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Conquests Napoleon Made Domestically As Well As Militarily
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... to come. Also, while his military conquests were good for national pride, Napoleon's domestic changes affected law & justice, government efficiency, the economy, and education. Napoleon's career was filled with military successes. Two of his greatest accomplishments were the Italian Campaign and the Campaign of Austerlitz. The Italian Campaign, which occurred between March of 1796 and April of 1797 brought great victories over places like Lodi, Castiglione, Arcola, and Rivoli. Napoleon was also able to impose armistices on the Kingdom of Sardinia and Piedmont, the Papel States, Parma, Modena, and N ...
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Jim Thorpe
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... to tackle him. He caught the punted ball and returned it with ease, not once but twice. Warner came up to Jim and told him it was suppose to be a tackling drill. Jim replied, "Nobody tackles Jim." 2 From this point on he led this small time school to national fame in football. He was an outstanding runner, place-kicker, and tackler, and because of his greatness in each of these positions he won all America honors in 1911 and 1912. When Thorpe played Army, another college, he played against the to be 34th president of the United States. In that game Dwight Eisenhower injured himself in ...
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Herman Melville
Number of Words: 440 / Number of Pages: 2
... But went to New York to become a sailor.
Melville got a job on the whaling ship Acushnet in New Bedford Harbor but abandons ship at Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. After spending a month as a captive of cannibals in Types, he escapes aboard the Lucy Ann and is sent ashore as a mutineer. He escaped there and ended up working on a potato farm. Later that year he leaves on the whaling ship Charles and Henry and is discharged on the Hawaiian Islands.
In 1843 Melville enlisted in the United States Navy in Honolulu. One year later he is discharged for unspecified reasons. In 1847 Herman Melville marries El ...
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Emmy Noether
Number of Words: 958 / Number of Pages: 4
... a professor of mathematics. Because she was a woman, the university refused to let take classes they granted her permission to audit classes. She sat in on classes for two years, and then took the exam that would permit her to be a doctoral student in mathematics. She passed the test, and finally was a student in good standing at the University. After five more years of study, she was granted the second degree to a woman in the field of mathematics. The first graduated a year earlier.
Now that had her doctorate in mathematics, she was ready to find a job teaching. The University of Erlangen would ...
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Abraham Lincoln
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... years, they had
four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926.
Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived
from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871.
In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in
the Northeast, when he addressed a rally at Cooper Union in New York. He
was now well-known to be a presidential candidate. At the Republican
National Conven-tion, in Chicago, Lincoln won the nomination and went on
to win the presidential election.
Lincoln's victory in that election ch ...
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Aristotle And Kant
Number of Words: 794 / Number of Pages: 3
... that by acting rationally, we could achieve a high standard for universal morality. Kant’s reasoning was that reason is the basis for morality, and it can only be found by starting from reason. Kant’s main point was the categorical imperative. This was his way of describing that humans lack any insight into the moral realm, and that we can only ask ourselves whether what we may be planning on doing has the potential to be reasonful, law abiding and moral on an equal level for everyone. Another idea of Kant’s was that morality is not based on consequence or feeling, but on reasoning alone. He bel ...
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Napoleon
Number of Words: 378 / Number of Pages: 2
... for victorious fighting. When he was just a teen, joined the French army and was soon after promoted to Captain. Within a year of being Captain he conquered Toulon, which was responsible for him being honored as brigadier general at only 24. This man knew from the beginning that he was made for nothing but to honor and serve his fellow citizens.
In 1804 this great legend crowned himself Emperor. Amazingly, after this point in time is when his tributes really become great. When he received full power over the French people, France was in total chaos. Creating the North Bank of Financial, ...
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W.E.B Du Bois
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... In high school, his teachers encouraged him as a
student and school work always came easy to him. Du Bois excelled in Latin and
Greek and participated in active discussions about the meaning of Love and Life.
At the age of 15, William began to write weekly columns in the New York Globe
and Springfield Republican.
Attending Harvard was W.E.B.'s longtime dream, however after receiving a
scholarship to Fisk University in Nashville he gladly accepted. Du Bois was
amazed by the South, he felt a home on the campus of Fisk. William had never
been surrounded by fellow blacks, and he began to understand th ...
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Marcus Antonius
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... by the assassin Brutus. Many people believed Mark Antony's action were not quite as good as the actions of Caesar.
In 43 B.C. Octavian, the true heir to Caesar's throne, challenged Antony's rule. When Octavian arrived in Rome, he was left in a difficult position. Antony was unwilling to give up his throne. Later that year, Antony agreed to become a co-ruler with Octavian and Lepidus to form the First Triumvirate. Together, they later murdered many opponents in the Senate, a group of powerful government advisors.
Mark Antony had great military skills. In 42 B.C., an army led by Antony and Octavian defe ...
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Joan Of Arc As A Leader
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... apart during the war. (Rolka,1994,213)
An excellent example of bad leadership would be the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq and Iran were at war from 1980 to 1988 the battle ended on an agreement of a cease-fire between the two nations. This war is where Saddam was recognized for his ruthless actions, he used chemical weapons against the Kurdish people of Iraq, who were mearly wanting their right of self- government. In this instance Saddam showed a blatant disregard for humane life which carried over to his attempt of occupying Kuwait in 1990. Hussein's government was given the opportunity to e ...
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