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- 1281: Napoleon 5
- ... born in France, he was patriotic leader of France and all his reforms were aimed to help France even if it went against his own beliefs, all he wanted was for France to be a great power in Europe. The establishment of his status as emperor helped him accomplish all his goals of making a France great nation. Ultimately all his efforts in making France a great nation were accomplished and he managed to give a France an empire because of his ambitions and military genius. His ambitions to make France a great nation came with a price and they ultimately ...
- 1282: Visions Of The Future
- ... The Scientific Revolution shaped the modern world by introducing mathematical and scientific theories. The formation of the empirical method , reason, and the laws of nature such as mathematical formulas, brought about more sense of thinking. Great thinkers and mathematicians such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, etc., are just of the few who expanded ideas. They began to use the inductive method as a step-by-step to their understandings. The new outlook generated by the Scientific Revolution served as the foundation of the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution gave thinkers great confidence in the power of the mind , which had discovered nature’s laws, reinforcing the confidence in human abilities expressed by Renaissance humanists. In time it was believed, the scientific method would unlock all nature’s secrets, and humanity, gaining ever greater knowledge and control of nature, would progress rapidly. Science and Technology has driven things in the 20th century. Technological and Scientific contribution to the world have made great advantages. Due to science and technology people learned how to replace their work by machines. In this process many of those machines enabled humans to produce faster, more efficiently and in larger amounts. Science ...
- 1283: Robert E. Lee
- Robert E. Lee Introduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the ... immediately for pardon and restoration to citizenship, feeling that this example might lead other Confederates to do the same. He tried every way to heal the breach between the North and the South. Positions of great honor and remuneration were offered to Lee, both in his own country and abroad, but he had no desire to enter into politically controversial activities. In the Summer of 1865 he was offered the Presidency ... bigger and wealthier places. Lee, on the other hand, saw far beyond the title and looked on this as an opportunity to help rebuild the South by educating it's youth. Lee truly felt his great purpose in life was to help make a united country and to this end he set about to educate Southern youth into a renewed spirit of loyalty. Lee accepted the post and headed for ...
- 1284: Hurricane Floyd
- ... casualties is endless, as well as the widespread destruction that takes millions of dollars to repair. Even if the hurricane doesn t cause a lot of damage, the storm surge will. Storm surge is the great tidal waves that crash into our coasts and make huge floods that are caused by hurricanes. Hurricanes are extremely large area s of low pressure that are over the ocean in either the North Atlantic ... the ocean. Easterly waves, what hurricanes develop from, are long, narrow regions of low pressure which occur in ocean winds called trade winds. At first, these easterly waves can grow into something called, a tropical depression. A tropical depression occurs when winds are up to 31 mph. Then tropical depressions can be upgraded into a tropical storm if the winds reach speeds of 74 mph or less. Then finally a the storm can ...
- 1285: Jonathon Swift
- In Jonathan Swift’s essay, "A Modest Proposal", Swift proposes that the poor should eat their own starving children during a great a famine in Ireland. What would draw Swift into writing to such lengths. When times get hard in Ireland, Swift states that the children would make great meals. The key factor to Swift’s essay that the reader must see that Swift is not literally ordering the poor to cannibalize. Swift acknowledges the fact of the scarcity of food and empathizes with ... or even more blame on Ireland’s food problems than the poor ever have. Swift intelligently uses his common sense logic in a strange way to convey his feelings about this predicament. Swift goes to great lengths to intelligently show these feelings. The ways at which Swift camouflages his ideas and thoughts throughout this essay brought many readers at the time to think that he actually wanted Ireland to revert ...
- 1286: Charles Dickens
- ... This report will talk about the life of a famous author, Charles Dickens. It will tell you about his early, middle, and later years of his life. It will also talk about one of his great works of literature. In conclusion, this report will show a comparison of his work to his life. EARLY LIFE Charles Dickens was born at Landport, in Portsea, on February 7, 1812. His father was a ... a loan society to enable the poor to prove to Australia. 11 Then about 1865 his health started to decline and he died of a stroke on June 9, 1870. 12 Conclusion His work of Great Expectation is very related with his life. It deals with the same problems he faced when he lost Catherine and how his life was before he became rich and famous. He also created scenes and descriptions of places that have longed delighted readers. Dickens was a keen observer of life and had a great understanding of humanity, especially of young people. The warmth and humor of his personality appeared in all of his works. Perhaps in no other large body of fiction does the reader receive so strong ...
- 1287: The True American Cowboy
- ... American society, there was no movement given more devotion than the settling of the West. The range-cattle industry in its various aspects, and in its importance to the United States and particularly to the Great Plains, has been a subject of focus to Americans since its origin in the mid 1800's. This industry was rendered possible by such factors as vast sections of fertile land, the rise of heavy industry involving the great demand for beef, and projected commercial tributaries, such as railroad lines across the frontier. The West was turning toward the future - A future that held industrial promises of high monetary rewards as well as a ... shows have created an imagery of these "men of the west" or "cowboys" that is extremely inaccurate. American society has come to regard these settlers as the purest and noblest Anglo-Saxons. In reality, a great portion of the work contributed towards the settling of the western frontier was performed by minorities, largely consisting of African Americans. Kenneth W. Porter has devoted his life to researching the truths about African- ...
- 1288: Pros And Cons Of Abortion
- ... And Cons Of Abortion At first when I was given the option to choose a topic to research on social justice I picked endangered animals. I found that that topic really was not such a great topic for social justice, at least not in my point of view from the things I learned. So I decided that abortion rights would be a more powerful social justice topic. In this paper I ... if she does not want to because it may lead to further complications for the victim and child. By further complications I mean mentally, physically, and emotionally. Many victims often go through long periods of depression when they are forced to keep the child because it often stirs unwanted memories. This is why abortion should be allowed or legal for those unfortunate few who have no other choice but to have an abortion or live with this great burden. Abortion on the other hand should not be legal for all. When a person chooses to have sex she is taking a chance. This she does of her own free will, and she ...
- 1289: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... religious sects. Gandhi meant not only technical self-government but also self-reliance. After World War I, in which he played an active part in recruiting campaigns, he launched his movement of passive resistance to Great Britain. When the Britain government failed to make amends, Gandhi established an organized campaign of noncooperation. Through India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who refused to rise even when beaten by the police. He ... he wore the loincloth and shawl of the lowliest Indian and lived on vegetables, fruit juices, and goat's milk. Indians thought of him as a saint and began to call him Mahatma. Mahatma meant great soul, a title reserved for the greatest leaders. Gandhi's nonviolence was the expression of a way of life understood in the Hindu religion. By the Indian practice of nonviolence, Gandhi said, Great Britain would eventually consider violence useless and would leave India. The Mahatma's political and spiritual hold on India was so great that the British authorities dared not to interfere with him. In 1921 ...
- 1290: Ramses
- Ramses the Great In the Egyptian pyramids of Giza, Ramses the Great ruled as the greatest pharaoh of all times. Ramses the Great, also known as Ramses II, was born in 1304 B.C., and was given the name the Justice of Ray is Powerful. He had the knowledge of the kingdom, and became the focus of ...
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