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Josef Stalin
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause.
He was selected by Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Central
Committee in 1912 and the following year he briefly edited the new party
newspaper, the Pravda (Truth). At Lenin's request he wrote his first major
work, Marxism and the Nationality Question. However, before this article
appeared in 1914, Stalin was sent ...
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Emerson And Thoreau
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... many of the intellectuals of their time. Thoreau attended Harvard as well, and that was where he was introduced to Emerson. He became fascinated with Emerson’s philosophy while sitting in on one of his lectures. Emerson became Thoreau’s mentor and advisor. A relationship that soon deepened to a friendship. Many people claim that Thoreau’s ideas were simply taken from Emerson’s, in fact, some critics call Thoreau Emerson’s miror. And although their philosophies greatly reflected one another, they differed in many ways as well.
Emerson’s writing focused on nonco ...
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King Mohammed The VI Of Morocco
Number of Words: 292 / Number of Pages: 2
... be sometimes rough, but Moroccans must believe that he can find a way through it.
As the crown prince of Morocco, he was involved issues having to do with human rights. He has and still carrying on the legacy of fighting for human rights, unemployment and social inequity that he is known for and praised for, by the people in Morocco. He changed the government that has been in place since 1996, has already initiated such reforms as; the reduction of social disparities, judiciary reforms, the education system, the civil service and state media, and of course, human rights, which led to the improvement ...
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Alexander The Great
Number of Words: 1203 / Number of Pages: 5
... Macedonia. He was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus. At the age of 13, Aristotle was hired to be Alexander’s private tutor. Aristotle inspired interests of politics, other races of people and countries, plants and animals, and a great love for literature in Alexander ("Overview of ." 1). He was an outstanding athlete and excelled in every sport of his time (Durant 538). In 338 B.C., at the age of 18, Alexander led the cavalry of his father’s army in the Battle of Chaeronea, which brought Greece under Macedonian control. At the age of 20, Al ...
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Charles Dickens
Number of Words: 1964 / Number of Pages: 8
... great difference in personality between the two. People couldn’t possible believe that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for what would be a short stay to London and then moved to Chatam for what would be a longer stay, there Charles started school but soon all of that would change.
Charles who couldn’t of hardly been ten years old when the household was again in trouble was forced to get a job in a shoe shining factory, to help support the family. Y ...
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G. Carter Bentley
Number of Words: 1007 / Number of Pages: 4
... to the Marxist tradition of emphasizing power relations. This is connected to ethnic identity in that to look at experiences people go through we have to distinguish between the different domains of experience and social practice. Analysis of different domains will tell us how they influence people’s perception of the world, of their place in society as members of a group. Because this process involves interrelationships, it is important to focus on the experience of interaction. Secondly, there must be an analysis of discourses by the state (i.e. laws, policies etc.) and how they are articulated ...
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Albert Camus
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... reasons.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds Camus's notion of the absurd and of its acceptance with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction". Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation. Dr. Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessl ...
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Margaret Sanger
Number of Words: 5022 / Number of Pages: 19
... also recognized the need to shift political strategies in order to keep the movement alive. Unfortunately, misjudgments made by her in this area have left 's legacy open to criticism. In this paper, I would like to explore 's life and career as well as become aware of some of the missteps that she made and how they reflect on both.
was not born a crusader, she became one. A great deal of her early life contributed to the shaping of her views in regards to birth, death, and women. Born Margaret Louise Higgins on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York to Michael and Anne Higgins, she was the ...
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Mozart 2
Number of Words: 1941 / Number of Pages: 8
... his opera Mitridate, ré di Ponto was successfully produced, followed on a subsequent visit by Lucia Silla. The latter showed signs of the rich, full orchestration that characterizes his later operas. A trip to Vienna in 1773 failed to produce the court appointment that both Mozart and his father wished for him, but did introduce Mozart to the influence of Haydn, whose Sturm und Drang string quartets (Opus 20) had recently been published. The influence is clear in Mozart's six string quartets, K168-173, and in his Symphony in G minor, K183. Another trip in search of patronage ended less happily. Acco ...
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Robert E. Lee
Number of Words: 2627 / Number of Pages: 10
... Virginia. The next year his father received injuries in a Baltimore riot from which he never fully recovered and that also caused his leaving of Alexandria for a warmer climate. He died six years later at Cumberland Island, Georgia when Robert was only 12. Robert was forced to become the man of the family and cared for his mother and sisters because his father and elder brothers had left. Robert would stuff papers to block cracks in the carriage and go driving to help his mother get out during her failing health. Years later, when Robert left for West Point, Ann Lee wrote to a cousin, "How will I ...
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