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Jack London Pacific Ocean
554 wordsJohn (Jack) Griffith London (1876 - 1916) was born in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, came from a wealthy family. As an infant, Virginia Prentiss, a major mother figure, raised Jack in Jacks childhood, an ex-slave. She was obligated to care for Jack because Jacks mother was ill. In his teenage years, Jack worked very hard jobs he served on a fish patrol catching poachers; he pirated oysters on the San Francisco Bay; he sailed the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship; and he join...
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Federal Reserve Act Federal Trade Commission
1,161 wordsFun Fact: Sheep on the White House lawn? A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I. Fast Fact: Woodrow Wilson tried in vain to bring the United States into the League of Nations. Biography: Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President, " he said, "seems to be expected... to look out for the general interests of the country. " He...
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Grand Duke Imperial Family
1,771 words... firing ministers and ordering the Emperor and Empress to do his evil bidding. As the situation with the war worsened, and public dissatisfaction grew, the rumblings against Rasputin became louder; it was only a matter of time before those who believed Rasputin evil would try to seek their vengeance. (Baker 88). This is the letter Rasputin wrote before his horrible death he foresaw. He predicted that if he should happen to die because one of the Romanov or Romanov relatives killed him, the en...
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Nicholas Ii Winter Palace
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Entered The War Austria Hungary
698 wordsThe first World War did not just happen overnight, it had been building up for years. One long term cause was Nationalism. Strong competition had developed among France, Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany, especially after the unification of Germany, under Bismark, in 1871. There was also uneasiness within countries. For example, the Czechs and Slovaks wanted to be free from Austro-Hungarian control. Imperialism also lead to World War I. Many nations were in heavy competition for colo...
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Returned To Dublin Maud Gonne Yeats
840 wordsOne of Ireland's finest writers, William Butler Yeats served a long apprenticeship in the arts before his genius was fully developed. He did some of his greatest work after he was fifty. Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, on June 13, 1865. His father was a lawyer-turned-Irish painter. In 1867 the family followed him to London and settled in Bedford Park. In 1881 they returned to Dublin, where Yeats studied the Metropolitan School of Art. Yeats spent much time with his grandparents in County Slig...
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Russia Nicholas Ii
2,085 wordsSteps Towards the Russian Revolution? I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father? (Nicholas II). In spite of the Czar? s decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, is supported by political and monarchial Russia. Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarray. An autocrat, Nicholas II had continued ...
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Joan Of Arc Man And Superman
985 wordsGeorge Bernard Shaw was an iconoclastic writer and speaker who embraced many subjects that his peers had not yet dared to embrace. He is considered to be the best and most significant playwright since William Shakespeare. His life and career were focused mainly on social reform. Bernard was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gay and father George Carr Shaw. His father and grandfather were both alcoholics. His mother was from Carlow. She was a musi...
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Amounts Of Money End Of The War
2,185 wordsGlobal Effects of World War I- Everywhere in the world was heard the sound of things breaking. Advanced European societies could not support long wars or so many thought prior to World War I. They were right in a way. The societies could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war metamorphic Europe socially, political, economically, and intellectual. European countries...
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Jack London Physical Ability
1,171 wordsI would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time Jack London Jack London fought his way up from a life of hard, factory labor in Oakland, California, to become the highest pai...
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715 wordsJack London (1876 - 1916) was easily the most successful and best-known writer in America in the first decade of the 20 th century. He is best known for his books, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as " To Build a Fire" and " The White Silence. " He was a productive writer whose fiction traveled through three lands and their cultures such as the Yukon, California, and the South Pacific. His most famous writings included war, box...
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Jean Toomer Langston Hughes
1,050 wordsJean Toomer Jean Toomer Jean Toomer's family was not typical of migrating African Americans settling in the North, or fleeing the South. Each of his maternal grandparents were born of a caucasian father. But a speck of Black makes you Black. Thus, Toomer's grandfather, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, was a free born black, a Union officer in the Civil War and was elected to the office of Lieutenant Governor and later Acting Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction. The Pinchback's retired ...
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Type Of Government Tsar Nicholas
1,053 wordsRussian Revolution of 1917 Picture living in 12 below zero temperatures without food and heat. These were the conditions for the Russian citizens during 1916 and 1917. People were starving without any food or heat and their children were off fighting in a war with over 1, 700, 000 dying men. What were all of them fighting for? The country? Why would a fellow human being want to risk his life for the country when the country cannot even provide it s citizens with enough food and heat. The need fo...
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Verdun France Nationalism First World War Road
818 wordsReview: The Road To Verdun: France, Nationalism Review: The Road To Verdun: France, Nationalism And The First World War By Ian Ousby Shipwreck of a nation The Road to Verdun: France, Nationalism and the First World War by Ian Ousby 324 pp, Jonathan Cape Reviewing a book on a subject about which one has written oneself is difficult. When the author of the work has died shortly before publication, the difficulty is doubled. Fortunately, this is an outstanding book, rich in its insights, and writte...
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W E B Dubois Back To Africa
1,147 wordsThe Life and Theories of Marcus Garvey The 1920? s were a period of struggle for African-Americans. Slavery was abolished, but blacks were still oppressed and were in no way equal to whites. However, at this time blacks were starting to make some progress toward racial equality. The Harlem renaissance started the first real sense of African-American culture through art, jazz, dance, and literature. There was also at this time the beginning of strong African-American movements to further the blac...
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Pancho Villa Del Norte
1,486 wordsDoroteo Aranga learned to hate aristocratic Dons, who worked he and many other Mexicans like slaves, Doroteo Aranga also known as Pancho villa hated aristocratic because he made them work like animals all day long with little to eat. Even more so, he hated ignorance within the Mexican people that allowed such injustices. At the young age of fifteen, Aranga came home to find his mother trying to prevent the rape of his sister. Aranga shot the man and fled to the Sierra Madre for the next fifteen ...
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World War Ii First World War
1,084 wordsSocial Conditions Affect Writing by Anthony Meszaros Advanced European societies cant support long wars. That was thought prior to World War I. The truth was that the Europeans could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched, as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war drastically changed Europe's social conditions thus affecting the writing during this period. During this time many movements shared a resolute ...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
2,025 wordsRussia, History, WWI Steps Towards the Russian Revolution The quotation, I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father. (Nicholas II) In spite ofthe Czars decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, is supported by political and socioeconomic conditions late monarchial Russia. Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute o...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
2,075 wordsSteps Towards the Russian Revolution The quotation, I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father. (Nicholas II) In spite of the Czar s decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, is supported by political and socioeconomic conditions late monarchial Russia. Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarra...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
2,094 wordsThe quotation, " ? I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father. (Nicholas II) In spite of the Czars decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, " is supported by political and socioeconomic conditions late monarchial Russia. Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarray. An autocrat, Nichol...
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