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- 5051: Black Boy: Richard's Hungers
- ... novels there were and read them to feed that thirst for violence that was in me, for intrigue, for plotting, for secrecy, for bloody murders” (46). Richard passionately craves reading, but his grandmother views these stories as devilish and forbids him to read such things. Granny is very oppressive and the cause of much his educational hunger. Moreover, many times Richard is unable to go to school because they did not ...
- 5052: Battle of the Bytes: Macintosh vs. Windows 95
- ... click of the mouse. Control panels have been added so you can configure your hardware. There is easy access to frequently used files. You can make very long file names on Windows 95 instead of short and strange names that leave you wondering about, such as on Windows 3.x I could not name a folder This is stuff for school it must be a lot shorter. The Help system helps ...
- 5053: Alfred Binet
- Alfred Binet The following essay offers both a short biography of Psychologist Alfred Binet and a present day practical application using the theory from which Binet developed his Intelligence test. Alfred Binet, born in Nice, France, on the eleventh of July, whose mother was ...
- 5054: The Biography of Kurt Donald Cobain
- ... as a teen for vandalism when he wrote "Homo Sex Rules" on the outside of a bank. Kurt Cobain had something going with his music at the age 18 so he left school a week short of graduation. He also passed down an art scholarship. Kurt had been moving from friend to friend sleeping on their floors and sometimes on the street or shelters and even under a bridge, because his ...
- 5055: Jonathan Swift: Misguided and Incorrect Criticisms
- ... Swift. New York: Chelsea, 1986. ---, ed. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. New York: Chelsea, 1996. Brady, Frank, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gulliver's Travels. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1968. Dennis, Nigel. Jonathan Swift: A Short Character. New York: Macmillan, 1968. Knowles, Ronald. Gulliver's Travels: The Politics of Satire. New York: Twayne, 1996. Tuveson, Ernest, ed. Swift: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1964. Ward, David. Jonathan Swift ...
- 5056: Oliver Cromwell
- ... the important social position he held in Ely and partly because of his fame as "Lord of the Fens,") he found himself among many friends at Westminster who were highly critical of the monarchy. This “Short Parliament” did little since it was dissolved after three weeks, but, when in November 1640 Cromwell returned to Cambridge for the “Long Parliament”, which sat until 1653, his public career began. (Smith, 1991) Cromwell had ...
- 5057: Margaret Thatcher
- ... strong challenge to her leadership. Ms. Thatcher was ousted from leadership, and resigned in November 1990 and was succeeded as party leader and prime minister by her protégée, John Major: who, consequently, only served one short term. Margaret Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically ...
- 5058: Martin Luther King- I Have A D
- ... s leadership took place during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Under his guidance, the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years. King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with ...
- 5059: Daniel Webster
- ... South Carolina had the right to nullify or ignore the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert Hayne in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union states by a very powerful but short speech. He said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," made him a favorite and made him well known among many people worldwide. Webster and President Andrew Jackson joined forces in 1833 to ...
- 5060: John Dos Passos
- ... he developed a close, long-lasting friendship with E.E. Cummings. During this time at Harvard, the spirit of idealism swept the country. Dos Passos was stirred by ideas of idealism and began to write short autobiographical tales for the Harvard Monthly, which showed vague idealism. He later graduated in June of 1916. Out of college now, Dos Passos choose to volunteer for ambulance duty overseas but his father rejected his ...
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