.... may be able to watch one of his two Governor sons take the presidential oath in the near future. His namesake child, the current governor of Texas, has recently announced his bid for the Republican nomination on the 2000 ballot. However, even if he makes it past the primaries it will take more than a "brand name" to win this election. According to the June 21, 1999 issue of Newsweek 65% of voters they polled still knew nothing or little of George W. Bush. When looking at a possible future President of the United Sates of America it is not uncommon to start with their past and work forward to see their progress and failures. George W. Bush attended ....

.... times in his life (Castro 2). He changed school 11 times in 12 years (bdd 1). They finally settled in Beaufort, South Carolina. Pat finished high school there in 1963(Disc. Auth. 1). He attended the Citadel on a basketball scholarship (Castro 2). While there, he became the literary editor for the school magazine (Disc. Auth. 1). He also became captain and MVP of the basketball team (Bdd 1). While he was attending the Citadel, he learned many important lessons of life (Burns 5). Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thom ....

.... pilgrimage towards a Christian faith and his membership of the Anglican Church. The earlier poem, The Hollow Men, was published when Eliot was experiencing extreme personal difficulty in his work and with his first wife’s poor health. Writing himself about an even earlier work, The Waste Land (1922), Eliot concluded that ‘some forms of illness are extremely favourable to religious illumination’. I have not had personal experience of this but I am aware that serious illness and death can often make people focus sharply on the meaning of life. This could be said of the circumstances surrounding the writing of The Hollow Men, even if the ‘illumination’ simply highlig ....

.... the Order of Friars Minor Conventual at Lwow in Austrian Occupied Poland, where he took the name Maximilian, and in 1910 he entered the Franciscan Order. Father Kolbe can be compared to the Whiskey priest as they both wanted to help others understand the importance of religion and faith. In 1912, after finishing preliminary studies at the junior seminary, Maximilian was sent to Rome where he studied theology and philosophy. Ordained to the priesthood in 1918, Father Maximilian taught Church History at a seminary in Cracow in 1919. Although the Whiskey priest’s history was not crimeless like Father Kolbe’s, he still taught mass proceedings and baptism. After being diag ....

.... Chris decided to pursue a college education. And, thanks to an understanding agent was able to continue his work as a professional actor. "Scheduling gigs around my classes." By nineteen-seventy-six he was starring with Katherine Hepurn on Broadway, and had become in such demand that he gave up his last year at Julliard. After screen testing for the nineteen seventy-eight movie Superman, he was given the lead role as Clark Kent/Superman. Reeve was an outstanding Superman both on and off the screen. He made Clark Kent/Superman a believable character, says Reeves "somebody you can take home and introduce to your parents". This part was just like Reeve, A down home good ....

.... College students to read the Bible , know God and follow his commands . He would also preach to them about how good is to be a Christian and he would proudly say that he was a Christian .When he was playing basketball for Oregon State he was drafted to the Lakers . After graduating from Oregon State ,Green moves to L.A to play for the Lakers .That year Green wins his first NBA championship with the Lakers . When he lived in L.A he formed A.C Green Foundation for Youth to help build hope, confidence , and self esteem in young people. When he played his second year for the Lakers they won the NBA Championship . In his third year playing professional basketball he signed a con ....

.... was middle class; his father John Dickens was a clerk in the Navy-Pay Office and all through life a man of wavering and unstable status. It was said that Dickens portrayed his father in some of his works, he sketched his father in light spirits as Micawber and in a sadder more realistic aspect as Dorritt. Many people wondered how there could be a man who was both Micawber and Dorritt, seeing the great difference in personality between the two. People couldn’t possible believe that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for wha ....

.... get all dirty and muddy. It was at this point when his sisters gave him the nickname ‘’. Bertha died when he was about three. After her death he had to move in with his grandmother in Clarksdale. Raised in Clarksdale, he also went to school there. He went to school until he was old enough to work in the fields. Much like all of the other field laborers hollered in the fields to pass time or just to get things off of your chest. Waters would also teach himself to play instruments. When he was fifteen he knew how to play the harmonica and he would later teach himself the guitar. The young Waters followed in his fathers musician footsteps. He was part of a band at fifteen, ....