Charles Darwin
.... in Vestiges of
Natural Creation.
Darwin had many volumes of Origin of Species published from 1859-82.
Darwin’s natural selection was basically saying that some things aren’t
needed. Those are called vestigial organs. These concepts were formed by
Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Organisms of the same
species often have differences in individual variations. The second concept
is, competition among organisms often led to deaths of some of the same
organisms.
Darwin died at age 73 in 1882.Charles Darwin was buried at
Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton. So Darwin’s life wasn’t too shabby. He
became pretty fa .....
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General George Custer
.... Custer disobey his orders by going off his
ordered path, but he attacked a day early. If Custer had followed Terry’s
orders he would have reached the Indians on the day Gibbons men rescued
Reno (Brady,221). The fact that Custer made a decision to attack early put
him and his men in tremendous danger. It can only be said that no
satisfactory reasons appear which justify Custer’s action (Brady, 226).
George Custer also made the mistake when dividing his command. If
one of the groups of men were in trouble and the other group was no where
to be found then they would be terribly out numbered. George Custer
sacrificed him and his men .....
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Jean Jacque Piaget
.... objects. The child
learns a variety of fundamental movements and perceptual activities such as
holding a bottle. The second stage is the Preoperational Stage, ages two
to seven. Children start to use language and try to make sense of the
world, but have a much less sophisticated mode of thought than adults.
Children in this stage also need to test thoughts with reality on a daily
basis and do not appear to be able to learn from generalizations made by
adults. Children at this time are also very intuitive. It is possible to
carry on conversation with the child now. The third stage is the Concrete
Operational Stage, ages se .....
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The Life Of Julius Caesar
.... Caesar succeeded in bringing order back to the face of Rome. First
he reformed the existing Roman calender. The existing calender was
corrupt because it did not synchronize with the solar year. Priests were
allowed to prolong the calender at their will and some used it to their
advantages. Caesar put an end to this by setting a new calender which
consisted of 365 days and a leap year, every four years.
Caesar abhorred the Senate, for he knew that it was the greatest
stumbling block that stood in his road to glory. To curtail their powers,
he soon reformed the Senate by appointing more praetors, aediles and .....
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Doris Lessing's Life And Her Writings
.... of locusts. Although their crop is ruined,
they are thankful that the swarm of locusts did not settle and lay eggs on
the farm. As a result, Margaret, the wife, who was brought up in the city,
slowly learns to adapt to her harsh yet beautiful surroundings” (Bloom,134).
In the story the main character is Margaret, a city girl is now a
farmer’s wife thrown into a way of life that is all new to her. “Margaret’
s love for her husband opposed to her despair for his future as a farmer”
(Thompson,1258). Her whole style of living has changed. Even though
everything is different, she is doing her best to fit and in and not give
up. .....
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The Life And Rule Of Cleopatra
.... she married her brother and co-
ruler, Ptolemy XIII, who was only 12.The marriage was only of convenience
though, and Ptolemy pharaoh only in name. For three years he remained in
the background while Cleopatra ruled over Egypt. Ptolemy’s advisors
resented Cleopatra’s independence and conspired against her. In 48 B.C.
they stripped her of her power and she was forced to exile in Syria and
she was accompanied by her sister Arsinoe.
Although they had taken away her powers, Cleopatra was determined
to win them back she amassed an army at Egypt’s border. Around this time
Pompey was vying with Julius Caesar for control of the Roman .....
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Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
.... O., this
patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She
had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak
French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on.
Breuer discovered that if he hypnotized her, she would talk of things she
did not remember in the conscious state, and afterwards her symptoms were
relieved -- thus it was called "the talking cure." Freud went to Paris for
further study under , a neurologist known all over Europe for his studies
of hysterics and use of hypnosis.
In 1886, Freud returned to Vienna, opened a private practice specializin .....
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Stonewall Jackson
.... That is where he earned the name Stonewall. He was an amazing general. In
the Shenandoah Valley in 1862, he conquered the North of 60,000 soldiers
with his 17,000 men.
Jackson fought under Lee in the Seven Days’ Battles, the Second Battle of
Run, Antietam, Cedar Mountain and Fredericksburg. His greatest battle
though, was in Chancellorsville in 1863. Jackson’s men took a vast defeat
here. That night though Jackson went ahead of his line to scout and
unknowingly, the password to his fort was changed while he was out. When
he came back and said the wrong password his own men shot him, and his left
arm had to be amputated. Eight .....
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Thomas Aquinas
.... for nearly
two years. His parents, brothers, and sisters attempted to force him to
change his mind, they threatened him and forced temptations on him, but he
eventually escaped and joined the Dominicans.
The Dominicans then sent Thomas to Cologne to study with Albertus
Magnus, the smartest man of the time. In 1252 Thomas was in Paris
composing 'Commentaries on the Books of Sentences of Peter the Lombard'.
He was later admitted as master of theology at the University of Paris.
Albertus Magnus introduced Thomas to the works of Aristotle, which were
beginning to be translated from the original Greek. Thomas set himself the
t .....
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Ben Franklin
.... Dog and his Shadow".
At the time of the recital of the fables the school master said, "and Ben
will recite "The Wolf and the Kid", which was Nathan's fable. Ben thought,
"If I say that it is Nathan's fable, then the school master will get into
trouble. If I recite the fable, then Nathan will get into trouble." Ben did
nothing; he simply stood there looking up into the sky. Everyone said that
Ben was lazy and that he could not even learn one fable. Josiah Franklin
stood up and explained his son's behavior and the school master was very
embarrassed.
Josiah and Nathan's father both took their sons to the Writing School. Ben
was go .....
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Joseph Stalin
.... farmers, and create
collective farms. Collective farms is when the land is split and many
people work on them instead of just one owner.Stalin’s Five Year Plans
created a huge drop in the number of livestock and wheat production also
decreased. This created a famine of food in Russia, starving most of the
people. Stalin killed many people for no reason, thinking that someone was
always out to get him. He even had his own wife killed. He killed people
who talked out against the government. It is said that he had killed up to
20 million people. Stalin’s Five Year Plans created Russia as one of the
world’s major industrial powe .....
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Accomplishments Of John D. Rockefeller
.... the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000
barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden
barrels. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged
in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is
estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business
in the US in the 1890s.
Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great
funds to human welfare, and he helped to define the method of scientific
efficient, corporate philanthropy. The method was this: to create
charitable corporations and give them t .....
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