... a genius for sightgags, red-haired Ball careened through nineteen episodes of the original sitcom as a ditzy housewife" (Biography 1). Her show was so successful and popular that, "the 1953 episode on which she gave birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so great that even today, everyone knows that "Lucy Ricardo, of course, achieved eternal life" (Brady 342). Prior to her television success, she also had much success on her radio show My Favorite Husband. The show was a comedy based on based on "the delightful stories of Isobel Scott ...
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... studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves. The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massachusetts paid for the Boston Tea Party of the preceding year. Jefferson and ...
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... freshman year at Columbia University, but what he ended up doing was running around with a bunch of poets and the like, including fellow students Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac and friends William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. These delinquent young philosophers, you might say were equally obsessed with drugs, crime, sex and literature. Eventually, Allen got suspended from Columbia for various small offenses. He began hanging around with Times Square junkies and thieves (mostly friends of Burroughs), experimenting with Benzedrine and marijuana, and cruising gay bars in Greenwich Village. At this point in Ginsberg life he and Kerouac thought they were working towards ...
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... to be raised by their grandmother, Mary Hall. Upon living with her grandmother, she was reunited with her father. He had stopped his drinking, and wanted to be back in Eleanor's life. He wrote her often, for at this time he was living in Virginia. He would come for visits and send her gifts. His life of sobriety, didn't last long. Once on a visit with Eleanor, went into a tavern and told her to wait outside. Six hours later, she saw him being carried out and helped into a passing cab. As soon as Grandmother Hall found out about his latest fiasco, she discouraged even the shortest of visits. Hall received a letter from him saying that he had a feeling that h ...
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... "She is a woman of most gentleness, humility, and buxomness; yea, and of all good qualities pertaining to nobility she is without comparison."(Albert, p. 32). Catherine was looked at by many people as a brave woman, without mercy. The people of England not only loved her as their Queen, but as their friend. Catherine of Aragon came into Henrys life as a sister-in- law. She was married to Arthur, Henry's brother. Arthur soon died after their marriage and Catherine was left a widow. Two years after his death, Catherine soon realized her love for Prince Henry. Although a few years younger than she, Henry still found it in his heart to love her back. The two p ...
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... Kelly's Army of unemployed working men, and returned to attend high school. University of California at Berkeley, is where London went when he went back. Jack started to become a writer to escape from the horrific prospects of life as a factory worker. He studied other writers and began to submit stories, jokes, and poems to various publications, mostly without success. These writers he studied were Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Karl Jung. London went to the Klondike for hopes of digging up gold in 1897. The attempt to find gold was unsuccessful. The winter of 1897 provided the metaphorical gold for h ...
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... other. The white mans facilities were almost 100 times better than the blacks. Then in the Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka case it was brought to attention that segregation and discrimination obviously affect the children’s state of mind. In the experiment to prove this hypothesis many black children were given a variety of white dolls and black dolls. They were then told to describe what they thought of each doll. The results were in fact that majority of the young black children related the bad characteristics with the black dolls and the good characteristics with the white dolls. It was then proven that segregation and discrimination have long t ...
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... with George Wythe, the greatest law teacher of his generation in Virginia. Jefferson became unusually good at law. He was admitted to the bar in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the courts were closed by the American Revolution. He was a successful lawyer, though professional income was only a supplement. He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton However, his father-in-law's estate imposed a burdensome debt on Jefferson. He began building Monticello before his marriage, but his mansion was not completed in its present form until a generation later. Jeff ...
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... dismissed it because it could be explained in such a simple model. He was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries in The Netherlands, Carl Correns in Germany, and Evich Tschermak in Austria all at the same time after 1900. They named the units Mendel described "genes." When the gene has a slighty different base sequence it is called an "allele." Mendel also developed 3 laws or principles. The first principle is called the, "Principle of Segregation." This principle states that the traits of an organism are determined by individual units of heredity called genes. Both adult organisms have one allele from each parent, which gives both organisms 2 alleles. The alleles are s ...
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