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Woodrow Wilson and the Election of 1912

the 1912 campaign, Roosevelt was shot, but he recovered ("Biographies," 2001). What happened was that when campaigning in Milwauke...

Why Lyndon Johnson was Rated Above Average in the Schlesinger Poll

more than six feet tall and that he was one of several presidents who had achieved a second term falls (Schlesinger 179). Susan Pa...

Positive and Negative Aspects of E.J. Davis' stint as Governor of Texas

a state senator who happened to be the friend of Sam Houston ("Edmund Jackson Davis," 2007). Davis would remain a member of the Wh...

Thurgood Marshall's Role in Education

his life dictated his career. He was being groomed for the role by his life circumstances. In some way, it seems as if he was dest...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

Glen Huser

winning competitions and his short stories were being published in Canadian literary magazines. Husers first novel, Grace Lake, ...

Glen Huser

A 3 page research paper that reports on the life and career of Canadian children's literature author Glen Huser. The writer offers...

Significant Contributions of Immanuel Kant

divided into public and private rights. Then the work goes on to Part II and is headed Metaphysical first principles of the doctri...

Biography of Harriet Tubman

her sister (Lowershore.net). It was at this time, when she escaped, that she took on the name Harriet (Tubman was her married name...

Woman First Eleanor Roosevelt

about sex" (Young, 1999; 183). She was, however, incredibly devoted to her husband, even despite the fact that he had strayed and ...

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...

Milton Lomask's Aaron Burr

traitor to his country. In this work we see a young man, Burr, who is a diligent student from a good family. He is a man with a se...

Biography of Benjamin Franklin

at night so no one knew who was writing the pieces. They were a smash hit, and everyone wanted to know who was the real Silence Do...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

NBC's Jeff Zucker

At NBC, Zucker and traveled the world to track down the information the NBC Sports commentators used on air as background to...

Biography of Joseph Goebbels

compensated, perhaps over compensated, with his dogmatic embrace of the philosophy of the Third Reich. However, these early expe...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

David McCullough's John Adams

but rather simple happiness. But, he was a man of vision and determination as well. He was an excellent lawyer and began to make a...

They Did Not Expect Him by Russian Artist Repin

religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...

A Biography of Wesley Clark

Clark went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University between August of 1966 and 1968, where he studied philosophy, politi...

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese woman (in the area)," and therefore, she was also "an attraction that (would) bring men, Chinese and white, from miles aro...

Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

Analysis of Joseph Heller's Catch 22

Yossarian watches as many slowly lose their grip on reality as they fly mission after mission. The Catch 22, then is that which wo...

Biography of William Morris

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Critiquing 'Professions for Women' and 'The Mark on the Wall' by Virginia Woolf

the genius of Woolf. The womans thoughts, though they seem to be idle ramblings, are quite symbolic of Woolfes views on the direct...

Biography of Sen. John F. Kerry

for President, 2004). Kerrys upbringing as a member of a vocal family and his time at Yale served him when he returned from Viet...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...