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Bill Clinton
Words: 627 / Pages: 3 .... many thought it was his personal business, and many just didn’t care. The nation became divided on what actions should be taken against a popular president that had just admitted to lying to his public and possibly lying under oath. Every constitutional scholar had an opinion about what constituted high crimes and misdemeanors. The 146th congress had to determine that for themselves, and in early January of 1999, William Jefferson Clinton was impeached.
As the focus then turned to the Senate, many debates arose. Did the President’s sexual indiscretion deserve to get him removed from office? Other options such as censorship were debated, b .....
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Lee De Forest
Words: 902 / Pages: 4 .... as a miniature blast furnace and locomotive, and a working silverplating apparatus. (A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries).
His father had planned for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of ele .....
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Sir Isaac Newton
Words: 1521 / Pages: 6 .... and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661.
Newton received his bachelor's degree in 1665. After an intermission of nearly two years to avoid the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master's degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his .....
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Aristotle
Words: 936 / Pages: 4 .... a center cannot be infinite. He believed that the earth, too, is a sphere. It is relatively small compared to the stars, and in contrast to the celestial bodies, always at rest. For one of his proofs of this latter point, he referred to an empirically testable fact: if the earth were in motion, an observer on it would see the fixed stars as moving, just as he now observes the planets as moving, that is from a stationary earth. However, since this is not the case, the earth must be at rest. To prove that the earth is a sphere, he produced the argument that all earthly substances move towards the center, and thus would eventually have to form a spher .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 524 / Pages: 2 .... Although Jefferson was supposedly a good slave owner, his hypocritical nature made him accuse others not to own slaves while he, himself was owning slaves. Another part of the hypocrisy was that Jefferson believed that the slaves were dependent upon the white man, while he, himself was dependent upon the slaves. Jefferson also was hypocritcal in his acquisition of the Loisiana territory. In Jeffersonian principles, large expansive governments were bad, and small was good. This was a antithesis of that principle. Jefferson knew that the acquisition of the Loisiana territory was beneficial to the welfare of the U.S. According to the constitution, nowh .....
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Michael Jackson
Words: 760 / Pages: 3 .... from the
organization for African Unity for ‘ Strengthening the status of African
Americans’. In Michael Jackson’s childhood years has made an impact on
kids.
Around 1979 and Michael goes solo, but still with the Jacksons. He
began to perform some of his solo hits in benefit concerts. For example,
the UNICEF, The Atlanta Children’s Foundation at the Omni Auditorium in
Atlanta , Georgia and raised $100,000 for the charity. The Foundation is
established in response to a series of kidnappings which had been occurring
in Atlanta, a charity album is released in 1984 "Let’s beat it" with the
money raised being donated to the Music and Enterta .....
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Donatello
Words: 1317 / Pages: 5 .... his career but probably
learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the cathedral of
Florence about 1400. Some time between 1404 and 1407 he became a member of the
workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti who was a sculptor in bronze. Donatello's earliest
work was a marble statue of David. The "David" was originally made for the
cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio which is a city hall
where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on
it was eclipsed by the gigantic "David" of Michelangelo which served the same
purpose. Other of Donatello's early works which were still partly Gothic are the
imp .....
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Donato Di Niccolò Di Betto Bardi
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Florence cathedral in about 1400. Between 1404 and 1407 he worked in the
workshop of the Gothic sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, who had won the
competition to create some bronze doors for the cathedral baptistery.
Donatello created two marble statues in a new style for the church
of Or San Michele in about 1415. In these statues, 'St. Mark' and 'St.
George', for the first time since Roman classicism, the human body was
shown as a functioning figure with a human personality--in sharp contrast
with medieval art. Donatello's well-known statue 'Zuccone' ("pumpkin"
because of its bald head) of 1425 for the campanile, or bell tower, of the
cathedral is .....
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Jane Addams
Words: 459 / Pages: 2 .... teachers side but were warned-off with tales of the politicians and the difficulties previous attempts encountered. Addams' describes the situation between the superintendent and the Teachers' Federation as "an epitome of the struggle between efficiency and democracy" (171). She clearly understood both standpoints and why they both felt compelled to make their argument, although she does mention that they both "inevitably exaggerated the difficulties of the situation" (171).
As a member of the school board, Addams tried to influence the Federation to make changes that would be in the best interest of the children, but after the legal struggle and .....
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Life Of A Roman Slave
Words: 537 / Pages: 2 .... boy's neck. Argus beat off the dog but it was to no avail. The attack left a gap in the boy's neck which would not heal. The boy died several days later. Furious that such horrors could happen to his son, Gnaeus blamed Argus for not stopping the attack sooner. Instead of death Argus was to live out his days as a gladiator, a barbarous warrior, killing others for entertainment or being killed himself.
Though many of the gladiators were considered celebrities, the lives of most were short and unfavorable. Argus however, was extremely fit and made a good fighter. Though barely making it through the first contest, the following events became easier and .....
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