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Karl Marx
Number of Words: 1207 / Number of Pages: 5
... Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843. Later in the fall of that year Marx along with another Left Hegelian, Arnold Ruge, moved to Paris and began publication of a radical journal entitled Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher. However due to the problems in publishing such a radical paper, only one issue appeared. Karl met his closest friend in September of 1844, when Frederick Engels arrived in Paris. Together they participated in the activities of many revolutionary communities. They formed the theory and ideas of revolutionary proletarian socialism, also known as communism. Also in 1844, Marx wrote a revolu ...
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Peter The Great
Number of Words: 1573 / Number of Pages: 6
... did not was the opposition that Peter faced from Russian traditionalist church followers. Also, Peter’s stepsister was only mentioned in the video viewed in class.
Peter Alexeevich, later to be known as , was born on May 30, 1672. He was the fourteenth child of his mother, although not all of them had lived past infancy. He was raised by a nurse although he knew his mother and she made herself a part of his childhood. Peter was spoiled rotten as the son of the czar. Around the time of Peter's birth Russia was very different from many other countries. They had none of the technology of their Eur ...
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Biography Of Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 2015 / Number of Pages: 8
... daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter memory that long survived.
Caesar left Rome for the province of Asia on the condition that he divorce his wife because Sulla would only allow him to leave on that condition. When he h ...
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Howard Hughes
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools.
His father’s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father’s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling
which made much money. In 1925 Howard got married to Ella Rice, he was twenty . He got divorced in 1928 and that same year he got his first pilots license.
Howard had two careers that made him very successful in life. He started a company called Hughes Aircraft Company. The reason ...
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Kurt Cobain
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... He longed for the typical "Brady Bunch" family, but instead he lived in a trailor with his mother. In result of this Cobain became extremely anti-social, he had few friends, and was beat up alot.
On his 14th birthday Kurt recieved his first guitar. He had been writing poetry since he was 13, so he started using his poetry to write songs. He was in several bands throughout highschool, some of them were named Fecal Matter, Skid Row, Brown Cow, The Sellouts, and Pencap Chew.
Around the time of Kurts senoir year he formed Nirvana with high school friend, Krist (Chris) Novoselic. A few drummers o ...
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Willem De Kooning
Number of Words: 1590 / Number of Pages: 6
... fellow artists.
By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson
Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major
painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of
thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York.
Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in
Europe and one in America. He combined classical European training in
Holland with a love for popular American culture. The restlessness and
energy of American life was a source of great inspiration and passion for
him. Gary ...
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Woodrow Wilson
Number of Words: 296 / Number of Pages: 2
... decided he wanted to become a lawyer, this failed so he enrolled in school to study history. Over time, Wilson gained a lot of respect and rose to high places because of his essays and public addresses. As the University President, Wilson resigned and looked into the Democratic point of view on politics. Wilson moved on to become the 28th President of the United States.
Wilson spent a lot of his time on making decisions rather than getting the grades to back him up. These wild ideas Wilson has made him absolutely fascinating to hear in public and people from all over came to hear him converse about hi ...
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Orson Welles
Number of Words: 1157 / Number of Pages: 5
... who’s ambitious and concerned with revolutionizing multiple aspects of life. He was a prolific writer and talented actor who often appeared in his own productions. A gifted artist, Welles, coupled his abundant energy with an enthusiasm for life. He tried everything and was not afraid to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failures as well as the acclaims of success.
While, some critics say that Welles could never top “Citizen Kane”, such movies as “The Trial”, “Touch of Evil”, and “The Lady from Shanghai” are considered classics and monumental feats in cinema production. However, movies li ...
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Polygamy
Number of Words: 10146 / Number of Pages: 37
... Wives" and rumors of such, including accusation about adultery mixed with secrete marriages, are what prompted the statement on marriage, in an attempt to squash rumors and innuendo. Joseph Smith was conveniently out of town, thus he could be seen as supporting the inclusion of that statement from outsiders, while continuing to spread plural marriage privately to select people for many years to come. The issue of preaching conflicting revelations was avoided by his absence. The Article on Marriage was section 101 of the 1835 edition of the D&C. The RLDS church has maintained this section to this day. ...
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Descartes
Number of Words: 1122 / Number of Pages: 5
... completely trustworthy, it is irrational to place complete trust in them. However it is no small leap of faith to presume that everything our senses tells us is false. In fact, it seems almost preposterous to say such a thing. But as points out, we have dreams regularly and in these dreams everything we experience is a figment of our imagination, or at least not real in the physical sense. So, at least according to , it is reasonable to doubt everything our senses tell us, for the time being. Now, using similar logic, we can say that everything we have learned from physics, astronomy, medicine, a ...
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