Aristotle
.... to form
a complete household. In fact Aristotle went as far as to say that a slave was
comparable to a tame animal, with their only divergence in the fact that a slave
could apprehend reason. For he concluded that a slave and animals only use was
to supply their owners with bodily help.
At the end of the Theories of the Household, Aristotle explains how
slaves are different from andy other types of people, in the sence that they are
the only class who are born into their occupation and become property of their
masters. In examining this relationship we find that he thought that while
masters were the masters of the slaves, .....
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Herman Melville
.... deeper powers. In 1849 he began
a systematic study of Shakespeare, pondering the bard's intuitive grasp of human
nature. Like Hawthorne, Melville could not accept the prevailing optimism of
his generation. Unlike his friend, he admired Emerson, seconding the Emersonian
demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own literature.
"Believe me," he wrote, "men not very much inferior to Shakespeare are this day
being born on the banks of the Ohio." Yet he considered Emerson's vague talk
about striving and the inherent goodness of mankind complacent nonsense.
Experience made Melville too aware of the evil in the worl .....
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Gregor Johann Mendel
.... "genes." When the gene has a
slighty different base sequence it is called an "allele."
Mendel also developed 3 laws or principles. The first principle is
called the, "Principle of Segregation." This principle states that the traits of
an organism are determined by individual units of heredity called genes. Both
adult organisms have one allele from each parent, which gives both organisms 2
alleles. The alleles are separated or "segregated" from each other with the
reproductive cell formation. Mendel's second principle is the, "Principle of
independent assortment." This principle states that the expression of a gene for
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James Buchanan
.... country so he joined a
calvary company. Buchanan returned for the election and won a seat in
legislature in 1814. He served another term and returnd to Lancaster.
James Buchanan became a popular person in Lancaster and was invited
to many partys and dinners. At one party he met a girl named Ann Coleman. They
later got engaged. In the spring of 1819 there were rumors that James was seeing
another girl. Ann got upset and went to stay with her sister in Philadelphia.
Later she died over an overdose of landuam. James promised to never marry again.
James went back to politics to try to forget about Ann. The federlis .....
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John Paul Stevens: Biography
.... of Chicago High School, and then later
went to the University its self. In 1941, he left the University with a Phi
Betta Kappa key, and a B.A. degree. He joined the navy, after the U.S entered
World War 2. Stevens was stationed in Washington D.C, as a intelligence officer
on the staff of admiral Chester W. Nimitz. He worked with a group assigned to
break Japanese codes. for doing this, he was awarded the Bronze Star. After he
returned to Chicago, (at the end of the war) he enrolled himself into
Northwestern University School of Law to earn his J.D. degree, where he
graduated first in his class. Not long after that, he was admitt .....
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Josephy P. Kennedy II
.... party in Congress. While his district includes both blue collar
workers and the elite of Cambridge, he has demonstrated a committment to liberal
postions on welfare, labor issues, and taxation. If he were to become a national
figure, the suspicion is that he might move slightly toward a more moderate
political position in order to enhance his national appeal.
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Lester Pearson
.... for
law. After a week he decided that business was more promising. He worked at a
number of places but in the end he decided to teach at the University of Toronto.
He taught history in the University of Toronto from 1924-1928. All his students
said he was a very unique teacher. In March 1924 one of his students, Maryon
Moody decided to ensure getting her degree by becoming engaged to her teacher.
And it worked. On August 22, 1925 Lester Pearson and Maryon Moody got married
in Winnipeg. From there on they lived just outside of Toronto. Later he signed
up for a position in The Canadian External Affairs Department. Th .....
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Steven Spielberg
.... about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one
of the best directors of the time.
However, he followed Close Encounters with the disastrous Movie, 1941,
which was his first attempt at comedy and his first true failure. He didn't take
long to regain his form, both commercially and artistically. Teaming up with his
pal George Lucas (whose Star Wars came out the same year as Close Encounters,
and .....
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
.... her years here, Margaret worked in a canteen for the war effort,
continued her interest in music by joining various choirs and joined the Oxford
University Conservative Association where she became very active in it's
political activities.
After Oxford, Margaret became the youngest female candidate of the
Dartford Association. She was unofficially engaged to Denis Thatcher at this
time, and they married in December 1951. Twins were born the following year.
During this period, she studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1954. In the
same year she was a candidate for the Oysington Conservative Association.
Margaret won in .....
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Nelson Mandela
.... His great grand-farther had been king of the same tribe
years ago.
The farther of Nelson Mandela died when Nelson was twelve. Nelson went to
his uncles home when his ferther died where he got good education. His uncle
and his wife
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
.... committee in Whittier was considering Nixon as a candidate for
Congress in the 12th Congressional District. In December 1945 Nixon accepted the
candidacy with the promise that he would "wage a fighting, rocking, socking
campaign." Jerry Voorhis, a Democrat who had represented the 12th District
since 1936, was running for reelection. Earlier in his career Voorhis had been
an active Socialist. He had become more conservative over the years and was now
an outspoken anti-Communist. Despite Voorhis' anti-Communist stand the Los
Angeles chapter of the left-wing Political Action Committee (PAC) endorsed him,
apparently .....
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Luis Gutierrez
.... Affairs and Hospital and Health Care. Mr. Gutierrez's
addresses in Washington and in Chicago are: 408 Longworth House office Building,
Washington Dc 20515; 3181 North Elston Avenue, Chicago 60618; 1715 west 47th
street, Chicago 60609; 3659 Halsted Chicago 60609; and 2132 West 21st street
Chicago 60608.
Luis Gutierrez start the road to politics by being a strong supporter on
our former late mayor Harold Washington. With the backing of Washington,
Gutierrez won the race for Alderman in 1986. After the death of Washington,
Gutierrez soon supported Richard Daley for mayor and was appointed to chairman
of the housing committee. Guti .....
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