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Jonathan Larson
Words: 694 / Pages: 3 .... of breath. Larson's best friend, Jonathan Burkhart noted,
"You've breath as hard as he was breathing." After a few more test were done,
Larson was Diagnosed with food poisoning. The doctor then proceeded to pump his
stomach and send him home with a prescription for Toradol, a potent painkiller,
in hand.
January 22. Morning. Jonathan Larson telephones Cabrini Medical to
query the results of the tests taken the previous evening for food poisoning.
The employee on the other end of the line claimed no results could be found but
tried to assure Larson that if any thing serious had been found he would have
been notified immediately. The rest .....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Words: 3080 / Pages: 12 .... he took a great interest in in history, especially in the lives of great ancient generals. Napoleon was often badly treated at Brienne because he was not as wealthy as his fellow classmates, and very short. He also did not speak French well, because Italian was spoken on Corsica where he grew up. He studied very hard so that he could do better then those who snubbed him.
Napoleon attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He .....
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Oliver Cromwell
Words: 481 / Pages: 2 .... for renewing the civil war. The king was tried and executed. In 1649, with the conflict in England settled, they could concentrate on the issue of Ireland.
Cromwell and 12,000 troops landed in Dublin on August 15, 1649. Cromwell was so determined to rectify the atrocities against his fellow Protestants that his efficiency in wiping out the Irish Catholics made him the most feared man in Ireland. The purpose of his ruthlessness was to eradicate the revolt and to clear the land and make it safe for English settlement. On September 11th his army invaded the town of Drogheda, killing all 3,500 soldiers and civilians. Cromwell ordered his men to .....
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Davy Crockett
Words: 328 / Pages: 2 .... on a farm, he learned how
to make hats, he helped with the cattle, and did many odd jobs. When he wasn't
working he went hunting and roamed the woods.
Davy was the best at telling stories. He got to know a lot of people liked
him. They elected him to the legislature. He was successful. He had 2 terms.
Davy wanted to go fight with the Creeks. But his wife, Finley begged him
not to go. The Creeks fought only for there homes. Davy could under stand that.
He fought in Alabama and Georgia. Davy and other men went into Florida to fight
the Creeks.
Davy Crockett took his rifle "Old Betsy" and fought for Texas against
Mexico at the Alamo. .....
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Mickey Mantle
Words: 925 / Pages: 4 .... (Falkner 22).The people who taught him how to play the game were his father and grandfather. He practiced with them for at least 2 hours a day (Falkner 23). Mickey played sports and games whenever he could. He just could not stay away from the game of baseball. The one sport that Mickey did not want anything to do with was swimming. The reason why was because swimming almost cost him hislifeOnce him and his friends were swimming in a river,and they were not supposed to, and a lady came and seen them, and his friends left him on a raft and he could not swim, and he fell off and almost drowned.Mickey did not like school . He looked forward to re .....
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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Words: 835 / Pages: 4 .... bomb. Many notable scientists
contributed to this project, but none with as much global respect as Einstein.
With the help of his physics knowledge, the mission was accomplished: a weapon
yielding the force of thousands of tons of dynamite was tested at a government
installation test site in Nevada.
Soon after the United States used this weapon on Japan twice, The Soviet Union
developed their own nuclear weapon. The Arms Race was on. Suddenly both
countries expended large amounts of resources on making these bombs useful in
combat. Three hundred billion U.S. dollars2 were spent to ignite this project
and produce only a small number of functiona .....
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Isadora Duncan
Words: 2914 / Pages: 11 .... children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep living in the same house. The family began moving from one apartment to another, learning to leave each one a day before the bills came around.
Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To Isadora this was "irritating and meaningless." She hated school. She said later in her autobiography that her real education came on the nights when Isadora and her siblings would dance to her mother's mu .....
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Adam Smith 2
Words: 517 / Pages: 2 .... its political and economic doctrines on the supremacy of natural law, wealth, and order. He was specially influenced by the French philosophers Francois Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own.
The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human progress can be possible in a society where individuals follow their own self-interests. Smith argued that this individualism led to order and progress. In order to make money, people produce things that other people are willing to buy. Buyers spend money for those things that they need or want most. When buyers and s .....
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Poe
Words: 817 / Pages: 3 .... with reverence has committed such gaffes against the genius of our language, nor has written lines of comparable banality.” ( Hoffman, p. 20 ). This explains how other ts respect and admire the ms written by Edgar Allan . There is not just admiration and respect for ’s ms, there is also negative critism. A critic named John Neal stated
If Edgar Allan of Baltimore whose lines
About “ Heaven” , though he professes to r-
Egard them as all together superior to any
thing in the whole range of American try,
Save two or three trifles referred to, are non-
sense, rather exquisite nonsense- would but do
hi .....
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George Patton
Words: 3678 / Pages: 14 .... PATTON`S PERSONAL SIDE ARMS. THE IVORY HANDLED REVOLVERS BECAME HIS TRADEMARK DURING WW2. TOP SMITH & WESSON .357 MAGNUM. BOTTOM COLT .45 MODEL 1873.
Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School that he began .....
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