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Macario Sakay
Number of Words: 646 / Number of Pages: 3
... subversive behavior. He had been caught developing some Katipunan chapters and advocating its principles from town to town. Freed in 1902 as the upshot of an official pardon, Sakay began with an assembly of other Katipuneros the Republika ng Katagalugan in the mountains of Southern Luzon. Sakay held the presidency and was also called "Generalisimo." Francisco Carreon was the vice-president and dealt with Sakay's correlation. Julian Montalan was generally the administrator for military functions. Cornelio Felizardo took charge of the northern part of Cavite (Pasay-Bacoor) whereas Lucio de Vega control ...
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Isabella I
Number of Words: 965 / Number of Pages: 4
... Granada, Christopher Columbus presented himself to the Catholic sovereigns, and to Queen Isabella fell the honor of appreciating the genius who had not been understood at Genoa, at Venice, or in Portugal. He was presented to the queen by her confessor, Padre Hernando Talavera, and Cardinal Mendoza (el Cardenal de España); and with the means which the king and queen procured for him he fitted out the three famous caravels which placed America in communication with the Old World. Sailing, 3 August, 1492, from the port of Palos, he discovered on 12 October-the day on which the feast of Our Lady o ...
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Thomas Hobbes
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... presenting the problems of the common person would prevent a king from being unfair and cruel. Hobbes coined the phrase, "Voice of the people," meaning one person could be chosen to represent a group with similar views.
In 1651, wrote his famous work, "Leviathan" which put into writing his views on democracy and monarchy. In this work, he said that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short" and without government, we would be living in this state of nature. Hobbes ideas that people should decide how they should be ruled set the stage for the "social contract" proposed some ye ...
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Mark Twain 3
Number of Words: 1006 / Number of Pages: 4
... a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym “Mark Twain,” a Mississippi River phrase meaning two fathoms deep. After moving to San Francisco in 1864, Twain met the American writers Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, who encouraged him in his work. In 1865 Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields; within months the author and the story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” had become national sensations.
In 1867 Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same ye ...
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Henry VIII And Louis XIV
Number of Words: 1473 / Number of Pages: 6
... religion, took part in a minor
reorganization of the Roman Catholic Church inside France. It is apparent now
that Louis basically went along with the reforms dictated by the pope in regards
to religion.
In economic matters, the two rulers perhaps differed even more greatly.
Henry was a fastidious economist, often commenting about the expense of things
at the royal court, and taking action to have whatever the latest offense to the
treasury happened to be. Louis, however, spent extravagantly, sparing no
expense for himself or his nobles. His ultimate goal was once again to make the
court of France t ...
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Should Eisenhower Be Praised For His Foreign Policies?
Number of Words: 875 / Number of Pages: 4
... two years the atomic stockpile had tripled. He also warned against overspending while he was doing just that with defense budgets. At this point his plans were failing but when Dulles came into the picture he not only didn’t go through with his plans but he actually changed them completely.
Truman was known for being soft on communism, however, he always stuck to his policies. When General MacArthur wanted to attack China, Truman refused to let him do so and, even after being accused of practicing appeasement, he stood his ground and fired MacArthur. Eisenhower, on the other hand, was not capabl ...
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John Dos Passos
Number of Words: 2008 / Number of Pages: 8
... Sprigg, a housewife and an
excellent mother. Because his parents were not officially married until in
1910, he was considered "illegitimate" for about 14 years; this theme of
alienation is found in many of his writings. Most of the time spent during
his childhood was with his mother, who travelled abundantly, and this was
the time where he grew closer to his mother and started to drift away from
the man he called "dad". His travels with his mom led him to places such as
Mexico, Belgium, and England. Dos Passos's association with France began
when he was very young, and his knowledge of the language ...
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Apollonius Of Perga
Number of Words: 620 / Number of Pages: 3
... for the most part had been previously set forth by Euclid, Aristaeus and
Menaechmus. A number of theorems in Book 3 and the greater part of Book 4 are
new, however, and he introduced the terms parabola, eelipse, and hyperbola.
Books 5-7 are clearly original. His genius takes its highest flight in Book 5,
in which he considers normals as minimum and maximum straight lines drawn from
given points to the curve ( independently of tangent properties ), discusses how
many normals can be drawn from particular points, finds their feet by
construction, and gives propositions determining the center of ...
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Aristotle
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... instances, states that the principle of being good is embedded in everyone. It is man's nature to have the knowledge of good and evil. He gives no mention to any biblical reference.
In the matter of badness, states that for most bad things, it is the nature of it that implies badness; not the defiance of bad things that makes it bad, and despite the circumstances, one is always wrong in doing bad things.
comes to a vital conclusion to his theory by stating that even though man's natural capacity is good behavior, he does not act right by nature. This is a controversial statement. It states that ...
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
Number of Words: 509 / Number of Pages: 2
... School in New Milford, Connecticut. He then transferred to
Choate Academy in Wallingford, Connecticut, and graduated in 1935 at
eight-teen years old. In 1936, after a summer in England, John entered
Princeton University. After Christmas, of that same year, he developed
jaundice. Then in 1936 he entered Harvard University. At Harvard he
majored in government and international relations. In 1940 he graduated
from Harvard. He then enrolled at Stanford University, but dropped out
after only six months.
After serving in the United States Navy, where he won the Navy and
Marine Corps Medal as t ...
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