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Richard The Iii
707 Words - 3 Pages.... closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.(I,I, )
And this is where King Edward the IV comes up with the assumption that their brother(George Duke Of Clarence) is going to murder him. So King Edward locks George up in the tower after Richard tells him about his false dream. Then Richard works his deceiving mind on George saying, “And whatsoever you will employ me in,/Were it to call King Edward’s widow sister,/ I will perform it to enfranchise you.” (I,I, ) And what Richard is saying if you want I will kill the King for you so that you can get revenge for this terrible act c ....
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Gwendolyn Brooks
1064 Words - 4 Pages.... only words that will strengthen, and richness of sound to create effective poetry.
The poem The Bean Eaters (see the included poems) is a fine example of all three of these key elements. First and foremost is the use of ordinary speech. For instance the lines They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair / Dinner is a casual affair. Each of these words are easily understandable. Though plain speech, each word is used more differently and more intensely than in ordinary discourse. Old yellow pair resounds with more meaning than old couple. “Yellow” implies faded or old; “Pair” is more compassionate than “couple”, suggesting more of a connection than just a match ....
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Bill Gates
1336 Words - 5 Pages.... at Harvard University as a pre-law major. As a student Gates was a wonder. He received an A in an economics class without attending and cramming the night before the final exam. In June 1975, dropped out of Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time. Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There, he and Allen Kay established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and cal ....
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Steve Jobs
998 Words - 4 Pages.... perfecting an illegal gadget called "blue Box" that allowed them to get free long distance calls from pay phones. Jobs helped "Woz" to sell a number of "blue boxes".
In 1972 Steve graduated from high school and registered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester he hung around the campus for a year taking classes in philosophy and immersing himself in the counter culture.
In 1974, Steve Jobs took a job as a video game designer at Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough money to go to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with D ....
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Rocky Marciano
2772 Words - 11 Pages.... living across the street from the James Edgar Playground, where he especially enjoyed playing baseball. It was during this period that he began the habit of exercising to his limit." After spending countless hours hitting and chasing after baseballs, he would often go home and do chinups and lift homemade weights until he was totally fatigued."
After supper, "Rocky and his pals often spent hours pummelling a stuffed mail sack that hung from an oak tree in the Marchegiano's back yard....In hot weather, they usually finished their workouts by racing over to Saxton's Spring to get a cold drink of water."
Unfortunately, Rocky's experience of growing up in a multi-ethnic ....
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Notes On Emily Murphy
904 Words - 4 Pages.... some of which found their way into both British and American
publications.
The Rutherford government was framing a law to give women certain dower
rights, and Mrs. Murphy disapproved of some of its provisions. Single-
handed she went before the (( p. 68 )) committee on legislation and argued
with such success that the bill, when passed, was substantially as she
wished. It was on this occasion that Mrs. Murphy, most hapily married to
the Reverend Arthur Murphy, received a letter from a grateful but
misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a
troublesome husband too."
((p. 71))
Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be confe ....
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The Bill Clinton Story
760 Words - 3 Pages.... in the case of President Clinton such action would obviously be warranted. The House of Representatives has "the sole power of impeachment," that is, the bringing charges.
The Senate has "the power to try all impeachment’s." A two-thirds vote is required in the Senate for conviction. When the president is to be tried, the chief justice of the United States presides. A conviction in an impeachment proceeding results only in removal from office and disqualification to hold "any office or honor, trust, or profit under the United States." (Corwin, 3) A person convicted in an impeachment, however, is subject to further "indictment, trial, judgement, and punishment according to ....
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John F. Kennedy
271 Words - 1 Pages.... political successes. Some came from when he ran for the United States
House of Representatives in 1946, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952.
In 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. During recuperation from spinal surgery,
Kennedy completed Profiles in Courage (1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize
in 1957. Kennedy attempted to win the Vice-president presidential nomination and
failed; Kennedy began to plan for the presidential election in 1960. He won the
nomination on the first ballot. He campaigned with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
his running mate, against Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican
nominee. The issues of defense and economic standards were r ....
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