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Comparison Of John F Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln's Lives
Number of Words: 1790 / Number of Pages: 7
... 1960, when Kennedy was 43 years old, he became the 35th
President of America(O’ Sullivan 10). He established the Peace Corps Of
America which was an agency that promoted world peace and friendship by
training American volunteers to perform social and humanitarian service
overseas (“John” 1). Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963
and was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Many historians have found several
interesting similarities through research about two of America’s greatest
presidents.
Researchers and historians have compiled many interesting
similarities on Kennedy and Lincoln. The ...
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The Nomination Of Andrew Jackson To The "Presidents Hall Of Fame"
Number of Words: 1811 / Number of Pages: 7
... 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 bench and m ...
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Molly Pitcher
Number of Words: 460 / Number of Pages: 2
... ran over to see what was wrong with her husband. After she realized that there were no blood or bullet holes she took over the cannon. Molly helped load and fire the cannon and had a very close encounter with death. While she was firing a cannonball a shot from the enemy passed between her legs, not touching or hurting her, but rather tearing off her skirt.
There were two nicknames that Molly earned out on the battlefield. The first one was ; the soldiers called her this because she brought pitchers of water out to them. The second nickname they had for her was 'sergeant.' They often called her ...
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Napolean
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... Napoleon. This war between 1808 and 1813 is called The
Peninsular War.
In Germany, anti-French feelings broke out. But the French invasions
carried German nationalism beyond the small ranks of writers. In 1807
writers attacked French occupation of Germany. This nationalistic feeling
spread to the Prussians. In 1806 the Prussians were defeated by the French
troops. To drive the French out of Prussia there would have to be a spirit
of cooperation and loyalty. To accomplish this there would have to be
social and political reforms. A reformer said that if social abuses were
eliminated the Prussians ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Number of Words: 317 / Number of Pages: 2
... waged a vigorous fight against isolationism and pacifism before and during World War II, and in 1944 helped to found the Liberal Party in New York State. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on June 1, 1971.
Niebuhr indicated his overriding interest in what has been called theological anthropology, a concern with the nature of man as a contact point for religion and society, in such major works as Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1935), and The Nature and Destiny of ...
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Miguel De Cervantes
Number of Words: 953 / Number of Pages: 4
... in Naples. He
fought in 1571 against the Turks in the naval battle in Lepanto, in which he
lost the use of his left hand. While returning to Spain in 1575, Cervantes was
captured by Barbary pirates. He was taken to Algeria as a slave and held there
for ransom. (Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). He did however make several
unsuccessful escape attempts, but he was finally ransomed in 1580 by his family
and friends. Returning to Spain at the age of 33, Cervantes, despite his wartime
service and Algerian adventure, was unable to obtain employment with a noble
family. This was usually the gift presented ...
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Cortes 2
Number of Words: 441 / Number of Pages: 2
... In November of 1519, Cortes finally reached the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. Upon his arrival the Axtecs believed Cortes and the Spainards were the return of Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl was the axtec god-king who was light skinned, bearded, and would return from the east. All of these descriptions fitted Hernan. Hence, the Spainards were treated lavishly and roamed freely throughout the city. During this time the Spainish found a lot of gold stored throughout the city. Even with the lavish treatment the Spainish were receiving they still captured Montezuma II. Meanwhile, Velaquez, in Cuba ...
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Bradstreet, Anne
Number of Words: 266 / Number of Pages: 1
... case, a true, righteous marriage, the reward of everlasting life through love will be obtained. Generally, this this poem seems to have almost a stoic to (in my reading); the passion seems forced in some instances. After reading the backround information on Bradstreet: the Puritan religion and the role of woman in that society, I question the sincerity of this poem. I wonder if it was written as a form of hidden sarcasm towards her husband, or maybe as one of the only acceptable means of expression for a female poet's heart. Bradstreet must have been in constant conflict between expressing her true ...
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Max Planck
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... at the University of Berlin.
After he decided to become a theoretical physicist he started a quest for
absolute laws. His favorite absolute law was the law of the conservation of
energy which was the first law of thermodynamics that stated that you could take
any equal amount of energy and transform it into the same equal amount of energy
ideally, meaning no energy was lost. The second law of thermodynamics led him
to discover the quantum of action or Planck's constant h. How he came upon his
formula for quantum mechanics well be explained as follows. Planck saw that
blackbody radiation acted ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number of Words: 1632 / Number of Pages: 6
... In the same year that Emerson met Ellen, he became a preacher, but it didn't last long. His chest was weak and he had to give it up. His travels to Europe led him to meet many men, even though he was very sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Thomas Carlyle were among the few. Carlyle stayed his friend throughout his whole life. Nature as a metaphor or image of the human mind was the topic of his lecture, "The uses of Natural History" after he got back from Europe. His attempt being to, "humanize science." [Grolier pg.304] His later marriage to Lydia Jackson lasted the rest of his ...
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