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Alexander Hamilton
Number of Words: 834 / Number of Pages: 4
... as if they were his real folks until the age of 23 which is when he married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of General Philip John Schuyler, a member of an influential New York family.
6. Who inspired of influenced this person?
Hamilton inspired himself. His urge to be heard and recognized gave him the every to keep on voicing his thoughts for the need of a strong central government in order to foster the development of a great and powerful American nation. He first entered the revolutionary movement in 1774 with a speech at a public meeting, urging the calling of a general congress of the c ...
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Philophers David Hume And Descartes
Number of Words: 1473 / Number of Pages: 6
... allowed for his existence. Where this line failed, however, was in the proof or disproof of the external world.
Once Descartes established himself as a “thinking thing”, his attention turned to the external world. Descartes reflects upon his dealing with physical objects, and questions the state of corporeal nature, dealing directly with the senses. Re-stating the fact that Descartes believes that these sensations of taste, touch, smell, and the like can be fooled, he attacks these bodily perceptions, not from the point of “what makes them true”, but rather “what makes them false”. Descartes as ...
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Adolf Hitler
Number of Words: 1098 / Number of Pages: 4
... separated. (Rubenstein; pg 6)
Even as a child Adolf had the making of a leader. He was a good student in elementary school and was always a leader during games being played. He especially enjoyed battle-type games the most and often organized his classmates into "battles." In his book, Mein Kampf, he wrote:
"I believe that even my oratorical talent was being developed in the form of more or less violent arguments with my schoolmates. I had become a little ring leader" (Rubenstein; pg 7)
It was around this time when Adolf discovered his talent for art. He would dazzle his friends with sketches he ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 807 / Number of Pages: 3
... especially for certain habitats and appeared on the earth in their
present form.
After reading the works of a noted geologist, Darwin began to change his
ideas. He saw evidence that the earth was much older than 6,000 years. In South
America, he was witness to an earthquake that lifted the land several feet. He
realized that mountains could be built by the action of an earthquake over
millions of years. He found fossils of marine mammals high up on mountains, and
realized that rocks must have been lifted from the ocean.
Darwin also studied plants and animals. On the Galapagos Islands, he
fo ...
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Albert Camus
Number of Words: 597 / Number of Pages: 3
... 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-Etudiant in 1934. In the ...
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William Wallace
Number of Words: 269 / Number of Pages: 1
... of Hesilrig and gained revenge for the death of his beloved Marion. The garrison of English soldiers were put to the sword and from surrounding towns and villages men "who were bitter of heart, and weighted down by the burden of bondage flocked to his banner".
During the early summe months of 1297, Wallace and his volunteer army marched throughout Scotland capturing Castles and Towns, driving the invaders south. In their march north, the towns of Glasgow, Scone, Perth, Dundee and all the land north of the Forth and Clyde was Liberated by the Scottish army. Eventually they reached Aberdeen, routed t ...
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Siddhartha
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... in a desperate attempt to investigate his spiritual needs. He greets love openly and rests satisfied by the splendors his lover Kamalah. ’s contentment is terminated as he is presented with a controversial dream. He dreams that Kamala’s beloved bird is found dead: “ The bird, which usually sang in the morning, became mute and as this surprised him, he went up to the cage and looked inside/ The little bird was dead” (82). ’s freedom from religion and promiscuous behaviors cease along with the birds death, “ he felt horror and death in his heart/ He sat and felt himself dying, withering, finishing” (8 ...
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Robert Penn Warren
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... himself to more
lucrative businesses. Robert Warren did not always have ambitions to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.
Warren was an outstanding student but there were also many books at home,
and he savored reading. His father at one time aspired to be a poet. His
grandfather Penn, with whom he spent much time when he was young, was an
exceptional ...
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Billy Graham
Number of Words: 4560 / Number of Pages: 17
... was raised on a dairy farm by William Franklin (deceased 1962) and Morrow Coffey Graham (deceased 1981). In 1943 he married his wife Ruth McCue Bell, and had four children Virginia 1945, Anne Morrow 1948, Ruth Bell 1950, William Franklin, Jr. 1952, and Nelson Edman 1958. At age eighty, he keeps fit by swimming, playing with is nineteen grand children, and from aerobic walking, in the mountains of North Carolina, where he currently lives. ( Best Sellers, 1999) told Time Magazine in one article about his life before becoming a preacher. "I lived on a farm. The only difference was I had to get up e ...
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John The Baptist
Number of Words: 1870 / Number of Pages: 7
... of separation from the common people in order that the calling of God would become clear. Specifically, the Nazarite vow states that they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink, must not drink vinegar, or grape juice, or eat grapes or raisins. A Nazarite must not touch anything from the grapevine, or cut his hair or go near a dead body (Numbers 6:1-12 NIV). This vow explains and fulfills the words that Gabriel spoke; AHe is never to take wine or other fermented drink.@
The Nazarite vow separated John from the other boys, but one thing set him apart even more. Gabriel said that this boy ...
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