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20 Th Century Harper Lee
786 wordsIn, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee refers to Oliver Optic, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Victor Appleton as three authors whose works were enjoyed by Scout, Jem and Dill. These 19 th and 20 th century authors had similar writing styles and plot formulations. Adventure stories, which were the genre of the tales written by these particular authors, were extremely appealing to the young children in Harper Lees novel. Scout and her friends wove detailed imaginary dramas portraying characters discover...
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Dwight D Eisenhower World War Ii
871 wordsDwight David Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. He was the third of seven sons from David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. After his birth the family moved to Abilene, Kansas where Dwight graduated from high school in 1909. He was awarded a scholarship to West Point military academy. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in September of 1915. After being stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Dwight met Mary (Mamie) Geneva Doud, and they were married o...
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House Of Commons Muslim League
2,308 wordsFather of the Nation Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's achievement as the founder of Pakistan, dominates everything else he did in his long and crowded public life spanning some 42 years. Yet, by any standard, his was an eventful life, his personality multidimensional and his achievements in other fields were many, if not equally great. Indeed, several were the roles he had played with distinction: at one time or another, he was one of the greatest legal luminaries India had produced during the...
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Spirit Of St Charles Lindbergh
1,024 wordsAfter Black Thursday, which was one of the major causes of The Great Depression, the nation needed heroes, or someone to simply lift the peoples spirits and thats exactly what Charles Lindbergh did. The "Spirit of the St. Louis" caught the world by surprise and Charles became one of Americas first celebrities. Every aspect of his life was written in newspapers and magazines or broadcast over the radio, this is why it is so easy for me to tell you that Charles Lindbergh is a true hero. Charles Au...
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Tennessee Valley Tennessee River
722 wordsIn 1933, Congress created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as a federal corporation. TVA was perhaps the most original and broad reaching program to come from FDR's 'New Deal' to put America back on its feet. The TVA was created to improve and develop the Tennessee River Basin which reached across 7 states in the South '... an act to improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the T...
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Due To The Fact Don Juan
964 wordsRichard Strauss was born June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany. The German composer-conductor is best known for his operas and tone poems. His father was Franz Strauss, one of Germany's leading horn players. Strauss's musical career began at the age of 4 when he learned how to play the piano. By the age of 6 he was composing and by the age of 11 he was studying theory and composition [ 5, par. 1870 ]. At the age of 20, he made his conducting debut in Munich. This led him to the Meiningen Court Orches...
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Bank Of The United States Federal Reserve
1,059 wordsA common definition of a bank is a financial intermediary that accepts, transfers, and, most important, creates deposits. This includes such depository institutions as central banks, commercial banks, savings and loan associations, and mutual savings banks. Banks are most frequently organized in corporate form and are owned either by private individuals, governments, or a combination of private and government interests. Although non corporate banks-that is, single proprietorships and partnership...
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Joe Jr Kennedy Family
1,103 wordsJohn F. Kennedy was the 35 th president of the United States 1961 to 1963. He was the youngest person ever to be elected president. Also, He was the first Roman Catholic president and the first president to be born in the 20 the century. He served in World War II on PT boat. He also helped to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis and started Peace of Corps to help 3 rd world countries better them selves. Kennedy was assassinated before he completed his third year as president. Therefore, his achievemen...
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Sir David Cardinal Denies Working For Darlington Day
761 wordsTimeline of Events in The Remains of the Day 1899 (Approx. ) All within a short length of time: Stevens' brother killed in South African War; Father has incident about car; Father must be butler to general. (40) 1914 Darlington in Great War (WWI), along with Herr Bremann 1920 (towards the end of the year) Darlington makes the first of a number of "disturbing" trips to Berlin. 1920 's (at the start of the twenties) Given's Wax disappears, and leads to excessive silver polishing. Hayes Society exe...
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Middle Aged Man Walter Mitty
895 wordsJames Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio to Charles Leander and Mary Thurber. Thurber was brought into the world by the nurse, Margery Albright. Thurber could walk when he was two years old and could speek complete sentences at the age of four. As a child, Thurber was blinded by an accident (his brother William shot an arrow at him). This injury prevented Thurber from playing with the other children, which helped him develop a love for fantasy. This contributed to his later fiction writings. Thu...
