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Edgar Allen Poe
1970 Words - 8 Pages

.... death in Richmond, Virginia on December 8, 1811, his father abandoned the family. John Allen, a wealthy tobacco merchant in Richmond, brought Poe into the family (at his wife's request), and gave him the middle name Allen as a baptismal name, though he never formally adopted him. Even though Allen´s treatment toward Poe is not exactly known, we know that Allen never treated Poe with sensitivity. In 1815, the Allen family moved to England on business. There, Poe entered the Manor-House School in Stoke-Newington, a London suburb. This school taught him "the gothic architecture and historical landscape of the region made a deep imprint on his youthful imagination, wh ....


Chris Lansid
689 Words - 3 Pages

.... into the inventing/science field. He was accepted to Harvard. With all of his poverty, he now was in the best school at the time! He took the first year and passed it all with flying colors, same as for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. But soon after, a family tradgedy that would change him forever. On the 5th of July in 1844 his father became ill and was hospitalized. It was unknown what he had. From that day Chris was dedicated to fighting illness'. He has cured 3 illness' in his life, one that belonged to his father, Ratestia. The other two, emphasema and lung elestia. He also played a big role in the treatment of cancer. Even though they did not have much technology back then, he ....


Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
1035 Words - 4 Pages

.... a branch of Hinduism called Vaisnavism, which worshiped the god Vishnu. He was a devoted and good Hindu. His family followed the moral values of Jainism, this included the practice of ahmisa (non-injury to all living things), vegetarianism, fasting, and tolerance of other cultures. Gandhi's teenage years were full of problems. He was not good at school, or in sports, he also missed a year of school at age 13, when he got married. Life got very stressful for him when his father became sick. He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he started to smoke shoplift and eat meat. In 1887 he started collage at the University of Bombay. He did not like it ....


Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
695 Words - 3 Pages

.... to find their countries in political and economic chaos. So they both formed extremist political parties. This led Mussolini to a program of militarization. Many Europeans felt that his successes in restoring Italy outweighed any "rumors" of police brutality. In 1935 Mussilini invaded Ethiopia was carried out with a ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan. He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936- 1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo Franco, but being asso ....


Thomas Jefferson
525 Words - 2 Pages

.... Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793. Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-R ....


Jerry Seinfield
435 Words - 2 Pages

.... said in one of his interviews, “My jokes are about clean subjects, and they're very thought out. Most comedians who use a lot of profanity- they' re using it for fast punchlines... I can put a joke together well enough that I don't need dirty words.” Jerry has a role model for kids and comedians to follow. He started a new genre in comedy. Here's an example of Jerry's humor “Dogs are broke all their lives. You know why they have no money? No pockets. They see change on the street -there's nothing they can do about it”. “You go to the store to buy Grape Nuts. No grapes, no nuts. What's the story there.”. “If he's the best man why is the bride marryi ....


George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia In The Russian Manner On English Themes
1235 Words - 5 Pages

.... none of them very successful; the first one was never published and the other four were sold to periodicals, to be published as serials. In 1884 he joined the Fabian Society, an utopian movement that was trying to establish a socialist society through co-operation with the ‘ bourgeois' classes. He wrote a great number of speeches, pamphlets and articles for the Fabians, and in 1889 he edited the Fabian Essays, an import document in the history of British socialism. His work with and for the Fabian Society continued until the end of his life, during which period he wrote a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war pamphlet ‘Common sense about the ....


Princess Diana
808 Words - 3 Pages

.... it is safe to say that Diana was more popular in the watchful eye of the media. Unfortunately this is how the general public is able to justify their overwhelming support for Diana, rather then Mother Teresa. was at the peak of her controversial, compassionate, and challenging life. A radical in the Royal family, Diana was able to come to terms with the fact that she is no different then you and I. This may seem like a feeble task, but to a princess, it is a task accomplished by few. Diana broke all traditions embellished into the minds of the modern day royals. She showed her two young sons love and compassion in public, never before done by a member of the royal fami ....



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