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feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

journalism at the University of Michigan in 1934 to 1935 and continued to work as a reported and a night editor for The Michigan D...

but not from his condition. Rather, his melancholy is because of the "raindrops beating on the window gutter" (Kafka, 2002). Rathe...

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

gave the commencement speech at his daughters graduation from Radcliffe, he concisely summed up the essence of what he found to be...

it is always Hillary. Advisors had warned that candidates should start to choose someone else because Hillary is just too popular....

grief for his homeland in the Revolutionary Etude (Machlis 82). Chopin arrived in Paris in 1831 and the majority of his musical c...

as they did writing about Gates (Blankenborn, 1993; Manes and Andrews, 1993). Despite the focus mainly on Gates years with Micros...

seems as though no action, no movement, could take place without a caucus being involved. This is perhaps where Jackson made th...

them extensive evidence of plagiarism in two of Oates biographies. In his own defense, Oates accuses Burilngame of taking quotes o...

owe their existence to Moses. Additionally, he built the eleven parkways that run through the city and out towards the suburban co...

in Milledgeville, OConnor attended Georgia State College for Women and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Literatu...

miles off" (Smith 23). When he was seventeen his father informed him that he would be attending West Point. In essence, accordi...

communal ways. Kenneth Guthrie in his book, The Life of Pythagoras, states that the Pythagoreans were extremely secretive and cult...

are many examples throughout his career of conflicts which transpired and his apparent effortless handling of them. The Life of ...

that "The soldiers used to dress him in a miniature army uniform and little army boots (or Caliga) and paraded him around the camp...

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...

former Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp and former U.S. Drug Czar Bill Bennett, and as a Legislative Director in the U.S. Sen...

bootleggers and prostitutes and hangers-on lived" (Fraser, 2001; wls-fraser.shtml). She claims that these were the people she knew...

and not dependent upon a man to pave the way. The biography is single-minded in its efforts to expose the root of Albrights uncom...

his genre, but his music made pop charts in the United States. He was able to break through barriers that other musicians could no...

"was a former schoolteacher, greatly superior in education to her husband. Lawrences childhood was dominated by poverty and fricti...

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

a great deal bout chemistry in relationship to making glass. "Another influence in Dmitris life was his sister Olgas husband, Bess...

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...

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

fathers oldest friends was Colonel John S. Mosby, the fabled "grey ghost" of Jeb Stuarts famous cavalry (Carter and Finer, 2004)....

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