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Ralph Waldo
Words: 654 / Pages: 3 .... of the death of his wife after only 17 months of marriage. In 1835 he married Lydia Jackson and started to lecture. Then in 1836, he helped to start the Transcendental Club. The Transcendental Club was formed for authors that were part of this historical movement. Emerson was a big part of this and practically initiated the entire club. As we know he was already a major part of the movement and know got himself involved more. Many people and ways of life throughout his career including Neoplatonism, the Hindu religion, Plato and even his wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awar .....
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“George S. Patton, Jr.”
Words: 801 / Pages: 3 .... trying to catch up to the other kids in reading and mathematics these were his two worst subjects. In high school he started to catch up to his fellow class mates. He became popular with the other kids by playing sports. He was an exceptional football player and track star.
He went to two colleges VMI and West Point. He first went to VMI then he decided that he wanted the best so he transferred to West Point. While at West Point he was noticed for his amazing athletic ability he earned his letter there the famous Army A. He did this in football where in one game he broke both of his arms. He was also a good student in history and all of the war .....
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Christoper Marlow
Words: 2929 / Pages: 11 .... that he had "behaved himself orderly and discreetly whereby he had done Her Majesty good service" (Henderson 276). After this, he completed his education from Cambridge over a period of six years. During this time he wrote some plays, including Hero and Leander, along with translating others, such as Ovid’s Amores and Book I of Lucan’s Pharsalia (Henderson 276). During the next five years he lived in London where he wrote and produced some of his plays and traveled a great deal on government commissions, something that he had done while trying to earn his M.A. degree. In 1589, however, he was imprisoned for taking part in a str .....
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Linus Carl Pauling
Words: 267 / Pages: 1 .... Oregon, on February 28, 1901, and educated
at Oregon State College and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He
began to apply his insights into quantum physics as professor of chemistry at
Caltech, where from 1927 to 1964 he made many of his discoveries. By devising
techniques such as X-ray and electron diffraction, he was able to calculate the
interatomic distances and angles between chemical bonds.
During the 1930s, Pauling introduced concepts that helped reveal the
bonding forces of molecules. The Nature of the Chemical Bond, the result of
these investigations, has been a major influence on scientific thinking since it
was publishe .....
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Billy The Kid
Words: 670 / Pages: 3 .... the next day. He was arrested but the escaped and began running from the law, something he did all of his life.
eventually moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico were he began working for J.H. Tunstall. Tunstall was a rich farmland owner who had an ongoing feud with L.G. Murphy and J.J. Dolan over farmland and grazing rights. looked at Tunstall as a father and would do anything for him. But on February 18, 1878, Tunstall was gunned down by a group of deputies who were under the authority of Sheriff William Brady who was a major Murphy and Dolan supporter. swore revenge and said he would not rest until the Murphy and Dolan group was dead. Bi .....
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The Art Of Rock And Roll By Charles Brown
Words: 3478 / Pages: 13 .... the way rock and roll
sounds today. Brown proves rock is a legitimate art form by talking about its
audience and its lasting power.
Assumption two states that rocks roots are in folk, jazz, and pop
music. Musicians who first started rock and roll must have had something to base
their music on which turned out to be primarily folk, jazz, and pop. They
simple changed the pattern and style of that music and started forming rock.
Assumption three states that it is just as valid to study rock and
roll as European classical music. Rock will prove to be a valid means of
producing competent musicians and that it demands the same type of performanc .....
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John Hancock
Words: 1563 / Pages: 6 .... At the age of six, his parents sent him to a local dame school. Later he was sent to another school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary.
Her anxiety to make that decision was lessened by the invitation fr .....
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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"
Words: 682 / Pages: 3 .... as a “royal brute”, a murderer
and a thief, and stated that we should not be a continent that is
attached to an island.
In 1776 while Paine was on the road with the continental army he
wrote a series of pamphlets called the American Crisis where he persuaded
people not to give up their fight. As best stated in the American Crisis,
...God Almighty will not give up
a people to military destruction, or leave them
unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and
so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war,
by every decent method which wisdo .....
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Nelson Mandela
Words: 1255 / Pages: 5 .... of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to
the freedom struggle of his people (Ngubane).
After receiving a primary education at a local mission school, was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was
elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods).
At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves .....
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Joseph Stalin
Words: 954 / Pages: 4 .... famine, starvation and eventually death to twenty million peasant farmers. Another atrocity that Stalin was responsible for was the forced labor camps known as Gulags. "...the murderous forced labor camps of the Gulag archipelago - victimized tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children for more than 20 years." Millions of people were sent to the Gulag camps from 1939 through 1953, for the crime of doing absolutely nothing. There were "...eight million souls (a conservative estimate) who languished in Soviet concentration camps every year between 1939 and 1953." under the horrible conditions at the Gulags. Every year St .....
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