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Wilson, Woodrow
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1913.... he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three
daughters.
Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University
in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as
professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer,
Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division
and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People
(1902). In 1902 he was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become
Princeton's president. His reforms included reorganization of the
departmental structure, revisi .....
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The Work Of Cormac McCarthy
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1686.... assumptions are existential. Human
consciousness of the past exists within each person in memories and
contacts, held in an ongoing meaning by individuals as fragments, subject
to loss as memory dims and subject to arbitrary changes without order or
meaning" (Richey 141).
These same critics compare McCarthy's writing to past writers
saying that McCarthy shares some aspects of his writing with Thomas Pynchon,
Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, and James Joyce. "A sophisticated reader on
first looking into Joyce's Ulysses might well wonder about the meaning of
what .....
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Bill Bradley
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 813.... that education is the bedrock of our economic strength, essential to ensuring that all Americans have the skills they need to build a better future in this time of technological change. Bill will enroll an additional 400,000 children in the Head Start program, helping nearly every eligible child to enter school prepared to succeed. He will create Teach to Reach partnerships to place 60,000 new, well-trained teachers each year into low-income urban and rural school districts. Bill will invest in community colleges to improve their technology infrastructure to provide st .....
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Beethoven
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 574.... by wealthy persons; instead Beethoven supported
himself with money from selling his music. By 1778, Beethoven started
hearing humming and whistling sound in his ears, and it got worse. A few
years later, he became completely deaf. Although he was deaf he could still
write music. He finished his first symphony in 1800.
In 1802, Beethoven became depressed and thought a lot about suicide. He
went to a small village in Germany where he stayed for a few years. The
next couple of years Beethoven created his most impressing masterpieces.
In 1812 he had c .....
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Napoleon I
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1557.... but spent most of his
time in Corsica, without permission. During one of these visits, Napoleon had
trouble with a Corsican nationalist, named Pasquale Paoli, and Napoleon and his
family fled to Marseille in 1793.
Later in 1793, the beginning of the French revolution, Napoleon led an
artillery brigade to push out a British fleet that the Royalists had allowed
in. Napoleon's mission was a success, and he was promoted to general, and
was assigned to the army in Northern Italy. During the early part of the
revolution, Napoleon had supported Maximilien Robespierre's revolutiona .....
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Robert Francis ("Bobby") Kennedy
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 906.... Mofia.
Under his brother's administration, he continued his attack on the Mofia.
Robert Kennedy had no sympathy for the mob, nor did he care that he was
being criticized by the media for his “harsh measures” such as his
extensive use of wiretaps .
In 1964 he resigned as Attorney General to subsequently gain a Senate
seat from New York. While being a Senator, his views on government slightly
changed. He was now paying more attention to the needs of the poor
minorities, and was criticizing the involvement of the United States in the
Vietnam War.
In March of 1968, he a .....
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The Biography Of Bob Marley
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 343.... on May
11 he was flown back to Miami after even the doctor had given up. In his
mother's condo, he passed away in the presence of family and friends. He
did not leave this world without leaving something. To his oldest son,
Ziggy, he said, "On the way up, bring me up. On the way down, don't let me
down." And to Stephen he said, "Money can't buy life." He didn't leave
unnoticed, either. At the moment of his death, Judy Mowatt, a close friend
of Bob's, was in her home in Kingston. Suddenly, from a clear sky, a bolt
of lightening came through her window "and lodged" sh .....
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Herman Melville
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 440.... After a series of other jobs and moving around he gets “Fragments from a Writing Desk” published. But went to New York to become a sailor.
Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After spending a month as a captive of cannibals in Types, he escapes aboard the Lucy Ann and is sent ashore as a mutineer. He escaped there and ended up working on a potato farm. Later that year he leaves on the whaling ship Charles and Henry and is discharged on the Hawaiian Islands.
In 1843 Melville enlisted in th .....
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