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The Marriage
Number of Words: 390 / Number of Pages: 2
... as well . I reset everything and headed back for the shop.
And of course we have the wild one ,Sam . Now Sam has mice.And as mice go, they love to eat. The mice had eaten almost all of Sams I.D.E. cables and tinkled over the rest.which in fact ruined most of her computer.Sam and I sat talked and decided to rebuild what she had . The parts that she did not have the money for I loaned to her.Everyday when the phine rang I knew without a doubt that Sam was on the other end of the phone with another complaint about her computer usually with the used parts that she had borrowed.
Therefore I have de ...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... his senior year to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. And he received a bachelor of divinity in 1951. King first became aquatinted with Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians. He found himself increasingly dissatisfied with society. King was elected president of the student body and was graduated with highest academic average in his class. From Crozer he went to Boston University. He was seeking a firm foundation for his own theological ...
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Catherine II, Empress Of Russia (Catherine The Great)
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... knew how to select capable assistants--for
example, Nikita PANIN in foreign affairs, Aleksandr SUVOROV in the military,
and Grigory POTEMKIN in administration. Imbued with the ideas of the
Enlightenment, Catherine aimed at completing the job started by Peter I--
westernizing Russia--but she had different methods. Unlike Peter, she did
not forcibly conscript society into the service of the state, but rather
encouraged individual initiative in pursuit of self-interest. She succeeded
to a degree with the upper classes, but did nothing for the overwhelming
majority of the population--the enserfed peasantry ...
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Crazy Horse
Number of Words: 2730 / Number of Pages: 10
... Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle, and the
Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The Hunkpatila was one
band of the Oglala's (Guttmacher 12). One of the greatest war chiefs of all
times came from this band. His name was Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the fall of
1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy man, and his
mother a sister of a Brule' warrior, Spotted Tail. As the boy grew older
his hair was wavy so his people gave him the nickname of Curly (Guttmacher
23). He was to go by Curly until the summer of 1858, aft ...
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Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
Number of Words: 1094 / Number of Pages: 4
... He undoubtedly employed these
materials in one of his first sophisticated paintings, View of Cadaqués
with Shadow of Mount Pani of 1917.
His family noticed his artistic talent early on, and supplemented
his education by allowing him to spend summer holidays with the creative
family of Ramón Pichot just outside of Figueres. Pichot was a well-known
artist, who maintained friendships with the likes of Pablo Picasso. All
his children were musically inclined and excelled in scholarly education.
This family inspired Dalí to try his hand at any type of creative
expression.
Dalí's proud father exhibited ...
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Joan Of Arc
Number of Words: 467 / Number of Pages: 2
... battle of Orleans in May 1429, Joan led the troops to a
miraculous victory over the English. She continued fighting the enemy in
other locations along the Loire ( Paine 211). Fear of troops under her
leadership was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army
at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John Fastolfe fled
the battlefield ( Nolan 69). Although Lord Talbot stood his ground, he
lost the battle and was captured along with a hundred English noblemen and
lost 1800 of his soldiers.
Charles VII was crowned king of France on July 17, 1429 in Reims
Cathedral. At the coro ...
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... First National to give up. When the merger was called off, the Columbia directors rewarded him with the top job. At 25 he had become the youngest bank president in the country.
In 1914, now the successful bank president married the love of his life, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Rose was the daughter of the Mayor of Boston, John Francis Fitzgerald, a leading Irish figure in Boston. Together they had 9 children, Joseph Patrick Jr., John Fitzgerald, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice Mary, Patricia, Robert Francis, Jean Ann, and Edward Moore.
By the age of 30 he had amassed a great fortune through business ...
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Karl Marx
Number of Words: 2355 / Number of Pages: 9
... The student culture at Bonn included,
as a major part, being politically rebellious and Marx was involved,
presiding over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included
some politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and
enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy.
Marx's experience in Berlin was crucial to his introduction to Hegel's
philosophy and to his "adherence to the Young Hegelians." Hegel's
philosophy was crucial to the development of his own ideas and theories.
Upon his first introduction to Hegel's beliefs, Marx felt a repugnance and ...
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Pope John XXIII
Number of Words: 406 / Number of Pages: 2
... and to encourage the unification of Christians and of all humanity. Another of ’s accomplishments was writing seven encyclical letters. Many of these letters stressed the importance of human rights.
Another important thing that did as pope, was be open to other faiths. This was shown by his establishment in 1960 of the secretariat for promoting Christian unity, by his contacts with Orthodox church and Protestant leaders and with the World Council of Churches, and by his promotion of Christian-Jewish dialogue. His sure diplomatic sense together with his popularity made him an influential figure ...
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Emily Dickinson
Number of Words: 1124 / Number of Pages: 5
... all the Dickinson children, male or female, Emily was sent for formal education in Amherst Academy. After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkers such as Helen Hunt Jackson, and after reading many of Emerson's essays, she began to develop into a free willed person. Many of her friends had converted to Christianity, her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster she would not bend her will on such issues as religion, literature and personal associations. She maintained a correspondence with Rev. Charles Wadsworth over a subs ...
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