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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
Number of words: 2089 - Number of pages: 8.... Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an equality philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in .....
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Christopher Marlowe
Number of words: 1835 - Number of pages: 7.... In 1589 he was involved in a street brawl which
resulted in a man's death. An injunction was brought against him three
years later by the constable of Shoreditch in relation to that death. In
1592 he was deported from the Netherlands after attempting to issue forged
gold coins. On the 30th of May 1593 he was killed by Ingram Frizer in a
Deptford tavern after a quarrel over the bill. He was only 29 years old.
During the middle ages, culture and government were influenced greatly by
the Church of Rome. The Reformation of Henry VIII (1529-39), and the break
of ties with that church meant .....
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Princess Diana 2
Number of words: 1026 - Number of pages: 4.... a small child (“Diana” Internet).
On February 24, 1981 the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was announced (Delano 36). The couple later was married at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981. The wedding ceremony attracted global television and radio audiences. It was estimated that around one thousand million people watched or heard the wedding. In addition, thousands of people lined the route the royal carriage took to the cathedral. Diana was the first English woman in three hundred years to marry an heir to the British throne. Diana wore a silk dr .....
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Queen Elizabeth I
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... of these tutors, she was not only fluent in two languages, but in four
languages. She was fluent in the languages of Greek, Latin, French, and
Italian.
When Henry died in 1547, her brother, Edward, took over the throne at
ten years of age. Edward, with a short reign on the throne, died in 1553,
and Elizabeth's half, older sister, Mary took the throne. Mary, like
Edward, died on November 17, 1558, after a short time on the throne.In
October 1562, Queen Elizabeth almost died of small pox.
In 1584, Europe's other major protestant leader, William of Orange,
was assassinated. For t .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
Number of words: 2727 - Number of pages: 10.... himself with odd jobs
and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who
had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha,
Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before
running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery
store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana,
where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to
the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had
a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his child .....
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Mikhail Lermontov
Number of words: 632 - Number of pages: 3.... expand to gain new markets and raw materials. However this could only be done at the expanse of Eastern Tartar tribes and south of the Ural Mountains. At this moment we can see two theories emerging in the 19th century. The first one is nationalism provides by the fearsness that Tartar tribes were resisting Russian aggression. The second important characteristic trait is chauvinism portrayed by the fact hat the girl was killed upon being taken to the homeland. This gruesome portrayal is the beginning of the feministic movement, when the women grew form nothing to become equal to the oth .....
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William Mackenzie King
Number of words: 645 - Number of pages: 3.... the 1925 election but returned to the House of Commons as the member for Prince Albert, following a by- Election on Feb.15, 1926. William’s government was shaken in 1926 by the Revelation that the Customs Department was tainted with corruption and incompetence. King William was also interested in labour coincided with an expansion in manufacturing and a concern elations. King also acted as a conciliator in a number of strikes, his major legislative Achievement being the industrial dispute investigation in the Act of 1907, which delayed Strikes, or lockouts in public utilities or mine .....
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Ernest Hemmingway
Number of words: 2937 - Number of pages: 11.... treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. .....
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Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 887 - Number of pages: 4.... for the Germany Army and was accepted. He served as a messenger and was decorated twice for bravery after two near death experiences. He was promoted to corporal. While recovering from an battle injury that caused temporary blindness, Germany surrendered to her enemies in November 1918. Hitler was angered and felt compelled to save Germany. In the Autumn of 1919, Hitler attended meetings of the "Germany Workers Party." After joining the group and they decided to change their name to "National Socialist German Workers." This party was soon known as the Nazi party. Hitler was chosen as the .....
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Robert Hunter
Number of words: 2443 - Number of pages: 9.... Last are themes that are either used frequently in both contemporary and traditional ways, or transcend the division of contemporary/traditional and form their own categories.
One of the main traditional themes that Hunter uses is the gambling theme. The poems "Candyman" and "Loser" exemplify this motif the best:
Come on boys and gamble
Roll those laughing bones.
Seven come eleven, boys
I'll take your money home.
--"Candyman"
Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy
Last fair deal in the town.
Put your gold money where your love is, baby,
Before you let my deal go .....
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