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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 527 / Number of Pages: 2
... himself was
dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his
acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large
expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis
of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana
territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the
constitution, nowhere in the constitution is the acquisition of land a
right of the government, Jeffersons' predisposition was to strictly go by
the constitution (as seen with the national bank controversy), this is
another contradiction during ...
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Peter The Great 5
Number of Words: 2759 / Number of Pages: 11
... as one of Europe's great powers, which was mainly because of his introduction of many Western European scientific, cultural and political practices.
Peter the Great was born on June 9, 1672, the son of Tzar Alexis I Makhailovich. 2 He succeeded the throne at the age of ten, when Tsar Theodore, Peter's half-brother, died. Even at such a young age, Peter had a great understanding of the upheavals occurring in Russia. It was this understanding that ultimately shaped his rule as Tzar of Russia. He was educated by private tutors in the palace, but was later removed by his mother to a suburban vil ...
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James Wilson
Number of Words: 598 / Number of Pages: 3
... convey agency needs along with information about those needs and the importance of the agency's mission to those who can support the agency. The executives are also responsible to translate political and value concerns in the agency's environment into direction, mission, goals, objects that the agency can fulfill as a way of inserting the agency into politically important context. The goal is to link the world of influence outside the agency into support for the agency and its mission.
* The managers are responsible for making the operators life easier by providing the operators with the re ...
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Galileo
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... Galileo was a very intelligent man and with this great wisdom he
did many great things for science. He was right about most of his theories
that he proclaimed to the public, but they seemed to think otherwise. On
January 8, 1642, Galileo the great scientist died. Even though Galileo was
right, the Roman Catholic Church clung to their position but 350 years
later Galileo was forgiven for his so called crimes in 1633. [ Wallace,
W.A., Galileo's Logical Treatises]
Galileo was also famous for proving that Aristotelian's Physics
was wrong. Aristotelian's Physics is the falling rate between two o ...
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Mohandas Gandhi
Number of Words: 1437 / Number of Pages: 6
... satisfy
one's conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for
Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white
population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train
in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to
begin a movement to help his people.
While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself poor so that he could
identify with his the peasants. He then proceeded to start a colony that
consisted of abused labourers. The colony became very large and many cities
were crippled by the lack of labourers. The government r ...
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Biography Of James Polk (11th President)
Number of Words: 319 / Number of Pages: 2
... a candidate committed to the Nations
"Manifest Destiny." This view prevailed at the Democratic Convention,
where Polk was nominated on the ninth ballot.
Even before he could take office, Congress passed a joint
resolution offering annexation to Texas. In so doing they took away the
possibility of Polk having a war with Mexico, which soon served diplomatic
relations.
After trying to negotiate boundaries with Mexico and Canada wanting
to extend the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans proved
useless, congress declared war and, despite much northern opposition,
supported the milita ...
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Horace Mann
Number of Words: 665 / Number of Pages: 3
... of schools.
Mann thought that education was a right that was passed on from generation to generation. Denying children this right was horrible to Mann. Today in the United States, education of the public is seen as a right and is partaken in by countless young people every year. thought that if children were taught well they would make good goverrment officials.
Mann thought that schools must emphasize moral, civic, and cultural values. These ideas are what schools try to accomplish today. Mann believed in a common program in schools that would educate everyone. He thought that common sc ...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
Number of Words: 332 / Number of Pages: 2
... from the Portuguese (1849), Elizabeth let the love for her husband speak. The whole collection is forty-four poems written to Robert Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857) is yet another example of love being prominent in Elizabeth’s writings. Another element in Elizabeth’s writings is statements about faith and her illness/death. In the closing line of her “most famous sonnet” (p.656) Sonnet 43 Elizabeth says, “and if God choose,/ I shall but love thee better after death.”
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Barrett Browning helped to revive the sonnet cycle, which i ...
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Frederick Douglass - The Man
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... speech he gave showed him to be a great speaker. The opponents of Frederick
believed that he was never a slave, because of his great speaking skills
and knowledge. In response to this, Frederick wrote his life story in his
book _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_. Frederick made a fatal mistake
though, he had used the name of his old master on the slave plantation. Upon
learning of this, his old master sent slave catchers to New England to bring
him back. Fearing a life of slavery again, Frederick fled to England. Here
in England, he gave many lectures on the abolitionists movement, ...
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Aristotle
Number of Words: 936 / Number of Pages: 4
... observer on it would see the fixed stars as moving, just as he now observes the planets as moving, that is from a stationary earth. However, since this is not the case, the earth must be at rest. To prove that the earth is a sphere, he produced the argument that all earthly substances move towards the center, and thus would eventually have to form a sphere. He also used evidence based on observation. If the earth were not spherical, lunar eclipses would not show segments with a curved outline. Furthermore, when one travels northward or southward, one does not see the same stars at night, nor do they ...
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