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Papers on People and Biographies
Margaret Thatcher
Number of words: 1945 | Number of pages: 8.... Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with a passion. Before long Alfred opened his own grocery shop, and eventually he came to own two." (Mayer,1979) Alfred often discussed current events with his two daughters, and also his keenly-held political beliefs. Margaret's father had a considerable effect on her political beliefs. Although he had .....
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Colin Powell
Number of words: 1137 | Number of pages: 5.... colleges City College of New York (CCNY) and New York University (NYU). Both accepted him but he went to CCNY because it only ten dollars a semester as opposed to seven hundred and fifty dollars a semester at NYU. Powell majored in Engendering. He finished college in 1958 (source 1 pages 32, 36). While in college Powell joined the Recruit Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Powell said he joined ROTC because of the discipline and "The sense of comradery among a group of young men who were similarly motivated. Maybe it was the uniform." Another reason he said he joined is because of the association with the military [source 2 (interview .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Number of words: 719 | Number of pages: 3.... months). Had he not become President, he would be remembered for his contributions in both of these fields.
In between these busy enterprises, he found time to ranch in the West, hunt on several continents, raise a family of six rambunctious children, read a remarkable number of books (often one a day), write more than thirty-five himself, and develop an extraordinary network of friends and contacts, which he maintained mostly by mail, writing well over 150,000 letters.
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential achievements are impressive. In foreign affairs he led us into the arena of international power politics, thrusting aside the Ame .....
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Woodrow Wilson
Number of words: 754 | Number of pages: 3.... following minor strokes, there was recovery: his
right-handed writing ability returned within a year.
Was his career impeded? No, in 1902 he became the president of Princeton. But the problem recurred in 1904. In 1906 it happened again, this time with blindness in the left eye (also supplied by the left internal carotid artery, which is probably where clots were originating which plugged up various small arteries in the left eye and left brain). While the right arm weakness went away, Wilson had enough damage to his left eye that he could never read with it again. Some think that his judgment was impaired in the following ye .....
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Ellen Foster
Number of words: 749 | Number of pages: 3.... epitomize in the novel is portrayed through diction and dialogue
throughout the novel allows the audience to gain a better understanding and
personal compassion for both the character and author.
The novel is written in a short, choppy sentence structure using simple
word choice, or diction, in a stream of consciousness to enable the reader to
perceive the novel in the rational of an eleven-year-old girl. One short, simple sentence is followed by another , relating each in an easy flow of thoughts. Gibbons allows this stream of thoughts to again emphasize the childish perception of life’s greatest tragedies. For .....
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Poe
Number of words: 817 | Number of pages: 3.... Allan of Baltimore whose lines
About “ Heaven” , though he professes to r-
Egard them as all together superior to any
thing in the whole range of American try,
Save two or three trifles referred to, are non-
sense, rather exquisite nonsense- would but do
himself justice (he) might make a beautiful and
perhaps a magnificent poem. (Neal, p. 35).
This is not exactly negative critisim, but it is not recognizing Poe as a magnificent poet as most other people do. Shoshana Felman does not give her own opinion of Poe, but tells how the rest of .....
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Catherine The Great
Number of words: 742 | Number of pages: 3.... and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of
the Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter
I--westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she
did not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but
rather encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She
succeeded to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the
overwhelming majority of the population--the enserfed peasantry.
To learn the needs of the country and to gain popularity, Catherine in
1767 convoked an assembly of deputies to draft a new .....
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
Number of words: 1161 | Number of pages: 5.... the scenes to tell us that the scene and the setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it should be. One
of the very important style of Ozu is he did not obey to the 180 degree
rule infact he used all the 360 degree space. Ozu orbitted the camera
around the characters and he broke down the 360 degree space into
multiples of 45 degrees. He shots characters from 90 degree poin of
viewes and in many differnt directions. This is offcourse unusual for the
viewers but they getalong with the story so well and that is tha magic of
Ozu. If you break the 180 degree rule the actors facing each other will
look l .....
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Emily Dickinson: Her View Of God
Number of words: 919 | Number of pages: 4.... schoolroom of the sky- (78)".
After she dies and God answers all of her questions, Dickinson then says:
" I shall forget the drop of anguish
That scalds me now-that scalds me now!"
This shows Dickinson's anger toward God. She does not want to have to die
to have her questions answered. She wants to be able to live without these
questions of what God wants, because they are deeply affecting her.
As time goes by, one could say that Dickinson is learning to live
with the questions she has for God. She does not look at death as a bad
thing, she starts to look at it in a positive way. She slowly starts to
seclude .....
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Flo Hyman
Number of words: 1568 | Number of pages: 6.... in Sports 1996).
Hyman’s dedication to sports and to the fight for equal opportunities for women in remembered by and honored with the Memorial Award, given annually by the Women’s Sports Foundation to female athletes who capture Hyman’s “dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence”. (Sports Illustrated 1986) Hyman was known for a lot of things. People mostly remember her for her awe-inspiring spiking abilities, her equally strong defensive skills and her personal integrity and charisma. Her great sportsmanship and athletic abilities earned her many awards and accomplishments. Hyman was an All-American at the .....
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