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…William Lyon Mackenzie It is 1837, William Lyon Mackenzie, newspaperman, member of the Legislative Assembly and first mayor of Toronto, has formed a rebellion against the Family Compact. Why did he do it? He wanted a new system of government in Upper…

…Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial, conscientious, he was caught in the intense battles between Progressives and conservatives, and got…

…Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial, conscientious, he was caught in the intense battles between Progressives and conservatives, and got…

…A Flower Frozen In Time: A Rose For Emily William Faulkners story A Rose For Emily, is a tragic story about a young lady by the name of Miss Emily Grierson. Emily came from a well to do family, that had allot of history in the town they lived…

…EWING, WILLIAM MAURICE (1906-1974). William Maurice Ewing, geophysicist and oceanographer, was born on May 12, 1906, in Lockney, Texas, the son of Floyd Ford and Hope (Hamilton) Ewing. He received three degrees from Rice Institute (now Rice University…

…Are things always what they seem? Is our first impression always right? In "The Tiger" William Blake uses tone, theme, and rhyme to make the point that there are two sides to everything. <Tab/>If you came face-to-face with a tiger you…

…In The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare characters often could not escape the consequences of their choices. The choices that some characters made in the play put them in a position which they could not escape. In most of these cases…

…"The garden of love" by William Blake is a complex and emotional sonnet beneficiating from a simple but nonetheless effective a/b/a/b rhyme scheme. The poem starts in a calm and harmonious place where the environment offers a docile but nonetheless cold…

…The question of whether Quebec will secede from Canada to become an independent nation has been a hot topic in the country for several years now. It dates back to the abortive rebellions of 1837-38. In 1980, a referendum to secede was rejected by a 60…

…to sustain their dominance. By looking at the AT&T and Microsoft antitrust lawsuits brought upon them by the federal government, one can see how there are differences in the cases, and how it is not clear as to whether Microsoft actually has a monopoly…