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Thomas Jefferson
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... 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 his administration. Sin ...
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Mao Zedong
Number of Words: 1817 / Number of Pages: 7
... the classics of Confusous. Continuing with his education, he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992).
Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Chinese of his generation he was concerned with how to maintain China’s integrity in a time when the world was dominated by the great powers and how to use for his own purpose the knowledge and ideas which had led to western superiority. He wished at the same time to preserve select portions of China’s tradition. He sought to promot ...
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Agatha Christie
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.” (Harper) All of Christie’s works are sold around the world and also known to have an international trend. She puts a variety of characters in all of her novels. Murder on the Orient Express has characters from all over, such as Germany, Istanbul, France, America, Britain, and England. “This international trend in Christie’s views can be noted in Murder on the Orient Express. A slight shift is perceptible here in the British stock characters, and men like Christie’s Colon ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of Words: 927 / Number of Pages: 4
... couldn’t reflect. Furthermore, until Mozart’s emergence, operatic characters where generalized and typical. Mozart was the first to put real people up on the stage, people who had real emotions that were inconsistent and whose personalities were evolutionary.
In 1767, the Mozarts went to Vienna where Wolfgang was commissioned to compose his first opera, La finta semplice, K. 51. Intrigues created by envious composers, prevented this first opera from being performed. However, another charming early theatrical work of Mozart, Bastien und Bastienne, an opera buffa, was performed in Vienna where it was ...
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Herbert Hoover
Number of Words: 1320 / Number of Pages: 5
... of World War I in August 1914 he was in London.
Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled by
the human costs of the war, and he determined to devote his life to public
service. He volunteered to direct the exodus of American tourists from war-
torn Europe and then to head (1915-19) the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
This position brought him public attention as the "great humanitarian," a
well-earned reputation that he lost only after the 1929 Wall Street debacle.
The commission fed 10,000,000 people during the war and left funds for
Belgian postwar reconst ...
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William Henry Gates
Number of Words: 1326 / Number of Pages: 5
... In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft would eventually sell the rights of MS-DOS to IBM, making it a major computer corporation. Other computer companies wanted Microsoft to produce software for their computers, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple computers. With the operating system established, Gates and Microsoft set out to create applications software, for tasks such as financial analysis or word processing. Microsoft has continued being successful through the years and will be in the future a ...
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Nicholas: The Last Tsar
Number of Words: 942 / Number of Pages: 4
... III, did not approve of Alexandra, because of the fact that she was the granddaughter of the English Queen. Instead, he suggested that Nicholas marry a princess from the House of Orleans. His decision was basely mainly on politics, as he was striving for an alliance between Russia and France. Alexander's suggestion did not have any effect on Nicholas, as he seemed certain to marry his childhood sweetheart, Alexandra. That day came in 1894, when Alexander was on his deathbed, suffering from a kidney disease that he had contracted in a train wreck six years earlier. On April 8, 1894, at the wedding ...
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Francisco Franco
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... made brigadier
general. Having quelled a leftists revolt in Austria in 1934, he became army
chief of staff in 1935.
In February of 1936 the leftist government of the Spanish republic exiled Franco to an obscure command in the Canary Islands. The following July he
joined other right-wing officers in a revolt against the republic. In October they
made him commander in chief and head of state of their new Nationalist regime.
During the three years of the ensuing civil war against the republic, Franco
proved an unimaginative but careful and competent leader, whose forces
advanced slowly but stead ...
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Francois Viete
Number of Words: 1103 / Number of Pages: 5
... The first scientific work dates were all from this period. It involves topics, which would continue to occupy him throughout his life. In 1571, he began publication of his track. It was intended to form a preliminary mathematical part of a major study on the Ptolemaic astronomical model. He continued to embrace the Ptolemaic (Parshall 1).
The service to Catherine's noble family took him to La Rochelle, ultimately then to Paris. In 1573, he came under the eye of King Charles IX. He appointed him as counselor to the parliament of Brittany at Rennes. Then he remained in this post untill 1580 when ...
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Biography Of Christopher Columbus
Number of Words: 406 / Number of Pages: 2
... acquired during his travels, and by reading
and studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25
percent smaller than was previously thought, and composed mostly of land.
On the basis of these faulty beliefs, he decided that Asia could be reached
quickly by sailing west. In 1484 he submitted his theories to John II, king
of Portugal, petitioning him to finance a westward crossing of the Atlantic
Ocean. His proposal was rejected by a royal maritime commission because of
his miscalculations and because Portuguese ships were already rounding
Africa.
Soon after, Columbus ...
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