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- 5031: Nelson Mandela
- ... Rolihlahla became the Paramount Chiefs ward to be groomed to assume high office. However, influenced by the cases that came before the Chief s court, he was determined to become a lawyer. Hearing the elders stories of his ancestors struggles during the wars of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people (Ngubane). After receiving a primary education at a local mission school ...
- 5032: Napolean Bonopart
- ... a few months of passionate courtship, they married on March 9, 1796. Inside the wedding ring he gave her were engraved the words "To Destiny". Unfortunately their honeymoon lasted only two days. It was cut short because Napoleon received orders to head a military expedition against the Austrians in Italy. The French feared that the Austrians were planning to march their army across Italy into southern France. So they sent Napoleon ...
- 5033: Charles Darwin: His Life Story of Dicovery
- ... were a wide variety of avians (birds) on the islands. These birds, he noted, were similar in many aspects except their beaks. Some had long and slim beak -used for the small seeds, others had short, large, powerful beaks used for crushing the bigger seeds, he noticed also some with small, fine beaks -used for obtaining small insects. He later concluded, from fossil evidence, that all of these birds had a ...
- 5034: Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe Poe, Edgar Allan, known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the short-story form, especially tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remained popular and many major American and European writers ...
- 5035: Henry James And William Dean H
- ... social scene. (Matthiessen 14) The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into the complex society and culture of ...
- 5036: Dr. Seuss: The Great American Children's Poet
- ... rather let other people do that. Why did Dr. Seuss write. For many reasons. He loved children and wanted to entertain them and instill in them a love for reading. He wanted to tell the stories inside him as only he could with his beautiful illustrations and nonsense words. But perhaps the most important reason was he loved writing the almost musical rhymes that a generation of Americans grew up with ...
- 5037: Computer Crime
- ... certain groups of people started referring to themselves as cyberpunk, because they correctly noticed the seeds of the fictional "techno-system" in Western society today, and because they identified with the marginalized characters in cyberpunk stories. Within the last few years, the mass media has caught on to this, spontaneously dubbing certain people and groups "cyberpunk". Specific subgroups which are identified with cyberpunk are: Hackers, Crackers, and Phreaks: "Hackers" are the ...
- 5038: Daniel Webster
- ... South Carolina had the right to nullify or ignore the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert Hayne in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union states by a very powerful but short speech. He said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," made him a favorite and made him well known among many people worldwide. Webster and President Andrew Jackson joined forces in 1833 to ...
- 5039: Charles Dickens
- ... misery of the experience remain with him all his life. 3 Dickens attended school off and on until he was 15, and then left for good. He enjoyed reading and was especially fond of adventure stories, fairy tales, and novels. He was influenced by such earlier English writers as William Shakespeare, Tobias Smollet, and Henry Fielding. However, most of the knowledge he later used as an author came from his environment ...
- 5040: Changing Attitudes of Ferhat Abbas
- ... speech in which he approves the change: Why did Abbas change his views? There are several of factors which made Abbas switch sides from pacific to a more radical and liberationist stance in such a short notice. As we can see from before he had in many different ways attempted to convince the French government that the change is really needed and that if they will not allow it the conflict ...
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