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Paul Revere
Number of Words: 862 / Number of Pages: 4
... to friend in Boston. ("'s Ride: Explanation:) Revere borrowed a horse and left Boston around 10 p.m. He arrived in Lexington at midnight. Around 1 a.m. Revere Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott left for Concord. On their way they were surprised by the British Calvary patrol. Prescoot and Dawes escaped, but Revere was captured. Only Prescoot got to Concord. Revere was released, without his horse, and returned to 1 Lexington. There he joined Adams and Hancock, and they fled to safety in Burlington. Revere returned to Lexington to rescue valuable papers in Hancock's trunk. On April 19, when the British arri ...
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Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Number of Words: 1428 / Number of Pages: 6
... was later turned into a religion by his followers. Even though many of his writings may seem extremely unrealistic, several of them were prophetic in nature. Not only did he predict future events, he also influenced many great minds of the nineteenth century, making him an important figure of his time.
Another eccentric who was seeking his own type of utopia was Francois Marie Fourier. Although several of Fourier's views were influenced by the same trends as Saint-Simons' his ideas were significantly different, for Fourier saw no use in scientists of progress. Instead, Fourier wanted to liberate hu ...
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Strengths And Weaknesses Of Lo
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... nearby annexes.
In addition to his strengths, Louis XIV had weaknesses. After Colbert died, Louis made one mistake that undid all of his work. He revoked Edict of Nantes who protected the religious freedom of the Huguenots. Instead of being imprisoned, more than 200,000 Huguenots fled from France. The country lost many of its skilled workers and business leaders. Louis XIV also fought many costly wars that caused his people great suffering. Many of the wars left France on the brink of bankruptcy.
Peter the Great had many strengths, but his best was he modernized Russia. By seeing Europe, he changed ...
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George Walker
Number of Words: 4061 / Number of Pages: 15
... they have perfectly valid reasons for the eccentric, oddball things that they do. In Escape From Happiness, we find a uniquely dysfunctional family with every character showing similar, but individual motivations towards something better for themselves or the people around them. This play in particular is surreal in this aspect and in the ways the individuals display their honesty. The three sisters are all strikingly different. Mary Anne is a comically heavy-hearted mother who takes everything the people around her say far too literally. She speaks with the honesty of her character in not unders ...
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Blaise Pascal
Number of Words: 1674 / Number of Pages: 7
... proportions
among them." (P 39,Cole) This set him going and during his play times in this
room he figured out ways to draw geometric figures such as perfect circles, and
equilateral triangles, all of this he accomplished. Due to the fact that É
tienne took such painstaking measures to hide mathematics from Blaise, to the
point where he told his friends not to mention math at all around him, Blaise
did not know the names to these figures. So he created his own vocab for them,
calling a circle a "round" and lines he named "bars". "After these definitions
he made himself axioms, and finally made perfec ...
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Eli Whitney
Number of Words: 829 / Number of Pages: 4
... community of industry. He intended to create a sel
-sufficient village, producing goods, and populated by well educated,
happy workers,Whitneyville. He also affected the industrial development of
the United States , in manufacturing muskets but most of whitney's own
guns parts do not in fact interchange. Nevertheless, Eli Whitney is a
figure whose history is fascinating, and whose impact in New Haven can not
be overstated. He translated the concept of interchangeable parts into a
manufacturing system, giving birth to the Americanmass-production concept.
Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed fro ...
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Author Obsessed Over Love
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... Next she began to attend the University of Sydney to become a physician. McCullough eventually dropped out due to her father’s opposition to women having medical careers. The author has had a variety of jobs varying from librarian to bus driver and schoolteacher. McCullough returned to the University of Sydney to become a medical technician specializing in neurophysiology. After accomplishing that she went to London and worked in hospital for sick children, where she cared for epileptic and retarded children. Eventually she came to the United States to work at Yale University’s School of Medicine ...
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Charles Manson
Number of Words: 2794 / Number of Pages: 11
... juvenile authorities, who had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha, Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana, where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his childhood being sent from one place to another, and trouble alway ...
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Number of Words: 384 / Number of Pages: 2
... class.
Napoleons career was one metoric rise from poverty to power, and then almost equally swift decline. When he was defeated by the English at WaterLoo in 1815, Napoleon was made prisoner and taken to St. Helena, an isolated island in the south atlantic. WIth him were his jailers from Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and France, four companions to keep him company, a doctor to keep him well, and twelve servants.
At first, Napoleon tried to make the best of things, but in time he became bored and irratated. When he was called general, not emporer, he grew sick at heart. Napoleon tried to work and ...
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HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... "we would sit there enraptured and
often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's
operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology.
Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he
studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's
death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts
rejected him as untalented. Lacking business training, Hitler eked out a
living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting cheap postcards.
He often slept in parks and ate in free soup kitchens.
These humbling exper ...
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