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    unity (Ginsberg, Benjamin, et al., 2014). A delegate who compromise and was a key for the formation of the Constitution was Edmund Randolph. Edmund Randolph is recognized by the introduction of the Virginia Plan which the idea was the formation of a new government. Randolph’s idea in the…

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    American newspaper publisher, William Randolph Hearst, built the nation's largest newspaper chain. He was born in San Francisco, to millionaire mining engineer, goldmine owner and U.S. senator (from 1886–91) George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Phoebe Apperson was the first woman advisor of University of California, Berkeley. She funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. William Randolph Hearst dominated journalism for…

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    Anyone who read this understand that the citizens don’t have any privacy at all, especially the members. “It was the Police Patrol, snooping into people’s windows (p2).” Everywhere there is a telescreen capturing movement and activity of a person. “The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely (p2).” Not only is it invading individual privacy, but it also very annoying sometime when the exercise leader yell at people. “6079…

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    that you are Nydia the blind flower girl of pompeii. Randolph Rogers’s sculptor of Nydia was inspired by the novel called The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834.…

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    Randolph Bourne, “War is the Health of the State,” 1918 In this document, Bourne, a Progressive author, addresses American citizens in an essay on the effects of war. Although many of Bourne’s fellow Progressives embraced war as a way to speed up the advancement of their socialist causes, Bourne rejected this opinion, insisting although war may seem to strength a nation through the renewal of nationalistic ties and improvement of the popular image of government, involvement in a war becomes a…

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    “Houston was courageous, sensible, and practical. He was right far more than he was wrong, and he never hesitated to oppose mass opinion so long as there was a chance of converting it to his own way of thinking” (Campbell xii). These are the words Randolph Campbell uses in the preface to set the tone for the way he is going to discuss Sam Houston for the rest of the book. Campbell’s opinion and view of Houston is highly romanticized and idealistic. Although he does admit that Houston does have…

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    Churchill is known for many things, but his children are not as known. Winston and his wife, Clementine, had five children together. Four out of the five were girls, which at some times took a toll on Winston himself. Winston and Clementine had Diana, Randolph, Mary, Sara, and Marigold. Winston loved his kids very much because his father was not there for him that much. All of his kids except one grew up to live somewhat successful lives. Some kids were more well known than others, but just…

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    was only 19 Years old. She was highly intelligent, attended college, and is now a actress. Always remained in Private Schools, four to be exact.y In 1982 she wrote a book with Alvin Moscow called ¨Every Secret Thing.¨ She was the third daughter of Randolph A. Hearst. She was born on February 20, 1954 and is currently 63. The SLA did not treat her like your normal hostage. But here i'm going to tell you about the SLA and Patty Hearst's kidnapping. The Kidnapping The year was 1974, on February…

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    Edmund Jennings Randolph. Otherwise known as the governor of Virginia and defender of the Virginia plan at the Constitutional Convention. Randolph was a person very interested in politics and logical reasoning behind things because he always believed that facts were very important to life. He was the person to introduce the Virginia plan which was a government system that consisted of three branches of government, legislative, executive, and judicial. He was also the person that suggested a…

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    When ‘Citizen Kane’ was originally released in 1941, it gave an insight into the manipulation and distortion of the press by scrutinizing Kane’s desire to gain control. As Kane’s character is based on newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, Welles depicts Kane’s influential media control by exposing the beginning of “yellow journalism” as Kane reiterates Hearst’s famous note, “you provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.” Kane’s unethical abuse of media power expressed when Kane states…

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