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Aristotle
Words: 495 / Pages: 2 .... the ruler Alexander the Great.
Aristotle was the first known person to make major advances in the
fields of logic, physical works( such as physics, meteorologists, ect.) ,
psychological works, and natural history( modern day biology). His most
famous studies are in the field of philosophical works. His studies play an
important role in the early history of chemistry. Aristotle was the first
person to propose the idea of atoms matter and other grand ideas.
Aristotle made the first major advances in the field of philosophy of
nature. He saw the universe as lying between two scales: form without matter
and is at one end and matter without f .....
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David Hume
Words: 979 / Pages: 4 .... writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), he wrote Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and a History of England (1754-62) that was, despite errors of fact, the standard work for many years.
"Nothing seems more unbounded than a man's thought," quoted Hume. Hume took genuinely hypothetical elements from Locke and Berkeley but, rejected some lingering metaphysics form their thought, and gave empiricism its clearest and most rigorous formulation. (Stumpf) Hume wanted to build a science of a man, to study human nature .....
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Clara Barton
Words: 615 / Pages: 3 .... with success. Barton had a long career of public service. At age seventeen Barton became a teacher in Massachusetts. She taught many years and then decided that it was time to establish her own school in North Oxford where she was born. Eventually teaching began to loose its zest and she wanted more from life. She decided to further her education and attend the Liberal Institute. The Liberal Institute was located in Clinton, New York; it was an advanced school for female teachers. yearned to teach once again and accepted a job in New Jersey. Following this she opened a free school in Bordentown. The schools attendance topped six hundre .....
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Nathanial Hawthorne
Words: 892 / Pages: 4 .... alone.
The house had a secret staircase and once had seven gables. This house,
Nathanial visited in his youth, was his inspiration for the house in his
book " The House Of The Seven Gables". The story of The House Of The Seven
Gables streches over two centuries. It's the classic scenario of two rival
families, in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and
the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut
to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but
obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. .....
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Cleopatra
Words: 1890 / Pages: 7 .... should rule Egypt by himself. So, because of this he drove into exile. then escaped to Syria. She then returned with an army. Ptolemy sent an army to meet with her. At this point, Julius Caesar of Rome arrived in pursuit of an enemy, who was seeking help from Ptolemy. had to roll herself up in a rug so that she wouldn’t get killed while entering Egypt. If she hadn’t hidden herself she would have been killed. When she unrolled herself in front of Caesar he fell in love with her right away.Caesar had to choose which of the Egyptian rulers to help keep the throne. Of course he chose . He then became ’s lover. In 47 BC Ptolemy Xlll drowned in t .....
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Alfred Hitchcock
Words: 2114 / Pages: 8 .... From that job he worked his way up through the business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came just a year later with "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example of a classic Hitchcock plot. The general idea of the plot is an innocent man is accused of a crime he did not commit and through a web of mystery, danger, action, and of course love he must find the true criminal. This plot came to be used in many of Hitchcock's films throughout his career both .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Biography
Words: 1179 / Pages: 5 .... trees...." He
attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in
Massachusetts, and received a B.A. degree in history from Harvard in only
three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia
University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school
without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a
prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was
elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally
Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of Preside .....
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Hitler's Life
Words: 4214 / Pages: 16 .... time was 58 and had spent most of his life in the Civil Services. He was used to giving and taking orders and liked his children to do the same. The children had many chores on their small farm outside Linz, Austria.
Adolf’s mother, Klara, was more attending to Edmund and soon Paula than to Adolf. The family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm.
The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers’ harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his fathe .....
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Dimitri Shostakovich
Words: 1484 / Pages: 6 .... as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Paul Hindemith, and Sergey Prokofiev. The cultural climate in the Soviet Union was, compared to the Soviet Union at its peak, free at the time. Even the music of Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg, then in the avant-garde, was played. Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith visited Russia to perform their own works, and Shostakovich toyed openly with these novelties. His first opera, The Nose, based on the satiric Nikolay Gogol story, displayed a thorough understanding of what was popular in Western music combined with his "dry" humor. Not surprisingly, Shostakovich's undoubtedly finer second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk Distr .....
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Life Of Fredrick Douglass
Words: 703 / Pages: 3 .... an adult and wrote the story of his life and how discrimination affected it.
Not only is discrimination the theme of Douglass’ novel, it is also the cause of his horrible condition. In his autobiography he claims he “was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” (73). Throughout the novel Douglass never encounters a slave who is not black. “Why am I a slave,” Douglass asks (Douglass 73). This is surely a question asked by every victim of prejudice. Another piece that illustrates discrimination is Joseph Brant’s, “Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization.”
Joseph Brant was born in 1742 an .....
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