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Confucius In The Chinese History
Number of Words: 339 / Number of Pages: 2
... were widely rejected. Crime was on the rise and murder happened even in the royal court. Government was routinely corrupt or distrusted by the people.
Confucius began a successful political career when he was a young man, but fell out in a short period of time. His personal goal was to restore peace followed the old political system but he retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying in his later life. As his students praised his talent for brilliant teaching and recorded them, we can read his words from the Analects.
Confucius died at 72. His birthday September 24th is cele ...
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Sophocles
Number of Words: 811 / Number of Pages: 3
... Washing Clothes," he performed a juggling act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens. For some time after that, was the director of the Treasury. This was where controlled the ...
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Joan Of Arc
Number of Words: 1903 / Number of Pages: 7
... of Northern France was captured by the English,
including Reims where the coronation for kings had been held for over centuries
before him. Since Reims was captured, Charles the VII, who had not yet been
crowned; was still called the Dauphin. When Joan had these visions of Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret, she told her family and friends. When she told
her father, he would not let her go. After when these Visions told her that
England and Burgundy, England's ally, were going to capture Orleans, one of
France's last strong forces, she knew she had to react. She needed to go to the
governor of ...
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Harriet Tubman
Number of Words: 2620 / Number of Pages: 10
... to Philadelphia in 1849, after hearing that she would be sold, since the owners of her plantation had died. Harriet at the time, had a husband who was a free man named John Tubman. They were married in 1844 and she was allowed to sleep in his cabin at night. Harriet had mentioned the idea of escaping and John told Harriet that he had no interest in leaving his home in the south. He even threatened Harriet that if she did try and run away, he would tell her master. After Harriet escaped he married another woman. When she came back for her husband, she was confronted by him and he told her he was n ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
Number of Words: 2089 / Number of Pages: 8
... African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an equality philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrin ...
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My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
Number of Words: 906 / Number of Pages: 4
... the next month he was shot and killed. Torrio and I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which left me to run the empire alone. At the age of 26, I was managing more than 1,000 employees, which included a payroll of more than $300,000 a week. I demanded total loyalty from all of my numerous employees. During this time I became so rich that I gave out free food for Chicago’s unemployed which made me look like I had a heart of gold.
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John Lennon: Biography
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... became
involved in many anti-war protests. We recorded "Give Peace a Chance" in our
hotel room in Montreal, and I had it rush released (Rolling Stone 229). In
January of 1970 I wrote and recorded "Instant Karma" in one day and had it
released (Rolling Stone 229). Three months later, Yoko and I flew to Los
Angeles for four months of primal scream therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov (Rolling
Stone 229). Because of this experience the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
was made (Rolling Stone 229).
In 1971 I moved to the United States to continue my campaign for peace
(World Book 197). That year, the US ...
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Alexander I
Number of Words: 1705 / Number of Pages: 7
... Alexander Palace, showing her preference for his grandson over her son, Paul, by granting Alexander a larger court than his father's. This further poisoned the atmosphere in the family. These experiences taught Alexander, early in life, how to manipulate those who loved him and he became a natural at changing his views and personality depending on whom he was with at the time.
Catherine was determined that Alexander would receive a Westernized education. This was a startling change for an heir to the Russian throne. Catherine expected that a liberal education would help Alexander to reign wisely for ...
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Neve Campbell
Number of Words: 627 / Number of Pages: 3
... Phantom of the Opera”. She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in “The Phantom of the Opera” Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star.
Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her debut on television. appeared in the NBC movie “ I know my son is alive”. She also played Daisy in the television series “Catwalk”. But Neve Cambell’s telev ...
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A. Philip Randolph
Number of Words: 310 / Number of Pages: 2
... African Americans. However the writers of current history have almost ignored the accomplishments of . This treatment is not suprising since the behind the scenes leaders of movements are often forgotten except by those who participated in the movement.
Anyone present in the 1940s civil rights struggle certainly remebers the great strength, power and compassion of . Furthemore his accomplishments will stand the test of time and history will judge him as one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights struggle even if contemporary historians do not. The purpose of this essay is not ...
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