Napoleon 5
.... of property and tried to make French society secure against internal challenges. Employment of salaried officials chosen on the basis of merit replaced the purchase of offices. Hereditary social distinctions were abolished, feudal privileges disappeared, and the peasants were freed from serfdom and manorial dues. In the towns, the guilds and the local oligarchies that had been dominant for centuries were dissolved or deprived of their power. New freedom thus came to serfs, artisans, workers, and entrep .....
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Napoleon And Caesar
.... Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire (Duggan 84).
Caesar's principles were to keep his forces united; to be vulnerable at no point, to strike speedily at critical points; to rely on moral factors, such as his reputation and the fear he inspired, as well as political means in order to insure the loyalty of his allies and the submissiveness of the conquered nations. He made use of every possible opportunity to i .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte
.... his schooling. He petitioned the king, Louis XIV, for a scholarship for Napoleon. The king had set up a special fund for the sons of French nobles, granting them money to attend military school. Now that Corsica belonged to France, the Bonapartes were French citizens and were eligible for this scholarship.
Napoleon was excited about his future. Still, he was apprehensive. He had never left the island before, and he didn’t know how to speak French. So before he could further hi .....
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
.... and had 29 Horses shot out from under him. His famous saying was, "War means fightin,' and fightin' means killin'."
Forrest led the Battle of Chickamauga and forced the Federals to retreat. He did not follow the orders of his commander, Colonel Bragg. Bragg demanded that Forrest turn his troops over, but Forrest threatened him with bodily harm. The incident went unreported, and Bragg reassigned Forrest further west.
Forrest was an individual who did not believe in letting anyone who was f .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
.... their home soon after. These events left Nathaniel Hawthorne alone in the world with his sister Ebe. The two siblings were deeply attached. Fifty years later Ebe, also preoccupied with sibling incest, referred to the retracted piece by Hawthorne as, "an example of his (Hawthorne) special genius". (McGoldrick 82)
Hawthorne's retracted work not only suggests his own incestuous relationship with his sister Ebe, but also alludes to events concerning Nicholas Manning that possibly served as catalys .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
.... as Hawthorne would have most believe. He socialized quite often in Salem, and used the free passage that was available on his uncle's stagecoach line to make summer excursions around New England; Hawthorne even went as far west as Detroit. Hawthorne published his first novel, Fanshaw: A Tale, at his own expense in 1828. However, he later recalled it and destroyed all the copies he could find. Then, in 1830, the Salem Gazette published his first story, "The Hollow of the Three Hills". With the publica .....
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Nationalism And Patriotism
.... life. The next thing comes to mind when I think of patriotism is the people who fought and gave their lives during World War II. They fought for the same rights as our founding fathers did. That is to keep our country safe from foreign suppressers who want to corrupt our way of living, and from having one person having to much control over such a vast area of our little planet. Mainly, I have the utmost respect to the people who have done there part to keep our country as patriotic as it is now he .....
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Neil Postman
.... scientists for example. Their entire career is based on asking questions, stating a hypothesis, and furthermore, answering them by conducting experiments.
Postman calls for the art of question asking to be infused with the current school curriculum, because to often students do not ask questions. When a student arrives at school on the first day they often notice many changes. Although welcome, these changes sometimes make a student wonder why he or she was not asked if they would prefer them. This .....
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Neil Simon
.... rights feminists, terms which were not even applicable at the time. Maternal feminists, for example, sought the vote in order to reinforce the influence of women and the family in Canadian society, and to introduce "feminine morality" into Canadian politics. On the other hand, equal rights feminists fought for the vote based on the assumption that men and women are equal, and therefore everyone shares the right to participate in a liberal democracy. As Davis and Hallet point out, "while the argumen .....
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Nelson Mandela
.... by a sense of joy and exhilaration when the grass turns green and the flowers bloom.
That spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this common homeland explains the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed, and isolated by the peoples of the world, precisely because it has become the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practice of racism and racial oppression.
We, the people of .....
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Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
.... there was something better. He decided to travel to Johannesburg to find new and greater opportunities. While, in Johannesburg, he believed education would be a key asset. While working for a small firm, he took classes at University of South Africa and eventually Wits University. Here is where his mind and social life flourished. He interacted with great minds and influential political individuals. He talked to many Africans without proper education, who contained more knowledge and better social .....
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Nelson Manndela
.... effort and was elected to the Secretaryship of the Youth League in 1947 (Ngubane).
By painstaking work, the ANCYL was able to get support for its policies amongst the ANC members. At the 1945 annual conference of the ANC, two of the leagues leaders, Anton Lembede and Ashby Mda, were elected onto the National
Executive Committee. Two years later another Youth League leader, Oliver R. Tambo became a member of the NEC
(Ngubane).
The victory of the National Party which won the 1948 all-white e .....
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Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To Power
.... elimination of Beria, the succession struggle became more subtle. The rivalry between Malenkov and Khrushchev surfaced publicly through Malenkov’s support for increased production of consumer goods, while Khrushchev stood for the development of heavy industry. On January 1955 Khrushchev called Malenkov’s commitment to consumer goods a new form of anti-Leninist "right deviation". (Modern Enc..) Two weeks later Malenkov was forced to resign as Chairman of the Council of Ministers and publicly ac .....
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Nikita Sergeyevich
.... of the Politburo.
Khrushchev's rise to power coincided with one of the darkest periods in Soviet history: the Great Terror. During the 1930s, Stalin began a series of bloody purges to consolidate his power. The terror spread throughout the Soviet Union, and Khrushchev was part of it, denouncing several fellow students and workers as "enemies of the people" and willingly taking part in the extermination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia.
By the time Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1 .....
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Nikola Tesla
.... power by updated models of 3-phase and split-phase motors originally covered by his patents.
Hoping to develop a light more efficient than the incandescent lamp, Tesla began researches with alternating currents of high frequency and high potential in 1889. At first he produced these currents with high-frequency alternators of his own design. He wanted even higher voltages so he invented the "Tesla coil" in 1891. This was an air-core transformer that had its primary and secondary tuned to resonance. For .....
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