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Alfred Thayer Mahan
Number of Words: 1150 / Number of Pages: 5
... his methodology: he began his labors with an insight, a light dawning on his ‘inner consciousness'; the insight hardened into a predetermined
conclusion; facts were then mustered as illustration and proof." Crowl goes on to argue that "There was no pretense on the historian's part to scientific objectivity, nor any claim to having reached his conclusions on the basis of exhaustive research." Crowl seems to think that much of Mahan's theory was based on whim stemming from his "inner conscious" which turned quickly turned into a final conclusions with out any real proof supporting their va ...
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The Rule Of Julius Caesar And How The Leap Year Was Started
Number of Words: 332 / Number of Pages: 2
... order, law, and peace. He believed that of course,
there should be order and laws but to use the power for peace. He wanted
to stop chaos and for his people to be fortunate and feel all equal.
Besides everything else he contributed to the less fortunate, he also gave
grain to the poor.
Many people believed that Julius Caesar was a tyrant who meant to
end the republic and make himself king, although, I believe he was a very
beneficial dictator who should have remained a leader. Under his
leadership, the government gave jobs to the unemployed, public land to the
poor, and citizenship to many peo ...
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Bede The Venerable
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... and prolific authors that England has ever
had(Brown, 1). Much of Bede's work was done in Latin, but he is the first
known writer of English prose. All of his work in the English vernacular
has since been lost, but he is still considered the "Father of English
Writing" and also "The Father of English History."
Bede's ultimate piece of work was his Ecclesiastical History of the
English People. This book described in detail the first authoritative
history of Christian origins in Britain. He also included details of how
five monks lived their lives in the monastery or Wearmouth and Jarrow. At
the end he ...
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The Son Of Sam And Terror Of N
Number of Words: 1279 / Number of Pages: 5
... 164) This was the start of a terrifying year for New York. A demon was among the city. This demon possessed the mind of a twenty-three-year-old pudgy Jewish man. The demon was a six thousand-year-old spirit, which communicated to him through his neighbor, Sam Carr's Labrador retriever. (Reicher 1996) Born Richard David Falco but better known now as the Son of Sam or the .44 Caliber killer had no real sense of identity from birth. The result of an affair between his mother and her married lover he was unwanted even before birth. As soon as he was born adoption papers had been filed. Unlike many chil ...
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Harriet Tubman
Number of Words: 1153 / Number of Pages: 5
... Harriet¡¦s first rescue was in Baltimore, where she led her sister, Mary Ann Bowlet and her two children to the North. In 1849, Harriet was to be sold to a slave trader. She was taken from her husband and didn¡¦t know where she was going to end up. She escaped that night. She traveled only when it was dark and slept during the day. She would hide in haystacks, barns, and houses. Harriet would always carry a revolver during her many trips to the South because a slave who returned to slavery could reveal people who facilitated the passages of escapees by offering them food ad shelter. Harrie ...
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Richelieu And Olivares: The Quest For European Domination
Number of Words: 761 / Number of Pages: 3
... My only anxiety
is to ensure that he should be given equal time.”(6). This book attempts
to demonstrate the chess match between Richelieu and Olivares in which
there was to be only one winner. The book compared the two leaders to show
what conflicts the two men had, how they dealt with them, what they thought
of each other and why one came out on top of the other. “They shared many
of the same problems; they came up with many of the same answers; and in
the end they reached the conclusion that the world was too small to contain
them both.” (6).
The first time that the book notes an unfriendly ...
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Pablo Picasso
Number of Words: 342 / Number of Pages: 2
... as his "rose period."
For Picasso the 1920's were years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso continued to design theater sets and painted in Cubist, Classical and Surreal modes. In the early 1930's, Picasso did a large quantity of graphic illustrations.
During World War II, Picasso lived in Paris, where he turned his energy to the art of ceramics. From 1947 to 1950, he pursued new methods of lithography.
The l950's saw the beginning of a number of large retrospective exhibits of his works. During this time he began to paint a series of works conceived as free varia ...
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William Faulkner
Number of Words: 1273 / Number of Pages: 5
... Abner’s son, dislikes what his father does out of acts of hate and tries to stop it (Faulkner "Barn" 23). He attempts to put out the "fire" inside his father. He is sick of his family’s way of life and is ready for a change no matter what it takes, even if it means going against his own blood. No matter what is done, they can not stop Abner from lashing out and burning buildings. Through his sheer enjoyment of the negative sides of his anger and power, Abner rips his family apart. He does so by forcing his family to put up with the consequences of his actions. In a way, Faulkn ...
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Carlos Santana
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... Soon he was being asked to join local bands like the T.J.'s, where he added a unique touch and feel to his own renditions of all the great songs of the 1950's. As he continued to play with different bands along the busy Tijuana Strip, he not Page Two only started to perfect his style and sound, but actually started bringing home enough money to really help his family. His future looked promising. In 1960, Carlos' family moved to San Francisco while Carlos stayed in Tijuana for another year to make extra money until his family was settled. However, he soon found himself amid the multicultural atmo ...
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