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- 601: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
- ... 1943. The D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in France, June 6, 1944, were followed by the allied invasion of Germany six months later. By April 1945 victory in Europe was certain. The unending stress and strain of the war literally wore Roosevelt out. By early 1944 a full medical examination disclosed serious heart and circulatory problems; and although his physicians placed him on a strict regime of diet and ...
- 602: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... released from the hospital two weeks later. Immediately he went back to work on EPCOT.23 Walt Disney always had poor habits. He was a heavy smoker, and drank. He was under high levels of stress. More than once he was forced to go on a vacation to relax. Now doctors said he may not live longer than two years.24 Roy Disney completed Disneyworld after his brother's death. Roy ...
- 603: Dickinson vs. Whitman
- ... scheme, 2) Has a cadence or beat, 3) No set line length, 4) Has stanzas, but no set stanza length, 5) Uses repetition. Whitman's use of free verse marked a break in the syllable- stress tradition. In his poetry he didn't count the syllables stresses, or feet, in the long lines of poetry. Whitman used the item of anaphora, which is the use of repetition at the beginning of ...
- 604: The Biography of Kurt Donald Cobain
- ... Kurt. In 1975, Kurt's parents divorced. When they separated Kurt moved in with his mother. This was the start of a series of moves from relative to relative. This caused a great deal of stress for Kurt and he became secluded. Kurt expressed his inner thoughts and emotions through music, by listening and empathizing with bands such as Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols. While in high school Kurt met ...
- 605: President Gerald Ford
- ... during Ford's presidency such as a nervous breakdown. She was overdosing on pills and alcohol causing it. When she told the public, they didn't hate her for her problem, no, they understood what stress a wife of the president must give a woman. Betty Ford also had another problem. This being Breast Cancer, she also told the public. The public admired her honesty with them as well as Gerald ...
- 606: Abraham Lincoln
- ... radical Chase to offer to step down as well, he maintained the balance of his cabinet by retaining both secretaries. Lincoln's political influence was enhanced by his great gifts as an orator. Able to stress essentials in simple terms, he effectively appealed to the nation in such classical short speeches as the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address. Moreover, he was a capable diplomat. Firmly rejecting Seward's proposal ...
- 607: The Life of Sylvia Plath
- ... guest editor the summer following her junior year at Smith. Friends and family were stunned at her suicide attempt when she returned to college, most believing she had suffered a nervous breakdown due to the stress at the magazine. Her treatment was considered the best the medical world could offer and included electro-shock and psychotherapies. Plath tells her side of the story in the poem Lady Lazarus where she likens ...
- 608: Robert E. Lee
- ... biography ends in the latter pages with an account of his work after his military career came to an end, and finally, with his death after a prolonged period of ill-health, thought to be stress induced. military technology. He is a weapons expert, having written many books on all types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an ...
- 609: Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, & Company
- ... the key to the success of Sears. It used simple, direct language that spoke to the nation's farmers. The catolog would claim that the goods featured inside were "the best in the world". The stress of this rapidly growing business was too much for Alvah Roebuck. Richard Sears would take several financial gambles that would eventually make the company prosper but would cause Roebuck to become uncomfortable. In August 1895 ...
- 610: Richard Nixon
- ... whom he helped campaigned. He easily won the nomination on the first ballot at the convention and chose the governor of Maryland as his running mate. Vice-president Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, was placed under stress by Nixon from the unsuccessful war in Vietnam's effects. Nearly thirty-two million votes gave him a clear majority in the electoral college. The most important issue Nixon faced when he became president was ...
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