Harry S. Truman
.... committee so well, he was then thought of very highly throughout the Democratic Party. So much, that he replaced Henry A. Wallace for vice-president in the 1944 presidential election. His running mate, Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as president. They won that election and Harry S. Truman was now the Vice President of the United States, for 82 days.
On April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died in office, making Harry S. Truman the President of the United States of America in a most crucial time in the history of the world. World War 2 was at the point of destroy or be destroyed. Germany surrendered sh .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars. Poe discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support. His foster father refused to pay his debts, and Poe had to withdraw from the University (Asselineau 410).
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Emile Durkheim
.... of a distinguished line of rabbinical scholar (Rothschild; 1999). He graduated from the ‹cole Normale Sup¾rieure in Paris in 1882, then taught law and philosophy. However, in 1887 he began teaching sociology, first at the University of Bordeaux and later at the University of Paris. His knowledge of law and religion helped him to come up with a new theory, which concerned him with the basis of social stability. For example, the common values shared by a society, such as morality and religion. In his view, these values, or the collective conscience, are the major bonds that hold the social order together (Dickey, est. al; .....
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The Apology Of Socrates: A Closer Examination
.... (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 a peculiar point, that he does not possess any knowledge. While at first glance this sounds oxymoronic, but Socrates eloquently proves his point. He tells how his friend Chairephon visited the god at Delphi. There Chairephon asked the god if any man was wiser then Socrates and the .....
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Geoffery Chaucer
.... to himself thereby," and as the devil observes of him in this tale, "You're out for wealth, acquired no matter how" (Chaucer 312, 315). The miller is not shown as badly in "The Reeve's Tale" as the others, however; his trickery against the clerk is repaid when the clerk sleeps with his wife and daughter. In these three tales Chaucer shows how greed is present in all men.
However, in "The Cleric's Tale," the wife of the lord Walter is patient and accepting of everything her husband does. This does not show that wives should accept whatever their husbands do, but that "Griselda's patient acceptance of the inscrutable will of her .....
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
.... the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some reality and scientific truth within his writing. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher the main character suffers from a strange mental disorder that was actually a real proven case. No matter how much the critics lash out at Poe’s life his writing will still express the work of a true genius.
Poe’s poetry, in general, was an attempt for him to embody the ideas in his imagination and express his feelings. The deep sadness he felt for the loss of love can be seen in poems such as The Sleeper and Lenore. Poetry also allowed him to express .....
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Alphonse Capone
.... struck her for it. After this incident he quit school, never to return. He worked at many places such as a clerk in a candy store, a pinball setter in a bowling alley, then as a paper and cloth cutter. For a while Capone worked for Yale's Saloon as a bouncer, but only after making a rude comment to a woman caused her brother Frank Galluccio to come after Capone with a knife, cutting a 4" gash on his left cheek, only later to be recruited as a loyal bodyguard for Capone.
Street gangs soon proliferated in every slum of every city and the greater the foreign influx, the more numerous the gangs. The family unity began to erode d .....
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Ignatius Of Antioch
.... not to interfere with his impending martyrdom. Thus on December 20 in the year 107, Ignatius was escorted from the Roman galley that had taken nine years to deliver its prisoner from Antioch to Rome and was brought to the Flavian Amphitheater, the Coliseum, where at the conclusion of the Roman festival he was fed to the lions.
Ignatius was a Syrian by birth who became attracted to the first generation of Christians. Some authors believe that he may have been a disciple of St. John the Evangelist He certainly was friends with St. Polycarp, one of St. John's closest followers. Tradition has it that St. Peter himself made Ignati .....
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Hammurabi’s Code
.... 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 the weak.
Many of today’s forms of government have traces of the same principles that Hammurabi used. Today’s laws are written down (of course), put into their respective categories, known by all the people, and obeyed by the courts. One ex .....
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Jimi Hendrix
.... forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962 (Murray 36). His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at that time, led him to play with many R&B singers from the time, such as Little Richard, King Curtis, Joey Dee and the Starliters, the Isley Brothers, and many others (Murray 38-42). The development of his own style of music, which would later be displayed at various stages of its evolution in his four completed studio albums, came from an amalgamation of his intimate familiarity with the blues, ethnic background, the years he spe .....
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Joan Of Arc As A Leader
.... Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq and Iran were at war from 1980 to 1988 the battle ended on an agreement of a cease-fire between the two nations. This war is where Saddam was recognized for his ruthless actions, he used chemical weapons against the Kurdish people of Iraq, who were mearly wanting their right of self- government. In this instance Saddam showed a blatant disregard for humane life which carried over to his attempt of occupying Kuwait in 1990. Hussein's government was given the opportunity to end the 1990 war but failed to fulfill their terms of the cease-fire agreement, which led to his countries defeat and seriou .....
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John The Baptist
.... become clear. Specifically, the Nazarite vow states that they must abstain from wine and other fermented drink, must not drink vinegar, or grape juice, or eat grapes or raisins. A Nazarite must not touch anything from the grapevine, or cut his hair or go near a dead body (Numbers 6:1-12 NIV). This vow explains and fulfills the words that Gabriel spoke; AHe is never to take wine or other fermented drink.@
The Nazarite vow separated John from the other boys, but one thing set him apart even more. Gabriel said that this boy was to be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother=s womb (Luke 1:8 NIV). Since his parents knew .....
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