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- 6901: Hammurabi
- ... 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 believed that the punishment should fit the crime and that the strong should not dominate ...
- 6902: Henry Carey
- ... books. These views are the reasoning behind them will be discussed in the following. Carey=s Four Major Theories and Views 1) Permanent Protectionism Inconsistencies have been apparent in Carey=s philosophies. In his early writing, earlier in his life Carey supported a more classical economic approach advocating free trade and the doctrines of Adam Smith. By 1845, however, he became an ardent protectionist. His writings reflected the protectionist and nationalist ...
- 6903: Herbert Spencer
- ... rather than to a single master. In his third essay, "The Sins of Legislators," Spencer rejects the spread of government activity in social and economic areas. Progress is the result of the desire to increase personal welfare, and not the product of governmental regulation: "It is not the state that owe the multitudinous useful inventions from the spade to the telephone; it was not the state which made the discoveries in ...
- 6904: Howard Hughes
- ... as colleague, amongst pilots, a gritty legend and to Hollywood, a film genius. In addition to his many achievements, Hughes was known to his friends and his acquaintances as a person of bizarre habits and personal tics. There were numerous causes for Hughess increasingly strange behavior. From an early age he was quite deaf and could not hear conversations around him, yet he told few people of his disability. He ...
- 6905: Ida B. Wells
- ... was an important figure in Black American History. She was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862. Wells was able to gain an education and, later, became a journalist for various Negro papers. Through her writing, she was able to attack issues dealing with discrimination against African-American people. Ida B. Wells became an international activist for African-American rights when she informed the English people about lynching in America. She ...
- 6906: Igor Stravinsky
- ... some important changes happened in his music. He abandoned the Russian features of his earlier style and the adapted to a neoclassical expression. Shortly after the war, Stravinsky's and Diaghilev were reunited. He started writing for ballets again, but in 1929, Diaghilev died, and his ballet company folded. However, Stravinsky's composition of ballet scores did not come to an end with Diaghilev's death. In the late 1920s, a ...
- 6907: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... arrest was a Congress policy, a way of protesting to the British Raj. and Indiras nine months in jail marked for her political coming of age. Some leaders used their time in prison for writing and for reflecting on the course of political events. Feroze, who had been in jail also, was released a while later, and the couple settled down to married life. They took a small house in ...
- 6908: Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov is a very talented writer. Isaac focuses on the intensity of his novels and short stories. Suspense is one of the things he focuses on when writing short stories such as "Marooned off Vesta." "Marooned off Vesta is a story of triumph and intelligence. This story shows what can happen if you put your mind to it"(Corke). Isaac Asimov, of Jewish ...
- 6909: Isadora Duncan
- ... though she knew they would not all become professional dancers, she felt that a feeling of rhythm and freedom of movement were important for one to have. She was the first to ever express her personal emotions in her public dancing. She always wore revealing clothes, often whatever she could find around her house. If you ever see a young child on a stage twirling and leaping to the words of ...
- 6910: J.P. Morgan
- ... in time of need, although profitable for himself, was a necessary act and was vital at the time for the continuance of a strong economy. Pierpont built America with more in mind than that of personal financial gain. His inspiring industrial genius shadowed whatever greedy impulses he acted on. A critic of Morgan said after his death, "Never again will conditions of government make it possible for any financier to bestride ...
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