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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 2577 / Number of Pages: 10
... two previous marriages. Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery's coat of arms' most salient feature was a swastika. As a youngster, Adolf's dream was to enter the priesthood. While there is anecdotal evidence that Adolf's father regularly beat him during his childhood, it was not unusual for discipline to be enforced in that way during that period. By 1900, Hitler's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory "gymnasium" or the technical/scientific Rea ...
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Hawthorne
Number of Words: 854 / Number of Pages: 4
... or an object. The reason for creating stories like this could stem from his own experience with infactuation. was a very lonley person. He lived by himself for a long time until he married later in life. In the story, the main characters usually seem to spend a lot of time with or thinking about the objects of their infatuation. In these stories, the character goes through a series of psychological issues dealing with his infatuation. An example of the psychological issues pertaining to infatuation is portrayed in Rappaccini’s Daughter. This work deals with a young man named Giovanni ...
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Terry Redlin: A Biography
Number of Words: 301 / Number of Pages: 2
... Duck Stamp competition, been honored by Ducks
Unlimited,conservationist of the Year, and The Magnum Donor by the
Minnesota waterfowl Association.
Five years ago, Redlin completed his largest painting yet. He
painted a picture of “America the Beautiful”. He did eight paintings in
which he painted from the West to Present day. The paintings have been
showcased by many magazines, private collectors, and also in Museums.
Terry Redlin receives the most satisfaction from his work. His
donation of $20 million dollars set a record for all-time art sales for
wetland preservation projects. He has also e ...
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Walt Disney
Number of Words: 659 / Number of Pages: 3
... cartoons that featured Mickey Mouse. Earlier
filmmakers had found that animals were easier to animate than people. Mickey
Mouse, drawn with a series of circles, proved ideal for animation.
In 1927, sound that had been added to motion pictures, and a process for
making movies in color was developed a few years later. Disney and his staff
made imaginative use of sound and color. Disney himself provided Mickey Mouse's
voice for Steamboat Willie (1928), the first cartoon to use synchronized sound.
His cartoon Flowers and Trees (1932) was the first cartoon in full Technicolor.
From 1929 to 1939, ...
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Geoffery Chaucer
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... his habit was to steal" (Chaucer 125). The summoner in "The Friar's Tale" "drew large profits to himself thereby," and as the devil observes of him in this tale, "You're out for wealth, acquired no matter how" (Chaucer 312, 315). The miller is not shown as badly in "The Reeve's Tale" as the others, however; his trickery against the clerk is repaid when the clerk sleeps with his wife and daughter. In these three tales Chaucer shows how greed is present in all men.
However, in "The Cleric's Tale," the wife of the lord Walter is patient and accepting of everything her husband does. This does not show t ...
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Ethan Frome Essay
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... secrets about his love for Mattie Silver and the way he truly feels about Zeena.
Around the end of the book I discovered more about Ethan’s emotions and feelings. A silence is created because he hides everything inside and does not express himself or share his feelings. He keeps to himself, thinks a lot, wants to leave Starkfield but does not say anything. “He did not know why he was so irrationally happy, for nothing was changed in his life or hers. He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes. But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at he ...
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Abe Lincoln
Number of Words: 1526 / Number of Pages: 6
... themselves out of the wilderness in order to reach their destination. In the autumn of 1818 Abe's mother Nancy died from "milk sickness", and so young Sarah, who was only eleven, took over the chores of from her mother. A year later though, Thomas Lincoln found a second wife, in order to help around the house, named Sarah Bush Johnston, whom had three kids of her own. Abe and Sarah quickly grew to love their new stepmother, who kept an immaculate house and even pushed Abe to do his studies.
At age eleven, Abe was to required to go to school regularly when there was a teacher, and whenever this ...
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Famous Explorers Of Africa
Number of Words: 952 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Mungo park also
stimulated his fascination. Callie had entered a contest for the first
person to reach Timbuktu and reach back. He had reached Timbuktu. During
Callie's trip he did not find it easy to prove to the French Authorities
that a young man with no experience could discover Timbuktu. On his way
back Callie had joined a Arab Caravan preparing to cross from Western
Sahara to Morocco. Callie had stated "I am the first European to cross from
the sandy ocean from the south to the north". On his return to Paris,
Callie was known as a hero. Later, questions were asked if he was telling
the truth o ...
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Euclid And His Works
Number of Words: 448 / Number of Pages: 2
... Exodus's theory of irrational numbers: books
11-13, solid geometry. The book ends with a discussion of the properties
of the five regular polyhedral and a proof that there are precisely five.
More than one thousand editions of The Elements have been published since
it was first printed in 1482.
The Elements Helpfulness
The Elements were obviously helpful because Zeno of Sidon about 250 years
after Euclid wrote The Elements, seems to have been the first to show that
Euclid's propositions were not deduced from the axioms alone, and Euclid
does make other subtle assumptions.
Other Publishing of Eu ...
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Karl Marx 3
Number of Words: 635 / Number of Pages: 3
... forced to step down due to his radical writings and social views. In 1843, he married Jenny Von Westphalen. In 1844, Marx met the man who would change his life forever. Both Engles and Marx had gone through the German Philosophic school and had come to the same conclusions but while Marx arrived at an understanding of the struggles an demands of the age basis of the French Revolution, Engles did so on the basis of English industry. (The Story of his Life, Mehring, page 93) In 1845, he left for Brussels, Belgium. It’s during these years that Marx is said to have really developed his views and hi ...
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