Abraham Lincoln
.... then this may not have been achieved and the United States may not be like it is today. The ending of the Civil War gave the North and South the chance to be united, and to be peaceful once again.
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Adam Smith
.... Sentiments was published just five years before he began writing his second, the Wealth of Nations – which dealt with the pursuit of self-interest. It’s hard to believe that Smith could have written the second book devoid of morality not too long after finishing a book with the word moral in the title. The very first sentence of Moral Sentiments is as follows, “How selfish man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in fortune of others .....
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Adolf Hitler
.... to take over the world. This freedom continued for over a year while his family was separated. (Rubenstein; pg 6)
Even as a child Adolf had the making of a leader. He was a good student in elementary school and was always a leader during games being played. He especially enjoyed battle-type games the most and often organized his classmates into "battles." In his book, Mein Kampf, he wrote:
"I believe that even my oratorical talent was being developed in the form of more or less violent argu .....
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Adolf Hitlers Life And Times
.... was merely wounded and not killed). CHILDHOOD
The Hitler family consisted of the mother, Klara, the father, Alois, and two children, Alois and Angela. Klara gave birth to a baby boy named Adolf on April 20, 1889 at the Pommer Inn. The Hitlers soon moved to Braunau. His godparents were Mr. and Mrs. Prinz and Maria Matzelbeger. As a child little Adolf was babied and his mother protected him from his father, Alois Hitler. Alois was quite a tyrant, but he usually ignored Adolf. In 1892 Adolf's fath .....
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Agatha Christie
.... When she mixes different people and cultures together, it makes the stories more fun and it even helps to make them more mysterious.
All of Christie’s novels even contain the same characters. There are a variety of stories other than Murder on the Orient Express that contains the popular detective Hercule Poirot. He is known as a great detective in all of her works. He always get the murder figured out, no matter how long it takes him. He figures out who did the crime in Murder on the Orien .....
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Albert Einstein
.... an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896 and was to be stateless for a number of years. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899, and then got it in 1901.
The year 1905 saw a great flowering of Einstein's creativity, and with it a turning point in the history of physics. Space and time would never again be the same, Theory Relativity. The quantum was made respectable, the Photoelectric effect. The atom lik .....
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Alexander The Great
.... and consequently became general of his father’s army. However, things still weren’t amiable between father and son. On one occasion, Philip was attacked and hurt by rioters and he fell and played dead on the ground. Alexander shielded the attackers away and his father lived,
but he never acknowledged the fact that Alexander saved his life. Alexander deeply resented him for this. Alexander was known for his many temper tantrums. One memorable one was during a dinner party celebrating his fi .....
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Amadeus
.... failures during this age. For example, Mozart’s score of figaro includes a ballet, that was expressly forbidden by the king. However, instead of immediately apologizing and excluding it from his opera, Mozart attempts to go around the decree. He explains that it is not an insertion of ballet, but rather it is a dance and the king does not disallow dancing when it is a portion of the story. Mozart continues opposing the Age of Enlightenment and the commands of the high society by abandoning the .....
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Andrew Johnson
.... In January 1875, Johnson won back his former Senate seat after a struggle that forced the Tennessee legislature through 56 separate ballots. Johnson took his Senate deposition before the same body that only seven years earlier had failed by a single vote to remove him from the White House on March 5, 1875. During the 19 day Senate special session, he delivered a political turmoil in Louisiana and then returned to Tennessee, where he died four months later on July 31, 1875. He suffered from a stroke. .....
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Ann Frank
.... was trapped in the annex of a building for a very long time. She couldn’t do the simple everyday things, like go for a walk, listen to the radio, smell the air outside or even go to the bathroom when she needed to. She made life very interesting for the people in the annex with her. Weather they realized it not she brighten their days and made things exciting with her outgoing personality. The fact that she wrote in her diary each day shows that she had a caring soul and she wanted to remember .....
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Anne Tyler
.... a family seen from the perspective from each member in turn. Absentminded Ezra, the youngest son, runs the restaurant of the title, and comes in contact with various characters seeking emotional fulfillment.
The Accidental Tourist won in 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a film in 1988, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. It tells a story of a man who writers travel guides for those who want to 'take trips without a jolt' and comes ou .....
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Archibald Macleish
.... son so they sent him to the Hotchkiss School. This school catered to his many different interests. Of all the things MacLeish excelled at he was the best at writing. Archibald graduated at the top of his class and was accepted to Yale University. While at Yale MacLeish studied law, but continued his writing and in his off time the university published a book of his works.
After Yale, MacLeish decided to focus on his poetry and his new wife and children. During this time off he wrote his first .....
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Aristotles Life
.... BC, Aristotle was charge with impiety by the Athenians, which was a similar crime that was brought upon another philosopher, Socrates. Worried that he would be set to death for this charge, Aristotle fled to the city of Chalcis. A year after his arrival in Chalcis, Aristotle died (World Book 663).
Aristotle’s Physics
Aristotle work on basically all of the basic known subjects (Math, Science, Literature, English, Ethic, etc…). He also made his contribution in the field of Physics a .....
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Artist: Turner: Outline
.... marriage between art and industry and painted “Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway, “yet artists disliked the industrial revolution saying it was repulsive.
3. The changing style of Turner.
a) Turners’ works have changed greatly throughout his career and now his late works have been regarded as highly as his earlier works.
b) Many of his later exhibition canvases eluded interpretation in anything other than abstract visual terms.
4. Understanding Turner.
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The Diary Of Anne Frank By Anne Frank
.... Anne made a very powerful statement in her last words. To truly believe such a thing after being abused by the Nazis is quite remarkable indeed. I am very sure that most people, including myself, would have thought that the world was a completely corrupt and humans are naturally cruel if they’d have gone through such times. I believe that Anne has the ability to say such a thing because of her great unselfishness and love for all of G-d’s creatures. I also believe that if Anne could have w .....
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