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- 2581: Joseph Stalin
- ... Stalin is seen as one of the most contriversal leaders in world history. Between 1928 and 1941 he transformed the Soviet Union into a modern superpower. His rule is characterized by collectivized agriculture, rapid industrialization, great purges and the extermination of opposition. He was a very effecive leader as an industrial leader. Stalin can be seen as a great industrial leader for the Soviet Union but as a terrible leader for the people. He held the title of a totalitarian leader beause he had all or total power. He disrupted the Soviet Unions ... these words, To slow down would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind are beaten. But we do not want to be beaten! Stalin gives the idea that his way of economy would be great for Russia. At the beginning of the first Five Year Plan, Stalin set high goals for the industry, almost doubling the amount of production.Accordin to Joseph Stalin agricultural production can only be increased ...
- 2582: Pythagoras
- ... he was a disciple of Anaximander, his astronomy was the natural development of Anaximander's. Also, the way in which the Pythagorean geometry developed also bears witness to its descent from that of Miletos. The great problem at this date was the duplication of the square, a problem which gave rise to the theorem of the square on the hypotenuse, commonly known still as the Pythagorean proposition (Euclid, I. 47). If ... Empedocles seems to be referring to him when he speaks of a man who could remember what happened ten or twenty generations before. It was on this that the doctrine of Recollection, which plays so great a part in Plato, was based. The things we perceive with the senses, Plato argues, remind us of things we knew when the soul was out of the body and could perceive reality directly. There ... inhaling 'air' form the boundless mass outside it, and this 'air' is identified with 'the unlimited'. When, however, we come to the process by which things are developed out of the 'unlimited', we observe a great change. We hear nothing more of 'separating out' or even of rarefaction and condensation. Instead of that we have the theory that what gives form to the Unlimited is the Limit. That is the ...
- 2583: Caesar
- ... politician and a brilliant general. He also gained the respect as a good leader and was appointed dictator of Rome. Caesar helped Rome and the present day world become what it is today by his great leadership qualities. Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC. Legend has it that Caesar was born threw an incision in his mothers stomach, that is how the term Caesarean Section originated (Isenberg, pg 11 ... BC., Julia married Pompey. Strain encouraged by Crassus, developed between Caesar and Pompey. The "Triumvirate" was renegotiated in 56 BC., but the death of Julia in 54 BC. and Crassus in 53 BC. and the great success of Caesar in Gaul eventually destroyed Caesars relationship with Pompey. On January 10, 49 BC., Caesar crossed the Italy border which started civil war. Caesars stronger army defeated Pompeys army and forced Pompey to ... Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus stabbed Caesar to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompeys theater. After Caesars death, his adopted son Octavian took his place as dictator. Besides being a great leader, he was also an accomplished orator and writer. His two surviving works On the Gallic War and On the Civil War introduced personal war commentaries into our literature. To sum things up, Gaius ...
- 2584: Challenges Of 21st Century
- ... be educated so that they expand their horizon of knowledge, wisdom, attitudes and become real human beings of superior qualities. Considering our present literacy rate of and our budget allocation only this indeed is a great challenge for the next mellinnium. Providing education is not enough; we need to create enough opportunities for our people to use their talents. Considering our unemployment rate of we have to go a long way ... the younger generation and they prefer to totally detach from politics. This is not a desirable tendency for the future of the nation. We need talents in future politics of our country. It is a great challenge to cleanse politics off corruption and restructure it for the next millennium. We have already crossed 1 billion mark of our population. This rate of growth of our population poses great challenge for the next millennium where resources will be scarce. We need to enhance our efforts considerably to control this explosive growth of population. The easiest way to destroy a country is , perhaps, to ...
- 2585: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... Hawthorne, to whom he dedicated his masterpiece Moby-Dick; or The White Whale (1851). The central theme of the novel is the conflict between Captain Ahab, master of the whaler Pequod, and Moby-Dick, a great white whale that once tore off one of Ahab's legs at the knee. Ahab is dedicated to revenge; he drives himself and his crew, which includes Ishmael, narrator of the story, over the seas in a desperate search for his enemy. The body of the book is written in a wholly original, powerful narrative style, which, in certain sections of the work, Melville varied with great success. The most impressive of these sections are the rhetorically magnificent sermon delivered before sailing and the soliloquies of the mates; lengthy flats, passages conveying nonnarrative material, usually of a technical nature, such as the ... which drives the passions of revenge in one man and forces him to pursue a course of action which leads ultimately to his death as well as the deaths of his companions. There is a great deal of imagination involved in these stories and the creativity is highly apparent. There is an expression of belief in the supernatural, as the author strives to create the image of a humongous beast ...
