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- 3681: Samuel Clemens
- ... is better known as Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American Literature. Twain was born in Florida Missouri, in 1835, To John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton. As a new born Twain already had moved four times westward. In 1839 the family moved again, this time eastward to Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal was a frontier town of less ...
- 3682: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... medieval king, Arthur, of the Round Table. Doyle was also named after his granduncle, Michael Edward Conan. He was a descendant of the Irish, and was of the Roman Catholic religion. Doyle had a grandfather, John Doyle. He was political cartoonist, who, financially supported the family.1 Doyle had a pretty rough home life because his father was an alcoholic. As he grew up, Doyle had to take more of the ...
- 3683: Nature vs. Nurture
- ... of the heredity environment controversy can be easily traced as far back as the start of the present century with at least some historical evidence placing the roots of this dispute in the time of John Locke. This controversy has continued despite continual reiteration that the critical question is not how much of a trait is due to heredity and how much is due to environment, but rather how environment transact ...
- 3684: Teddy Bear
- ... spectacurlarly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the northwest. During Roosevelt's presidency, the government filed suits against 43 other corporations. In major cases, the government ended John D. Rockerfeller's oil trust and James B. Duke's tobacco trust. Roosevelt steered the united States more actively into world politics. He liked to quote a favorite proverb , "Speak softly and carry a big ...
- 3685: The Life Of George Washington
- ... term as President, but he declined. Washington carefully planned a farewell speech to mark the end of his presidency, and issued his farewell speech on September 7, 1796. He was succeeded by his vice-president, John Adams the following March 4. He then retired to Mount Vernon, where he died two years later on December 14, 1799 at the age of 67. George Washington remains one of the most important figures ...
- 3686: Consciousness, the Self, and Personality Theory: A Critical Survey of Theories of Philosophical Arguments and Modern Psychological Personality Theories
- ... concepts whose application within experience is presupposed by the very possibility of experience" (Olgilvy 144). It is the judgments that must conform to self-consciousness. There is room within experience for the thought of experience. John Locke's view includes a more temporal idea. The idea that "the sameness of a rational beening
- 3687: Thomas_Jefferson
- ... nation's economy for a generation, and alienated New England, which lived by foreign trade. Retirement After leaving office he retired to Monticello where he lived until his death on July 4, 1826, corresponding with John Adams about the great issues of revolution and constitutinalism, trying to preserve his declinig estate for his daughters instead of his creditors, and brooding aver the baneful effects of slavery. He was unwilling, for financial ...
- 3688: Tiger Woods
- ... too made mistakes and was just like everybody else.The author of the book definitely knows a lot about Tiger. He got a lot of information for the book directly from Kultida and Earl Woods. John Strege wanted others to get to know Tiger. He wrote this book to show how Tiger got to be where he is now. The book starts off with how Tiger got the name Tiger. It ...
- 3689: Young Goodman Brown: The Power of Darkness
- ... between the theological and marital ironies of his title ‘Goodman Brown’.” (72) “Hawthorne has an ancestral connection with the Salem witchcraft. William Hathorne had been active in the persecution of the Quakers, so his son John was active in the pursuit of the witches.” (Doubleday, p.201) Perhaps Hawthorne also had a sense of guilt that his forefathers had participated in such injustice of other human beings. Hawthorne’s Puritan background ...
- 3690: Voltaire
- ... Voltaire insulted a powerful young nobleman and was given two options: imprisonment or exile. He chose exile and from 1726 to 1729 lived in England. While in England Voltaire was attracted to the philosophy of John Locke and ideas of the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton. After his return to Paris he wrote a book praising English customs and institutions. The book was thought to criticize the French government and Voltaire ...
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