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John Quincy Adams
885 Words - 4 Pages.... show the United States how strong
it was, without exerting any force on them at all. On a different occasion,
when I was appointed minister to Russia, I was the leading negotiator for
the Treaty of Ghent with the British, which ended the War of 1812. These
negotiations gained respect for the United States and me as a diplomat. I
am a likable person wherever I go. When I was a kid, our family was very
closely knit, as we all helped manage the farm, except for my dad, who was
usually away in foreign countries. This didn't affect me very much since I
joined up with him when I was 11 on his operations after my persistent
asking. As President, I worked scrupulously to work o ....
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Authur Miller
809 Words - 3 Pages.... Donaldson Award (voted upon by Billboard subscribers). Since the debut of All My Sons he has noted: "The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more." He did however push the limits when he released his controversial piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New ....
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Confucius
360 Words - 2 Pages.... Therefore, stated would work
together in order to solve universal problems. For example, you could eliminate
a problem in Olympia, Washington and Miami, Florida at the same time. Because of
their similar problems.
Another teaching of Confucius is to put aside military conquests and
focus on the good of the country. The US definitely needs to do this. Every day
on television we see poor, famined children persuading us to support their
struggle. Them commercials should be outlawed. The commercials should be on the
poor famined kids in the United States. We have our own poverty problem in our
country. We should take care of that before we solve another countries problem.
The U ....
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Sophocles
811 Words - 3 Pages.... how successful was in his acting career. During his first competition, had the honor of competing against the great Aeschylus himself and defeated him taking first place. There would be many more plays to follow this accomplishment and would walk home with nothing less than a second place.
, noted as being a talented actor, performed in many of his own plays. In one of his plays called, "The Woman Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictat ....
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Don Juan Ponce De Leon
536 Words - 2 Pages.... Ponce de Leon left Puerto Rico and returned again in 1508 this time he brought with him only fifty men. On this voyage his ship went through a terrible storm that caused him to run onto the rocks on two occasions. The crew was forced to throw over much of their supplies in order to keep the ship from sinking. After Ponce de Leon finally arrived in Puerto Rico he became the governor of the island. This caused him to become very wealthy, and the most powerful man on the island, who only received orders from the kind himself!
In 1511 King Ferdinand ordered Ponce de Leon replaced as governor by Diego Columbus. Life for Ponce de Leon would have been difficult if he stayed in Puert ....
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George Washington
2481 Words - 10 Pages.... In later life he developed a style of speech and writing that, although not always polished, was marked by clarity and force. Tall, strong, and fond of action, he was a superb horseman and enjoyed the robust sports and social occasions of the Virginia planter society. At the age of 16 he was invited to join a party to survey lands owned by the Fairfax family (to which he was related by marriage) west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His journey led him to take a lifelong interest in the development of western lands. In the summer of 1749 he was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, and during the next two years he made many surveys for landowners on the Virginia fron ....
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Lucille Ball
1128 Words - 5 Pages.... show, I Love Lucy, was one of the most watched television shows of all time. The success of I Love Lucy was due mostly to Ball's comic brilliance (Zoglin 188). "With near perfect timing, and a genius for sightgags, red-haired Ball careened through nineteen episodes of the original sitcom as a ditzy housewife" (Biography 1). Her show was so successful and popular that, "the 1953 episode on which she gave birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so great that even today, everyone knows that "Lucy Ricardo, of course, achieved eternal life" (B ....
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Frank Lincoln Wright
1425 Words - 6 Pages.... family spent many evenings listening to William
Lincoln Wright read the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Blake outloud. Also his
aunts Nell and Jane opened a school of their own pressing the philosophies of
German educator, Froebel. Wright was brought up in a comfortable, but certainly
not warm household. His father, William Carey Wright who worked as a preacher
and a musician, moved from job to job, dragging his family across the United
States. His parents divorced when Wright was still young. His mother Anna
(Lloyd-Jones) Wright, relied heavily on upon her many brothers sisters and
uncles, and was intellectually guided by his aunts and his mother.
Before her so ....
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