John F. Kennedy
.... Kennedy emerged as a national figure in large demand.
"John Kennedy was not one of the Senate's great leaders" (Sorensen 43).
Very few laws of great importance bear his name. Even after his initial “
traditionally' inactive freshman year in the Senate, his chances for major
contributions to the Senate excluding his stances on fair labor reform and
against rackets, were constantly diminished of his Presidential campaign. His
voting record reflects his open minded views, and strengthed beliefs. He was
well liked and respected by many Senators. Kennedy was regarded for his
eagerness and cool logic in debate situation .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... with inspiration.
To get an idea of how Ralph Waldo Emerson might have become such an
inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can you
imagine living a life with all your loved ones passing away one by one? A
persons life could collapse into severe depression, lose hope, and lose meaning.
He can build a morbid outlook on life. Ralph Waldo Emerson suffered these
things. He was born on May 25, 1803 and entered into a new world, a new nation
just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father would no longer be
with him, as William Emerson died in 1811. The Emerson family was left to a
life .....
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Ray Bradbury
.... comic book heroes
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant. When Bradbury was in Waukegan he
developed his interest in acting and Drama. After seeing a magician, known as
Blackstone, he became fascinated with magic also.
In 1932, his family moved to Tucson Arizona. With his talents he learned
in Waukegan (amateur magician) he got a job at the local radio station. "I was
on the radio every Saturday night reading comic strips to the kiddies and being
paid in free tickets, to the local cinema, where I saw 'The Mummy', 'The Murders
in the Wax Museum', 'Dracula', .....and 'King Kong'." His family only stayed in
Tuscan for a year, .....
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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy - Rebirth By Death
.... squeezed down into a black hole and there at the bottom was light. This
metaphor serves as image of physical death and spiritual rebirth. His death
gave birth to new consciousness. He suddenly perceived that man's essential
life belongs to the spirit and well-being is achieved through loving of people.
He asked forgiveness of his family for his sins and welcomed death... This moral
transformation makes real end of his unreal life. As a moralist Tolstoy would
like to play attention of Russian intelligentsia how badly they live, how they
waste their talents, strengths, and capabilities. He called on moral self-
-improvement.
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Rene Descartes
.... for varying
periods in a number of different cities in the Netherlands, including Amsterdam,
Deventer, Utrecht, and Leiden.
It was probably during the first years of his residence in the
Netherlands that Descartes wrote his first major work, Essais philosophiques,
published in 1637. The work contained four parts: an essay on geometry,
another on optics, a third on meteors, and Discours de la methode (Discourse on
Method), which described his philosophical theories. This was followed by other
philosophical works, among them Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (Meditations
on First Philosophy, 1641) and Principia Philosophiae .....
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A Reflection On Herman Melville's Accomplishments
.... Boston merchant who was one of the famous "Mohawks" who boarded
the ship of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in
to the Boston Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port
of Boston, a post given to him by Gorge Washington. It is like the two blood
lines fitted together perfectly to create Herman Melville. Herman had the
strength of the General, and the crazy hart of the Major.
Herman Melville was "hardly more than a boy" when he ran out to sea
after his fathers death. A young Melville sighed up as a boy on the St.
Lawrence to Liverpool and back to New York. Many of the .....
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The Art Of Rock And Roll By Charles Brown
.... music and started forming rock.
Assumption three states that it is just as valid to study rock and
roll as European classical music. Rock will prove to be a valid means of
producing competent musicians and that it demands the same type of performance
as in any musical form. Since it is a valid way in which to study music in
general it is just as valid to start with rock as starting anywhere else.
Assumption four states that simple musical analysis of selected
compositions is a primary tool for understanding musical evolution. Through
musical analysis we are able to generalize and say that rock from a certain era
has com .....
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Richard Warren Sears And Sears, Roebuck, & Company
.... the wholesaler, who offered him the watches for twelve dollars each.
He bought the watches and sold them by sending letters to other station
attendants describing the watches and offering them at the discount price of
fourteen dollars each. He sold those watches and ordered more to sell. To sell
these he advertised in a small way in St. Paul newspapers. He made a large
profit from this operation.
In a few months Richard made such a profit that he abandoned the railroad
business entirely and started his own mail-order business under the name of the
R.W. Sears Watch Company. In one year he made so much money that he was .....
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Robert E. Lee
.... written many books on all
types of rifles, shotguns and small arms, such as Modern Rifles, Shotguns and
Pistols, and Modern Small Arms. He is an acknowledged expert on infantry
weapons and is thought to be the world's leading expert on this and artillery
strategies. He is a well known author of military history, and works as a
weapons evaluator in addition to his writing.
Robert E. Lee was born in Stratford, Virginia on January 19, 1807. His
father, Henry Lee, had achieved fame with Washington's army as "Lighthorse
Harry,"and it was a fame that rested not only on his cavalry exploits but upon
sound strategic and tactical a .....
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Richard Marcinko
.... Six. Seal Team Six was created as part of the CounterTerrorist
Joint Task Force, a group which includes one elite unit each from the Navy, the
Army, and the FBI. Marcinko was given permission and unlimited expenses from the
Pentagon to create this highly elite group. He was then named Commanding Officer
of Seal Team Six, which he served as for three years. This elite unit has went
on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea,
Africa, and beyond. Then Marcinko was given orders to create Red Cell. Red
Cell's job was to check the security of the military's top facilities and
installations. It was m .....
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Sir Francis Bacon
.... was intended to contain six parts: first a
classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness of
his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a new
philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of Learning in
1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (On the Dignity
and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum (The New Organon, 1620),
which was to replace Aristotle's Organon. Sciences were under the gener .....
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Sir Issac Newton
.... them in what he called the Fluxional method,
Newton developed in the autumn of 1666 a kind of mathematics that
is now known as calculus. Was a new and powerful method that
carried modern mathematics above the level of Greek geometry.
Although Newton was its inventor, he did not introduce calculus
into European Mathematics.
Always Fearful of publication and Criticism. Newton kept his
Discovery to himself. However, enough was known of his abilities
to effect his appointment in 1669as a Luciasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Cambbridge.
Optics was another area of Newton's early interests. In
trying at explai .....
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