chocolate popular in America and other parts of the world. Many people today know and purchase the infamous chocolate products that have been produced by the Hershey Factory‚ but some know about how the business became to be so successful. Milton S. Hershey was born in a small Pennsylvania town named Derry Township on September 13‚ 18571. He was the only child of Fannie and Henry Hershey. His mother was a Mennonite2 and moved often‚ which disrupted his education and could only finish 4th grade3
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Henry S. Truman was born on May eighth‚ 1884 in the farm town of Lamar‚ Missouri. As a young man he aspired to go to West Point‚ but his poor eyesight Page 1 prevented him from that. Instead after college he helped on his family farm and eventually served in the Missouri National Guard. His governmental life began with being elected district judge. He then became a Senator and in 1945 became the Vice President to democratic President Franklin Roosevelt. Less than a year into Roosevelt’s fourth term
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GEORGE SMITH PATTON JR. ( 1885 – 1945 ) INTRODUCTION George Smith Patton III was born on Nov 11‚ 1885 in San Gabriel‚ California‚ USA. He was known as “Old Blood and Guts “and “Georgie “. In 1909‚ he graduated from the U.S Military Academy at West Point and descendant of a Virginia family with a long military tradition. Patton became a keen student of the American Civil War (1861-1865)‚ especially its great cavalry leaders ‚ an interest that likely contributed to the strategy of bold ‚ highly
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On May 4-7 1864‚ the first battle of General Ulysses S. Grant’s “Virginia Overland Campaign” against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia‚ and their general Robert E. Lee took place. The Battle of the Wilderness was the first step towards capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond. It began with a meeting between President Abraham Lincoln and Union leader Ulysses S. Grant to discuss war tactics. The goal was to battle Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and keep it under pressure to
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English Lit. 10 October 2013 Novelist Research Report I chose to do this paper on one of my all time favorite authors‚ C.S. Lewis and one of his books‚ The Lion‚ The Witch and The Wardrobe‚ from his collection The Chronicles of Narnia. Ever since I became a Christian‚ and I read Lewis book Mere Christianity‚ I have been hooked on Lewis books. I picked up the Narnia books‚ not realizing what they were‚ but because who the author was. I have read each one of Lewis books multiple times‚ and if I
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Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent T. S. Eliot is a well-known critic‚ poet and writer who has done a great amount of literary work. Eliot has his own views for judging and analyzing poets and poetry. In "Tradition and The Individual Talent"‚ Eliot has given some significant ideas‚ which are essential to understand in order to understand Eliot’s perceptions regarding poetry and poets. T.S Eliot’s critical essays are the one‚ which cause a mind to think over a situation‚ he has described
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The Outsiders Why do people fight? In the fictional book The Outsiders‚ written by S.E Hinton‚ a 14 year old boy learns the way of street life by getting hurt. The story takes place in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma during the 1960s. There are two gangs that live in Tulsa‚ the Socs and the Greasers. The characters Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ Darry‚ Sandy‚ Steve‚ Evie‚ Two-bit‚ Johnny‚ and Dally are all part of the Greasers gang. Cherry‚ Marcia‚ Sylvia‚ Bob‚ and Randy are in the Socs gang. Ponyboy‚ the main character
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The movie The Outsiders by S.E Hinton and the book were very different from each other. Ponyboy‚ Johnny‚ and Dally are three characters that I noticed were the most different. These three are part of a gang called “Greasers” along with four others. In the book‚ Ponyboy has a good relationship with is brother Sodapop but doesn’t get along well with his oldest brother Darry. He is a good reader as well as successful in track. In the movie he still has a good relationship with Sodapop‚ but he gets along
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C.s Lewis is one of the greatest Christian and British Authors thought history. Part of University of Oxford’s Inklings‚ which also consisted of C.s Lewis‚ J.R.R. Tolkien and two other members. This group would read each other parts of the manuscripts of their books. One of the books C.s Lewis read to this group was “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”‚ J.R.R Tolkien did not like this book‚ he did not think it would do well‚ but he was wrong. Two of C.s Lewis greatest works‚ The Lion the Witch
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is a complex and fragmented poem that underwent major revisions before it was published in 1922. The published version we see and read today is actually shorter in comparison to what Eliot had originally written. According to James Torrens’s article “The Hidden Years if the Waste Land Manuscript‚” Eliot had mailed “54 pages of The Waste Land‚ including the unused parts” to John Quinn‚ a “corporation lawyer in New York City‚” which had shortly disappeared after Quinn’s
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