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Profiles In Courage
Number of words: 578 - Number of pages: 3

.... re-think their view of the Massachusetts Senator. Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh of March" speech. While slavery seemed to be the main issue of the time, the speech spoke mainly of preserving the Union. Although he was opposed to slavery, he seldom brought it up in his political activities. These pressures haunted him around the time he was fighting to be re-elected. Thomas Benton was a Senator of Missouri who had negative relations with President Jackson. Benton supported the Missouri Compromise, but opposed the Nationa .....

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John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
Number of words: 603 - Number of pages: 3

.... lawyer and was on his way to a successful future. Mr. Marshall worked under the administration of John Adams starting in 1798. He was offered the position of attorney general under George Washington's administration, but declined because he wanted to stay with his family and practice law in his home town of Richmond, Virginia. He was one of three delegates sent to France by John Adams in 1798. His reasoning for taking the job in France was partly because it was only a temporary mission and also because he wanted to be of service to his country, aiding in peaceful relations with France .....

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Machiavelli
Number of words: 403 - Number of pages: 2

.... and felling of such hated groups as the Nazis. In today's system, societies that have been lead by rulers with such a mentality have not lasted very long. It seems that these days the general populace have much less tolerance for those rulers that believe in doing anything for the sake of themselves and supposedly the society at large. I believe that such rulers today are not tolerated (and should not be tolerated) There is no room for this type of thinking in modern day life. Respect is another factor that was very important to Machiavelli and his way of thinking. The Prince, as Mach .....

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Samuel Adams
Number of words: 1097 - Number of pages: 4

.... in glory. But in the constellation of great men, which adorned that era, few shone with more brilliancy, or exercised a more powerful influence than ." (Fradin 98) People like to hear the story of Samuel Adams for two reasons. First it is a story of the greatest hero in American history full of much triumph and fighting for the common good. Also they like to hear of how he was a failure in every sense before he found exactly what his life’s calling was. Perhaps it gives people some hope for their own lives because he failed at every job he ever had and still became the greatest ma .....

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Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings
Number of words: 638 - Number of pages: 3

.... the people in the boat closest to the edge of existence, into the maelstrom. And Poe makes it the captains fault that they are caught in the outer ring of the maelstrom and are coming closer to the center(Schopper). In the “Black Cat”, the husband in the story was cruel and unjust to the cats. The cats were probably representing Poe when he was defenseless and young. Poe’s child hood played a key factor exposing the “evil old man” figure(Schopper). Most of Poe’s stories have a motif of obsessive-compulsive behavior(Edgar Allen Poe web page). this would be expected of Poe w .....

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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Number of words: 732 - Number of pages: 3

.... sculpture, became the symbol of Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall. With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning. Michelangelo’s David does not make me feel a certain way. It is simply a magnificent statue. This statue does not have a certain mood. David is a statue of David in the nude looking off into the distan .....

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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 367 - Number of pages: 2

.... and served a two-year term. In 1829 his second volume of verse, Al Aaraaf, was published, and he effected a reconciliation with Allan, who secured him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few months at the academy Poe was dismissed for neglect of duty, and his foster father disowned him permanently. Poe's third book, Poems, appeared in 1831, and the following year he moved to Baltimore, where he lived with his aunt and her 11-year-old daughter, Virginia Clemm. The following year his tale “A MS. Found in a Bottle” won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Vi .....

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Maya Angelou
Number of words: 929 - Number of pages: 4

.... are asking a similar question. Why do you choose to seclude me from you’re world am I something you wouldn’t expect from another human? “Don’t scream about don’t think aloud turn your head now baby just spit me out don’t worry about don’t speak of doubt turn your head now baby just spit me out.” This is a complex way saying why is you disrespected me because you can’t stand the way that I am. Just walk all over me treat me different act as if I’m a piece of crap. What good does it do for you by bringing me down? I think this is .....

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Robert Frost: Biography And Review
Number of words: 712 - Number of pages: 3

.... a degree. Over the next ten years he would write more poetry. Frost would live on and operate a farm in Derry, New Hampshire that his grandfather had purchase for him with the condition he live there for a minimum of ten years. He would also take a teaching position at Derry’s Pinkerton Academy to receive another form of income. Frost would not stay there long, as he felt the need to once again move. In 1912, when Frost was nearly forty he sold the farm and used the proceeds to take his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to writing. Frost would establish hims .....

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Siddhartha
Number of words: 591 - Number of pages: 3

.... Subsequently, he ventures out into the world and explores his senses in a desperate attempt to investigate his spiritual needs. He greets love openly and rests satisfied by the splendors his lover Kamalah. ’s contentment is terminated as he is presented with a controversial dream. He dreams that Kamala’s beloved bird is found dead: “ The bird, which usually sang in the morning, became mute and as this surprised him, he went up to the cage and looked inside/ The little bird was dead” (82). ’s freedom from religion and promiscuous behaviors cease along with the birds death, “ he .....

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