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David Livingstone
Number of pages: 14 | Number of words: 3810.... never lost sight of one of his great objectsbringing Christ to Africaalthough healing and exploring were often the vehicles he used. Born the second son of poor and pious parents, Neil and Agnes (Hunter) Livingstone, he had three brothers and one sister. The seven were crowded into a two-room house. The fa-ther, while delivering tea to his customers, would also distribute religious books. At age ten young David was put into the cotton-weaving mills factory as a piecer to aid in the earnings of the family. He purchased Rudiments of Latin, which he used to help himself study that .....
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Silent Cal: An American President
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 606.... up the political ladder from councilman in
Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En route he
became thoroughly conservative.
As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old
moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many
Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check
the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture
and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923
called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and
limi .....
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Langston Hughes
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 804.... poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration", where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself'. He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are plea .....
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The Writings Of David Foster Wallace
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1146.... an orgasm, and that she would let me burn her with several matches on the backs of her legs, as well, as this made me very happy” (Wallace 57). By this piece of work he stands, unwilling to denounce his creation. Frankly, he refuses to denounce any of his creations. Critics may pick here and there at his work, but this does not bother him in the slightest.
Another commonality is that he never truly ends a story. He always leaves it unfinished and for the reader to decide for themselves how it will end. An example of this is also in the story “Girl With Curious Hair”: .....
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Nevil Shute
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1226.... and created his own business, Airspeed
Limited. His second novel, So Disdained, was published in 1926 and
released in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz
and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under the Christian
name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer
would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many
years, up until World War II, Nevil Shute published many more books. Shute
then moved to Australia in 1949, to concentrate on his writings. During
his years through both world W .....
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Benito Mussolini's Rise To Power
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 695.... out with a
ruthless disregard for world opinion,including the use of poison gas. When
the British and French leaders condemned him for these acts, he looked
elsewhere for allies and found Germany and Japan.
He joined Hitler in supporting the Fascist "Nationalist" side in the 1936-
1939 Spanish Civil War. This gained him an ally, Spanish Generalissimo
Franco, but being associated with the atrocities of this brutal war lost
him still more support in the rest of the world. His biggest mistake,
however, was the decision to enter the Second World War. On 10 June 1940,
Germany .....
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My Opinion On Director Hoovers Essay
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 373.... the sociopath who has no sense of guilt and kills simply for the pleasure of killing?
Granted it is said that advocates of capital punishment should actually witness an execution to see how it is carried out and the trauma a person faces when they know that they are being led to their death. Yes these criminals were young once, innocent and vivacious, full of life with parents, friends and a long gone innocence. But for some reason they became a killer and killers must be dealt with severely and swiftly. Additionally I say to persons against the death penalty, let me .....
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John Paul Jones
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 451.... an English seaport,
and where was the Royal Navy, who was supposed to keep these things from
happening?
The other event was the Battle off Flambrough Head. A Baltic convoy
escorted by two British ships was sailing past Flamborough Head, and since
Jones had always wanted to break up a Baltic convly, that's exactly what he
planned to do.
Jones had three warships under his command compared to the two British
escorts. He soon realized after chasing the convoy, that he would have to
sink the escorts ot get a crack at the convoy. when the battle started,
bad communi .....
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