.... Chaplin lived his childhood in and out of run-down furnished rooms, state poorhouses, and an orphanage. His childhood was marked by poverty, cruelty, hunger, and loneliness- subjects which became major themes in his silent comedies. was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would become the most famous person in the world. A sign of this was when he was five years old and sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken for crazy. The audience apparently loved him and hurled their money onto the stage. By the age of ten, Charles was a skilled singer, acrobat, juggler, pan ....

.... in a class of 177 students at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. proves Roosevelt was intelligent and determined. His many published books from biographies to birds are an indication of his abilities at researching and making himself knowledgeable on a subject. Theses skills will most likely aid him as he helps decide the fate of our nation. Roosevelt had experience as a congressman in New York City and the Governor of New York. Roosevelt’s experience proved that he was a capable leader suited to the position of President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt had experience and a strong will to form him into a President more than capable ....

.... (1924-25), which quickly achieved worldwide recognition. The symphony was influenced by composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Paul Hindemith, and Sergey Prokofiev. The cultural climate in the Soviet Union was, compared to the Soviet Union at its peak, free at the time. Even the music of Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg, then in the avant-garde, was played. Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith visited Russia to perform their own works, and Shostakovich toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shosta ....

.... until after her death. Both Whitman and Dickinson were poetic pioneers because of the new ideas they used in their poetry. Emily Dickinson did not write for an audience, but Walt Whitman wrote for an audience about several national events. The forms each poet used are different as well. The rhyme in the poetry by Whitman is drastically different from the poetry written by Dickinson, because Whitman didn't use any rhyme. Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Mass, and Walt Whitman grew up in New York City, New York; this is one way that these poets' lives differ. The main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Bronte. Wa ....

.... he could improve on the theorems of levers proposed by the Greek mathematician Archimedes. Growing up with curiosity and determination integrated in his mind, was unsatisfied with the boring views of philosophers like Aristotle. MacLachlan gives an example. Natural philosophers taught a set of precepts about the causes of all earthly actions and the nature of the whole universe. They did no measuring, performed no experiments, and made few calculations. found their explanations of motion unconvincing. He was particularly dissatisfied because Aristotle had concentrated on why objects move. wanted to know how they move (9). As one could see then, how keen this savant ind ....

.... Mongolian tribe. Genghis was originally given the name of Temujin, after a leader of another tribe who was defeated by his father. However, when Temujin was still young his father was poisoned by members of an enemy tribe and died. Temujin inherited his father’s position, but the rest of his tribe did not accept their new leader and abandoned a teenaged Temujin and his family. For a short time the family lived in poverty, owning only a few sheep and other livestock and digging up roots for food. Temujin, however, managed to somehow preserve a considerable fund of prestige among certain members of the tribe that had rejected him. Soon, Temujin began to attract follower ....

.... His mother later suffered a nervous breakdown and his family split up. He was haunted by this early nightmare for most of his life. From then on, he was driven by hatred and a desire for revenge. The early backgrounds of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were largely responsible for the distinct different responses to American racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despa ....

.... Thirty-one distinguished Republicans had signed a manifesto assuring voters that a vote for Harding was a vote for the League. But Harding interpreted his election as a mandate to stay out of the League of Nations. Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, became the publisher of a newspaper. He married a divorce, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises. He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat corne ....