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Benito Mussolini
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... squads carried on
civil war with Socialists, Communists, Catholics, and Liberals.
In October 1922 Mussolini secured permission from King Victor Emmanuel
lll to form a coalition government. In 1925-26, after a lengthy crisis with the
parliament following the killing of the Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, he
imposed a Totalarian Dictatorship. His Corperative State came to terms with
Italian Capitalism but abolished the free trade unions. In 1929 he ended
conflict with the church through the Lateran Treaty of 1929.
In the 1930's Mussolini turned to an aggressive foreign policy,
conquer ...
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Sean Gagnon
Number of Words: 658 / Number of Pages: 3
... pot....a lot. He used to get his nose dirty all the
time. The problem was he was smaller than everybody else. Then in turn
he was the one that had gotten in the end. But by looking at Gagnon (gon-
yoe) he is definately all grown up. The skinny kid who once stood 180 cm
as a junior in high school is now a 189 cm, 96 kg monster with a very mean
steak. He just happens to play ice hockey for a living. Only this time,
he is the one beating everyone up. Gagnon has led the IHL with a
staggering 457 penalty minutes, the third highest in the IHL history and
the most in all of professional hockey, incl ...
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Locke Vs. Locke
Number of Words: 1173 / Number of Pages: 5
... is a natural condition in John Locke’s state of nature, meaning it was present since the beginning. "Thus labor, in the beginning, gave a right of property, wherever anyone was pleased to employ it upon what was common, which remained a long while the far greater part, and is yet more than mankind makes use of." (Locke, 27). In order for property rights to exist, they must be recognized by other individuals through the act of mixing physical labor with nature. The most fundamental and natural forms of the property of man are "The labor of his body, and the work of his hands…" (Loc ...
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William Shakespeare's Life
Number of Words: 1185 / Number of Pages: 5
... and Adonis, The Rape
of Lucrece and of his Sonnets established his reputation as a poet in the
Renaissance manner. Shakespeare's modern reputation is based mainly on the 38
plays he wrote, modified, or collaborated on.
Shakespeare's professional life in London was marked by a number of
financially advantageous arrangements that permitted him to share in the profits
of his acting company, the Chamberlain's Men, and its two theaters, the Globe
and the Blackfriars. His plays were given special presentation at the courts of
Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. After about 1608, Shakespeare's dram ...
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Cicero
Number of Words: 3921 / Number of Pages: 15
... presents very convincing arguments for a Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his belief in the roman structure of government.1 was limited to roman borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. was unable to think on the level of Aristotle's logic. He quite simply used roman history as a mapping of the paths of the decay of states.
In contrast, Aristotle understood the underlying forces and influences that transpired when a state degraded. quite frankly could not understand the for ...
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Charles Darwin
Number of Words: 1989 / Number of Pages: 8
... peers, students, and most importantly the masses of
public and the church that were at the heart of Darwin's contribution to
biological science.
Charles Darwin did not invent the concept of evolution. A number of prominent
scientists and other thinkers during the eighteenth century and the first half
of the nineteenth century (among them Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus
Darwin) had offered detailed theories of evolution (Clark, 1984, pg.24-25).
Therefor the idea of evolution went very far back in Western history.
At that time this concept was referred to as The Great Chain Of Life a ...
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George F. Handel
Number of Words: 1881 / Number of Pages: 7
... and proverbial decision taken by him in the future were both proved.
At those times Hamburg, the mercantile capital city of Northern Germany, was well known also for its Gansenmarkt Thater (literally: 'Theatre at the goose market'), which workers were yet trying to create the millenary dream in advance of Goethe by combining Italian creativity with German methodology. And what better even if "oleographic" example can be brought to this aim if not the librettos of the operas represented at the Gansenmarkt Theater between 1700 and 1720 ehich appear to be written in German with the execption of the ...
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Michael Jackson
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... The Atlanta Children’s Foundation at the Omni Auditorium in
Atlanta , Georgia and raised $100,000 for the charity. The Foundation is
established in response to a series of kidnappings which had been occurring
in Atlanta, a charity album is released in 1984 "Let’s beat it" with the
money raised being donated to the Music and Entertainment Industries own
charity , the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia and Cancer Research.
Later on that year President Reagan presents a Special Achievement
Award to Michael in a garden ceremony at the White House in recognition of
his contributing to the nation’s adv ...
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Wayne Gretzky: Comparing Two Biographies
Number of Words: 991 / Number of Pages: 4
... He was not only coach, but also trainer and chauffeur. Gretzky called
him dad, his name was Walter. However, in the book "Gretzky and Taylor", it did
not show anything in Gretzky's childhood. It was started when Gretzky became
the NHL player, a member of Edmonton Oiler's rookie. How he became the hall of
the frame. The description of this book was very interesting. The writer show
the thing through the game. For example the first chapter was talking about
the 1984 Stanley Cup final between the Edmonton Oilers and New York Islander.
"Wayne," he said, "don't worry about not scoring so far. Just ...
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Alexander The Great
Number of Words: 1538 / Number of Pages: 6
... and west of Macedonia. He then turned south to Greece. The Greek army was no match for the Macedonian army and was defeated at the Battle of Chaeronia. In 338 BC, Philip became ruler of Greece.
Philip could have ended Greece's independence, but he didn't. After he defeated Greece, he ordered that Athens not be destroyed because he admired their culture.
When Philip defeated the Greeks, he reorganized their armies and combined them with his troops. Philip then set out to conquer the Persian Empire with his powerful army. However, shortly before his first expedition, he was murdered. Philip' ...
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