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George Washington Carver
Words: 390 / Pages: 2 .... Through this discovery the nutrients would stay in the ground, and crops could be planted on the same soil year after year. Carver discovered that planting peanut one year then the next planting cotton would keep the soil fertial for the following year. The peanuts contained nitrate-producing legumes, and the cotton took all the nutrients from the soil, so the soil was fresh each planting season. The farmer took his peanuts and used them as a source of food for their livestock. Carver did not over look the peanuts as just food for animals, and found over 325 ways to use the peanuts for other reasons than food. He used peanuts to make peanu .....
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Descartes
Words: 1099 / Pages: 4 .... what it is that we are sure we know.
Understanding ’ philosophy begins with understanding his method of doubt. Think about it like this. Almost everything you believe to be true comes from the senses or through the senses. However, the senses are sometimes deceptive. Since the senses are not 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 .....
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The Life Of John F. Kennedy
Words: 709 / Pages: 3 .... Kennedy was transported to the hospital for a three hour operation, but died early the next morning.
There were several conspiracy theories on why Sirhan shot Kennedy. Many people thought that Sirhan had been hired by the mob to kill Kennedy(This relates to the theory in J.F.K.’s assassination that the mob had hired Lee Harvey Oswald). At the time of Sirhan’s arrest, he had $400 on him which made it seem as if he might have been hired. It was later learned that the money was from a $1,100 settlement that he had won a few months earlier.
Several people thought that a woman in a polka dotted dress was involved with Sirhan. She had been se .....
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History Of Willian Shakespeare
Words: 703 / Pages: 3 .... and also a high bailiff. Shakespeare's father died in 1601 and his mother died in 1608. William was married at the age of 18 in 1582. His bride Anne was three months pregnant and eight years' older then William when they wed. His wife Anne was the daughter of Richard Hathaway. Richard was a substantial Warwickshire
farmer. He had a spacious house and owned large amounts of farm land. Anne's father Richard called her Agnes which was interchangeably in the sixteenth century. The Hathaway farm house has now become known to the tourist industry as "Anne Hathaway's cottage." William and his wife Anne had three children. Susanna was born .....
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Josephy P. Kennedy II
Words: 260 / Pages: 1 .... of the House of
Representatives of the United States. His formal education includes a
bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts in l976. He is married
to the former Beth Kelly and is the father of two children. His father was the
late Senator Robert Kennedy of New York and his uncle was the late President
John F. Kennedy.
Congressman Kennedy's political background includes a strong family
history in public service. Upon his graduation, his occupation was to form a
non profit company devoted to providing heating oil at affordable prices for the
poor and the working poor. He successfully manged this company before being
ele .....
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Walt Whitman
Words: 295 / Pages: 2 .... and the bugles are examples
of two symbols. He is using these objects as representing war. Whitman starts
off each stanza with the same line every time. “Beat! Beat! drums! - blow!
bugles! blow!” He uses this symbolism of war to show the effects it has on the
world. The drums and the bugles are always interrupting things. This is seen
clearly in the first stanza. The drums and bugles are interrupting the church
and the farmer can't be peaceful. Whitman continues this symbolism throughout
the rest of the poem. Whitman also speaks of how he doesn't like the war in
other poems of his. He does this in “The Wound-Dresser.” He speaks of t .....
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Princess Diana
Words: 2991 / Pages: 11 .... was sent to a clinic for tests (Morton 10). She was only 23 at the time. This is ironic because today we now know the sex of the baby is determined by the father. Even though she was too young to understand, Diana believed she was to blame for her father’s disappointment. Finally, a few years later her mother delivered a boy to carry on the Spencer name. Although Diana had a beautiful christening at Sandringham Church with well-to-do Godparents, her brother Charles’s christening was a major event at Westminster Abbey. The Queen was the principal Godparent. The Spencer children were privileged but not snobbish. They were taught to accept peopl .....
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Charles Dickens
Words: 2027 / Pages: 8 .... to work as a Parliamentary reporter at the True Sun for eight months.
· 1833 - First publication of sketches called Dinner at Poplar in Monthly Magazine.
· 1834 - Went to work for Morning Chronicle.
· 1836 - Sketches by Boz are published in volumes. First Installment of Pickwick Papers published. Charles marries Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the editor in Morning Chronicle. In November, Charles begins editing job at Bentley’s Magazine.
· 1837 - Edits a magazine called Master Humphrey’s Clock. First sketch of The Old Curiosity Shop published.
· 1842 - First installment of Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey’s Clock. Visits the U.S. .....
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Michelangelo
Words: 731 / Pages: 3 .... up the enemy Goliath. The
fiery intensity of David’s facial expression is termed terribilità, a feature
characteristic of many of Michelangelo’s figures and of his own personality.
David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of
Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the
Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall.
With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he
not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by
infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning.
Michelangelo’s David does not make me feel a .....
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Mohandes Gandhi
Words: 302 / Pages: 2 .... declared a free country. I would believe that the freedom of India was the final accomplishment for Gandhi but ironically many more difficulties would lie ahead. Gandhi went through several times where he fasted for long amounts of time, to end the fighting and hatred that had began between Hindu's and Muslims once India was freed. During these times, he was near death, but both Hindu's and Muslims agreed to stop the fighting because their actions would either stop Gandhi from fasting or eventually lead him to his death.
I believe that Gandhi's life is not only about the freedom of India, but through the freedom of India he realized and carr .....
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