... in his field of work. Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball. Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started writing for newspapers in the New York area. Stephen Cranes first work was a novel called Maggie: A Girl of The Streets. Then Crane wrote the Red Badge Of Courage, a novel about a civil war soldier, which earned Crane international acclaim at age 24 this was Cranes most famous work. Crane was then hired as a reporter in the American West, and Mexico. At age 27 Crane moved to Jacksonville, Florida where he got ma ...

... of crucifixes in the dream that would gradually turn into trees that dripped blood. He would see a man collecting the blood into a cup. The man would offer the cup to Haigh, but he always awakened before he could take a drink. It was the dream, Haigh would confess to the police after his arrest, that made him believe he needed blood in order to live. Early adulthood was a problematic time at best for Haigh. He was imprisoned several times for fraud and forgery. But his true criminal nature began to manifest in middle adulthood, just after World War II had ended. In 1944 Haigh rented a basement in London to use as a workshop. It would soon become the gri ...

... that he frequently used to memorize stanza after stanza of poetry. Winston Churchill didn't want to go to university. His dream was to be enrolled in the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He graduated in 1894.After service in Cuba and India, he worked as a war-correspondent in Northern India, Sudan and in South Africa, where he was captured by the Boers. His daring escape made him an overnight celebrity. Churchill always wanted to become a politician. Early in his life he envisioned himself at political debates. His wish came true in 1900, when he was elected to the Parliament as a Conservative, and he quickly made his mark. ************ Hi ...

... love, truth, fairness, caring, non-violence, achievement and peace were what motivated him. King is not great because he is well known, he is great because he served as the cause of peace and justice for all humans. King is remembered for his humanity, leadership and his love of his fellow man regardless of skin color. This presence of strong moral values developed King’s character which enabled him to become one of the most influential leaders of our time. Integrity is a central value in a leader’s character and it is through integrity that King had vision of the truth. The truth that one day this nation would live up to the creed, “all men are created e ...

... happened from going to St. Mary’s was meeting Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the disciplinary guy at St. Mary’s. He spent a lot of time with George. He even helped Ruth learn to be a baseball player. Baseball was a popular game for the boys at St. Mary’s and George played well at a young age. He played all positions on the field, was an excellent pitcher and had the ability to hit the ball very well. By his late teens Ruth had developed into a major league baseball prospect. On February 27, 1914, at the age of nineteen, the Baltimore Orioles signed Babe to his first professional baseball contract. Because Ruth’s parents had signe ...

... salvation. Murray reveals her unwavering commitment to human rights in her literary endeavors. Murray considered men and women to be intellectually equal and advocated intellectual independence for single and married woman. It was her belief that if woman had enough respect for themselves as people, they would not see marriage as a haven or as a way to gain respectability. I'm not saying that Murray didn't believe in marriage; quite the contrary she believed strongly in the bond of marriage. It was her belief that an educated woman would make a better wife. Her second husband was John Murray, the minister responsible for transporting the Universalist religion ...

... By the time he was nineteen Abe reached his full grown height of six feet four inches. He held small jobs such as a clerk, postmaster and a few others through his early twenties. Then in 1832 he ran for county candidate against 13 others. Only four were to be elected and Lincoln finished eighth. In '834 he ran for a representative to the Illinois legislature, by this time Lincoln was well known and he got the election. Abe began to study law, and in 1836 became a licensed attorney. In 1837 he made his first public stand against slavery, Lincoln avoided extreme abolitionist groups though he was greatly against slavery. On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Tod ...

... newspaper. Searching for better employment, Melville joined a whaling crew on the ship Acushnet. He quickly grew to hate it and deserted ship with a fellow mate on an unfamiliar island. Melville crossed paths with a cannibal tribe called the Typee. After a month on the island he returned to his homeland and told stories to family and friends. They encouraged him to write of his adventures. The result was his first two well-known novels: Typee and Omoo. Shortly after this Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, and together they had four children. During his career, Melville was known as a great writer only for his early adventure novels. He was more interested i ...

... too, because his education has been right. He is our least provincial poet because he is the best grounded in those ideas--Greek, Hebrew, modern Europeans and even Oriental--which make for well-built art at any time. He does not parade his learning, and may in fact not know that he has it: but there in his poems it is, and it is what makes them so solid, so humorous, and so satisfying. His many poems have been different from one another and yet alike. They are the work of a man who has never stopped exploring himself--or, if you like, America, or better yet, the world. He has been able to believe, as any good artist must, that the things he knows best because they ...

... In tribute to the postwar Milan, Mussolini and other war vetrines founded Fasci di Combattimeto in March 1919. The Nationalistc,antilieral, and antisocialist movement attracted the lower and middle-class support and took its name from the faces, an ancent Roman symble of Roman disciplen. When the Fascist thretend to march on King Victor Emmanuel 3rd he invited Mussolini to a coalition goverment. By this time the fascist leader transoformed the country in to a single-party totalitarian regime. The party controlled representing groups differnt sectors of the ecomeny. The systome prevented captialism and social sevices. ...