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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Number of words: 1522 - Number of pages: 6.... and spent her years studying with
the intent of attending Oxford. Margaret arrived at Oxford in the autumn of
1943. During her years here, Margaret worked in a canteen for the war effort,
continued her interest in music by joining various choirs and joined the Oxford
University Conservative Association where she became very active in it's
political activities.
After Oxford, Margaret became the youngest female candidate of the
Dartford Association. She was unofficially engaged to Denis Thatcher at this
time, and they married in December 1951. Twins were born the following year.
During .....
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Benjamin Franklin: A Man Of American Ideals
Number of words: 889 - Number of pages: 4.... timetable for the twenty-four hours of a day, reading and working dominate most of his time.
Aside from being diligent, frugality and the simplicity of life have been an important part of Franklin’s life as evident from the following passage.
We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the cheapest. For instance my breakfast was a long time bread and milk, (no tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon (873).
Having fancy dinner plates and silverwares is something that seldom interests Franklin. Practical issues are what concern .....
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Jon Bennet Ramsey
Number of words: 1837 - Number of pages: 7.... were dispatched to the Ramsey home at 5:25am.
It was within this most critical time period that the police made the biggest mistakes, which may be the reason why the case has yet to be solved and probably never will.
First off, when police were dispatched to the house that morning, they were told that there was a child missing, and there was a ransom note left behind. Any person with the slightest bit of common sense would believe that a crime has now taken place, especially a police officer. This means, treat the home as a crime scene. This was not done. The home should have .....
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
Number of words: 1544 - Number of pages: 6.... fields
on the island. These fields represent an important source of income for
the community. Traditionally the Japanese laborers worked the fields and
the white Americans owned the fields. The question of the ownership of
seven acres of strawberry fields serves as the apparent motive for the
murder of Carl Heine. To a local Japanese fisherman, Kabuo (accused of
murdering Carl Heine), the ownership of this land promises a secure future
and ultimately independence. “...she knew that Kabuo wanted a strawberry
field.. nothing more than that” (Snow Falling 89). “His dream...was .....
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Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
Number of words: 1571 - Number of pages: 6.... first major publication. It contains his political philosophy of extreme individualism and Laissez Faire, which was not much modified in his writings in the following sixty years. Spencer expresses in The Proper Sphere of Government his belief that “everything in nature has its laws,” organic as well as inorganic matter. Man is subject to laws bot in his physical and spiritual essence, and “as with man individually, so with man socially.” Concerning the evils of society, Spencer postulates a “self-adjusting principle” under which evils rectify themselves, p .....
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B.F. Skinner And His Influence In Psychology
Number of words: 1973 - Number of pages: 8.... to psychological behaviorism by performing experiments that linked behaviors with terms commonly used to describe mental states. Skinner was responsible for some famous experiments such as the “Skinner box”. Skinner also wrote some very famous books. One of them was “The Behavior of Organisms”. This book describes the basic points of his system. Another was Walden Two. This book describes a utopian society that functions on positive reinforcement. Skinner was a very productive person until his death in 1990 at the age of 86.
Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology .....
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Jimmy Carter
Number of words: 796 - Number of pages: 3.... tennis.
- Dances with Rosalynn
- Favorite spectator sport is basketball
Breakfast
- Orange juice, coffee, fruit, and cereal. Sometimes pancakes.
Food
- Sirloin steak, medium rare
- Any kind of fish or poultry
- Corn bread
- Any vegetables except beans
- Salad with Roquefort dressing
- Frozen yogurt
Hymns
- The Navy Hymn "Eternal Father Strong to Save"
- "Amazing Grace"
- "Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
Color
- Blue
Gift to receive (as a youth)
- Books
Books
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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The Life And Accomplishments Of John F Kennedy
Number of words: 3278 - Number of pages: 12.... not been ready for war. The book that resulted from
this was titled Why England Slept. This book became a best-seller. Kennedy
graduated cum laude in 1940. He then enrolled in the Stanford University
graduate business school, but dropped out six months later. Kennedy
enlisted as a seaman in the U.S. Navy after taking a trip through South
America.
For a few months, Kennedy was stationed in Washington, D.C. He
applied for sea duty following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941. Kennedy was assigned to a PT boat squadron late in 1942.
After learning to command one of the smal .....
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George Walker
Number of words: 4061 - Number of pages: 15.... all in their own little world of self-denial where they have perfectly valid reasons for the eccentric, oddball things that they do. In Escape From Happiness, we find a uniquely dysfunctional family with every character showing similar, but individual motivations towards something better for themselves or the people around them. This play in particular is surreal in this aspect and in the ways the individuals display their honesty. The three sisters are all strikingly different. Mary Anne is a comically heavy-hearted mother who takes everything the people around her say far too literally. .....
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Dr Jack Kevorkian: Disrupting The Universe
Number of words: 434 - Number of pages: 2.... he assisted in suicides either were terminally ill or
they wanted to be killed due to other serious medical problems. There have been
reports of a person beating her son in tennis one week before she killed herself
with the help of Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine, but she was terminally
ill and Dr. Kevorkian would not help kill people unless their life was in
danger or they were not living comfortably. Kevorkian was previously a doctor
dealing with terminally ill people and death counseling. From this experience
he knew that for some people suicide was the only Solution.
On th .....
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