George Mason's Views
.... those rights in their culture. When oppressed by the English, colonists fought vehemently for their rights and their principals.
The essence of America from the start was the opportunity for people of all backgrounds, culture, races, and religions to start fresh in a society granting freedoms and rights not available in other countries. The question from colonial times was the origin of those rights. Were rights able to be granted from person to person? Or were those rights inherited based upon the .....
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The Works Of William Faulkner
.... all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by this narration allows readers only to see the town’s point of view. In criticizing Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that Faulkner learned “that he could achieve a variety of different effects through manipulation of authorial voice”(97 Ferguson). Faulkner desired the reader to dislike Emily, and therefore he created a narration that disliked Emily. This .....
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Emperor Hadrian Of Rome
.... in life and became a well-respected general (Internet Hadrian 4)." Soon after, Hadrian was married to a thirteen year old girl named Sabina. Thirteen years of age was very young even in Roman terms of marriage. Hadrian became emperor in 117a.d. This occurred when Trajan, Hadrian's deceased father's cousin and guardian, made Hadrian his successor on his deathbed. "Certainly Hadrian's relationship with the Senate was not a good one(Coleman-Norton 674)." At the beginning of his reign, he put four fo .....
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Robert Kennedy
.... public attention in the late 1950's as cheif counsel for the Senate Committee that investigated improper labor and management activities.
Kennedy managed his brother's campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1952 and for the presidency in 1960.Kennedy wrote The Enemy Within (1960), Just Friends and Brave Enemies (1962), To Seek a Never World (1967), and Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969)
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University and the Universi .....
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
.... industrialist Josiah Wedgwood's daughter. Despite his mother's Unitarianism and father's free thought, Darwin received an Anglican education.
Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a produc .....
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Life Of John F Kennedy
.... to the world of international politics. His interest soared and upon returning to Harvard for his senior year, he wrote an honors thesis and graduated in 1940. “As discussed in the Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 16, page362.” He had no idea how much of an important and influential life he was going to lead.
Kennedy’s political career began in 1946 when he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and then in 1952 to a seat in the Senate. During his political career he was a strong opponen .....
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
.... of the AEC's first General Advisory Committee, a post he held until 1950. In 1958, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. In that capacity he served until his appointment by President Kennedy to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1961, when he was designated Chairman of the Commission. His term of office expires in 1968. From 1959 to 1961, he was also a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Dr. Seaborg was given a leave of absence from the University of Cal .....
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Thomas Jefferson Biography
.... speaker that he was, Jefferson used his literary talents to express his ideas. It is well known that he wrote the Declaration of Independence, but he also wrote many other documents dealing with the colonial protest of British rule. (3) A Summary View of the Rights of British America was a pamphlet denying right of Parliament to rule over the colonies. Jefferson proved to be an able writer of laws and resolutions because he was very concise and straight the point. (4) Jefferson was often turned to w .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson And Henry David Thoreau
.... than in any books" (Thoreau 252). The connection he felt with the earth began at the mere age of five. At this young age, he was moved from the bustling city of Boston to a completely foreign setting: the Massachusetts countryside.
It was after that move that Thoreau realized what had been missing in his life. "That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams...Somehow or other it at once gave the preference to this recess among the pines...over that tumultuous and varied city, .....
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
.... fusion released neutrons that enabled the fission of uranium. In 1950, Sakharov was assigned to work in a secret city with other scientists to further develop the bomb. It was there that he designed a plasma that would help produce energy from sustained fusion. In 1953, Russia tested its hydrogen bomb and it proved to be successful. At the age of 32 he was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Sakharov continued his work on improving the bomb. He worked with another scientist to develop a bomb .....
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Pope John XXIII
.... The Council’s purpose was to bring about the renewal of Roman Catholic religious life through the updating of church teaching, discipline, and organization and to encourage the unification of Christians and of all humanity. Another of Pope John XXIII’s accomplishments was writing seven encyclical letters. Many of these letters stressed the importance of human rights.
Another important thing that Pope John XXIII did as pope, was be open to other faiths. This was shown by his establishment in 19 .....
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Allama Muhammad Iqbal
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Iqbal considered the Qur'an not only as a book of religion (in the traditional sense) but also a source of foundational principles upon which the infrastructure of an organization must be built as a coherent system of life. According to Iqbal, this system of life when implemented as a living force is ISLAM. Because it is based on permanent (absolute) values given in the Qur'an, this system provides perfect harmony, balance, and stability in the society from within and the source of security and a s .....
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Michael Faraday
.... could be liquefied and in 1825 he discovered a new substance known today as benzene.
However, his greatest work was with electricity. In 1821, soon after the Danish chemist, Oersted, discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction .....
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King Mohammed The VI Of Morocco
.... He ,must eliminate this before getting anything started.
As king, Mohammed has involved himself in relations with other countries, whether good or bad. He strongly disapproves with the Moroccan Territory and believes its of serious concern. Although he has strong feelings about this subject, it has been a winless battle for several years. He must come up with a way for them to get the territory without causing conflict. A challenge that any ruler must have trouble overcoming.
The things that he .....
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Candidate Profile Paper On Alan Keyes
.... and wrote his thesis on political theory, focusing on American constitutional government. He later went on to work in foreign policy and national security policy for the Reagan Administration and “served at the United Nations as an Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council” (1). Keyes was also the “Assistant Secretary of State, overseeing our participation in the whole UN and international organizations system, and was also briefly part of the National Security Council staff” (1). During this time, .....
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