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Lewis And Clark
Number of Words: 2269 / Number of Pages: 9
... Congress approved a plan for an expedition. Jefferson had many reasons for employing the explorers. A boundless curiosity for botany, zoology, and geography was one of Jefferson’s main reasons. Also Jefferson wanted to establish communication and some interaction with the Indians.
The purchase of the Louisiana Territory was an entirely unexpected outcome. Robert Livingston, an ambassador to France, was told to discuss the purchase of the port of New Orleans from France. After weeks of fruitless efforts to buy the port, Livingston got lucky. The French, in need of money to wage wars in Europ ...
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Julius Caesar: Military And Political Strength
Number of Words: 730 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Populares which supported agrarian reform and was opposed by the
reactionary Optimates. Marius saw to it that Julius Caesar was appointed flamen
dialis which is a archaic priesthood with no power. Caesar marriage in 84 BC to
Cornelia, the daughter of Marius's associate was a political match. When Lucius
Cornelius Sulla, Marius's enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator
in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Caesar was not harmed but
he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused that order and left
Rome he did not return until Sulla's resignation in 78 B ...
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Rudyard Kipling
Number of Words: 454 / Number of Pages: 2
... schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team.
Returning to India in 1882 he worked as a newspaper reporter and a part-time writer and this helped him to gain a rich experience of colonial life which he later presented in his stories and poems. In 1886 he published his first volume of poetry, "Departmental Ditties" and between 1887 and 1889 he published six volumes of short stories set in and concerned with the India he had come to know and love so well. When he returned to England he found himself already recognized and ac ...
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John Dalton
Number of Words: 733 / Number of Pages: 3
... Lake District in which he lived. In 1793 Dalton published Meteorological Observations and Essays. He then became interested in preparing collections of botanical and insect species. In 1787, he began observations about aurora phenomena--luminous, sometimes coloured displays in the sky caused by electrical disturbances in the atmosphere.
Some of his studies in meteorology led him to conclusions about the origin of trade winds involving the Earth's rotation and change in temperature--unaware, perhaps, that this theory had already been proposed in 1735 by George Hadley. These are only some of the su ...
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Cassius Clay - Muhammad Ali
Number of Words: 939 / Number of Pages: 4
... did a really good job.
Even back then he ran his trashed talked his opponents, like in his first match he fought he one by a spit decision, after he found out he had one he shouted he would soon be "the greatest of all time". Know one knew at the time that his boasts would soon be the truth.
Cassius mouth has gotten him a lot of key matches in his career. He gained his first title shot form Sonny Liston this way. One of his famous quotes was "I’m so mean I make medicine sick."
He ran his mouth so often that people thought he ran his mouth just to psyche him self-out for the matches. That is sai ...
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Siddhartha
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... that stand out in my recent memories. First, in the eighth grade I made the choice to attend a private school that was 30 miles away from where I lived. This was a school that none of my current friends were going to attend. I chose to leave all my friends and thrust myself into a new experience for my own good. My friends didn’t want me to leave, just like ’s. The second crisis experience happened four years later when I chose to leave my town and attend college here at the University of Portland. Most of my good friends were staying and going to school in the town that we lived in.
These t ...
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Neil Armstrong
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... even more. He became a test pilot for experimental X-15 rocket planes which flew to the end of the earth's atmosphere. He didn't want to stop there, he wanted to just keep on going. So in 1962 when NASA was taking applications for astronauts he applied and was accepted. His first mission was on Gemini 8. He and David Scott orbited the earth three times and docked with the Agena. There was a problem with the rocket rolling, but didn't get scared and they were able to stop the rolling and return to earth. He was on Gemini 11 and then on Apollo 10. Apollo 10 was launched from Cape Kennedy, orbited ...
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Robert E. Lee
Number of Words: 3598 / Number of Pages: 14
... is a prolific writer in the field of defense and
military technology. He is a weapons expert, having written many books on all
types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and
Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an acknowledged expert on infantry
weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery
strategies. He is a well known author of military history, and works as a
weapons evaluator in addition to his writing.
Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia on January 19, 1807. His
father, Henry Lee, had achieved fame with Washington's a ...
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Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
Number of Words: 672 / Number of Pages: 3
... a state constitution and then served as governor (1779--81); during this time he proposed that Virginia abolish the slave trade and assure religious freedom, but he did not achieve this. He was not very successful in organizing Virginian resistance to the British military operations there and would come under criticism for his lack of leadership. Returning to the Continental Congress in 1783, Jefferson drafted the policy organizing the Northwest Territory and secured the adoption of the decimal system of coinage. He was sent to France in 1784 with Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams to negotiate c ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. 8
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... In this essay we will discuss the three major ways that Dr. King talks about. We will also reveal the one method that King supports.
He first characteristic that King mentions in his writing is acquiescence. In this characteristic, King explains how people give up to oppression and become accustomed to it. He believes that this form is not the way to solve the grief that the Negroes were being put through. In fact, he criticizes the people who utilize this method. The following line proves my statement, "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed becom ...
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