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Karl Marx: Communism
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... poor, poor to rich. These ideas of Karl's are wrong about economics and don't work.
Karl Marx's ideas on communism are incorrect based on his ideas of society. Karl believed that all people will react the same. It has been proven that everyone reacts just a little different from the next person. People all have different ideas, that makes us human. Another of Karl's ideas that is wrong is that the rich control society. This is untrue, at least in our democracy. If a person who is rich or poor is running the country badly, we choose a new person to lead. It doesn't matter if the person is rich or poor ...
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Pierre Trudeau
Number of Words: 1561 / Number of Pages: 6
... of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the
Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat
anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered
radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as
Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned to Canada
in 1949 and resumed his social science endeavors. At this time in Quebec,
the province was experiencing tremendous cultural and political differences
with the rest of the country. The Union Nationale had taken possession of
political matte ...
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Igor Stravinsky
Number of Words: 672 / Number of Pages: 3
... means first, or new. In Russian, however, to call a person original means to say that he is smart, that he comes with resourceful ideas. Since Stravinsky was Russian, that is what he probably meant. Therefore in his first sentence, Stravinsky says that, more or less, almost all conductors are stupid.
The whole passage is more of an insult to all conductors, rather than an informative text. Secondly, Stravinsky uses comparisons to politicians in order condemn the conductors. "Conducting, like politics, rarely attracts original minds … His [the conductor's] first skill has to be power politics," ...
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Alfred Tennyson And His Work
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... was the most important of these friendships. Hallam, a
brilliant Victorian young man was recognized by his peers as having unusual
promise. He and Tennyson knew each other only four years, but their intense
friendship had a major influence on the poet. On a visit to Somersby, Hallam
met and later became engaged to Emily Tennyson, and the two friends looked
forward to a life-long companionship. Hallam died from illness in 1833 at the
age of 22 and shocked Tennyson profoundly. His grief lead to most of his best
poetry, including "In Memoriam", "The Passing of Arthur", "Ulysses", and
"Tithonus". ...
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John Hancock
Number of Words: 1545 / Number of Pages: 6
... things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary.
Her anxiety to make that decision was lessened by the invitation from the
bishop and his wife, to live with them in Lexington. A year later, John was sent away to live with his uncle Thomas and aunt Lydia, and to attend Boston Latin School. It isn’t sure if he moved there to live with his unc ...
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Saint John Of The Cross
Number of Words: 1964 / Number of Pages: 8
... From 1559 to 1563, John studied with the Jesuits, learning Latin, Greek, and other subjects. He was offered the chance to study for the secular priesthood, which would have given him material security, but he felt God was calling him to Religious life. At age 20, he entered the Carmelite Order, being clothed with the habit on February 24, 1563, and taking the name Juan de Santo Matia (John of Saint Matthias). He was ordained in 1567, and said his first Mass in Medina del Campo. During that trip, he first met Teresa of Avila, and she encouraged him to promote her reform among the men's Order. ...
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Number of Words: 1522 / Number of Pages: 6
... attending Oxford. Margaret arrived at Oxford in the autumn of
1943. During her years here, Margaret worked in a canteen for the war effort,
continued her interest in music by joining various choirs and joined the Oxford
University Conservative Association where she became very active in it's
political activities.
After Oxford, Margaret became the youngest female candidate of the
Dartford Association. She was unofficially engaged to Denis Thatcher at this
time, and they married in December 1951. Twins were born the following year.
During this period, she studied law and was admitted to the bar in ...
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Captain Kidd
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... in January 1698 and scuttled the
unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April
1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned
the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly
purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City.
There he tried to persuade the colonial governor of New York, the Earl of
Bellomont, of his innocence. Bellomont, however send Kidd to England for
trial
In May 1701 Captain Kidd was found guilty of murder of a mutinous sailor
and of five counts of piracy. There was evidence concerning ...
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Ulysses S. Grant’s Leadership And Simplicity
Number of Words: 342 / Number of Pages: 2
... fall of 1863 Grant was sent to Chattanooga to lead a besieged army. Within a month Grant had turned the tables and had defeated the enemy forces. Grant was much more than just an incredible battlefield commander. He produced the foundation of the modern American army. Grant emphasized a strategy of maximum firepower with maximum mobility (Perret, 28).
Simplicity was the basis of Grant’s nature. He saw the war in its simplest form, which meant that he saw it as a whole. He did not see the difficulties in winning until they surfaced. His strategy was simple, he was going to hold Lee in Virginia ...
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Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... of school at age 13, when he
got married. Life got very stressful for him when his father became sick.
He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he started to
smoke shoplift and eat meat.
In 1887 he started collage at the University of Bombay. He did not
like it there and decided to go to England and become a barrister and
return for a job like his fathers. When he arrived in England he joined the
University Collage. He had a bad time switching cultures, and one of the
most difficult obstacles to overcome was that he was a vegetarian. After
finding a vegetarian restaurant, he felt ...
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