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- 6241: The Apology Of Socrates: A Closer Examination
- ... to choose for yourself if you believe it or if not be able to reject the idea. (Nussbaum, pg. 16). Three men brought Socrates to trial: Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon. Together they represented the "old school" that was frightened and angered by Socrates philosophies. At the beginning of the text they have finished with their prosecution and Socrates is beginning his defense. The first step Socrates takes is to prove quite ...
- 6242: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried, continued in not providing Poe with enough money. Poe decided to have himself kicked out of school. Cutting classes and disregarding orders were his solutions. He was court-martialed for neglect of duties in January, 1831, and left West Point the following month (Asselineau 411). "Poe was great in three different fields ...
- 6243: The Romanovs
- ... when republics of Soviet Union became separated from Russia and USSR no longer existed, communistic ideas were forgotten and Russia became a democratic country, new changes took over that was clearly visible to everyone. At school, until the sixth grade, I was taught that Lenin and his followers (Bolsheviks) were good, however, when the Soviet Union split apart and Democracy came to the power, history teachers were able to support another ...
- 6244: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X’s anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X’s hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ...
- 6245: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... early became a voracious reader of Marx, Engels and Freud which all were available in his father's library, it is probable that he had read some of their works before he went to secondary school (1941), the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled only in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises ...
- 6246: The Life of William Shakespeare
- ... died in 1616. His father, John Shakespeare was a glover. His wife, Mary, came from a Catholic family. William was the third eldest from at least eight children. William was educated through the free grammar school in Stratford. In November 1582, he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a farmer. She was eight years older than William. On May 26, 1853, their first child Susanna was baptized. The twins, Hamnet and ...
- 6247: Ray Bradbury
- ... a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California. Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to ...
- 6248: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, a town on the Ohio River near Cincinatti. In 1823, the Grant family moved to Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses attended school until he was 14. He then spent one year at an acadamy in Maysville, Kentucky and in 1838 he entered an academy in Ripley, Ohio. In 1839, Ulysses's father, Jesse, found out that a ...
- 6249: Benedict Arnold
- ... Americans dubbed him as a traitor. He hoped to find happiness in Canada, but they gave him the cold shoulder as well. While on his deathbed he said, “I wish I never would have changed uniforms,” (182). One might think this to be the first and last sign of his patriotism, but it was not. The only reason why he said such a thing is because after he became a traitor ...
- 6250: Life Of John Milton
- ... devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Life Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and educated at Saint Paul's School and Christ's College, University of Cambridge. He intended to become a clergyman in the Church of England, but growing dissatisfaction with the state of the Anglican clergy together with his own developing poetic interests ...
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