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…progress. She was an extraordinary woman who waged a lifelong battle against the restrictive social codes for women in late nineteenth-century America. Mrs. Gilman was born Charlotte Anna Perkins on July 3, 1860, in Providence, Rhode Island. She…

…of the things that happened because Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev used his political power to reform one of the most oppressed countries in history, and let the people finally think for themselves. Sproule, Anna People Who Have Helped the World: Mikhail Gorbachev…

…Eleanor Roosevelt, The Social Worker As the wife of a popular United States president, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City, October 11, 1884, and died November 7, 1962. She was an active worker for social causes. She was the niece…

…problems in peer relations, and difficulty adapting to school. Peers are necessary for development. The human development literature contains a classic example of the importance of peers in social development. Anna Freud studied six children from different…

…denied her the berries because they felt that was the cause of her upset stomach. She uttered the phrase “stwaberries, stwaberries, Anna wants some stwaberries,” while asleep (Freud 336). Sigmund Freud analyzed his own dreams and wrote about them in his…

…). "Poe had close but platonic entanglements with Annie Richmond and with Sarah Anna Lewis, who helped him financially. He composed poetic tributes to all of them" (Woodberry 94). "In 1848 he also published the lecture "Eureka,"a transcendental…

…thought. A ten-minute prologue has the Philadelphia home of child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Willis) and his wife, Anna (Olivia Williams), broken into by a mental case (Donnie Wahlberg) who, after accusing the doctor of having failed him, shoots Malcolm…

…        Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather…

…of radical group dedicated to shaking the foundations of Russia's autocracy. Unbeknownst to the family, while Alexander was studying in St. Petersburg, he was arrested for an attempt at the life of tsar Alexander III. His oldest sister Anna was also arrested…

…Hour. Dir. Spike Lee. Perf. Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper,         Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, and Brian Cox. Touchstone Pictures, 2002. American Beauty. Dir. Sam Mendes. Perf. Kevin Spacey, Annette Benning, Scott Bakula, Wes…