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Marcus Aurelius
Words: 2596 / Pages: 10 .... by a man named Q. Junius Rusticus, who would accompany Aurelius throughout much of his life.
In 161 AD, Pius died, leaving Aurelius and Pius’s other adopted son, known as Verus, to rule together. The two brothers were quite different, although no disagreements are mentioned between the two. Verus was a headstrong man, who was more apt to want a war than the contemplative Aurelius. Verus was an "Epicurean" and definitely would never be called a philosopher. However, Verus died suddenly in 169, leaving Aurelius to rule Rome on his own. It is important to mention that during basically all of Aurelius’ rule, Rome was engaged in a lon .....
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Bruce Lee
Words: 664 / Pages: 3 .... was that the martial arts extras- most of whom were members of the Chinese crime syndicate, the Triads, would sometimes challenge Bruce to a real fight. For the most part Bruce would ignore it” (30). Bruce’s discipline can also be seen in the amount that he practiced his martial arts. He would practice everyday for hours, and even as a young child he was always practicing. “Bruce
Lee’s devotion to kung fu was total. At home, during dinner, he pounded away on a stool with alternate hands to toughen them” (8). Although is a good role model due to his discipline, it is not the only reason.
The second characteris .....
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Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
Words: 561 / Pages: 3 .... around the
rule he began to sign his work as Dr. Seuss. And that is why Ted Geisel became
Dr. Seuss. While at Oxford he met his first wife Helen Palmer to whom he was
married for 40 years until her death. They moved to New York. While in New York
he worked drawing cartoon advertisments for Flit, an insect repellant. It was he
who coined the phrase “Quick Henry, the Flit” which was to 1930s advertising
what “Just Do It” is to 1990s advertising. Sort of.
They later moved to La Jolla, California where Ted lived for the rest of
his life. They loved children although they were unable to have any of their own.
About five years after Helem's death .....
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Joseph Stalin
Words: 486 / Pages: 2 .... who fall behind are beaten. But
we do not want to be beaten!” Stalin gives the idea that his way of economy
would be great for Russia. At the beginning of the first Five Year Plan,
Stalin set high goals for the industry, almost doubling the amount of
production.Accordin to Joseph Stalin agricultural production can only be
increased by eliminating the kulaks, the wealthy farmers, and create
collective farms. Collective farms is when the land is split and many
people work on them instead of just one owner.Stalin’s Five Year Plans
created a huge drop in the number of livestock and wheat production also
decreased. This created a famine of food in Ru .....
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Roy Jones Jr.
Words: 497 / Pages: 2 .... weren’t to Roy Sr.’s standard so he constructed
his own ring in a pasture and fmade a punching bag with scrap materials.
Local kids watched as Roy’s father taught him the fundamentals of boxing.
Soon they got interested and a boxing club was formed. Roy Sr. used his
own money to buy boxing equipment and at one point sold the family’s
tractor to finance the boxing club. This wasn’t enough though because he
had to ask others that he knew for money to take the kids to boxing
tournaments in neighboring states. The only form of transportation was an
old rickety van, which doors were held with metal wire.
By the time Roy w .....
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John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
Words: 603 / Pages: 3 .... in the article, "His first cases were not important, but he
handled them well and made a favorable impression on his neighbors; so favorable
that they sent him to Richmond in 1782 as a member of the Virginia House of
Delegates." He became a prominent lawyer and was on his way to a successful
future.
Mr. Marshall worked under the administration of John Adams starting in
1798. He was offered the position of attorney general under George Washington's
administration, but declined because he wanted to stay with his family and
practice law in his home town of Richmond, Virginia. He was one of three
delegates sent to France by John Adams in 1798. His .....
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Minor White
Words: 578 / Pages: 3 .... being editor of 3 renowned magazines gives Mr. White enough evidence as to the credibility of his work. His influence has not stopped because of his death but lives on in his books, either written by himself or written about him.
's style was to use realistic natural images in an abstract way as to make the viewer think about and try to "read" the photograph. Often, Minor compared his work to religious or spiritual events that have happened throughout history. Sometimes he would express his thoughts in his poetry and publish the poem along with the photograph and display them together.
Being proclaimed as one of the most creative photographers of ou .....
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Ernest Hemmingway
Words: 1599 / Pages: 6 .... the Red Cross, but could not join the army because he had a defective left eye. Hemingway first went to Paris, and soon after receiving new orders he traveled to Milan, Italy. The day he arrived, an ammunition factory exploded and he had to carry mutilated bodies and body parts to a makeshift morgue. This was definitely a most terrifying moment for the young Hemingway. After being seriously injured weeks later, Hemingway found himself recovering at a hospital in Milan. After his stay at the American Hospital in Milan, Hemingway was relieved of duty (Mitran 1). Having no other purpose in Europe, he returned unhappily to Oak Park, Illinois. The impres .....
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The Writings Of Ernest Hemingway
Words: 740 / Pages: 3 .... "Romeo and Juliet." With all odds against them Frederick, an American, serving as a lieutant in the Italian Army portrays Romeo, with his beloved Catherine, a nurse, as Juliet. Critics believe Hemingway wrote the novel from prior events that took place earlier on in his life. As you can see in the handout, Hemingway, like his character Frederick, participated in World War I, as an ambulance driver, and fell in love with Agnes, a nurse who cared for him while he recovered from a wound.
Though Hemingway denied the accusations, the events of his life assembled those of Frederick's. A Farewell to Arms, conveys several major themes, however the o .....
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Biograpghy On Lois Duncan - Author Of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
Words: 749 / Pages: 3 .... going to end. It would be like setting out on a cross-country trip without a road map."
Strangely, however, the story closest to Lois Duncan's heart still doesn't have an ending. Who Killed My Daughter? The account of her search for the truth behind the murder of her 18-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, was written in real time as the horror unfolded. When the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the contrary, Duncan began her own investigation. Her search for the answers took her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs and led her to seek the help of the nation's top psychic detectives, w .....
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