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Benito Mussolini
... channel in Trent. Practicing journalism, in which he had always thought as his first passion. This gave Mussolini an opportuninty to establish a name in the Socialist Party and with the people in general. He wrote articles that would get the people's blood racing on church issues. One thing was not afraid of was the rage of other men. For these articles he spent time in prison and was then deported back to Italy.
In Italy he persisted and gave public speeches, the people loved his ideas. He became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialist. In November 1914 he published, Il Popolo d'Italia, and the prowar group Fasci d'Azione Rivoluziona ...
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Marlowe Cut Short
... to national security. Due to the Queen's intervention the Cambridge officials granted Marlowe his masters degree. From this incident many people believe that Marlowe was a spy for the government and that he continued to work for the Queen after he obtained his degree.
After Marlowe obtained his masters degree he went to London to work on his new profession as an author. He began getting into a lot of trouble with the law and having enemies around every corner. On May 18, 1593 a warrant was issued for Marlowe due to heretical documents found in his room. Marlowe's roommate, Thomas Kyd, was arrested and charged with atheism claimed that these documents did ...
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Mark Twain And Racism
... serve as a point of satire. He is not simply ridiculing the times by
using it, but saying, "this is how it is." He conveys the idea that whites
are superior to blacks in different ways. While he might criticize white
people's actions, he never lumps them together, attributing similar
characteristics to all of them by the use of a term like "nigger." By doing
this, he is also offending about 15% of the United States population. Every
character in the book is racist, even Huckleberry himself. With such lines
as: "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming
right out flatfooted and saying he would steal his children-children that
belonge ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
... to remain in the West for many years. He became a passionate hunter, especially of big game, and an ardent believer in the wild outdoor life, which brought him health and strength. In 1886 Roosevelt returned to New York, married his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow in London, and once more plunged into politics.
President Harrison, after his election in 1889, appointed Roosevelt as a member of the Civil Service Commission of which he later became president. This office he retained until 1895 when he undertook the direction of the Police Department of New York City. In 1897 he joined President McKinley's administration as assistant secretary of the Navy. While in ...
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E. M. Forster
... in 1905. He wrote many other novels including Longest Journey, Howard's End, and A Room with a View. As a pacifist Forster wouldn't fight in the First World War, instead he worked for the International Red Cross. Two years later Forster moved to India where he worked as a personal secretary for Mahaharajah of Dewas. This resulted in his novel, A Passage to India. When he returned to England he wrote many critiques and articles but never wrote any more novels. died on June 7, 1970.
Many critics are split on 's writings, although most things written are positive and they all seem to agree on the same things. His use of characters and their de ...
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Robert Frost And His Life
... often said, in a dig at archrival Carl Sandburg, that he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal.
After his father's death in 1885, when young Frost was 11, the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butte ...
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John Wayne
... Trail. Wayne did not let the stardom go to his
head. He spent the rest of the decade making his way
through a series of low budget films whose failing budgets
and quick shooting schedules did little to advance his career.
In 1939 John Ford gave Wayne another break by
casting him as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The roll threw
Wayne into the top ranks of the movie stars and finally, in
the 1940’s, his legend began to take shape. Relieved from
military duty due to physical problems, Wayne became the
film industry’s hard-core soilder, but had that compassionate
side. Movies released during the war, such as Flying Tigers
(1942), The Fight ...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
... and violin sonatas. The two forms that were to have special significance for Beethoven were still to come: he completed his first symphony in 1800 and his first set of string quartets in 1801. Beethoven was Vienna's first successful freelance musician: he never again held a court position after leaving Bonn. Instead he had wealthy aristocratic friends, patrons and perhaps loves, to whom he dedicated his early compositions in return for payment. Begining in 1798, Beethoven experienced a continual humming and whistling in his ears that gradually grew stronger, eventually prompting the agonizing realization that he was going deaf. In 1802, in a state of desperatio ...
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Andy Worhal
... and newspapers. Although extremely shy and clad in old jeans and sneakers, Warhol attempted to intermingle with anyone at all who might be able to assist him in the art world. His portfolio secure in a brown paper bag, Warhol introduced himself and showed his work to anyone that could help him out. Eventually, he got a job with Glamour magazine, doing illustrations for an article called "Success is a Job in New York," along with doing a spread showing women’s shoes. Proving his reliability and skills, he acquired other such jobs, illustrating adds for Harpers Bazaar, Millers Shoes, contributing to other large corporate image-building campaigns, doing ...
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Babe Ruth
... of the radio, millions of people enjoyed
listening to it.
George Herman Ruth was born in the early 1890's to a couple of German
immigrants who ran a local bar. His parents had there hand's full with the bar,
and had very little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack
of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It
was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever
lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his
punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that
led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started ...
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