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Alexander The Great
Number of Words: 849 / Number of Pages: 4
... the house of the Greed lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving
inhabi¬ tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in
crushing the revolt of The¬ bes brought the other Greek states into instant
submission.
Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by
crossing the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) with an army of 35,000 Macedonian and
Greek troops: his chief officers, all Macedonians, included Antigonus, Ptolemy,
and Seleucus. At the river Granicus, near the ancient city of Troy, he attacked
an army of Persians and Greek soldiers which totaled 40,000 men. H ...
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Robert E. Lee
Number of Words: 3595 / Number of Pages: 14
... writer in the field of defense and
military technology. He is a weapons expert, having written many books on all
types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and
Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an acknowledged expert on infantry
weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery
strategies. He is a well known author of military history, and works as a
weapons evaluator in addition to his writing.
Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia on January 19, 1807. His
father, Henry Lee, had achieved fame with Washington's army as "Lighth ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1946 / Number of Pages: 8
... of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have been ...
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Hitler's Life
Number of Words: 4214 / Number of Pages: 16
... family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm.
The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers’ harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his father again. That put Adolf , the next oldest boy, in his shoes.
At this time, the family sold the farm and moved to a small town of Lambach, Austria. The family would make many moves after that. This meant less chores and more free time to Adolf. Adolf atten ...
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Dylan Thomas
Number of Words: 1428 / Number of Pages: 6
... God’s sacred presence in the body and earth is the ultimate theme within these chosen poems.
In “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” illustrates the connection between the earth, the body, and God. He discusses how both nature and man are propelled by the same holy force and therefore are united. He does not propose the question of how the stem grows to create a flower or how blood circulates within the body, but rather what is the ultimate force behind all motion and life on the earth.
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives ...
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A. A. Milne
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... (Page at Pooh Corner) His parents had three children, all sons. Milne
was the youngest and often wished he had a sister. At the school he
attended, Henley House, he had teachers that included H. G. Wells, who
undoubtedly helped ignite his flame for writing. (The Oxford Companion to
English Literature) As you can see, he was exposed to writing influence
even from an early age.
In 1915, Milne went into the army and left his job as editor of Punch
magazine. When he returned, his friend, Owen Seaman told him that they
had replaced him with someone they all liked more. At first, this
disappoin ...
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John Woo
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... an exciting. Mostly throughout all of his movies his themes are good against evil. It is always the case of a standoff between the good guy and the bad guy, in their last battle, always to the death. Woo’s would often use montages to make time go faster, as in Face/Off when the swat team breaks into the house and where Castor Troy kills the men that he once commanded.
Most of the movie is very dark as the subject matter is. Nicholas Cage is all alone in the movie, but on the other hand in The Big Hit, it has a funny theme to it, as often there were parts where one might laugh. Woo also uses spec ...
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Freud And Dreams
Number of Words: 2370 / Number of Pages: 9
... of the term activity that Freud most appreciated in this brief definition for, as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of mental functioning that Freud coined the term "Kingdom of the Illogical" to describe that realm of the human psyche. We dream every single night whether it stays with us or not. It is a time when "our minds bring together material whi ...
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Julia Roberts
Number of Words: 626 / Number of Pages: 3
... dressy gal you think. Julia’s quite the opposite, she is a fast talking farm girl who often dresses grunge-like. Also, she is not a very competitive but never misses a chance to put on her dancing shoes.
Julia’s homes vary across the United States from an apartment in the East to a house in the West to a retreat in the South. She owns a duplex apartment in New York, a house in Hollywood Hills and a fifty-acre retreat near Taos, New Mexico.
Your first thoughts may be that Julia Roberts was always an actress, but you are a bit off. Roberts’ first dream was to become a veterinarian but after ...
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John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... Marshall worked under the administration of John Adams starting in
1798. He was offered the position of attorney general under George Washington's
administration, but declined because he wanted to stay with his family and
practice law in his home town of Richmond, Virginia. He was one of three
delegates sent to France by John Adams in 1798. His reasoning for taking the
job in France was partly because it was only a temporary mission and also
because he wanted to be of service to his country, aiding in peaceful relations
with France. When he found out that France expected to be paid, he was ...
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