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Plato And Confucious
Words: 1827 / Pages: 7 .... to believed that education and rearing of the ruler of the city or regime would create a perfect and just man. And he felt that the ruler must be older, while the ruled younger. Age is something that gives his perfect regime more control than one based on wisdom. He
thought that the philosopher should be seen as the father, over the younger people of the city. He also feels that old men are afraid of death, and therefore less likely to risk torment in the afterlife by having selfish desires, such as for money. He believed that men would obey the laws in hopes of rewards and fear of punishment in this life and the next. He believed that the r .....
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The Life And Death Of 2Pac
Words: 715 / Pages: 3 .... motion the black BMW
roared to life, accelerating across the traffic flow and towards the
oncoming cars, retreating from the scene as the dark figure collapsed li
mply back into the vehicle.
This incident is not a scene from a DeNiro/Pacino mobster movie.
Nor is it an episode from an Oliver Stone or Quentin Tarrantino film. In
fact, it is not a scene from any movie, although the story will likely wind
up as a made-for-television drama. Rather, it is the dramatic finale of
the life of rapper/actor Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was shot four times
during this escapade while traveling from a Mike Tyson fight to a nearby
club on September 7th. He later d .....
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Alfred Binet
Words: 1378 / Pages: 6 .... where he absorbed the theories of his teachers in regards to hypnosis,
hysteria and abnormal psychology. During the following seven years, he
continuously demonstrated his loyalty in defending Charcot's doctrines on
hypnotic transfer and polarization until he was forced to accept the
counterattacks of Delboeuf and the Nancy School, which eventually caused a split
between student and teacher.
Having been married in 1884 to Laure Balbiani, whose father was E.G. Balbiani,
an embryologist at the College de France, Binet was given the opportunity to
work in his lab where his interest in 'comparative psychology' was piqued and in
which he eventually .....
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Captain Kidd
Words: 548 / Pages: 2 .... set sail in the adventure Gallery for Madagascar,
Malabar, and the Red Sea Regions. In August 1667, he made an unsuccessful
attack on ships sailing with mocha coffee from Yemen, but later Kidd’s crew
took several small ships. Kidd captured his most valuable prize, the
Armenian ship Quedagh Merchant, in January 1698 and scuttled the
unseaworthy Adventure Galley. When he reached the West Indies in April
1699, he learned that he had been denounced as a pirate. He then abandoned
the Quedagh Merchant at the island of Hispaniola and got aboard a newly
purchased ship, the Antonio, and sailed to New York City.
There he tried to persuade the colo .....
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Elvis Presley
Words: 389 / Pages: 2 .... the Sun Record Company, when he went there to make a personal recording intended as a present for his mother. Presley made his first commercial recording for Sun the following year, and Colonel Tom Parker, who managed his career from that time, arranged for him to make a series of personal appearances.
In 1955 RCA Victor bought his recording contract from Phillips, and by 1956 Presley was a best-selling recording artist and television star. His hip gyrations, which some viewers thought too suggestive, earned him the nickname Elvis the Pelvis. 'Love Me Tender', his first film, was released that same year.
Drafted into the Army in 1958, Presley wen .....
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Words: 307 / Pages: 2 .... become. Hubert Humphrey was such a man."
Humphrey begin his road to sucess at the 1948 Democratic national
convention. This where he spoke of Truman's Civil Rights proposals. This
lead to his election to the U.S. Senate that same year and gave him the
reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal. Humphrey had a good
Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson
administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents
during this term, Johnson was the White colored type President and Humphrey
was the President that went and got things done, the blue colored worker,
he was the guy that was willing to get .....
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The Life Of Emily Dickinson
Words: 794 / Pages: 3 .... to
Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left
her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she
rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved
sister through a door rarely left “slightly ajar.” This seclusion gave her
a reputation for eccentricity to the local towns people, and perhaps
increased her interest in death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the
New England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be
equal not only i .....
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Charles Goodyear
Words: 977 / Pages: 4 .... move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he opened a hardware store where he sold the products that his father made. Four years after opening this store both Amasa and were bankrupt because they would extend credit to customers and the customers would never pay back the money that they owed. Charles’s health started to decline and both father and son owed tens of thousands of dollars. For the next thirty years was thrown in prison over ten times because he didn’t pay his debts. In 1834 when he was in New York, on a business trip, the Roxbury India Rubber Company caught his eye. He decided to go inside the store and take a look around. While he .....
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Ben Carson
Words: 557 / Pages: 3 .... an argument and Ben drew his camping knife on his friend. He thrusted the knife at the boy and his belt buckle. In the same instant as the knife broke Ben ran. He ran into his house and locked himself in the bathroom. He stayed in the bathroom and read his bible until he came to a revelation. Ben realized that his temper would destroy him and vowed to not let it ever control him again. The change in Ben's attitude only led to better thing for him. Later in high school he joined the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) program. He did so well in ROTC that Ben was offered a full scholarship to the United States Military Academy. In 1968, received a .....
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Ernest Hemmingway
Words: 2937 / Pages: 11 .... and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The t .....
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