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Classical Economist - Adam Smi
Number of Words: 933 / Number of Pages: 4
... or in some
contrivance to raise prices." He suggested, however, that businessmen seeking their own interest are led "as if by an invisible hand" to promote the well-being of society.
Smith's Analysis of Economic Systems
This position is supported in the Wealth of Nations by an elaborate analysis of how economic systems function and develop over time. Smith sought to show how competition in the market- place would lead businessmen to supply the goods consumers want, to produce these goods efficiently, and to charge only what they are worth. He saw monopoly, whether private or state-imposed, as the ...
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George Berkely Philosopher
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
... first perceiving it in some way.
It was an easy step from that ideology for him to adopt the phrase – Esse Est Percipi, which means, “To be is to be perceived.” There is a crippling problem that arises in this mode of thinking that can best be demonstrated by the following limerick:
who said “God,
must find it extremely odd
to think that this tree will continue to be
when there is no one
about in the quad.”
Dear Sir,
I’m always about
in the quad
and that’s why
this tree
will continue to be
since observed by
Yours Faithfully,
God
This limerick demonstrates the devastatin ...
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Frederick Douglass And Slavery
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... whipping a slave.
Douglass was often times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be
tied and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was
literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory
victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose." The louder
she screamed, the harder the master seemed to whip her. Douglass witnessed
this first as a child. As he grew older, many more of these incidents would
occur. "It struck me with awful force. It was the blood stained gate, the
entrance to the hell of slavery, though which I was about to pass."
An ...
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George Washington
Number of Words: 2361 / Number of Pages: 9
... and to place him in the same
constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting
remembrance."
In Williamsburg, when it was the seat of Virginia's government, Washington
secured his first military commissions, learned and practiced the arts of
politics, and moved from the attitude of being just another country squire to
become the leader of a continental revolution.
Born February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County he was the first son of his father
Augustine's second marriage: his mother was the former Mary Ball of Epping
Forest. When George was about 3 his family moved to Little H ...
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Robert E. Lee
Number of Words: 649 / Number of Pages: 3
... They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie,
Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended
episcopal Church where he was raised.
On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor.
When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. Lee's will said that he was worth
about $38,750 with few depts. He only had few slaves: Nancy and her
children. And they were to be freed "soon as it can be done to their
advantage and that of others. On Christmas, Lee wrote to his wife that he
hoped this woul.d be the last time he would be away from her. While they
were ...
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King Arthur 3
Number of Words: 1643 / Number of Pages: 6
... his treacherous nephew.
Artos Of The Celts
It is almost certain that Arthur did exist, although it is unlikely he
was a king. He is more likely to have been a warrior and Celtic cavalry
leader. The Saxon invaders, who were unmounted, would have been at a
considerable disadvantage against the speed with which the Celtic
company were able to move around the country, which would make possible
the dozen victories up and down the country that have been attributed to
the shadowy figure of Arthur. Around the fifth century, a resistance
movement against Britain's invaders, includin ...
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Thomas Hardy
Number of Words: 1660 / Number of Pages: 7
... in her chair,
smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
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Bowing it higher and higher.
Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
As a young child, Hardy mastered the violin learning over 100 tunes. He also sang in the Stansford Church every Sunday. It seems to be that Hardy and his parents had a good relationship. In 1867 Hardy met Tryphena Sparks who was 16 and a daughter to a family r ...
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King Henry VIII
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... not annul his marriage, Henry turned
against Wolsey, deprived him of his office of chancellor, and had him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbidden, all payments
to Rome were stopped, and the pope's authority in England was abolished. In
1534 the Act of Supremacy declared Henry himself to be Supreme Head of the
Church ...
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Peter Tchaikovsky
Number of Words: 2527 / Number of Pages: 10
... carefulness and good workmanship-he had covered France with his hand"! If he had only been able to reconcile that lifelong feud between his over-personal heart and his magnanimous mind, he would have been saved endless suffering. But he was not: in his music his self-criticism, as on of his best biographers, Edwin Evans, has remarked, "came after and not during composition"-he destroyed score after score. And in daily life he never learned to apply the advice of a wit tot he victim of a temperament like his: "less remorse and more reform."
As a youth he reluctantly studied law, as much bore by ...
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John Coltrane
Number of Words: 5621 / Number of Pages: 21
... from conventional hard rock through sitars and Baroque obligatos to Sergeant Pepper psychedelia and the musical shards of Abbey Road seems short by comparison with Coltrane's journey from hard-bop saxist to daring harmonic and modal improviser to dying prophet speaking in tongues. Asked by a Swedish disc jockey in 1960 if he was trying to "play what you hear," he said that he was working off set harmonic devices while experimenting with others of which he was not yet certain. Although he was trying to "get the one essential . . . the one single line," he felt forced to play everything, for he w ...
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