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Karl Marx 6
Number of Words: 459 / Number of Pages: 2
... cause the proletariat (working class) to rise up and kill the bourgeoisie (prosperous middle class). Because life overall improved for the workers, there was no need for them to rise up and fight.
“During the 1800s, Parliament gradually passed a series of social and economic reforms. Many laws were designed to help the men, women, and children whose labor supported the new industrial society.” (World History, p 611) many of the new laws included free trade, the abolition of slavery, and a new criminal justice system. However, the major reforms were ones that included better working ...
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The Nomination OfAndrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
Number of Words: 1817 / Number of Pages: 7
... later he moved to Nashville
Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by
William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later
remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794.
Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional
convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator
in 1797, but financial problems forced him to resign and return to Tennessee in
less than a year. Later he served as a Tennessee superior court judge for six
years starting in 1798. In 1804 he retired from the ...
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Steven Spielberg
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon
offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one
of the best directors of the time.
However, he followed Close Encounters with the disastrous Movie, 1941,
which was his first attempt at comedy and his first true failure. He didn't take
long to regain his form, both commercially and arti ...
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P. T. Barnum
Number of Words: 1948 / Number of Pages: 8
... pranks.
Phineas Taylor, who was Barnum's grandfather, was one of the most notorious jokers in Bethel and also one of the richest men. His longest running joke would be on Barnum. At the boys cresting, he deeded Barnum a piece of land called Ivy Island. For years Barnum herd stories about what a lucky young man he was to be given Ivy Island At the age of ten he set out to see the island himself. Barnum soon found out Ivy Island was named for poisoned ivy. It was an Island in the middle of swamp just east of Bethel. Barnum then learned that he was the unknowing butt of jokes for ten years. Barnum ...
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
Number of Words: 489 / Number of Pages: 2
... as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to h ...
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Galileo
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... performed no experiments, and made few calculations. found their explanations of motion unconvincing. He was particularly dissatisfied because Aristotle had concentrated on why objects move. wanted to know how they move (9).
As one could see then, how keen this savant individual could work his mind to evaluate and explore anything that appeals to him. His work in physics helped remarkably to make experimental measurements and mathematical calculations more significant in all the sciences today. Although he was censored and imprisoned for his radical ideas about the motion of the earth, he c ...
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Number of Words: 1734 / Number of Pages: 7
... old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House "was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison." While attending Hodder House, he studied chemistry, poetry, geometry, arithmetic, and grammar. After his experiences at Jesuit Preparatory school, he left and applied for Stonyhurst Academy. ...
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John Lennon
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... /Plastic Ono Band. Lennon's first solo album, it followed several avant-garde sound collages recorded toward the end of the Beatles era with his wife and collaborator, Yoko Ono. The raw, confessional nature of Plastic Ono Band reflected the primal-scream therapy that Lennon and Ono had been undergoing with psychologist Arthur Janov.
There were, in fact, numerous facets to Lennon's character captured in the ongoing diary of his life in song. Many of his post-Beatles compositions - "Imagine," "Mind Games," "Instant Karma," and "Give Peace a Chance" – have rightfully become anthems, flaunting tough ...
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John F. Kennedy
Number of Words: 397 / Number of Pages: 2
... and because Kennedy looked good on TV he won the vote. But by less then 115,000 popular votes.
For Kennedy the most important part of his presidency came on October 16, 1960 when he found out about the Russian missiles being moved into Cuba. Some of the missiles that they were moving in were, MRBMs, which are medium range ballistic missiles, and IRBMs which are intermediate range missiles. The Executive Committee, A group of advisers to the president, then asked why Khrushchev put the missiles in Cuba. He said that it was because of the Jupiter Missiles that had been placed in Turkey earlier that y ...
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Aristotle
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... works. His studies play an
important role in the early history of chemistry. Aristotle was the first
person to propose the idea of atoms matter and other grand ideas.
Aristotle made the first major advances in the field of philosophy of
nature. He saw the universe as lying between two scales: form without matter
and is at one end and matter without form is at the other end. One the most
important aspects of Aristotle's philosophy was the development of potentiality
to actuality. That can be explained as something possibility in terms of its
accuracy. The actual state compare to the potential s ...
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