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King Henry Viiii
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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 of Engla ...
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Saint John Bosco
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... best ways for children to attain a sense of personal responsibility.
In a short time, other priests joined him in his work and by 1852 they were caring for over 600 boys. John dealt with them by using a minimum of restraint and discipline, lots of love, keeping careful watch over their development and encouraging them personally and through religion.
John's preaching and writing, as well as the charitable support of wealthy and powerful patrons allowed for expansion of his work. The need for dependable assistants led to the founding of the society of St. Francis de Sales in 1859, and it continues to ...
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Bill Gates
Number of Words: 1799 / Number of Pages: 7
... Gate's life. For at Lakeside, was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. However, Lakeside had drastically underestimated the allure this machine would have for a hand full of you ...
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George Dantzig
Number of Words: 1687 / Number of Pages: 7
... Dantzig became a research mathematician with the RAND Corporation in 1952, and then in 1960 he was appointed professor at Berkeley and Chairman of the Operations Research Center. While there he wrote Linear Programming and Extensions (1963). In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Stanford University.
His work in a wide range of topics related to optimization and operations research over the years has been of major importance. In spite of impressive developments in computational optimization in the last 20 years, the simplex method, invented by Dantzig in 1947 ...
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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 529 / Number of Pages: 2
... usually the main character, who starts out as a great and noble individual. Oedipus is not an evil man but a good, upright, man who suffers a downfall. Aristotle also says that this person begins to become fallible and eventually is doomed by their own “tragic flaw.” We see this with Oedipus when he displays hubris. Oedipus begins to think he can out do the gods and prevent Apollo’s oracles from being fulfilled. His downfall is that he marries his mother and kills his father. He is blinded by his hubris and is the agent of his own destruction. The completion of Oedipus’ downfall is realizatio ...
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Australian People
Number of Words: 332 / Number of Pages: 2
... The Average Australian family consists of three members. The Father is the dominant member. There are some extended families of grandparents. Some Aboriginal now live in cities although most still live in the Outback in small rural communities. Aboriginal families are generally large. The children often work for the parents in the fields or around the dwelling. Families that live in urban areas usually have a higher income rate. They usually live in houses. Marriage is your choice, like in the US. Divorce is allowed by legal agreement and Polygamy is outlawed.
Australians have less ...
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John Wilkes Booth
Number of Words: 2111 / Number of Pages: 8
... that he could do
anything he wanted to do. ( Dort, Aaron)
Francis Wilson, who wrote a biography of Booth in 1929, stated that
Booth opened his stage career in 1855 at the Charles Street Theatre in
Baltimore. He began performing on a regular basis two years later. Once
Booth started upon his acting career, he wanted the comparisons between
himself and his late father to Cease. It was a common practice of theater
companies to retain actors who would complement a touring, star figure.
Booth eventually became one the these star figures, with stock companies
for one and two week engagements. Often a ...
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James Earl Ray
Number of Words: 890 / Number of Pages: 4
... date was April 4, 1968. The location: Memphis, Tennessee. King Jr. was visiting Memphis on a conference trip. He had done the same thing before and he had also been televised while doing so. This visitation was different in the fact it would be his last. Martin Luther King Jr. did not retire and he did not give up his cause, he was killed, assassinated by the bullet of the man . It is not entirely known whether or not this was a planned attack, a conspiracy, or just a spontaneous outburst of racial prejudice. However, Ray did submit a full confession to the court.
was the age of 42 when his ri ...
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Mohandas Ghandi
Number of Words: 265 / Number of Pages: 1
... people of India is almost analogous to what Christ did to open the minds of the people around him. With all that can be said about Ghandi, I would like to focus upon his economic impact in Britain and India.
Britain’s self-glorifying empire building was a great hindrance on the Indian economy. Britain employed the “Mother Country” system in Indian. This is where the raw materials of the colony (i.e. India) are harvested and shipped to the Mother country (i.e. Britain.) The raw materials are manufactured into goods that are shipped back to the colony where they can be sold for a great profit. Brit ...
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Judith Sargeant Murray
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... a way to gain respectability. I'm not saying that Murray didn't believe in marriage; quite the contrary she believed strongly in the bond of marriage. It was her belief that an educated woman would make a better wife. Her second husband was John Murray, the minister responsible for transporting the Universalist religion fron England to America. They traveled and worked together to establish the new religion here. Murray's husband advocated education for women and encouraged her to continue her endeavors after their marriage; subsequently many Universalist feminist tenets sprung from the mind of Judit ...
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