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Bill Clinton
623 Words - 3 Pages.... jokes later, the American public found out that he did, indeed, had sex with that woman.
Many were outraged, many thought it was his personal business, and many just didn’t care. The nation became divided on what actions should be taken against a popular president that had just admitted to lying to his public and possibly lying under oath. Every constitutional scholar had an opinion about what constituted high crimes and misdemeanors. The 146th congress had to determine that for themselves, and in early January of 1999, William Jefferson Clinton was impeached.
As the focus then turned to the Senate, many debates arose. Did the President’s sexual indis ....
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Babe Ruth
1867 Words - 7 Pages.... house at 216 Emory St. in the tough water front section of Baltimore. ’s parents Kate and George Herman Ruth were 19 and 23 when they had their first child, George Jr. The young father earned his living as a bar tender in a combination grocery store-saloon near the Baltimore water front. Babe was not an only child. He did have a sister named Mary Margaret, also known as Mamie, who was born in 1900. The Ruth’s did have six other children, but none of them survived to adulthood. Soon after Mamies birth his father opened his own tavern at 426 West Camden St. The family would later move into an apartment above the bar. George spent the first 7 years of his life runn ....
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Linus Carl Pauling
267 Words - 1 Pages.... of how chemicals bond.
Pauling was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 28, 1901, and educated
at Oregon State College and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He
began to apply his insights into quantum physics as professor of chemistry at
Caltech, where from 1927 to 1964 he made many of his discoveries. By devising
techniques such as X-ray and electron diffraction, he was able to calculate the
interatomic distances and angles between chemical bonds.
During the 1930s, Pauling introduced concepts that helped reveal the
bonding forces of molecules. The Nature of the Chemical Bond, the result of
these investigations, has been a major influence on scientific think ....
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Pope John XXIII
406 Words - 2 Pages.... many people thought that due to his advanced age, he would do very little as pope, actually accomplished a lot during his papacy. ’s greatest accomplishment was calling the Second Vatican Council, unfortunately he died before it had been completed. The Council’s purpose was to bring about the renewal of Roman Catholic religious life through the updating of church teaching, discipline, and organization and to encourage the unification of Christians and of all humanity. Another of ’s accomplishments was writing seven encyclical letters. Many of these letters stressed the importance of human rights.
Another important thing that did as pope, was be open to other faiths. ....
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Luis Gutierrez
1128 Words - 5 Pages.... to
1978; social worker for Chicago's Department of children and family Services,
from 1979 to 1983; An advisor to Chicago mayor Harold Washington, from 1984 to
1987; Chicago city Alderman from 1986 to 1992; President of the Pro. Tem, from
1989 to 1992.
Luis V. Gutierrez was elected to represent Illinois district four in
1992. The congressional committees he serves on include Banking and Financial
Services; General Overnight and Investigations; Housing and Community
opportunity; Veteran Affairs and Hospital and Health Care. Mr. Gutierrez's
addresses in Washington and in Chicago are: 408 Longworth House office Building,
Washington Dc 20515; 3181 North Elston Avenue, Chicago 6 ....
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Ernest Hemingway 2
528 Words - 2 Pages.... principal with its extensive use of literary symbols.
In Hemingway’s “iceberg” theory of writing, Hemingway wants readers to “read in-between lines” and derive the true meaning of the story. To do this, you must interpret the symbolism Hemingway uses.
The story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a man and a woman who are at a train station in Madrid, Spain. The woman is pregnant and the man and the woman are discussing whether the woman should have an abortion operation. They have only forty minutes (the time they have to wait for their train to arrive) to make their decision. At the end of the story, the woman is still not ....
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Jonathan Swift: Misguided And Incorrect Criticisms
2151 Words - 8 Pages.... style, and his cruel, invidious
assaults on sin have led to cries of egotist, misanthrope and sadist.
Every one of these accusations is false. Jonathan Swift's critics are
misguided and incorrect in their attacks on his beliefs and writings.
Jonathan Swift is falsely accused of heresy for attacking human life.
Swift infuriates some critics for criticizing something that they feel must
be divine since it is the chief instrument of God. These critics argue
that human nature must be dignified if it is the key theme of Christianity.
They, however, are wrong, and are guilty of being naive. Swift and his
supporters counter their attacks by pointing out that it is hypocriti ....
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Bruce Lee
1300 Words - 5 Pages.... who died as a baby. The Chinese blamed this on evil spirits or demons who take the lives of male babies to destroy the family’s name. So they dressed Bruce in little girls clothing and called him Sai Fon. When they returned to Hong Kong, the Lee household consisted of Mr. Lee, his wife Grace Lee, Bruce’s two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert. Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat. Upon the death of Mr. Lee’s brother, he, as in Chinese custom, had to taken in his whole brother’s Family and had to be the provider. This meant nearly 20 people lived in the flat. It was thr ....
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