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Winnie Mandela: Trial And Error
Number of Words: 706 / Number of Pages: 3
... caught him in a plot, against my person" (Sophocles 36). His arrogance caused the people of his land to lose respect for their king. Mandela also had this raise to power and arrogance when she allegedly ordered the murder of young boys believed to be spies. "(I) was ordered to sing loudly to drown out the screams of boys being beaten for allegedly leaking information" (Maclean 55). Her followers and the people who believed in her goals eventually lost respect for her. Because both Mandela and Oedipus took their power too far, a lot of their followers lost respect causing them to fall from power. ...
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Stalin
Number of Words: 1662 / Number of Pages: 7
... His father died in a bar from wounds he got from a bad brawl. His town was a very aggressive town that liked to show each other their power by beating one another. Young Joseph was the one and only survivor out of his four siblings.
In 1888 began attending the Gori Church School, where he learned Russian, and excelled at his studies, winning a scholarship to the T’bilis Theological Seminary in the Georgian capital in 1894. began his studies at the seminary as a devout believer in Orthodox Christianity. He was soon exposed to the radical ideas of fellow students, however, and began to read ille ...
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Ansel Adams
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... Mountains. From that time on, Ansel returned to Yosemite National Park every summer. While he was there in 1919, he joined the Sierra Club. The purpose of this club was to explore and protect the wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada. Ansel eventually worked in the park for four summers as the caretaker of the club's headquarters. While his time there, Ansel became an expert mountaineer and conservationist. He also gained a lot of experience shifting conditions as a photographer of landscape.
During this time until 1920, photography was just a hobby for Ansel. In 1920 he decided to ...
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Jailhouse Rock: The Story Of Elvis Aaron Presley
Number of Words: 1392 / Number of Pages: 6
... his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, "Memphi ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 347 / Number of Pages: 2
... a year he was made full leader of the Nazi Party. In 1938 Hitler takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marching in to Poland. By this time Jews were dying by the thousands. Europe was almost completely taken over by the Nazis. In 1941 Germany had taken over the Soviet Union. By 1945 the Holocaust had taken over 6 million Jews and more and more people were going against Hitler’s leadership making it harder for him to keep up the acts of hatred he had against the Jews. April 30, 1945 him and his new wife had brought there life to an end w ...
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The Life & Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche
Number of Words: 1878 / Number of Pages: 7
... that he wrote himself, during his philosophical career. I took this
as a good sign I would find a fountain of enlightened material produced by
the man. I've had to go through a bit of my own philosophical meditations
to put my own value judgements aside, and truly look for the contributions
Nietzsche gave to philosophy. Much of my understanding came only after I
had a grasp of Neitzsche's history; therefore, I encourage you to read-up
on his history before diving into his philosophy (see Appendix I). The
modern Westerner might disagree with every aspect of his philosophy, but
there are ma ...
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William Lyon Mackenzie
Number of Words: 1320 / Number of Pages: 5
... and gambling. On July 17, 1814, his illegitimate son was born. What he had done to Isabel Reid, mother of his son, was a sinful deed. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407) He did not assume responsibility for the child; he abandoned his son and his mother-Elizabeth. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 407)
This exceptional horrid flaw in his character was carried on into his career later on as a mayor. Mackenzie was named Toronto's first mayor by his fellow councillors, defeating John Rolph. As mayor, Mackenzie was both head of council and chief magistrate for Toronto. ("Mackenzie" 1976: 500) However, despite his definite inf ...
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Langston Huges
Number of Words: 607 / Number of Pages: 3
... on he gets more and more specific. Hughes then goes on to dream that everyone “Will know sweet freedoms way,/Where greed no longer saps the soul.” (World lines 6-7) Here Hughes is wishing to abolish greed. He is hoping that not only the rich will be able to know what it is truly like to be free. Hughes goes on to state:
“A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free” (World lines 9-12)
Here Hughes is stating that not only should the poor know what it is like to be free but race should not be a barri ...
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Emily Dickinson 6
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... siblings shared a very close relationship. Their parents didn't have a close relationship with them, but they did love and care for them. Emily's parents made sure she had a good education. She went to a primary school for four years then she attended Amherst Academy from eighteen hundred forty through eighteen hundred forty-seven. After that she went to Mary Lyon's Female Seminary ( Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ) for only a year. The seminary insisted on religious as well as intellectual growth. Emily didn't like the religious environment and was under considerable pressure to become a prof ...
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Nicholas Ferrar
Number of Words: 1267 / Number of Pages: 5
... family fortune and
was successful. He served for a short time as Member of Parliament, where he
tried to promote the cause for the Virginia Company. His efforts were in vain
for the company lost their charter anyway.
Nicholas is given credit for founding a Christian community called the English
Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar
was ordained as a deacon, he retired and started his little community. Ferrar
was given help and support with his semi-religious community by John Collet, as
well as Collet’s wife and fourteen children. They devoted themselves to ...
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