Mao Zedong
.... necessary for keeping records and accounts. He was educated at a primary school and there he learned the basic knowledge of the classics of Confusous. Continuing with his education, he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992).
Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Chinese of his generation he was concerned with how to maintain China’s integrity in a time when the .....
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The Romanovs
.... when the time came. I do not know why but for some reason Russians during that time preferred male as a ruler of the country, even though there were successful female-emperors before. Katherine the Great is one of them.
Russians are very religious people. However, they also have faith in magicians. As a Russian citizen I have to admit that many Russians do believe in these people who supposedly have healing powers and can treat any disease with out surgical invasions. This faith is so strong that it .....
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Antonio Vivaldi
.... his concertos, and his religious music reflects the operatic style of the era. His most famous and younger contemporary, J. S. Bach, studied his works during his formative years, and some of Vivaldi's violin concertos and sonatas exist only as transcriptions, mostly for harpsichord, made by Bach.
Vivaldi's concertos provided a model for this genre throughout Europe, affecting the style even of his older contemporaries. Over 300 of his concertos are solo concertos ( there are 220 for violin, others fo .....
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Harry S. Truman
.... in 1941 when he was appointed chairmen of a special Senate committee that was in charge of investigating the inefficiency and corruption in World War 2 military spending programs. He did his job in that committee so well, he was then thought of very highly throughout the Democratic Party. So much, that he replaced Henry A. Wallace for vice-president in the 1944 presidential election. His running mate, Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as president. They won that election and Harry S. T .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... Poe was adopted 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 .....
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Emile Durkheim
.... or not there are problems in the society in question (Hess, est. Al; 1996; 8). Due to his contribution sociology is today consider part of science.
Durkheim was born ‹pinal, France, he was an outgrowth of a distinguished line of rabbinical scholar (Rothschild; 1999). He graduated from the ‹cole Normale Sup¾rieure in Paris in 1882, then taught law and philosophy. However, in 1887 he began teaching sociology, first at the University of Bordeaux and later at the University of Paris. His knowledge of la .....
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The Apology Of Socrates: A Closer Examination
.... simply accepted these beliefs then you could not call them your own. Yet, if you examined the idea then you would be able to choose for yourself if you believe it or if not be able to reject the idea. (Nussbaum, pg. 16).
Three men brought Socrates to trial: Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon. Together they represented the "old school" that was frightened and angered by Socrates philosophies. At the beginning of the text they have finished with their prosecution and Socrates is beginning his defense.
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Geoffery Chaucer
.... The Reeve tells others in his tale of a miller who "was a thief ... of corn and meal, and sly at that; his habit was to steal" (Chaucer 125). The summoner in "The Friar's Tale" "drew large profits to himself thereby," and as the devil observes of him in this tale, "You're out for wealth, acquired no matter how" (Chaucer 312, 315). The miller is not shown as badly in "The Reeve's Tale" as the others, however; his trickery against the clerk is repaid when the clerk sleeps with his wife and daughter. In .....
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
.... loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some reality and scientific truth within his writing. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher the main character suffers from a strange mental disorder that was actually a real proven case. No matter how much the critics lash .....
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Alphonse Capone
.... for me to get my start". (Pg. 26)
Al and his family moved to another Italian neighborhood in 1907. When Al was in the 6th grade, he got in trouble with his teacher, so she reproved him and he struck her for it. After this incident he quit school, never to return. He worked at many places such as a clerk in a candy store, a pinball setter in a bowling alley, then as a paper and cloth cutter. For a while Capone worked for Yale's Saloon as a bouncer, but only after making a rude comment to a woman .....
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Ignatius Of Antioch
.... wheat of God. I must be ground by the teeth of wild beasts to become the pure bread of Christ."
In these words, Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, pleaded with his influential friends in Rome not to interfere with his impending martyrdom. Thus on December 20 in the year 107, Ignatius was escorted from the Roman galley that had taken nine years to deliver its prisoner from Antioch to Rome and was brought to the Flavian Amphitheater, the Coliseum, where at the conclusion of the Roman festival he was .....
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Hammurabi’s Code
.... knew what they must due when accusing a criminal. (We know what we must do on Saturday to Woodstock, don’t we?) Hammurabi created a set of moral codes that was to be copied and used by other civilizations.
The Codes of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. Hammurabi just beli .....
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Jimi Hendrix
.... accepted his diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in “If 6 was 9” on Axis: Bold As Love when he said “I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, King Curtis, Joey Dee .....
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Joan Of Arc As A Leader
.... U.S. history. Lincoln helped end slavery in the nation and helped keep the American Union from splitting apart during the war. (Rolka,1994,213)
An excellent example of bad leadership would be the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq and Iran were at war from 1980 to 1988 the battle ended on an agreement of a cease-fire between the two nations. This war is where Saddam was recognized for his ruthless actions, he used chemical weapons against the Kurdish people of Iraq, who were mearly wanting their righ .....
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John The Baptist
.... the Nazarite vow, which was an ancient vow dating back to the days of the children of Israel (37). The vow was a promise of separation from the common people in order that the calling of God would become clear. Specifically, the Nazarite vow states that they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink, must not drink vinegar, or grape juice, or eat grapes or raisins. A Nazarite must not touch anything from the grapevine, or cut his hair or go near a dead body (Numbers 6:1-12 NIV). This vow expla .....
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