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Fascist Party Socialist Party
1,237 wordsBentio Mussolini, (18833 - 1945) was the Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He centralized all power in himself as the leader (il duce) of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in alliance with Hitlers Germany. The defeat of Italian arms in World War II brought an end to his imperial dream and led to his down fall. Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. His father, Alejandro, was a Blacksmith, and his mother, Rosa wa...
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Sir Charles Miles South
1,263 wordsOur Most Renowned Aviator Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, known to the world as Smithy remains one of the most celebrated pilots of international aviation's golden age. For seven years, from 1928 to his death in 1935, he was the most revered public hero in Australia. His epic and dangerous oceanic flights, through destructive weather in fragile aeroplanes, were followed on radio around the world like the moon missions of 40 years later. At the end of his great pioneer journeys crowds of 200,...
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World War Ii Great Britain And France
1,762 wordsAdolf Hitler, Hitler Hitler Adolf Hitler, the simple mention of his name conjures up memories of total war, death and destruction on an unprecedented scale, and always the deaths of millions of Jews and other undesirables in the Holocaust. How did this happen? How was it possible that a failed artist could rebuild Germany in just six years, challenge the world to mortal combat, and nearly win? He simply possessed what few other politicians of his day had, he was a man driven by an unquenchable t...
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National Labor Relations Second New Deal
1,181 wordsPresidents Hoover and Roosevelt were both apparent victims of being the wrong president at the wrong time. Their attempts to end the depression, although Hoover s a appeared more futile, were noble efforts on their behalf s considering the circumstances that they were enduring at the time. In many ways, both of these Presidents could not have don t much more to attempt to pull the country out of the Great Depression. Hoover was plagued with a rigid personality and a Democrat Congress that knew t...
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Social Security Act Second New Deal
1,405 wordsNew Deal is a program created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression to counteract various effects of it. New Deal created many agencies and legislation to help the United States pull itself out of the Great Depression. Some of these agencies have tremendous effect even today. When Roosevelt was elected as the president, he faced many problems such as banking failure and unemployment. Almost immediately, he called on Congress and began what is known as Hundred Days Congress. Du...
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Congress Passed President Roosevelt
843 wordsIn the early 1930 s, America was troubled by the rise of dictatorships in Italy and Germany, and a militaristic government in Japan, but felt unable, and unwilling, to do anything about these developments. The inability of the League Of Nations to halt aggressor nations further strengthened American isolationists. As a result, isolationist congressmen succeeded in passing neutrality acts intended to keep the United States out of another war. President Roosevelt invoked the Neutrality Acts agains...
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Lee Harvey Oswald John F Kennedy
695 wordsJohn F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the second child of nine children. He lived in the suburbs of Boston but as his family grew his fathers income increased and they moved back to Brookline. John had a seemingly happy childhood. He attended private s elementary schools where he played sports and games. Though never making the varsity, his father encouraged him to take part in athletics. He was taught by Roman Catholic lawmen at Canturbery School and later...
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Rio De Janiero Rio De Janiero In 1935 Rey
346 wordsMargret Elizabeth Rey was born May 16, 1906 in Hamburg, Germany. Her father, Felix Waldstein, was a well-known member of the German parliament and Margret was use to a lot of activities in the large house that was home to five children, four servants, and a dog, as well as her fathers political colleagues, who were frequent visitors. Margret Rey received formal art training at the Bauhaus in 1927. She studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art from 1928 to 1929 at which time she held one-woman art...
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Millions Of People Duke Ellington
1,742 wordsA Portrait of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the greatest figures in the history of American music. Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington was born in Washington D. C. on April 29, 1899. His parents were James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They raised Duke as an only child, until his sister, Ruth, was born when Duke was sixteen years old. Duke, even as a teenager, had a great talent for music. In the beginning of his musical life, Duke began to take a promis...
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World War Ii Great Britain And France
2,031 wordsThe Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler. The simple mention of his name conjures up memories of total war, death, and destruction on an unprecedented scale, and always the deaths of millions of Jews and other undesirables in the Holocaust. How did this happen? How was it possible that a failed artist could rebuild Germany in just six years, challenge the world to mortal combat, and nearly win? He simply possessed what few other politicians of his day had, he was a man driven by an unquenc...
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