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Sir Isaac Newton
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... degree. At Cambridge, Isaac Barrow who held the Lucasian chair of Mathematics took Isaac under his wing and encouraged him. Newton got his undergraduate degree without accomplishing much and would have gone on to get his masters but the Great Plague broke out in London and the students were sent home. This was a truely productive time for Newton. He conducted experiments on sunlight and prisms. He discovered that sunlight was made up of different colors. This lead to his work on reflecting telescopes. At the same time he was working out his ideas of planetary motion. He returned to Cambridge in 1667 ...
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Gandhi
Number of Words: 480 / Number of Pages: 2
... wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India.
gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once was weak and now burned brightly. By his actions and protests and rallies for nationalism, he helped to try to unite Muslim and Hindu against their oppressors. gave speeches on god attempting to show him as one entity as opposed to being separate through religion. These speeches helped to give Muslims and Hindus common ground on which to fight. The theory was good but in the end it did not work, bringing about two separate i ...
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Mackenzie King - Canadian Prime Minister
Number of Words: 1027 / Number of Pages: 4
... Berlin (later renamed Kitchener), Ontario in 1874. His father was a lawyer and his maternal grandfather was William Lyon Mackenzie, leader of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada. From an early age, King identified with his grandfather, an association that influenced him throughout his political life.
King studied economics and law at the University of Toronto also, the University of Chicago. After graduating with an M.A. in 1897, he pursued his studies at Harvard. In 1900, he entered the civil service and became Deputy Minister of the new Department of Labor. King joined the Liberal party and won a sea ...
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Ida B. Wells 2
Number of Words: 705 / Number of Pages: 3
... 2
Wells was her biological sex. Ida B. Wells fought hard in
her effort to secure America as a safe environment for
Blacks, but she managed to accomplish a remarkable amount of
her efforts due to various gender and sex related assets
which were in her favor.
One advantage Ida B. Wells was fortunate to claim was
that gender relations in the Black community were very
favorable. Due to the strenuous labor male and female
African-Americans had to endure during slavery, neither sex
proclaimed its opposite inferior and, therefore, Ida B.
Wells was able to make huge ...
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Alexander The Great And His Impact On Greek Civilization
Number of Words: 1313 / Number of Pages: 5
... knowledge." Alexanders views on war were much influenced by Aristotle he told Alexander, "First, men could wage war in order that... they may themselves avoid becoming enslaved to others; (second) so they may seek control for the benefit of the subject of people... and thirdly to hold despotic power over those who deserve to be slaves" ( Nardo 79). As well as the other knowledge he had gained from his teachers he used this concept in his ruling.
In 336 BC after Phillip was assassinated, Alexander took his place as the leader of the Greek League of Nations and the Kingdom of Macediona (Roebuck 349) ...
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Oliver Cromwell
Number of Words: 481 / Number of Pages: 2
... that his efficiency in wiping out the Irish Catholics made him the most feared man in Ireland. The purpose of his ruthlessness was to eradicate the revolt and to clear the land and make it safe for English settlement. On September 11th his army invaded the town of Drogheda, killing all 3,500 soldiers and civilians. Cromwell ordered his men to "put all to the sword." In October, he seized Wexford killing over 2,000 soldiers, leaving no survivors. These two victories were all the English forces needed. In May 1650 he and his men returned home.
These defeats broke the backs of the Iris ...
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A Biography Of Henry Ford
Number of Words: 1106 / Number of Pages: 5
... in Detroit
at the age of 16. From 1888 to 1899 he was a mechanical engineer, and later
chief engineer, with the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1893, after
experimenting for several years in his leisure hours, he completed the
construction of his first gasoline engine. His first automobile was completed
in 1896. The body was a small crude wooden box, it had a single seat, a
steering tiller, bicycle wheels, and an electric bell on the front. In 1903 he
founded the Ford Motor Company.
At first, like his competitors, he made cars that only the wealthy could
afford. But later he came to believe th ...
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Mozarts Turkish Side
Number of Words: 822 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the Porte declined, and cultural links began to flourish, as relations between the Empires assumed a more normal position. Many Turks adopted "Western" dress and mannerisms, while the systematic study of the "East," which came to be known as Orientalism, began in Europe. Basing much of its ideas on the Enlightenment and, later, the French Revolution, Orientalism sought to record, classify, and codify the chaos and disorder of the non-European world. Much has been made of the underlying racial and unequal power elements of Orientalism, but that is not our concern here. Suffice to say that Oriental ...
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Dickinson Vs. Whitman
Number of Words: 1219 / Number of Pages: 5
... Whitman didn't use any rhyme.
Emily Dickinson grew up in Amherst, Mass, and Walt Whitman grew up in
New York City, New York; this is one way that these poets' lives differ. The
main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily
Bronte. Walt Whitman was influenced by many people, some of which were: Elias
Hicks, James Macpherson and William Shakespeare. Whitman read many book reviews
by many people; from these, he realized Emerson was very influential. Whitman
was also influenced by the Bible, his walks in New York City, Tom Paine, and a
strong love for m ...
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William Mosby Is A Hero
Number of Words: 382 / Number of Pages: 2
... men they had and what
kind of weapons they had. He always knew what he was up against.
Lastly one must be daring. You got to have guts; a wussy hero
isn't any good. Mosby was very daring. You had to be to take six men into
an enemy camp armed with just pistols and a few rifles and steal millions
in gold and equipment. Once he snuck into an enemy held town, he creaped
right up to the command post and proceeded to tease and then kill their
commanding officer. He later pillaged the town for all of it's supplies.
That is what I call gutsy. Especially when at anytime the whole
union army ...
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