The Crime At Compiegne
.... sometimes accompanied by visions.
She was convinced that these voices were those of St. Michael and the early
martyrs St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Margaret. These voices
exhorted her to help the Dauphin, later Charles VII, king of France,
recapture the city of Orleans and thereby win the Hundred Years' War
against England. Jeanne succeeded in convincing Charles and his board of
theologians that she had a divine mission to save France. Approving her
claims, she was granted a small detachment of .....
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Andy Warhol
.... with his homosexuality. His
childhood life may have been full of the torture that children threw at him for
being the different person he was. He was able to attend college. After
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie
Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein,
who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In
1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a
caree .....
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Louis XIV
.... controversial, but in high insight, it is clear
that Louis XIV made a sound decision in its erection.
As Louis XIV took the throne, he was faced with several problems. He
knew that he did not want to reside and rule in Paris, so against the will
of his advisors he chose a hunting chateau as the site of his new palace.
He also knew from history that the nobles of his domain had in the past
and would continue to cause trouble in the form of uprisings and other
conflicts. Louis XIV sought absolute power, .....
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The Life Of Ulysses S. Grant
.... CD-ROM,
1995). His wife Julia Grant died in 1902 and was buried with Ulysses S.
Grant at the Grant National Memorial in New York City (World Book CD-ROM,
1995).
Being stationed at Jefferson Barracks, MO marked his leadership and
career in the Army and his role he played in the Civil War. In 1854 Grant
resigned from the army and moved to his cabin with his family. Disaster
struck and the price of crops dropped dramatically. Grant's farm was mainly
crops and he lost all his crops in the price change and .....
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The Ideal American: Malcolm Little
.... ideas, that keeps America vital and a
step ahead of ther rest of the world. It is a place where the adventurous
spirit of the pioneers who settled the west is central to the soul of
America and is valued above most everything else. Change and new ideas is
essential to Americans. It is what their country is based on. Fresh ideas,
whether accepted as true or right by the general public are discussed.
Ultimately the new ways may be ridiculed, scorned, outlawed or viewed as
evil and unfit for the country. B .....
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The Life And Death Of Tupac Amaru Shakur
.... War". If you are from cities like Washington
DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia or Baltimore you are considered
eastcoast. If you are from Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland,
Portland, Compton, Watts, Fresno, Long Beach or Sacramento you are
considered westcoast. Why people talk bad bout each other because of their
preference on where to live will never be defined. Just prejudice acts
among people. Tupac was raised in the city of New York before he had rape
charges again .....
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The Life Of Kurt Vonnegut
.... of the Bulge. On the night of February 13, 1945 exactly
100 American P.O.W.'s and five German soldiers took shelter in a meat
locker while the Royal Air Force joined by U.S bombers attacked and
successfully annihilated the city of Dresden in one of the most vicious air
raids ever. The firestorm left over 130,000 people dead and many more
missing. This event became a major influence in his writing career ("The
Biographies of Kurt Vonnegut" 775).
Vonnegut started writing novels in 1947, when he went t .....
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J.D. Salinger's Personal Life
.... on
the pages to satisfy, what is there is filling enough. He gave the world
one novel and 35 short stories and that's all. He has actively resisted
surrenderring his whole life to public scrutiny, and that is not an easy
thing to do. I refuse to chip away at that shell. Besides, who cares about
his old loves and trips to Europe and family problems and all? That's what
fiction is for, after all!
So, some ask, why do I reveal the 22 "missing" stories and the titles of so
many others? I do it because that IS .....
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The Life Of The Great William Shakespeare
.... son, William Shakespeare was born in 1564, and they baptized him
in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
The Shakespeare family was not rich and therefore could not afford
to send their children to a "private school," and it is commonly accepted
that the children attended Stratford's Grammar School.
"William's education consisted of mostly Latin studies
(learning to read, write, and speak the language almost
fluently), and the study of some of the classic h .....
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The Works And Life Of Charles Dickens
.... reader may have to this situation is that
of a warm and understanding feeling. The joy and bliss of the main
character is rarely showed; the main attitude is the overwhelming
complexity of situations that a boy of that age must face. The reader's
reaction to this may be to feel depressed because Dickens' has not showed
more blissful times in the lives of his main characters. In the ending,
however, Dickens' always seems to leave the reader with a warm feeling
since the last scenes are usually happy. .....
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Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)
.... his ideas and version of the second law of thermodynamics as well as
James Joule’s idea of the mechanical equivalent of heat. This idea claimed that
heat and motion were combined, which now is taken as second nature. At the time,
heat was thought to have been a fluid of some kind.
Kelvin also maintained an interest in the age of the sun and calculated values
for it. He assumed that the sun produced its radiant energy from the
gravitational potential of matter falling into the sun. In collaboratio .....
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A Portrait Of Duke Ellington By Tracy Frech
.... more interested
in painting and the arts. For a few years he painted public posters. Duke
then decided to put together his own band.
At this point in his life things started to change for the better for Duke,
but not for long. In those days, this new music was just beginning to develop and
would later be given the name of jazz. In that time it was considered to be low
and vulgar because it was music that grew directly out of the Black culture. In
those early years, segregation was at one of its .....
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Martin Luther: A Biography Of Martin Luther (1483- 1546)
.... began to preach the doctrine of
salvation by faith rather than works; and on 31 October 1517 drew up a
list of 95 theses on indulgences denying the pope any right to forgive
sins, and nailed them on the church door at Wittenberg. Tetzel retreated
from Saxony to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, where he published a set of counter-
theses and burnt Luther's. The Wittenberg students retaliated by burning
Tetzel's, and in 1518 Luther was joined in his views by Melanchthon.
The pope, Leo X, at first took little notic .....
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Thomas Paine: Propaganda And Persuasion
.... for freedom
in the reader in one of his works, The Crisis. One type of propaganda used
was over generalization. His use of broad generalities was demonstrated
when he concluded, “Not a man lives on the continent, but fully believes
that a separation must sometime or other finally take place...” A second
type of propaganda used was either/or fallacy. Paine had the sentiment
that a man either fought for freedom or would always be known as a coward
when he stated, “The heart that feels not now is dead; .....
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Henry David Thoreau Was A Rebel
.... independence, Thoreau went to Walden pond to proclaim
his own independence (Literary 397). If the people of Concord had been
swept up by the speed of technology and the lure of money and property,
Henry would separate himself from these attractive deceptions and seek out
the reality of nature's truths, and "not, when I came to die, discover that
I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so
dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite
necessary" (Krutch 172 .....
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