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Thomas Hobbes
Number of Words: 985 / Number of Pages: 4
... lust for power. So if a person keeps any power not given to government in the social contract, the person would use the power to oppress others. He felt that men must mutually consent to the contract in order to create
government giving up their powers in the state of nature to ensure peace and security from the state of war of having no social contract.
In Leviathan Hobbes does not see government interfering in the life of men who obey the laws believing that people should have the liberty:\"...to buy and sell and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own abode, their own diet ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... of meaning the words alone couldn’t reflect. Furthermore, until Mozart’s emergence, operatic characters where generalized and typical. Mozart was the first to put real people up on the stage, people who had real emotions that were inconsistent and whose personalities were evolutionary.
In 1767, the Mozarts went to Vienna where Wolfgang was commissioned to compose his first opera, La finta semplice, K. 51. Intrigues created by envious composers, prevented this first opera from being performed. However, another charming early theatrical work of Mozart, Bastien und Bastienne, an opera buff ...
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of Words: 2887 / Number of Pages: 11
... opportunities in life. This is evidenced by a letter written to his friend Edward Stevens at the age of fourteen on Nov. 11, 1769 where he stated, "[m]y ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk or the like � and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." During adolescence, Hamilton had few opportunities for regular schooling. However, he possessed a commanding knowledge of French, due to the teaching of his late mother. This was a very rare trait in the English continental colonies. Hamilton was first published in the Royal Danish- ...
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William Bradford
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... them something this ensuing history will declare.
But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on every side, so as their former afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these, which now came upon them. For some were taken and clapped up in prison, others had their houses beset and watched night and day, and hardly escaped their hands; and the most were fain to flee and leave their houses and habitations, and the means of their livelihood.
Yet these and many other sharper things which afterward befell them, were no other t ...
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Senator Joeseph McCarthy - Lif
Number of Words: 806 / Number of Pages: 3
... he went on many flying missions, broke his leg on a ship during a party and gained a lot of attention from the press along the way. Although later he claimed that his injured leg was caused by ten pounds of sharpnel that he was carrying at the time. There is also a dispute about exactly how many flying missions he actually went on.
Sometime in 1944, McCarthy attempted to beat Alexander Wiley for a senitorial seat in Wisconsin but was defeated. But that wasn't all. He was already planning to run against Robert La Follette (a senator who's seat was up for re-election in just two years).
La Follette w ...
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Vincent Van Gogh 2
Number of Words: 776 / Number of Pages: 3
... crude, but strong and full of feelings. In 1881, at age 28, he moved to Etten. Van Gogh liked the pictures of peasant life and labor that were first to be painted by Jean-Francois Millet, who had great influences on Van Gogh. His first paintings were crude but improving. In order for him to come up with the most important painting of his pre-impressionist period he had to make a number of studies of peasant hands and heads. And in April 1885 he painted a scene, The Potato Eater, in Holland. When he painted The Potato Eaters, he had not yet discovered the importance of color.
In 1886 van Gogh went to P ...
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... Humphrey had a good
Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson
administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents
during this term, Johnson was the White colored type President and Humphrey
was the President that went and got things done, the blue colored worker,
he was the guy that was willing to get his hands dirty. Humphrey later died
at his home in Waverly, Minnesota on January 13, 1978 of cancer. His widow
was apointed to fill out his Senate term. The stadium that the Minnesota
Twins now play in(a major league baseball team) is named after t ...
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
Number of Words: 1936 / Number of Pages: 8
... Warwick Bar which is six miles against a strong current
(Woodberry 20). At 15 Poe was the Lieutenant of the Junior Morgan Riflemen.
Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe's
grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence
from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted
to become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct"
(Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University
of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students
threw bottles and bricks at the professors. ...
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The Diary Of Anne Frank By Anne Frank
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... human race.
Anne made a very powerful statement in her last words. To truly believe such a thing after being abused by the Nazis is quite remarkable indeed. I am very sure that most people, including myself, would have thought that the world was a completely corrupt and humans are naturally cruel if they’d have gone through such times. I believe that Anne has the ability to say such a thing because of her great unselfishness and love for all of G-d’s creatures. I also believe that if Anne could have written in her diary after she had gone to the concentration camp, she would have said t ...
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Jules Verne
Number of Words: 1035 / Number of Pages: 4
... Michel, who was born on August 3, 1861. Verne also had 2
stepdaughters, Valentine, and Suzanne. Michel grew up to be a very disobedient
child. Verne tried many means of stopping this delinquency. He put Michel in
jail in an attempt to stop the "madness". He was really unhappy over his son's
behavior problem. Late 1879, Verne ended up throwing Michel out of the house.
Michel ran off and married an actress. In 1887, he attended and recognized
Michel's second marriage which helped in reviving the relationship between
father and son.
Jules Verne was an avid traveler and sailor. He visited many pl ...
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