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Benjamin Franklin Was A Man Of Many Accomplishments
Number of Words: 2071 / Number of Pages: 8
... population of the ten did not sum up to be four hundred
thousand souls; ... when pirates infested the Atlantic coast; when there
was no such thing as a stage coach in the land; ...and when Ann Pollard,
the first white women that ever set foot on the soil of Boston, was still
enjoying a hale old age” (McMaster 1).
“It was when he seven that Franklin had another experience he often
recalled. One holiday they gave him a little money to spend on whatever he
liked. He headed straight for the toy shop but on the way met a boy
blowing a whistle. Charmed by the sound, he gave the boy all his money for
it. ...
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Joan Of Arc
Number of Words: 1059 / Number of Pages: 4
... They started occuring once a week and as she got older they happened daily. She said the voices told her to always behave, obey her parents, pray, etc. She claimed they were the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She was said to be a Clair Voyant,
a person who has knowledge of events happening far away or in the futures without using any of the five senses. The visions and voices never left her.
Finally, four years later she was convinced that God had chosen her to help King Charles VII clear the English from French land. Joan set out to Vancoulers to ask th ...
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Eisenhower
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... to temporary major and then lieutenant colonel when he commanded the Tank Brigade at Camp Meade. Even though he never went overseas, he was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his work.
After the war he was reverted to rank of captain and soon after, he advanced to major and commanded the 301st Tank Battalion. In 1922 he was again reverted to rank of captain and was again promoted to major as the executive officer at Camp Gaillard, in the Panama Canal Zone till 1924. After he returned to the United States, he attended the Command and General Staff School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He g ...
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Herman Melville
Number of Words: 611 / Number of Pages: 3
... suited the taste of a
romantic age.
As he wrote Melville became conscious of deeper powers. In 1849 he began
a systematic study of Shakespeare, pondering the bard's intuitive grasp of human
nature. Like Hawthorne, Melville could not accept the prevailing optimism of
his generation. Unlike his friend, he admired Emerson, seconding the Emersonian
demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own literature.
"Believe me," he wrote, "men not very much inferior to Shakespeare are this day
being born on the banks of the Ohio." Yet he considered Emerson's vague talk
about striving and th ...
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Machiavelli
Number of Words: 403 / Number of Pages: 2
... today's system,
societies that have been lead by rulers with such a mentality have not lasted
very long. It seems that these days the general populace have much less
tolerance for those rulers that believe in doing anything for the sake of
themselves and supposedly the society at large. I believe that such rulers
today are not tolerated (and should not be tolerated) There is no room for this
type of thinking in modern day life. Respect is another factor that was very
important to Machiavelli and his way of thinking. The Prince, as Machiavelli
stated, must do anything to keep his respect with the ...
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Bram Stoker
Number of Words: 651 / Number of Pages: 3
... 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the
forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes
that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares
and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of
Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the
critic (and still holding his civil service position), gave Irving's
performance a favorable review. Impressed with Stoker's review, Irving
invited Stoker back stage and the resultant friendship lasted until
Irving's death in 1905. The Stoker/Irving par ...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Number of Words: 1744 / Number of Pages: 7
... seven years old. His mother spent lots of time reading with him and tutoring him, because this is what she thought he needed to become a cultured gentleman. When Doyle was ten years old he left home and went to the Jesuit Preparatory school named Hodder House. This was a boarding school for young boys. Arthur hated this school. Doyle once stated that Hodder House “was a little more pleasant than being confined in a prison.” While attending Hodder House, he studied chemistry, poetry, geometry, arithmetic, and grammar. After his experiences at Jesuit Preparatory school, he left and applied for Stonyhurs ...
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Aaron Copland
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... to America in 1924 that he decided that
he would write ". . .truly American music." He traveled throughout America,
getting a taste of what the "common man" was listening to. During these travels
he strayed into Mexico, and wrote the highly successful El Salon Mexico. A quote
from the fall of 1932 sums up his intentions in writing this piece: "Any
composer who goes outside his native land wants to return bearing musical
souvenirs." This is exactly what he did. The piece is a lively adaptation of
Frances Toor's Cancionero Mexicano, with a very loose tempo, and heavy use of
the horn section.
It w ...
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Carl Jung
Number of Words: 3700 / Number of Pages: 14
... make a good living because of his
spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.
He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology,
history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly
because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had
to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After
reading a book on psychiatry, he decided that this was the field for him,
although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung became
an assistant at ...
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Emersons Self-reliance
Number of Words: 1340 / Number of Pages: 5
... common instinct instilled in man lets him see the truth for himself. This reality found from the shared over-soul, is the purest form of truth. All men have this ability to perceive the truth, and a common knowledge of goodness unites and unifies us all. Man’s instinctive actions in making moral choices are all part of the over-soul. Man can perceive that which is ultimately good, only if he looks past the set laws and dogmas of the majority. It is true that all men have certain inherent morals. These morals that uniquely define man, are what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. This ...
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