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Senator Joeseph McCarthy - Lif
... finish four years of high school in just one year. In 1930 he enrolled in Marquette University in Milwaukee where he soon succeeded in getting his law degree in 1935. He ended up moving north to Waupaca. There he ran and won the judgeship for the Tenth District of the Wisconsin Curcuit Court.
In 1942, Joe enlisted in the Marine Corps even though he was exempt for the draft due to his public position. In his first two years as a lieutenant, he went on many flying missions, broke his leg on a ship during a party and gained a lot of attention from the press along the way. Although later he claimed that his injured ...
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Julius Caesar's Personality Was What Killed Him
... told them to leave the celebration. Caesar was not to be celebrated because of his victory in Rome. They decided to risk their jobs and their lives to get rid of Caesar. However, Caesar remained captive to the crowd. During the celebration Caesar was warned by a Soothsayer, that something was going to happen “Beware the Ides of March” (Act I Scene II), he was told. He was warned several other times also. Even though Julius Caesar was a superstitious man, he chose to ignore the warnings. His superstition shows when he claims his wife, Calpurnia, she can be cured of sterility if she is touched by one of the ...
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William Wodsworth
... the subject matter, the basic course of events, and some word choices in the two renderings are identical. However, when one looks closer at these two works, the smaller, less obvious, similarities become noticeable. For example, both Dorothy and William refer to the daffodils as dancing in the wind, William's daffodils "dancing in the breeze," while Dorothy's "danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them." (Norton, 186, 293-294) Also, both describe the heads of the daffodils, instead of say, the tops, or buds. The difference in this is, however, that Dorothy Wordsworth has her ...
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Bradstreet, Anne
... the reward of everlasting life through love will be obtained. Generally, this this poem seems to have almost a stoic to (in my reading); the passion seems forced in some instances. After reading the backround information on Bradstreet: the Puritan religion and the role of woman in that society, I question the sincerity of this poem. I wonder if it was written as a form of hidden sarcasm towards her husband, or maybe as one of the only acceptable means of expression for a female poet's heart. Bradstreet must have been in constant conflict between expressing her true thoughts and emotions because of her societa ...
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Hitler - A Man Of Too Much Power
... during which he was wounded several times and decorated for bravery twice. He was gassed near the end of the war. During this time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Germany. ...
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Yasir Arafat
... AL Faith, now part on the PLO bases. Arafat addressed the UN
general Assembly in 1974, and the UN then organized the PLO as the
representative of the Arabs of Palestine.
In 1983, fighting broke out between PLO supporters of Arafat anti
those who opposed him. The rebels forced Arafat and his supporters to
leave their in northern Lebanon, but Arafat remained chairman of the PLO.
The PLO did not recognize Israel's rights to exist. Bur in 1988,
Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after ...
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Andrew Carnegie The Rise Of Bi
... good for them, but prices and demand fell, and they were left without anything. The whole looming industry was virtually gone; and with that, it was clear that there would be no trade for Andrew to learn. They had received letters from time to time about the possibility of work in America. After the looms fell through for them, they realized that they didn't have much of a choice of what to do. So, they borrowed the money for the voyage from Scotland to New York in the hopes of having a fresh start. Losing everything they had didn't sit well with Andrew or his mother. The family left in shame and determined to ma ...
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The Life And Work Of Robert Browning
... works
and was strongly influenced by it. After reading Shelly, He made the
decision to be an atheist and a liberal. But in a few years he grew away
from atheism and the extreme phases of his liberalism. The things he
learned from the books he read would largely influence his poems later in
his life.
His earlier poetry was regarded with indifference and largely
misunderstood. It was not until the 1860's that he would at last gain
publicity and would even be compared with Alfred Lord Tennyson, another
very famous poet of the time. Some of his early poetry was influenced by
his unusual education. The poe ...
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Ernest Hemingway Vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
... short, simple sentences. As for subject, Hemingway writes gritty, earthy material while on the other hand Fitzgerald's writing is centered around social hierarchy and longing to be with another person. Although the works that these two literary masters are so uniquely different, one thing that they have in common are their melancholy and often tragic conclusions.
To explore the two distinct writing styles, one can begin with how the stories do. (That is, how they begin too.) The opening paragraphs of Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" and Hemingway's "Indian Camp" epitomize the basic difference between their writing s ...
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Emily Dickinson
... that spread across America the New Englanders began to question the old ways. What used to be a focal point of all lives became speculative and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. Ralph Waldo Emerson set the tone for the age when he stated, “Who so would be (hu)man, must be non-conformist.” believed and practiced this philosophy.
Dickinson was brought up by a stern, authoritarian father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from other children. After attending Amherst Academy with other scrupulous thinkers she began to develop into a free-willed person. Many of ...
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