The Writings Of Pat Conroy
.... for the school magazine (Disc. Auth. 1). He also became
captain and MVP of the basketball team (Bdd 1). While he was attending the
Citadel, he learned many important lessons of life (Burns 5).
Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending
college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a
relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Nugent Courvoise, Assistant
Commandant of Cadets, nicknamed Boo (Burns 1). It was a kind account of
the Citadel (Dis .....
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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"
.... of pamphlets called the American Crisis where he persuaded
people not to give up their fight. As best stated in the American Crisis,
...God Almighty will not give up
a people to military destruction, or leave them
unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and
so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war,
by every decent method which wisdom could
invent.
Here Paine is persuad .....
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The Life Of Helen Keller
.... temper that could not be controlled by anyone. She would
throw outrageous tantrums because she could not communicate with others
what she wanted.
Anne would not tolerate any of this. After much trial and error she
taught Helen the one handed alphabet which gave her a way of communication
with the outside world. Helen learned quickly and with great excitement.
Her tantrums ceased and her manners vastly improved. She was a very bright
child and person. Her generosity never ended and her handicap day by da .....
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The Life Of Walt Disney
.... Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father
advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he
determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was
the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Walt Disney .....
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The Ambitions Of Napoleon
.... of
fifteen without a role model and a guide. But Napoleon was a hard worker
and he became self-motivated. After only of one year in the Military School
of Paris he graduated instead of the normal two or three years. Napoleon
was then assigned as a second lieutenant to an artillery regiment.
A year later he returned home for the first time in eight years.
His visit would last two years, leaving him from his regiment in France.
While home in Corsica he wrote a reply to the Corsican aristocrats who had
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Frederick Douglass
.... listeners at the abolitionist meetings.
From 1845 to 1847, Douglas would travel in Great Britain speaking
for the elimination of slavery. While in Britain he expanded his view of
the struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and
eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry,
women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal
peace. In 1846 he wrote to Garrison, "I cannot allow myself to be
insensitive to the wrongs and .....
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Niccolo Machiavelli
.... for six months. After he returned to his country he
was assigned to many important political jobs in Toscana. One of the most
important of these jobs was the one he got on 1502, June and November, when
Valantino tried to separate the unity of Florence with the help of the
rebellions by Arezzo and Valdi. Machiavelli examined the policy by Caesar
Borgia closely and carefully : Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo,
Signore Pagolo and Duke Gravina's killing which is bound with Duke
Valentino's behavior .....
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The Life Of Claude Monet
.... first,
Monet resisted Boudin's offer of tuition but he eventually relaxed his
protestations and before long, the two had forged a relationship that was
to last a lifetime. Although Monet soon left Le Havre to spend a large part
of his life traveling throughout Europe, he returned frequently to visit
his old friend. It was truly a life altering friendship. "My eyes were
finally opened and I understood nature; I learned at the same time to love
it. " -Monet
Boudin may have opened Monet's eyes, he .....
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The Writings Of Cicero
.... of Cicero can be noticed when one inspects his view of the
ideal governing body, which he expresses through Scipio (in the
commonwealth). Although Cicero presents very convincing arguments for a
Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his
belief in the roman structure of government.1 Cicero was limited to roman
borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his
disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. Cicero was
unable to think on th .....
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Babe Ruth
.... little time to tend to young George. His trouble making, and lack
of time on his parents part eventually landed him in St. Mary's Boys school. It
was here that he met the man who Babe claimed to be the greatest man who ever
lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his
punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that
led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started his life of
giving. He would save up his money from his job in the Tai .....
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Napolean
.... death of thousands
of French troops and it inspired patriots and nationalists of other lands
to resist Napoleon. This war between 1808 and 1813 is called The
Peninsular War.
In Germany, anti-French feelings broke out. But the French invasions
carried German nationalism beyond the small ranks of writers. In 1807
writers attacked French occupation of Germany. This nationalistic feeling
spread to the Prussians. In 1806 the Prussians were defeated by the French
troops. To drive the French out of Prussi .....
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Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
.... which he truly believed in, i.e. the Aryan race.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the Austrian town of Braunau am
Inn, the son of Alois, a customs official, and Klara Hitler. He was not a
successful student, and his earlier years are said to have been
characterized by melancholy, aimlessness and racial hatred. It was in
Vienna where he developed what is considered to be a life-long obsession
with the danger that the world Jewery posed to the Aryan race. It was after
Hitler relocated to Munich in .....
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
.... as long as the camera stays lower than the object being shot.
Ozu developed his own tranzition system,he was putting framed shots of the
surroundings between the scenes to tell us that the scene and the setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it should be. One
of the very important style of Ozu is he did not obey to the 180 degree
rule infact he used all the 360 degree space. Ozu orbitted the camera
around the characters and he broke down the 360 degree space into
multiples of 45 .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
.... and studied law in Bombay, but he quickly
denounced it, feeling that it was immoral and could not satisfy one's
conscience. Despite this, he used his schooling to help plead for Indian
settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white population.
His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train in
Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to
begin a movement to help his people.
While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself poor so that he could identi .....
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The Life And Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
.... by John Allan (Perry XI) at the urging of
Mr. Allan's wife. In 1815, John Allan moved his family to England. While
there, Poe was sent to private schools (Asselineau 410).
In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. .....
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