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Queen Elizabeth I
Number of Words: 979 / Number of Pages: 4
... Catholic Church doesn’t allow this. He separated from the church and brought England with him. He turned England into a protestant nation. Needless to say people were confused and had to make huge adjustments. At the beginning of Elizabeth's reign there was confusion. She was a firm Catholic however she made a compromise between the two religions. Queen Elizabeth's decision was due largely from the consent of her people (Upshur, 465). However, Elizabeth knew that two religions would cause problems. "As reestablished, the Anglican Church was protestant in it's Theology, but much of it's ritual an ...
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Alber Einstein
Number of Words: 1029 / Number of Pages: 4
... friend, Paul Winteler, in 1910 and later moved to the United States. When Einstein was older, he invented electric eye. He also was asked to be the president of Israel, but he refused. When Einstein was a teen-ager he was very interested in science. When he wanted to relax he would play the violin which he started playing at the age of six. The kocks, his mother's family, and the Einstein had lived in Southern Germany for more than a century, selling cloth, farming, and clerking in banks. During their free hours they enjoyed boating on the Danube and walking in the woods. Both families were Jewish ...
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Adam Smith
Number of Words: 1033 / Number of Pages: 4
... successful. It would also determine the price of the goods. This is how the market worked at Smith’s time. However, the flaws with this theory are apparent in the examination of modern society.The second book that wrote was titled An Inquiry into the causes and Nature of the Wealth of Nations. It is believed to be a guide to the formulation of most governmental economic policies today. Its main thesis is that capital is best employed for the production and distribution of wealth with the government interfering as little as possible. Throughout this book, Smith stated his main theory. This theor ...
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The Life Of Edgar Allan Poe
Number of Words: 1364 / Number of Pages: 5
... not matter that he had more mental or physical prowess than them, he simply did not have the genealogy and they reminded him of it often. The first poetry he had released came shortly after this time. It was in no way concerned with his alma mater, it was more concerned with happiness lost and how the his life was miserable due to a rude awakening. His poem "Tamerlane" tells how ambition for youthful dreams killed love. In "The Lake", Poe hints of suicide as an escape from earthly worries. Poe did all of this before he had fully entered manhood. He almost seemed to enjoy feeling melancholy and d ...
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Marcus Garvey
Number of Words: 1370 / Number of Pages: 5
... The little girl who lived next to the Garvey’s home informed Marcus that she was being sent away to school in Scotland and that she was instructed by her parents "never to write or try to get in touch with me, for I was a ‘nigger.’" Although he was a good student, financial problems forced him to leave school at fourteen and become an apprentice. After helping organize a strike, Gravey was fired from his job. Garvey’s mind was clearly on politics and the need for organization rather than on his vocation.
In 1910 Garvey helped to found a political organization named the Nation Club. ...
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John D. Rockelfeller
Number of Words: 380 / Number of Pages: 2
... 1940. Another person who swayed my
decision was William H. Vanderbilt. He felt Rockelfeller had a monopoly
because he was "Enterprising, Shrewd, Able, and Smart." Pg. 128 promise of
America volume 3. Vanderbilt knew that Rockelfeller had a successful
business because of his good skills. The last thing that helped me decide
was a excerpt from Rockelfeller's biography. His opinion was like
Vanderbilt's, stating his success was because of the traits he had. These
are some of the things he said about his self. "I manage my affairs well,
have great vigor, and am fighting to sell" 1936 John D. Rocke ...
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Lincoln - The Truth
Number of Words: 1717 / Number of Pages: 7
... however, all of his actions were later upheld by the Congress. Lincoln did what needed to be done.
Lincoln was an honest man. Especially when dealing with personal money matters. For example, at one point during his administration, Congress granted him twenty thousand dollars to fix up and refurbish the White House. In doing so, Mrs. Lincoln exceeded the allowed dollar amount by six thousand seven hundred dollars. President Lincoln said that he would not ask for the Congress to give him more money, especially at a time of unrest between the North and South, with his soldiers being short ...
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Sir Isaac Newton
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career in science.
The Fluxional Method
Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves, and he recognized that the two procedures we ...
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Ray Bradbury
Number of Words: 1245 / Number of Pages: 5
... Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a electrical lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942. Bradbury's first st ...
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Tony Kronheiser
Number of Words: 1219 / Number of Pages: 5
... . The Nouvelle Dining Zone." Most people who
have watched the Twilight Zone before can relate this statement as a reference
to the famous TV show, so Kornheiser's slang was effective in grabbing the
reader, even if a large majority of them have no idea what the word "nouvelle"
means. Kornheiser uses an array of such adjectives throughout his pieces but he
does not pretend to be above his readers. He fills his work with colloquial
speech such as his references in "It's Now an Off-Road Vehicle" to other
Washington Post columnists such as Michael Wilbon, and to his "Redskins
Bandwagon." (The Redskins B ...
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