The Life Of Charles Dickens
.... Charles opportunities to walk around the
town with his father and take in the sights, sounds, and smells of the
area. This gave him early inspiration that he would use later on in his
life when he started to write (Mankowitz 13-14).
James Lamert, the owner of a boot-blacking factory, saw the
conditions that the Dickens family was going through. He offered Charles a
job there and he was paid six shillings a week which was reasonable at
that time. Soon, he was moved downstairs in the sweatshop-like room.
Charles had been working at the factory for less than two weeks when his
father was arrested for debt. He was sent to debtors pr .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
.... center, near Omaha,
Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before
running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery
store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana,
where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to
the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never had
a place to call "home" or a real family. He spent his childhood being sent
from one place to another, and trouble always seemed to follow him. His
mother's negligence left Manson without a home and without much of a future.
Manson turned to crim .....
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Desiderius Erasmus
.... this had to take considerable courage,
for, though the Church was in decline, it still had considerable power. He
also published the Greek version of the New Testament in Latin, so
Europeans could read it.
Erasmus was a traveller. He lived in many places in Europe at different
times. He had lived in Rome, Paris, England, and many other European
countries. His worked as a writer, but was dependant on gifts of nobles as
most writers of the time were. In his travels he befriended many humanists.
Erasmus became a humanist because of his education. He studied both
ancient Greek and Latin. He had tried to be monk and a pri .....
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Emily Murphy: A Great Canadian
.... would allow such
disgrace. In 1910 Emily was still fighting for the Dower Act "which would
recognize a married woman's entitlement to a share of the common property
in a marriage". For the first time the act was turned down, Emily not
giving up tried very hard until 1911 when Dower Act was passed. "It
provided that a wife must get a third of her husband's estate, even when he
did not leave a will." It was a major victory for Emily and also her first
achievement. This accomplishment not only encouraged women to fight for
their rights but Emily gained new confidence and encouraged her to fight
for new suffrage bill. In 1914 M .....
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Cleopatra - Queen Of Egypt
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Notes On Emily Murphy
.... grateful but
misinformed pioneer woman who wrote:"God bless you, Janey Canuck, I have a
troublesome husband too."
((p. 71))
Not content with vague anticipation of benefits to be conferred in some
shadowy future, Mrs. McClung and Mrs. Murphy joind forces to call upon
Sifton on March 2 and ask that a suffrage bill be introduced at that very
session. Other cabinet members were also interviewed. The local press
account does not reveal how the gentlemen fared at this meeting but the
premier's comment upon its conclusion was simply, "Mrs. McClung and Mrs.
Murphy are very determined women."
((p. 74))
The passage of time and .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
.... for
Indian settlers in South Africa that were being oppressed by the white
population. His personal experiences, including being ejected from a train
in Maritzburg, of not being allowed the same rights as others lead him to
begin a movement to help his people.
While in South Africa, Gandhi made himself poor so that he could
identify with his the peasants. He then proceeded to start a colony that
consisted of abused labourers. The colony became very large and many cities
were crippled by the lack of labourers. The government reacted to this by
jailing Gandhi several times along with many other of his followers. The
war he foug .....
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History Of Adolf Hitler
.... not very impressed with his performance,
and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be
painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.
He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school
diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot
the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians
like to speculate what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town
boy would have had a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little
less critical, the world might have been spared the nightmare into which
this boy was .....
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Inventor Project April 1, 1996 Albert Einstein
.... that the energy
contained within a light beam is transferred by individual units, or quanta,
contradicted the hundred year old tradition of considering light as a
manifestation of continuous processes.
My third and most impotant paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving
Bodies", contained what has become known as the special theory of relativity.
Since the time of Sir Issac Newton, scientists had been trying to understand
the nature of matter and radiation, and how they interacted in some unified
world picture. The position that mechanical laws are fundamental has become
known as the mechanical world view, and the position .....
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Descartes
.... world, mainly as a reaction to the scholastic outlook. This
scepticism was strongly influenced by the work of the Pyrrhonians as
handed down from antiquity by Sextus Empiricus, which claimed that, as
there is never a reason to believe p that is better than a reason not to
believe p, we should forget about trying to discover the nature of reality
and live by appearance alone. This attitude was best exemplified in the
work of Michel de Montaigne, who mockingly dismissed the attempts of
theologians and scientists to understand the nature of God and the
universe respectively. Descartes felt the force of sceptical arguments and,
whil .....
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King Henry VIII
.... him
arrested on a charge of treason. He then obtained a divorce through Thomas
Cranmer, whom he had made archbishop of Canterbury, and it was soon
announced that he had married Anne Boleyn.
The pope was thus defied. All ties that bound the English church to
Rome were broken. Appeals to the pope's court were forbidden, all payments
to Rome were stopped, and the pope's authority in England was abolished. In
1534 the Act of Supremacy declared Henry himself to be Supreme Head of the
Church of England, and anyone who denied this title was guilty of an act of
treason. Some changes were also made in the church services, the Bible .....
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Carl Gustav Jung
.... of his
spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.
He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology,
history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly
because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had
to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After
reading a book on psychiatry, he decided that this was the field for him,
although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung became
an assistant at the Burgholzli Mental hospital in Zurich, a famous .....
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