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The Unjust Execution Of Socrates
Number of Words: 884 / Number of Pages: 4
... and intimate thoughts of Gods. Socrates also states
that he is not a teacher, however he was not at all happy with the analogy, but
took it as a compliment and used it in his defense. He used these accusations
to his advantage by saying that he never charged charged anyone for believing or
listening to them. The combination of these arguments should have cleared
Socrates of the charge of heresy.
The second charge brought against Socrates was that of corrupting minors.
Socrates battled this charge through the use of the same arguments. The
argument that he did not consider himself a teach ...
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Margaret Thatcher
Number of Words: 1948 / Number of Pages: 8
... Hilda Roberts was born October 13, 1925 to Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with a passion. Before long Alfred opened his own grocery shop, and eventually he came to own two." (Mayer,1979) Alfred often discussed current events with his two daughters, and also his keenly-held polit ...
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J.D.Salinger
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... as a writer. It was at Valley Forge
that Salinger developed a sense of being a misfit, of having been sent away
to become part of an alien institution, and that what is needed, what is
missed, is a larger, closer family.
It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some
of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war two. This
had a great deal to do with his first writings. "Many of Salingers early
stories do not deal directly with the war... but a war atmosphere permeates
them - and it is not one of patriotism nor is it representative of the kind
thought found in ...
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The Life Of Gottfried Leibniz
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... philology, and physics.
Mathematics
Leibniz's contribution in mathematics was to discover, in 1675, the fundamental principles of infinitesimal calculus. This discovery was arrived at independently of the discoveries of the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, whose system of calculus was invented in 1666. Leibniz's system was published in 1684, Newton's in 1687, and the method of notation devised by Leibniz was universally adopted (see Mathematical Symbols). In 1672 he also invented a calculating machine capable of multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots, and he is considered a pionee ...
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William Shakespeare
Number of Words: 904 / Number of Pages: 4
... sisters died very young. (Bender 14). The other dive children were Gilbert born in 1566, a second Joan 1569, Richard 1573, Edmund 1580, and Anne 1580 who died at age eight. (Bender 14).
was educated at the local school in Stratford. Ironically, William never attended a university although virtually every English speaking universities studies his works. Bioghrapher a man educated in " the university of life." (Bender 14). His plays and other works display Shakespeare’s vast knowledge of the entertainment, social mores, and culture of his native Warwickshire. William married Anne Hatha ...
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Fredrick Douglas
Number of Words: 1118 / Number of Pages: 5
... on the blights of racism and slavery. Dropped into America during the heat of the reformation period, as he was, his appearance on the scene of debate, and his own self-emancipation, was a valuable blessing for the abolitionists. In their struggles so far, there had been many skilled arguers but few who could so convincingly portray the evils of slavery, an act that seemed to demand little firsthand experience, but which also required a clear understanding of it. Douglass had both, and proved himself an incredibly powerful weapon for reform. The life of a slave was full of hard times along with sadne ...
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Alice Walker
Number of Words: 1479 / Number of Pages: 6
... farms or taken off welfare roles for registering to vote. In New York, she worked as an editor at Ms. Magazine, and her husband worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
In 1970, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, about the ravages of racism on a black sharecropping family. In Meridian, 1976, her second novel, she explored a woman’s successful efforts to find her place in the Civil Rights Movement. She read much of Flannery O’Conner's work and greatly admired her.
For one thing, O’Conner practiced economy. According to Herbert Mitgang of the New ...
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Lucille Ball
Number of Words: 1128 / Number of Pages: 5
... on which she gave birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so great that even today, everyone knows that "Lucy Ricardo, of course, achieved eternal life" (Brady 342).
Prior to her television success, she also had much success on her radio show My Favorite Husband. The show was a comedy based on based on "the delightful stories of Isobel Scott Rorick's gay, sophisticated Mr. & Mrs. Cugat, starring with Richard Denning" (Brady 159). The show soon became a hit, thanks t ...
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Albert Camus
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... Albert with a better environment as well as an actual father figure. After enduring the hardships of his childhood, Camus began writing at age seventeen.
Camus wrote many influential works and gained much success, starting at age seventeen, when he decided to strive to become a writer. Albert's first "literary experience" was gained as a member of the "North African Literary Group." By 1932, he was writing articles for the magazine entitled Sud. Albert entered the University of Algiers on scholarships in this same year. As an art critic, he wrote articles for the newspaper Alger-Etudi ...
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Walt Disney
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody." Replied Disney when a little boy asked him about his job. "I guess that is what I do."
At the age of sixteen, Disney left school and briefly started studying at art schools in Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. By that time he really knew what he wanted to do after he was done with school. In 1923, at the age of twenty two, Walter began to produce animated motion pictures in Hollywood, in partnership with his brother Roy.
Did you ever wonder who was behind the creation of some ...
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