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Papers on People and Biographies
Political Policies Between The
Number of words: 2150 | Number of pages: 8.... held by both powers. It was the failure to satisfy these expectations which led to its demise. Kissinger suggested that "détente, with all its weaknesses, should be judged not against some ideal but against what would have happened in its absence. Détente did not cause the Soviet arms build-up, nor could it have stopped it. However, it may have slowed it down or made it more benign" (Garthoff 1994:1123). Perhaps détente could be viewed, not as a method of preventing or deterring tension which might lead to war, but as a way of postponing their effect until the United States could more effectively deal with them. By 1976, détent .....
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Bootleggers Boy
Number of words: 1475 | Number of pages: 6.... to the dry county of Crossett and made a good profit. After this he became a bootlegger. Barry grew up as a poor kid and didn’t have electricity or running water until his senior in college. He attended the University of Arkansas to play football. He was more homesick than he thought he would, but quickly adjusted. He played for four years and often said he was never good enough player to play for one of his teams at Oklahoma.
At the beginning of his senior year, he met his future wife. He was talking to one of his teammates when she walked and asked them for directions. They started dating after that. After playi .....
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Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
Number of words: 791 | Number of pages: 3.... leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him off on his journey and decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy and wanted wear." It was something that was obviously not for everyone because it seemed that the majority of people took the other path therefore he calls it "the road less travelled by". The fact that the .....
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Albert Einstein
Number of words: 774 | Number of pages: 3.... offers.Einstein was married twice.He was seperated
from his first wife after he arrived in Berlin.During World War I he married his
first cousin,Elsa.She shared his life with him until she died in Princeton in
1936.He had two sons from his first marriage.He also had two stepdaughters from
his second marriage.In 1933 while Einstein was visiting England and the United
States the Nazi government of Germany took his property and deprived him of his
positions and his citizenship.Even before this happened he had been asked to
direct the school of mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton,New Jersey.He accepted this po .....
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Abraham Lincoln
Number of words: 2433 | Number of pages: 9.... Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping
that ended when his partner died. In 1833 he was appointed postmaster but had to
supplement his income with surveying and various other jobs. At the same time he
began to study law. That he gradually paid off his and his deceased partner's
debts firmly established his reputation for honesty. The story of his romance
with Ann Rutledge, a local young woman whom he knew briefly before her untimely
death, is unsubstantiated.
Illinois Politician and Lawyer
Defeated in 1832 in a race for the state legislature, Lincoln was elected on the
Whig ticket two years l .....
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Bach, Johann Sebastian
Number of words: 668 | Number of pages: 3.... turned into a four-month leave, causing trouble with Bach's employers when he returned. Not only had his presence been missed for four consecutive months, but he had come back writing in an advanced and unusual style that wasn't exactly what was required. It was great music but it was just a little ahead of its time.
So Bach moved on to the job in Weimar, which gave him greater musical freedom. His main duties were court organist and chamber musician to the reigning Duke Wilhelm Ernst, and he afterwards attained the job of conductor to the court orchestra in his last three years of service. It was at the beginning of this perio .....
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Jimmy Hoffa, His Life And Disappearance
Number of words: 1909 | Number of pages: 7.... During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his
boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were
also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of
seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse
in Detroit for thirty-two cents an hour. It was there that he organized
his first labor strike (Franco 150). It is risks like that one that led
Hoffa to becoming such a powerful figure in America. Hoffa married at a
young age and had two children, Barbara and James Jr..
While Hoffa was always a hard worker, he wasn't always the type of
man that .....
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Dwight Eisenhower
Number of words: 813 | Number of pages: 3.... Bristow of Kansas where later he played for the academy’s football team (16, Ambrose). A knee injury forced him to quit and end his hopes of being a star halfback. In 1915, Eisenhower graduated from the academy and the Army assigned him to Fort Sam Houston, where he held the rank of second lieutenant.
While coaching sports teams when off duty at Fort Sam Houston, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, a visitor from Denver, and started taking her to social gatherings at the base. On July 1, 1916, the day of his promotion to first lieutenant, Dwight and Mamie were married. The young couple had their first son, Doud , died of scarlet .....
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Number of words: 662 | Number of pages: 3.... the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.
For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The trip was very hard for them it was like a nightmare. More than 200 people were crowded aboard the ship, and most of them brought cattle, rat-infested blackness below the deck of the ship. Even first-class passengers like the Blackwell's were miserable. There were outbreaks of cholera .....
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A. Philip Randolph
Number of words: 310 | Number of pages: 2.... history have almost ignored the accomplishments of . This treatment is not suprising since the behind the scenes leaders of movements are often forgotten except by those who participated in the movement.
Anyone present in the 1940s civil rights struggle certainly remebers the great strength, power and compassion of . Furthemore his accomplishments will stand the test of time and history will judge him as one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights struggle even if contemporary historians do not. The purpose of this essay is not to discount the accmplishments of any other civil rights leader but to instill .....
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