John Wayne Gacy Junior John Wayne Gacy Junior was no ordinary man. He was born in Chicago‚ Illinois he was the second of three children (Amirante). He was married twice during his lifetime and divorced both times. He had two kids with his first wife that he never saw again after the divorce. He started his own company and was a clown as a side job‚ which was part of his numerous clubs that he was in (Amirante). During a three year time period‚ he viciously murdered and raped over thirty boys and
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John Peter Zenger Born in Palatinate‚ Germany‚ John Peter Zenger (1697- 1746) was a New York printer and journalist. He arrived in New York City at the age of 7 and was trained for eight years by William Bradford‚ one of the more known writers of American printing. After he completed his training with William Bradford he moved to Chestertown‚ Maryland to live on his own. In 1722‚ he returned to New York due to the lack of success he had in Maryland and began his own business in 1726. In 1732
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John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun was born March 18‚ 1782 in South Carolina. He was known as the "cast iron man" for his rigid defense of Southern beliefs and practices. Calhoun was elected into legislature in 1808. Two years later Calhoun moved into the House of Representatives. Calhoun is part of the Democratic Party. He also went to serve as a U.S Secretary of War and helped steer the United States into war with Great Britain. John C. Calhoun was elected into Congress in 1811. Calhoun supported
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meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” This famous quote is said by British Philosopher‚ John Stuart Mill. (1806-1873) Growing up with his father‚ James‚ Mill’s had an intense (lack of a better word) childhood education. Soon‚ he wrote about freedom of expression and was active in women’s rights‚ which is an idea far ahead of his time. John Stuart Mill’s famous work “On Liberty” is a classic text on modern liberalism. Mill’s was a principle idealist on the philosophy
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Family backround John F. Kerry was born on December 11‚ 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora‚ Colorado outside Denver. His father‚ Richard Kerry‚ was an Army Air Corps test pilot during World War Two and his mother‚ Rosemary Kerry‚ also served during that war in the Red Cross in Paris. Childhood years Kerry’s family returned to their home state of Massachusetts shortly after his birth. Because his father was a Foreign Service Office the family moved often when John was young and so he
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seaside had only really been a privilege and luxury to the wealthy‚ however that changed with the development of the railways. In the spring of 1906‚ John Fletcher Dodd opened Britain’s first holiday camp‚ Caister Holiday camp‚ on the seaside resort of Caister. However‚ the camp was more of socialist camp than the holiday camps we know today. John Fletcher Dodd had many strict rules throughout the camp‚ including no talking after 11pm and swearing would not be tolerated. The camp was separated
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Born on July 4‚ 1872 in Plymouth Notch‚ Vermont‚ John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the offspring of a successful farmer and small business man. Serving in the Vermont Senate and House of Representatives‚ his father‚ John Coolidge‚ later swore him in after the death of President Harding. At the age of twelve‚ he lost his mother. And‚ around several years later‚ his sister met the same fate. With little ambition other than to follow in his father’s footsteps‚ he managed to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts
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John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were two important philosophers from the seventeenth century. The two were born nearly 50 years apart – Hobbes in 1588 and Locke in 1632 – and yet‚ they each managed to have a major impact on their time and our own. The philosophical viewpoints of Locke and Hobbes are‚ in most cases‚ in strict opposition of each other. There are certain points at which the theories of both men collide; however‚ their synonymous beliefs are exactly the point at which their theories
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Children learn at an early age. From the time they are born until they enter into school. They learn their mothers and fathers voice as they speak to them as an infant. Early learning as newborns to a year old is the foundation. John Locke believed that children are born with the ability to become anything or anyone they desire to become. They also have the ability to absorb anything being taught to them. I agree with Locke about the morals and values of a child. As the saying "garbage in‚ garbage
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JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Born in Acueil‚ a self-contained‚ working class suburb of Paris in 1952‚ of a bookkeeper farther and secretary mother John Paul Gaultier was an only child. In the 1960 as a teenager John Paul was obsessed with fashion especially the costumes from Moulin Rouge and often pretended to be ill to stay off school‚ draw and have gay fantasies of men wearing feminine clothes. During this time Jean Paul Gaultier began detailed drawings of whole collections including accessories taking
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