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- 5151: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... lack of his everyday responsibilities. At the age of twenty-three, Vincents mental state began to deteriorate. He developed a strong sense of religious devotion and took an unpaid position at a small boarding school in Ramsgate, England. In 1880 Van Gogh started to focus on art as a career and not just a hobby. After a brief stay at the University of Amsterdam studying theology, Vincent chose art as ...
- 5152: Utopian Communes
- ... of a success. The Amana had thier whole social class set up eliminating the need for conflict. The land and buildings were owned by the community; families were assigned living quartyers, and each person over school age worked at assigned tasks in the kitchens, fields, factories ro shops. This proves to me that every member of the commune totally excepted their way of life and basically lived by it. If I ...
- 5153: Which Computer Is The Fastest
- ... has cornered the market in education, and remains number one in this U.S. market. Apple Macintosh computers account for 60% of the 5.9 million machines in U.S. schools for the 1995-96 school year. Only 29% of schools use the Microsoft/Intel platform, and DOS only accounts for a measly 11%. Also it was reported that 18.4% of 4 year college students own the Macintosh. 55% of ...
- 5154: Richard Nixon
- ... Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States and the only president to have resigned from office. He was on his was to success after receiving his law degree from Duke University Law School in 1937. California Republicans persuaded Nixon in 1946 to be their candidate to challenge Jerry Voorhis, the popular Democratic Congressman, for his seat in the United States House of Representatives. He accuses Voorhis of being ...
- 5155: Puritanism
- ... theories to explain the "fits" of the young girls who accused so many of practicing witchcraft. Among the theories are adolescent hysteria and ergot poisoning. For further reading, visit: http://vader.castles.com/arowyn/Puritans/School http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html Word Count: 830
- 5156: John L Lewis
- ... 1880's and the 1890's their family lived in a company owned shanty with an outdoor privy. Whet John was in his teens they moved to Des Moines. That is where John attended high school, completing almost all of his four years of schooling. Family ties were strong, even though he did not approve of his mothers religion he did obey her when it came to sexuality and alcohol usage ...
- 5157: Karl Marx
- ... my struggle for existence. Throughout this paper, I will expand on why this short story, has to do with a man by the name of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was a failed medical school student, who finally received his B.A. degree in Biology. His schooling was finished up at Cambridge. If anyone is at all familiar with Darwin, they know his beliefs are pretty much the exact opposite ...
- 5158: Watergate Scandal
- ... Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and announced the dismissal of Dean U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned as well. The new attorney general, Elliot Richardson, appointed a special prosecutor, Harvard Law School profesor Archibald Cox, to conduct a full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in. In May of 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings, with Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina as ...
- 5159: Frederick Douglass
- ... Auld was among them. Soon Douglass was accused of emulating Nat Turner and cautioned him that if he did not change he too would be killed. Despite the warning, several years later he taught another school which he thoroughly enjoyed. He believed education was the key to their emancipation. At sixteen his repeated insolence caused Frederick to be hired out to Edward Covey, known collectively as "the Negro Breaker." This marked ...
- 5160: The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion
- ... part, a rush of American farmers who wanted to take part in free and cheap land in areas that were well watered. A third factor was the sale of land by states at attractive prices. School lands, university lands, and other state lands were put on the market in competition with homesteads. The chief factor, however, in this swift Westward colonization was the railroad companies. All of them were eager to ...
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