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Hannibal
Words: 1021 / Pages: 4 .... on Rome a hundred fold. For Carthage to take the town of Sagunto was completely within the rights of the Carthage and the treaty but Rome at the time was getting too big and becoming very imperialistic. All Rome could see was that they had to have all of the Mediterranean and the only thing that stood in their way was a single General and his men. The way in which the Romans were unconsciously straying from “mos maiorum” to manipulate the course of events was disturbing. Though these actions were not entirely the “evil” work of Rome. from his earliest memories could recall nothing but hatred for Rome. ’s Father had instilled a horrifically .....
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Aristotle (384 -322 BC)
Words: 323 / Pages: 2 .... 336 BC, when
Alexander became the ruler of Macedonia. Alexander the Great later became the
ruler of all Greece, and over threw the Persian Empire. In 334 BC, Aristotle
returned to Athens and started his own school, the Lyceum. Because he taught
while walking around, his students were called the Peripatetic students, meaning
"walking" or "strolling". When Alexander died in 323 BC, Aristotle was charged
with impiety (lack of reverence to the gods) by the Athenians. The Athenians
probably did this because they resented
Lu-2 Aristotle's friendship with Alexander, the man who conquered
them. Aristotle fled to Euboea. He died there t .....
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Theodore Roosevelt
Words: 613 / Pages: 3 .... began the construction of the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was especially important because it is now much easier for trade to go on. Instead of having to go around all the islands you can now cut through the canal and have a much quicker traveling time.
At the time that the Cubans were fighting with our country Roosevelt was quietly forming a cavalry regiment nicknamed Rough Riders. On July 1,1898 him and his men charged up Kettle Hill and defeated the Cubans. He and the Rough Riders became nationally famous.
Roosevelt also helped out with labor unions. In 1902 members of the United Mine Workers went on strike. Coal started to became low an .....
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Fiction Authors
Words: 1489 / Pages: 6 .... World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers
to look at the role of science and literature in the future world, scared
that it may be rendered useless and discarded. Unlike Bradbury, Huxley
includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society,
a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer
part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with
his proposed futuristic culture.
But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is
the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach
to life, and refusing to conform .....
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James A. Garfield
Words: 620 / Pages: 3 .... James, Mary, Irvin, Abram, and Edward.
James Garfield was an advocate for free-soil principles and soon
became a supporter of the newly organized Republican Party. And in 1859,
he was elected to the Ohio Legislature. During the succession crisis, he
advocated coercing the seceding states back into the Union.
During the Civil War, he helped to recruit the 42nd Ohio Volunteer
Infantry and became the infantry's colonel. He fought at Shiloh in April 1862,
served as a chief of staff in the Army of the Cumberland, saw action at
Chickamauga in September of 1863.
When the Union victories had been few in 1862, he successfully led a
brigade at Middle .....
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John Keats
Words: 876 / Pages: 4 .... if I with Thee Must Dwell" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Both poems appeared in the Examiner, a literary periodical edited by the essayist and poet Leigh Hunt, one of the champions of the romantic movement in English literature. Hunt introduced Keats to a circle of literary men, including the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; the group's influence enabled Keats to see his first volume published, Poems by John Keats (1817). The principal poems in the volume were the sonnet on Chapman's Homer, the sonnet "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent," "I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill," and "Sleep and Poetry," which defended the principl .....
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Ralph Ellison’s Life
Words: 1315 / Pages: 5 .... had a complex attitude about his full name (Martin). He felt obligated to live up to the name that was given to him at first. In time, through his work the theme was his personal identity. In 1917, when Ellison was just three, his father died. This loss forced his mother to go through hard times without a provider. In Ellison’s early years, he and his family lived among middle class whites. Ellison was endowed with learning and intellectual curiosity. Ellison was introduced to a new world, one that he would make his own. His history, folktales, and music were already important to him. He often wrote about his Afro-American heritage:
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Oliver Cromwell
Words: 4157 / Pages: 16 .... recent times. (Gaunt, 1996)
Cromwell, the only son of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward was born in Huntingdon, England in 1599. His father, who was active in local affairs, had been a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's Inn in London, where gentlemen could acquire a smattering of law. In 1620 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir J .....
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George Orwell
Words: 2773 / Pages: 11 .... hospital
B. Barley finished “1984”
1. Most popular book he ever wrote
2. Had a lot to do with his socialist views.
C. Died in 1950
1. Asked that no biography be written about him
Thesis statement: George Orwell, one of the most significant writers of the 20th century, was greatly influenced not only by his English heritage but also by his many life experiences.
It was August 1914, right after the start of World War One. Three children were playing in a garden at the end of the summer holidays, on the Oxfordshire side of the Thames River. The children saw a young boy about their age standing on his head from across the street. The children .....
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Colleen McCullough: Author Obsessed Over Love
Words: 437 / Pages: 2 .... author primarily by herself. It also affected McCullough; she began to look for paternal substitutes in her mother’s nine unmarried brothers.
Growing up McCullough attended twelve years in a convent school. She then went on to Holy Cross College and obtained honors in English, chemistry, and botany. Next she began to attend the University of Sydney to become a physician. McCullough eventually dropped out due to her father’s opposition to women having medical careers. The author has had a variety of jobs varying from librarian to bus driver and schoolteacher. McCullough returned to the University of Sydney to become a medical technician spe .....
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