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Crital Essay Of Jack London
Number of Words: 1510 / Number of Pages: 6
... for adventures, but there were not many of those. Jack London portrays the hard lives of the adventurers who went to the Klondike River valley for gold, but got a lot more than they burgeoned for. In one of the stories, from a collection called "The Son of the Wolf", Jack London described a mad hunt for gold. A person enters the yet innocent soil, near a stream, and as soon as he does, starts digging hungrily for gold. He finds some, but not even enough to keep, so he throws it away. He works without food for many hours, so engulfed by his task, that he doesn't even see that it's dark. This cont ...
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Mohandas Gandhi
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... when he
was only 13 years old.
When he was 19 he defied custom by going abroad to study. He studied law
at University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an
Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered
the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil
Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up
industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many
Hindu religious ideas.
In 1891 Gandhi returned to India. Unsuccessful in Bombay, he went to
South Af ...
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Ben Franklin
Number of Words: 2243 / Number of Pages: 9
... Nathan learn the
fable "The Wolf and the Kid", while Ben learned "The Dog and his Shadow".
At the time of the recital of the fables the school master said, "and Ben
will recite "The Wolf and the Kid", which was Nathan's fable. Ben thought,
"If I say that it is Nathan's fable, then the school master will get into
trouble. If I recite the fable, then Nathan will get into trouble." Ben did
nothing; he simply stood there looking up into the sky. Everyone said that
Ben was lazy and that he could not even learn one fable. Josiah Franklin
stood up and explained his son's behavior and the school master was ver ...
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Joan Of Arc 2
Number of Words: 565 / Number of Pages: 3
... Joan convinced the captain of the dauphin's forces, and then the dauphin himself of her calling. After passing an examination by a board of theologians, she was given troops to command and the rank of captain.
"In those days it was not unusual for women to fight side by side with the men. There were thirty women wounded in the battle of Amiens. A number of women soldiers fought among the followers of Johannes Huss in Bohemia. There was hardly a medieval siege in which some woman was not conspicuous for heroism. It was therefore quite natural for Charles to accept the military services of Joan o ...
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The Traits Of Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1047 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Germany.
Adolf Hitler, nevertheless, was a great orator and when he spoke, everybody listened. He sometimes spoke several times a day, moving from town to town seemingly tireless. Ken McVay had this to say about this subject, “He was a tireless speaker and before he came to power would sometimes give as many as three or four speeches on the same day, often in different cites. Even his opponents concede that he is the greatest orator that Germany has ever known,”[sic](Ken McVay 1995, (Internet)). Though he didn’t have a good education his orator skill, which is a leadership skill, helped him ...
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Nelson Mandela
Number of Words: 1255 / Number of Pages: 5
... of Arts Degree where he was
elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods).
At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves the task of transforming ANC into a mass movement. In September of 1944 they came together to form the African National Congress
Youth League. Mandela soon impressed his peers by his disciplined work and consistent effort and was elected to the Sec ...
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Nat Turner
Number of Words: 349 / Number of Pages: 2
... that supported his efforts. This force encountered Turner’s force a few miles outside of Jerusalem. Most of Turner’s force was killed or captured, however, many other innocent slaves and free blacks were killed in the confusion that followed.
While Turner’s rebellion was put down on the 24th, Turner himself was able to elude the militia and other white for just over six weeks! Once he was captured, he was tried, convicted, and hung.
While Turner’s rebellion was apparently a failure, he was able to convince whites in the South that slaves were not content with their living conditions. “In Southampto ...
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Albert Einstein
Number of Words: 1674 / Number of Pages: 7
... already begun to stir. A favorite toy of his was his father’s compass, and he often marvelled at his uncle’s explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by certain mysteries of science, he was considered a slow learner. His failure to become fluent in German until the age of nine even led some teachersto believe he was disabled. Einstein’s post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. It was here that he first encountered the German spirit through the school’s strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a re ...
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The Death Of John F. Kennedy
Number of Words: 2339 / Number of Pages: 9
... in the Parkland Hospital. (Compton’s Encyclopedia).
IN 1964 and 1978, The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee did the best they could with photographic and computer technology. With the scientific advances we had since then give us such better enhancements of the film taken. There is one film that is far the most crucial. All or part of the assassination was taken on film by many witnesses who had eight-mm movie cameras or still cameras. The one shot by Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder was a color film in an eight-mm movie camera. It followed the President’s car from the time it turne ...
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Julius Caesar And Mussolini: The End Justifies Any Means
Number of Words: 374 / Number of Pages: 2
... middle class support. The Fasci took its namae from an ancient symbol of Roman discipline. Fascism spread into the countryside, and the Black-Shirt militia won support from landownersand attacked peasant leagues and socialist groups. Fascism shed its republicanism and won sympathy from the army and the king, King Victor Emmanuel III.
Mussolini threatened to march on to Rome, but King Victor Emmanuel III invited Mussolini to form a coalition goverment, like the triumvirate with Mark Antony, Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus in The Tradegy of Julius Caesar. This coalition transformed the countr ...
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