- 2586: Coca-Cola and its Evolution
- ... pages). Candler achieved a lot during his time as owner of the company. On January 31, 1893, the famous Coca-Cola formula was patented. He also opened the first syrup manufacturing plant in 1884. His great achievement was large scale bottling of Coca-Cola in 1899. In 1915, The Root Glass Company made the contour bottle for the Coca-Cola company. Candler aggressively advertised Coca-Cola in newspapers and on billboards ... better. Roger Enrico, the president and CEO of Pepsi-Cola wrote a letter to every major newspaper in the U.S. to declare the victory, the letter read like this(Oliver 128): It gives me great pleasure to offer each of you my heartiest congratulations. After eighty-seven years of going at it eyeball to eyeball, the other guy just blinked. Coca-Cola is withdrawing their product from the marketplace, and ... the old Coke was known as the Second Coming. Roberto Goizueta said, "Today, we have two messages to deliver to the American consumer, first, to those of you who are drinking Coca-Cola with its great new taste, our thanks...But there is a second group of consumers to whom we want to speak to today and our message to this group is simple: We have heard you"(Oliver 178). ...
- 2587: Ivan the Terrible
- ... 17. In December of 1546, Ivan made an announcement in the presence of the Metropolitan Makari and the Boyars. He said, "By the mercy of God and his pure Mother, by the intercession of the great miracle workers Petr, Sergei, and other Russian wonder workers in whom I put my trust, and with your blessing, Holy Father, I herewith announce my intention of taking a wife. I had first considered marriage ... five weeks, and each session ended with Ivan going to church. The total killed in the Novgorod massacre: 60,000. At the end, Ivan encouraged his men to burn and pillage the countryside. This once great city never recovered. When Ivan returned to Moscow, he conducted "The Great Festival of Blood", in which so-called traitors were murdered. One of the many forms of torture that Ivan the Terrible used was boiling people to death in a large pot. Tens of thousands ...
- 2588: Twain
- ... river or traveling proved to be enjoyable to a global audience. Although Twain had at first been considered merely an amusing professional funny man, during his last years he was placed by many among the great fiction writers, (Wister xxvi). Yale and Oxford gave him honorary degrees and leading 3 critics, William Dean Howells for one, hailed him as a genius. Twain used to joke about his books being called classics ... he died just as a sunset of a beautiful spring day was taking place on April 21, 1909. His death was as peaceful as falling asleep.(Paine xiv) Twain was a man who had a great sense of humor and a great love for life. He was commonly heard saying, ³Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.² It was this humor that made the world fall in love ...
- 2589: Baja Taco
- ... They are the largest Mexican fast food restaurant chain in America. Taco Bell does not consider itself to be fast food, they consider themselves to be quick-serve Mexican style restaurants. Taco Bell focuses a great amount of their marketing strategies towards the younger age group. They are usually marketing their products around blockbuster movies or popular action figures, and will usually offer some sort of marketing token with many of ... quality food product line, catering to the healthier eating conscious clientele. Baja Fresh restaurants do not have refrigerator freezers, microwave ovens, and can openers or use lard on any of their products. They place a great amount of their emphasis on freshness and healthier great tasting food. Baja Fresh provides an experience at their restaurants. Experiencing a Baja Fresh will tease the senses as soon as you walk through the door. Visually, the dιcor is open, bright and white ...
- 2590: The War in Vietnam
- ... Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. This apprehension, an overestimation ... of having lost Vietnam. On the other hand, an expansion of U.S. responsibility for the war against the Vietcong and North Vietnam would divert resources from Johnson's ambitious and expensive domestic program, the Great Society. A larger in Vietnam also raised the risk of a military clash with China. Using as a provocation alleged North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. Navy vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin in August ... Johnson win the November election, but they did not dissuade the Vietcong from its relentless pressure against the Saigon government. By July 1965, Johnson faced the choice of being the first president to lose a great war or of converting the Vietnamese War into a massive, U.S. directed military effort. He chose a middle course that vastly escalated U.S. involvement but that stopped short of an all-out ...
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