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Eliot Ness
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2931

.... very hard work and practical living. Over the years, Peter had made his wholesale bakery into a thriving business. It is supposed that Ness gained his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great deal of individual attention from his parents who were well into middle age when he was born. Due to this Eliot was a remarkable well-be .....


Richard Nixon's Presidency
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1481

.... on Un-American Activities during its investigation of what became known as the Hiss case. In 1950 Nixon ran for the U.S. Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-80), whom he labeled th e for what he alleged to be her pro-Communist sympathies. He won the election, but his campaign tactics were widely criticized. Vice-President In 1952 the Republicans nominated Nixon to be the running mate of presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. When it was disclosed that as a senator Nixon had accepted an $18,000 fund fo r from California businessmen, he was nea .....


Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 475

.... Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights movement full time in 1965. Before graduating he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Martin Luther King Jr. King appointed him to the head of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. In 1971 Rev. Jesse L. Jackson formed Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity.) In the 1970s, Jackson traveled throughout the Uni .....


Abraham Lincoln
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 420

.... bulwark of our own liberty and independance? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coats, our army and our navy . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book Encyclopedia). He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to sl .....


Squanto
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 748

.... to survive (Johnson p. 2). spent much of his life living in the Plymouth Colony teaching his newly acquired English friends how to survive in this foreign land. He helped them greatly in the area of growing and gathering food. Without the help of , the English never would have discovered many important methods involved in growing a decent crop on the American soil. “ showed the immigrants how to plant corn in hillocks, using dead herring as fertilizer”() after many failed attempts of growing while using their own methods. He also taught them how to fish and whe .....


Isadora Duncan
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2919

.... from one apartment to another, learning to leave each one a day before the bills came around. Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's music and learn about what they were interested in -- literature and music. Isadora was told as a chil .....


Eliot Ness
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2921

.... their family by very hard work and practical living. Over the years, Peter had made his wholesale bakery into a thriving business. It is supposed that Ness gained his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to Eliot in age was none the less thirteen years older. Hence Eliot received a great deal of individual attention from his parents who were well into middle age when he was born. Due to this Eliot was .....


Lines - William Wordsworth
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 836

.... and thoughts, so that you get a feeling of what is there and what is being lost. He makes the reader want to go and see if those things, the budding twigs, the hopping birds, and the trailing periwinkle, really do exist and if they really are as alive as he says. Wordsworth’s line “What man has made of man” (7) refers to what human men are doing to the other man on Earth, Nature, whom man is fighting for the top spot. To Wordsworth, Nature is alive and has feelings, the same as the human man. He proves this by making everything so full of life and hap .....



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