Adam Smith 2
.... whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own.
The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human progress can be possible in a society where individuals follow their own self-interests. Smith argued that this individualism led to order and progress. In order to make money, people produce things that other people are willing to buy. Buyers spend money for those things that they need or want most. When buyers and sellers meet in the market, a pattern of pro .....
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Al Capone : The Myth, The Legend
.... Al. This was because Al was the only one working for Torrio.
Johnny Torrio moved to Chicago, when 1909 came around. Since he moved, Capone started getting into other things. One of these things was gangs. There were many gangs. These
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gangs were made up of what race they were, and where they were from. Even though he was in street gangs, and was good friends with Johnny Torrio, there was no sign as to how bad this man was going to be. There was only one real disruptio .....
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Alan Turing
.... school, because he was so much of a scientific specialist. But in 1926, Alan was granted admittance to the public school. However, after a short while the Headmaster reported to his mother that if Alan
was solely a scientific specialist, that he was wasting his time. Many other teachers also felt the same was as the Headmaster.
In 1928, Turing became interested in relativity, and it was at this time that Alan met Christopher Morcom, and everything changed for him. And it was Morcom’s d .....
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Albert Einstein 2
.... was deeply impressed by the mysterious behavior of the compass, because it always pointed at the same direction no matter what direction he was holding the compass itself. He later said “something deeply hidden had to be behind things.” He attended public school in Munich, Germany and also in Aarau, Switzerland. Later Einstein Studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Polytechnic institute in Zurich. From 1902 until 1909, Einstein worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Be .....
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Alexandre Dumas
.... from kings and queens. And of course, from his father’s experience, he wanted no war and was a liberal.
During the hectic days of the revolution of 1830, in which he participated with enthusiasm, he nonetheless managed to work on new plays and works.
By the time Dumas was 35, he had laid the foundations of drama, helped stage a Romantic revolution in theater, and helped create a new kind of Romantic novel. In his book The Three Musketters, he described the adventures of three swashbuckl .....
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
.... possibly even the most important, but not the sufficient cause in Britain's domination of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Crowl was a firm believer that the military operations of England and its allies on the European continent as well as successes of British statesmen played a large part in manipulating balance of power played a sizable role in the triumph of France. Crowl used the War of the League of Augsburg as example. He said it was the "long-drawn-out bleeding of France's str .....
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Andrew Carnegie 2
.... servant was as well situated." This proves that the direction the U.S. took until now was, in fact, the right path since the goal was already in progress. He has to argue and prove that through forward motion all of these problems of social difference, that the poor would also advance with the times, thus diminishing the difference slowly but surely. As the rich get richer they bring up the standard and, in effect, the poor with them as the economy grows. The government comes up with a way to run money .....
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Ann Hutchinson
.... not welcome in New England because of her unorthodox views.
Ann was told not to speak publicly about her views. She only expressed them in her own
home where she sometimes invited women to share her ideas. The governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony was John Winthrop. John did not like Ann Hutchinson because of her religious views and her conferences with women. He made a law that didn't allow female conferences. Anne Hutchinson was arrested for violating the law and brought to trial. Winthrop, then b .....
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Anna Knight
.... "The Cousins' Exchange" was a newspaper column that requested that people send nice reading material to each other. She sent something in, and was hooked up with two Seventh-Day Adventists. They corresponded with each other, and the Adventists sent her pertinent eschatological reading materials. Among the literature they sent her was The Signs of The Times, one of the most prominent Adventist literature being published at the time. One of the women, Miss Embree, kept the correspondence going .....
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Elvis Presley
.... Elvis was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar.
In 1949, Elvis was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, .....
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A Little Bit About Einstein
.... on why he would like to study theoretical math or physics. He stated, "All above it is my individual disposition for abstract and mathematical thought, my lack of imagination in practical talent. My inclinations have also led me to resolve that is quite natural; one always likes to do things which one has talent. And there is a certain independence in the scientific profession which greatly pleases me." He graduated from the Swiss school, in 1896 at 17 years old. Then he was then accepted to the Insti .....
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A. A. Milne
.... never terribly close to
his mother and would often eschew her. Milne referred to her as “restfully
aloof.” (Page at Pooh Corner) His parents had three children, all sons. Milne
was the youngest and often wished he had a sister. At the school he
attended, Henley House, he had teachers that included H. G. Wells, who
undoubtedly helped ignite his flame for writing. (The Oxford Companion to
English Literature) As you can see, he was exposed to writing influence
even from an early a .....
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Aaron Kornylos Struggle In Crossbar
.... closer and closer and... then the pain, so terrible that the brain in it’s mysterious wisdom shut down the system... just after the scream” (Gault 60). Forced to have his leg amputated, “the surgeons in Saskatoon had done a fine job, very neat... but he didn’t feel like giving [any] thanks” (Gault 62). Looking down at “the rounded stump that had once been his right leg” (Gault 62) Aaron would have no choice but to “get used to... that hated wooden le .....
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Abe Lincoln
.... new stepmother, who kept an immaculate house and even pushed Abe to do his studies.
At age eleven, Abe was to required to go to school regularly when there was a teacher, and whenever this was, Abe got to walk a beautiful four miles each way which he did not mind. Though his lifetime of schooling never amounted to more than a year, he was always reading, which kept him up at the pace of the other kids who went to school all the time. Many called him lazy because of his constant reading and think .....
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Abigail Adams
.... with John as he left to attend the Congress called at Philadelphia to try and unite the colonies against Great Britain’s plan to punish Boston and Massachusetts. Though her sons would not be of military age for another decade, Abigail dreaded war, in which only God knew what would happen. When the shots at Lexington and Concorde were fired, John was again off to the Congress and cautioned Abigail that she should ‘fly to the woods’ with the children if the British attacked Boston. Abigai .....
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