.... midwife had told her that her delivery would be so difficult that a doctor would be required. By luck in Tampico, an unexpected blizzard hit the day before and a doctor named Harry Terry got stuck in Tampico. Terry performed a delivery that took such a toll on Nelle Wilson Reagan that he advised her not to have any more children. So Ronald whose brother wouldn't look at him because he was a boy, became the second and last of the Reagan's children. John Edward Reagan, who was of Irish-American ancestry, earned his living as a shoe salesman. Alcoholism cursed the life of Jack Reagan. His older son Neil said bluntly that it prevented him form becoming a business success. ....

.... region. Although his verse forms are traditional--he often said, in a dig at archrival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newsp ....

.... very discouraged and chose to travel abroad until 1890 where he found himself in Iowa. He decided to enroll in Simpson College in Indianola. One of his teachers recognized his many talents and encouraged him to transfer to Iowa State College at Ames, which he did in May 1891. At Iowa State, Carver found that he was especially gifted in plant hybridization and the study of fungi. In 1894, Carver earned a bachelor of science degree and, in 1896, a Master of Science degree in agriculture and bacterial botany. That same year, Booker T. Washington offered Carver a job teaching at Tuskegee Institute. During his first few years at Tuskegee, he made many improvements in the ag ....

.... under his teachers and also his father, Alias. His father at the time was 58 and had spent most of his life in the Civil Services. He was used to giving and taking orders and liked his children to do the same. The children had many chores on their small farm outside Linz, Austria. Adolf's mother, Klara, was more attending to Edmund and soon Paula than to Adolf. The family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm. The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers' harsh words. At age 14 he r ....

.... to many, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered and respected today as a martyr of the civil rights movement and an icon of change through nonviolent means. "The Ways of Meeting Oppression", by , is a story about the ways in which oppressed people deal with their oppression. Dr. King came up with 3 characteristics in which oppressed people deal with their oppression. In this essay we will discuss the three major ways that Dr. King talks about. We will also reveal the one method that King supports. He first characteristic that King mentions in his writing is acquiescence. In this characteristic, King explains how people give up to oppression and become accustomed to ....

.... principles such as the spoils system, and the expansion of the electorate. He helped spread the electorate system to the west, and expanded it so not only white property owners could vote, but so whites that didn’t own property. All blacks could not vote and were excluded at all costs. (53). Although blacks and women were still left out of the picture, it helped set the basic properties for later on. The way he did it was not the best for common people, but he was still considered a great president by most people. As in Encarta Encyclopedia, three years before was born, his Scotch-Irish parents, emigrated to America from Northern Ireland. They had two sons at the time. An ....

.... to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for a regime increasingly nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own citizens, it stifled dissent. (1) At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion. Educated in America he was a propo ....

.... her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne. They told her to cut her hair, dress in man's uniform and to pick up the arms. By 1429 the English with the help of their Burgundian allies occupied Paris and all of France north of the Loire. The resistance was minimal due to lack of leadership and a sense of hopelessness. Henry VI of England was claiming the French throne. Joan convinced the captain of the dauphin's forces, and then the dauphin himself of her calling. After passing an examination by a board of theologians, she was given troops to command and the rank of captain. "In those days it was not unusual for women to fight side by side ....