitment s would be Manuel Noriega. America ...
- 6715: Censorship
- ... tended to have viewed violence on television" (Congressional Digest) The amounts of violence on television continue to grow. A typical child watched eight thousand murders and one hundred thousand acts of violence before finishing elementary school. The National Institute of Mental Health and the Centers for Disease Control say that violence on television breeds violent behavior. "Children are uniquely influenced by what they see on television" (Congressional Digest). There are a ...
- 6716: Biography: St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- ... married Mary Suarez, a woman of his own station, and at thirty-one found himself a widower with one surviving child, the other two having died previously. From that time he began a life of prayer and mortification, although separated from the world around him. On the death of his third child his thoughts turned to a life in some religious order. Previous associations had brought him into contact with the ...
- 6717: Biography of Moshe Dayan
- ... think he was a great warrior and nobody can compare to his talent, ability, and smartness. My personal thoughts regarding Moshe Dayan is that Dayan's military education came not from the academies or service school but from the kibbutz and the battlefield. Under the charismatic and talented Dayan, the State of Israel fielded one of the best and most efficient fighting forces in the 20th century. I understand now about ...
- 6718: Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
- ... yet stand firm against the devil!" Again, Brown makes a promise to keep his faith unto God. Then "a black mass of cloud" goes in between Brown and the sky as if to block his prayer from heaven. Brown then hears what he believed to be voices that he has before in the community. Once Goodman Brown begins to doubt whether this is really what he had heard or not, the ...
- 6719: The Life and Work of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... how Poe obsessed over Virginia's death. In 1848 Poe became so upset that he tried to commit suicide by taking laudanum. Throughout Poe's life he has been through failure: Allan withdrew him from school; Poe lost all chance of becoming Allan's heir, was expelled from West Point, fired from the Messenger early in 1847, fired for drinking May 1840 and had great hopes for the Broadway Journal, of ...
- 6720: Marilyn Monroe
- ... and I took a job folding parachutes. Photographers came to take pictures of us to send to the soldiers. One, David Conover, took a particular interest in me, and directed me to Snively's Modeling School. From there I met Anarι de Dienes. He and I took many photo trips together, and Jim was rightly jealous, so he filed for divorce. I signed for a year's contract (twenty-six months ...
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