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- 6271: Mark Twain
- ... Mark Twain" at all. That was only his pen name. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Samuel was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835. He accomplished worldwide fame during his lifetime for being a great author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death on April 21, 1910, his great literary reputation has further increased. Many writers such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have declared his work-especially Huckleberry Finn- a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri ...
- 6272: Karl Marx
- ... of the communist government. They were afraid the workers in their own countries might be inspired to imitate the example of Rus Trotsky, a highly intelligent and energetic communist leader, led the defence Russia with great success. After Lenin's death in 1924, a power struggle began between Trotsky and a leader within the Communist Party named Stalin. While Trotsky was a brilliant intellectual and an idealist, Stalin was a simpler ... remained in power. H often used the most brutal tactics. Chief among his creations were two highly effective political weapons - an efficient propaganda machine which more and m promoted the idea of Stalin as a great, nearly god-like leader, and a secret p force which kept the country quiet through the use of terror. At one point during his rule, he organized 'Show Trials' in which many of the people ...
- 6273: John Adams
- ... Adams contemptuously began referring to Hamilton as his puppyhood (DeCarolis, 1995). This created a rift in the administration, for Washington generally favored Hamiliton (Smelser & Gundersen, 1975), and disregarded Adams (Ferling, 1992). Hamilton also went to great lengths to drive Jefferson out of the cabinet (Allison, 1966). Jefferson did finally, indeed, resign from the cabinet. The Federalists party, of which Hamiliton was the leader (DeCarolis, 1995) was greatly divided and even violent ... and uncertain, both at home and abroad. Hamilton made bitter attacks on Adams policies (Elser, 1993). The fiscal situation was desolate. The national debt and the threat of what appeared to be inescapable war caused great stress, opposition, and even occasional violence (Onuf, 1993). Matters only became worse. The Federalist Congress created a provisional army which, though needed, added to the financial strain. Congress then passed three major oppressive measures all ...
- 6274: Golda Meir
- Golda Meir The state of Israel, established on May 14, 1948, had many great leaders that helped it to become a state. One of them was Golda Meir. Golda Meir was one of the most energetic and hardworking women in the world. Without her help, it is possible that ... While reading this book, I could not find any subjects that I even partially objected to. I think that the authors of this book did an excellent job in writing it. This book goes into great detail in describing the early life of Golda Mabovich. In my opinion, this book didn't have any faults because I have never before spent any time studying Golda Meir in my life. The author ...
- 6275: George Washington
- ... whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in a few points indifferent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance." In Williamsburg, when it was the seat of Virginia's government, Washington secured his first military commissions ... to Congress, "We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Jefferson wrote: "His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong . . . and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention of imagination ...
- 6276: Emily Jane Bronte
- ... led an ordinary life of a nineteenth century female. She attended boarding school and learned domestic skills at home. In other ways her life was unusual and even eccentric, contributing to the originality of her great novel. Emily Jane Bront was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire. She was the fifth child and fourth daughter of Reverend Patrick Bront and Maria Branwell Bront . When she was two years old ... He was only thirty years of age. Emily caught a cold at his funeral and never left home again. She died on December 19, 1848 at the age of thirty. She never knew of the great success of her one and only novel, Wuthering Heights.
- 6277: Bede the Venerable
- ... Ecclesiastical History of the English People served as an example for future historians. When the Saxon Chronicles were compiled their authors mirrored the writing style of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Alfred the Great's translation, and also others relied on Bede. Bede started the system of the regnal numbering(numbers after the kings name) others soon copied, and now the practice is used worldwide. Bede is also the ... work Paradiso. On his deathbed Bede was rushing to complete his last work and as he died he said the final sentence. That is a true example of dedication to ones work. Bede was a great example of self dedication and duty and is now the Patron Saint of Scholars in the Roman Catholic Church.
- 6278: J.D.Salinger
- ... needed, what is missed, is a larger, closer family. It was after graduating from Valley Forge that Salinger wrote some of his first works. Salinger was deeply emotionalize by World war two. This had a great deal to do with his first writings. "Many of Salingers early stories do not deal directly with the war... but a war atmosphere permeates them - and it is not one of patriotism nor is it ... of the war. His early stories generally portray characters who feel estranged and marooned because of WWII."(De Luca, Geraldine p.518) Salingers greatest writing was "The Catcher in the Rye". This book was a great achievement that first drew and overwhelming amount of attention to him and his work. It is shown that different generations look at the book differently and have very different perspectives of the main character, Holden ...
- 6279: The Kosovo Conflict
- ... justification, marked with the obvious plan of the extermination and exile of the Serbs from the entire Old Serbia. During the 1850s and the 1860s, the genocide against the Serbian people was confirmed by a great number of documents, of grievances to the Turkish administration against the crimes of the Albanians and in the reports of the European consuls (Bitolj, Skoplje, Prizren, Prishtina). Our group believes that kosovo should have a ... world powers, they could change all of Yugoslavia and all the countries around them. There would finally be peace in that area of Europe. A presidential form of government would probably after a while, work great in kosovo. It might help the Serbs and the Albanians unite and be peaceful with each other. Then again it could also make things worse. The majority wins in a Democracy. Who ever have the ...
- 6280: Life and Times in the Middle Ages
- ... Pendragon and Ygraine of Cornwall. He was the king of the Britons who fought against the Anglo- Saxons. In many legends he was kept away from the kingdom during his childhood. He gathered some really great knights in his court. Problems of precedence were avoided by using the round table at meetings. King Arthur has a big influence on literature, art, music, and society from the Middle Ages to the present ... was baptized early on in his life to get rid of all the evil in his nature. He still had his powers. That is to be one of the reasons why Merlin was such a great man to King Arthur and many others. Chivalry is a set of duties and ideals that people had to follow in the Middle Ages. The main image that people get from chivalry is defending the ...
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