Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)
.... could solve many of the problems in chemistry. This time Avogadro's paper was looked at more carefully over a wider and more distinguished group of scientists, thus his work was finally recognized. Avogadro's work helped other scientists to solve more problems and develop more theories.
Avogadro has based his work on the findings of Joseph Gay-Lussac in 1809. Gay-Lussac had discovered that all the gases when subjected to an equal rise in temperature expand by the same amount. Avogadro therefore derived his hypothesis. He also made it clear that the gas particles need not be individual atoms but had made a distinction between th .....
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Adolf Hitler: Ruthless Leader Of Germany
.... happened if he had been accepted into the academy. Would the world have been spared World War II?
While living in Vienna Adolf made his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. He wasn’t successful and didn’t make any money. He was a regular reader of a small paper that claimed the Aryan race was superior to all and was destined to rule the world. The paper regularly blamed Jews for all the economic problems and Adolf agreed with its views. Adolf continued to live poor in Vienna until 1913 when he decided to move to Munich, Germany (Smith 31). Hitler began to show loyalty to Germ .....
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Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
.... beauty. I'm sure he was conjuring up great plans, for in the back of his mind he was probably thinking about the shortage of lumber back home. This abundance would take care of that problem. He could also bring back the fruits and whatever else he fancied to impress his majesties of Spain with. It just seems that he was in utter awe of what he had discovered. He had set out to find a faster trade route and came upon the discovery of many centuries to come. But with this discovery came trying times and hardships. For he knew not what went on at the settlements on the islands while he was journeying back and forth to Spain.
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Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 To 1827)
.... a good living being a musician. He completed his first symphony in 1800, and many other piano, cello, and violin sonatas. Beethoven was Vienna’s first successful “freelance” musician. Instead of depending on the support of the aristocracy, he had wealthy friends, patrons and admirers of his music He was known to be awkward in his manners, have an unpredictable temper, and refused to defer to those with a higher social rank.
Beginning in 1798, Beethoven experienced a continual humming in his ears that was gradually growing stronger. He eventually realized that he was going deaf. He began to drop into a depression, and in .....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, Reform
.... Conservation Corps (CCC), which provided employment in fresh - air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men. Their work included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage. Also new in 1933 was the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA). It was the first major effort of Congress to deal with the unemployed adults, and its chief purpose was immediate relief rather than long-range recovery. Other legislation passed by Congress included the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), and Civil Works Administration (CWA).
Roosevelt’s other short - term goal, recov .....
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Judith Sargeant Murray
.... believe in marriage; quite the contrary she believed strongly in the bond of marriage. It was her belief that an educated woman would make a better wife. Her second husband was John Murray, the minister responsible for transporting the Universalist religion fron England to America. They traveled and worked together to establish the new religion here. Murray's husband advocated education for women and encouraged her to continue her endeavors after their marriage; subsequently many Universalist feminist tenets sprung from the mind of Judith Sargent Murray.
Rossi asserts "Perhaps no American woman writer . . . equaled Murr .....
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Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
.... Twain's early experiences here provided him with the material for his anti-racist novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" and "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". Hannibal is a benchmark for the American societys' views of Twain's writings. Tom Sawyer's antics are preferred over stories of slavery and racial strife. It further demonstrates an unwillingness, by design, to address racism past or present. We have a similar aversion to acknowledging the bloody origins of our "shared History" with the Philippines.
Mark Twain's writings provide a good reference for understanding the contours of the public debate over imperialism .....
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Joan Of Arc Was A Saint
.... all about. (Trask 5)
Because of the fact that she heard these voices, Joan is sometimes regarded as insane. Her critics claim that she had hallucinations. However, this can be proven wrong. “If anyone has hallucinations, those hallucinations will not remain quiescent. They will not be like dreams. They will act upon and influence the sufferer’s whole character” (Beevers 29). Joan’s voices told her to act and she obeyed, “but she did not suffer that change of character which is so noticeable when we examine the behavior of those who merely imagine they hear voices”(29).
Joan was also not lying about the voices. A person does n .....
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Stephen King
.... and fictional works by King (Beahm 2). I found this to be quite humorous. I can see two kids sitting at the mimeograph machine printing out their very own five cent newspaper.
When King was at the impressionable age of four, something occurred that King would hold with him for a very long time. King’s family life was typical, for the fifties. King’s mother stayed at home and took care of the home while the father worked. Stephen’s mother and father loved both Stephen and his brother Danny very much. Although one night his father stepped out to buy a pack of cigarettes and he was never seen or heard from again after that ni .....
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Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
.... medicine, first with a view to understanding his own disease, later becoming more interested in leprosy. In 1949 he made the first of his long journeys, exploring northern Argentina on a bicycle, and for the first time coming into contact with the very poor and the remnants of the Indian tribes. In 1951, after taking his penultimate exams, he made a much longer journey, accompanied by a friend, and earning his living by casual labor as he went. He visited southern Argentina, Chile, where he met Salvador Allende, Peru, where he worked for some weeks in the San Pablo leprosarium, Colombia at the time of La Violencia, and where he was .....
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William Richardson Davie
.... In 1782 he married Sarah Jones, the daughter of his former commander, Gen. Allen Jones, and settled in Halifax. His legal knowledge and ability won him great respect, and his presentation of arguments was admired. Between 1786 and 1798 Davie represented Halifax in the North Carolina legislature. There he was the principal agent behind that body's actions to revise and codify state laws, send representatives to the Annapolis and Philadelphia conventions, cede Tennessee to the Union, and fix disputed state boundaries.
During the Constitutional Convention Davie favored plans for a strong central government. He was a member of the .....
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The Period Of Ramses II
.... the era of Ramses II. It was colossal and “the Egyptian insistence on colossal size proves itself entirely appropriate to the surroundings” (Sullivan 178). It was amazing and “its proportions were superb” (Sullivan 178). Since they made it such a colossal size, it made the kingdom look great, and others would admire it. It was also a great structure, because of its massive and precise proportions, and was built well. Another example of great architecture during this time was the Hypostyle Hall. This structure “made possible the standard basilica form so widely used ever since, including our own day” (Sullivan 181). It was so .....
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