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Moll Flanders
... achieved? The answer is that the suffering that Moll experienced was not worth the final outcome. Although Moll reached her goals in the end, she would have had a more fulfilling and gratifying life had she suppressed her vanity and price and accepted her role in society and lived accordingly.
Moll began life in the low class. Not much nobility or status was expected of the orphan born in Newgate Prison, and in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this class. But Moll had the blessing of the kind "nurse" who raised her, kept her out of the dreaded servitude, and found a high class family for Moll to live and grow up with. Moll was a beau ...
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The Life And Work Of Frederick Douglass
... works, and also through activities such as the
Underground Railroad, and also his role in organizing a regiment of former
slaves to fight in the Civil War for the Union army. Due to the Fugitive Slave
Laws, Douglass became in danger of being captured and returned to slavery. He
left America, and stayed in the British Isles. There he lectured on slavery,
and gained the respect of many people, who raised money to purchase his freedom.
In 1847, Douglass relocated to Rochester, New York, and became the person in
charge of the Underground Railroad. Here he also began the abolitionist
newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.
In this time period, Dougl ...
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Emily Dickinson
... more selective over the years about the company she kept; Dickinson was far more sociable than most descriptions would have us believe. She frequently entertained guests at her home and the home of her brother and sister-in-law during her 20’s and 30’s. A friend commented by saying that Emily had so Many people at one of her parties that she never got a chance to speak with her. In addition, Dickinson kept up a voluminous correspondence with friends, family, and one of her spiritual mentors, Minister Charles Wadsworth. Although it has long been believed that various correspondents, including Higginson and editor Samuel Bowles, served as literary guides, there is n ...
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The Life Of Sid Vicious
... was the image of his absent father, but tended towards picking
up his mom's love for music in a house full of the sounds of jazz, in
particular Ella Fitzgerald.
Eventually Anne found a new man. His name was Chris Beverly. She
later married him. Chris loved John, and made a request to legally adopt
his stepson. Before the adoption could go through though, Chris died of ill
health. John later changed his name from John Ritchie to John Beverly.
John attended the Soho Primary School where he horrified his
teachers when he told them that he no longer believed in God. John left
this school with two zero levels in English Literature and English Language
and absolutely n ...
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Mohandas Ghandi
... did to open the minds of the people around him. With all that can be said about Ghandi, I would like to focus upon his economic impact in Britain and India.
Britain’s self-glorifying empire building was a great hindrance on the Indian economy. Britain employed the “Mother Country” system in Indian. This is where the raw materials of the colony (i.e. India) are harvested and shipped to the Mother country (i.e. Britain.) The raw materials are manufactured into goods that are shipped back to the colony where they can be sold for a great profit. Britain had a firm grasp on the cotton market in India. The Indians were forced to sell their raw cotton to the Britis ...
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Christopher Lathrop: Autobiography
... there, I was beaten repeatedly
with tree limbs. The only toys I had to play with were the contents of the care
package. I also received for some monk holiday a pet snow monkey. But brother
Haanz stole him from me; for his own entertainment.(If you know what I mean?)
Anyway; a few years later when I became a shambala monk. (many degrees
above a standard monk.) I ran away to America and joined circus Vargus as the
head clown. When the Circus came too my hometown of Olympia My mother witnessed
my performance, and decided too let me move back home. Living at home was worse
than I had hoped. I decided to venture, as I called it; on a long and hopefully
successful ...
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Al Capone
... shop. He also wrote literature and poems, when he had the time.
Capone grew up in a loving family. His father never hit the kids, he only talked to them. There were no disturbances, violence, or dishonesty about this family. The killer in Capone was thought to have come from when he had gotten his first job. Capone was a role model to many of the boys in the community. He worked for a man named Johnny Torrio. He ran errands, and got paid for it, so he had pocket change. Torrio was a new type of gangster. He was one of the first of this new breed and helped with the development of a newly found criminal enterprise.
There were other Capone children, not ...
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Was Jimmy Hoffa A Hero Or A Criminal?
... his mother as a "warm and loving" but no-nonsense "frontier-type
woman" who believed that "Duty and Discipline were spelled with capital
D's." The children were expected to hurry home from school, change t heir
clothes quickly, and do their allotted chores expeditiously. Hoffa's tasks
were taking care of the stove and the clothes boiler and picking up and
delivering laundry. The family worshiped at the Christian Seaboard
Congregational churches, and Hoffa attended Sunday school there.(Current
Bio) In 1922 the Hoffas moved to Clinton Indiana, two years later they
settled in Detroit, Michigan, in an apartment on Merritt Street on the
city's brawling, working ...
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Bill Gates
... out of Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time. Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There he and Allen Kay established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer corporation. Other computer companies wa ...
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Herman Melville 2
... similar to the ones he himself possessed.
Melville had a strong desire to reveal the complexities of human life, so mystery was often a trait of his characters. An example of this would be his character Bartleby. Throughout the story, the reader has no clue what Bartleby is thinking, so Melville creates an air of mystery about this character. Another of Melville’s characters that show this quality is Claggart in the book Billy Budd. Claggart is constantly referred to as being mysterious, “…a nut not to be cracked by the top of a ladies fan (Billy Budd).
Besides being mysterious, Melville is stubborn and this comes out through his character ...
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