The Life Story Of Nikita Khrushchev
.... illiteracy. Only the
strongest and cleverest were able to make a living from their new-found
freedom; most just struggled to survive. It was among this majority, on
April 17, 1894, that Nikita Sergeievich Khrushchev was born. As a boy, he
lived in Kalinovka, a poor villiage in the Ukraine, in an izba, a mud hut
with a thatched roof, with his grandfather, a large family, and the
family's animals. His father, it is said, lived his life with the ambition
to buy a horse, but he never saved enough money to do so. In the end, the
family was forced to give up their home and move to Yuzovka in another part
of the Ukraine.
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent Into Metaphorical Hell
.... poet of the day, as Dante's skill became more defined the
two became friends. It is also thought that Dante studied at the
university in Bologna around the year 1285.
He became involved in some political altercations, he joined the
Guelphs, as opposed to the Chibellines, and he was involved in a battle and
emerged victorious. It was around this time, 1290, that Beatrice died,
after she died he began studying philosophy, he read the works of Boethius
and Cicero. He soon after married Gemma Donati, a member of a noble
Florentine Guelph family. He attempted to settle down and forget Beatrice,
however he became more and more en .....
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
.... fields and
the white Americans owned the fields. The question of the ownership of
seven acres of strawberry fields serves as the apparent motive for the
murder of Carl Heine. To a local Japanese fisherman, Kabuo (accused of
murdering Carl Heine), the ownership of this land promises a secure future
and ultimately independence. “...she knew that Kabuo wanted a strawberry
field.. nothing more than that” (Snow Falling 89). “His dream...was close
to him now, his strawberry land, his happiness” (Snow Falling 456). The
strawberry fields connected Kabuo to his past and symbolized a continuity
of life. “My father planted the fathers .....
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier Of Canada
.... Latin, Latin classics, pre-
revolutionary French literature, Greek, English and some philosophy. The
education which Laurier got from this school was to prepare him for
priesthood but he decided to study law in Montreal at McGill University.
At the University Laurier was very hard working and serious to try to
accomplish his first major goal which was to become a lawyer. In 1864
Laurier had graduated at the top of his class and was chosen to give the
valedictory address. Some of the things he said in his address were how a
lawyer bore heavy responsibilities. A lawyer had to maintain liberty and
justice; a lawyer had to de .....
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Marco Polo
.... 1271, and this time they took Marco.
From Venice the Polos sailed to Acre, in Palestine. There two monks,
missionaries to China, joined them. Fearing the hard journey ahead, however,
the monks soon turned back. The Polos crossed the deserts of Persia (Iran)
and Afghanistan. They mounted the heights of the Pamirs, the "roof of the
world," descending to the trading cities of Kashgar (Shufu) and Yarkand
(Soche). They crossed the dry stretches of The Gobi. Early in 1275 they
arrived at Kublai Khan's court at Cambaluc (Peking). At that time Marco was
21 years old.
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Dickinson Vs. Whitman
.... Walt Whitman grew up
in New York City, New York; this is one way that these poets' lives differ.
The main people that influenced Emily Dickinson were Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Emily Bronte. Walt Whitman was influenced by many people, some of
which were: Elias Hicks, James Macpherson and William Shakespeare. Whitman
read many book reviews by many people; from these, he realized Emerson was
very influential. Whitman was also influenced by the Bible, his walks in
New York City, Tom Paine, and a strong love for music. After Whitman
started preparing to be a poet, he said he was merely "simmering," but the
ideas of Emerson brought .....
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The Henchmen: German Government Officials In WWII
.... then in it's infancy, liked Roehm's strong
presence and personality. Roehm, jobless and nowhere to go, joined
Hitler's office. After Hitler was elected into office some years later, he
split his dictatorship into different divisions. Roehm, being one of the
original officers, was chosen as head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA,
commonly referred to as the Brownshirts and storm-troopers. By 1932, the
Brownshirts had reached more than 400,000 members. All types of men who
Hitler saw fit enough to join were members. Among them were ex-Free Corps
soldiers like Roehm, students who weren't able to find jobs, shopkeepers
who went out of .....
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Isaac Newton
.... left by Newton's father. But she could
not manage the farm by herself. Isaac was taken out of school and brought
home to help her.
As a farmer, Newton proved to be a dismal failure. He neglected the
necessary chores and thought only of books to study and mechanical things
to make. There are many stories about him at that time that show how absent
minded he was becoming. One day while he was leading a horse, the animal
slipped its bridle and ran away. Isaac continued walking home with the
empty bridle, unaware that the horse was gone.
When an idea got into Newton's head, he could think of nothing else.
Once, durin .....
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Blaise Pascal
.... (Essay on conic sections),
Pascal temporarily abandoned the study of mathematics due to poor health.
He lived in Paris for a while in a frivolous manner as a break. His
interest in probability theory of the odds in gambling games lead him to
discover the Theory of probability in conjunction with Pierre de Fermat.
This theory dealt with the actuarial, mathematical, social statistics, and
calculations used in today's modern theoretical physics. At the end of
1654, after several months of depression, Pascal had a life altering
religious experience. He entered the Jansenist monastery in Port Royal.
Here, he never published hi .....
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Ptolemy Of Alexandria
.... now not only be used to predict but to demonstrate whether a
particular theory was correct or not.
Ptolemy developed several theories of his own contrary to the beliefs
of many other Greek astrologers at the time. He upheld that the "heavens"
consisted of bodies orbiting the earth in a celestial path - this idea was
supported for some time. Though his views were altered by the Renaissance
(the sun was now placed at the centre), orbital concepts remain in modern
astronomy. Ptolemy was familiar with a early type of astroblade. A
skeleton star map which could be rotated above a solid plate engraved with
day-curves a .....
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The Life Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... success would not last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in
the magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and
he looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he
tried free-lance writing in New York City and Philadelphia but earned very
little. Again he tried editing. His work was praised, but he was still paid
little. His efforts to organize his own magazine were unsuccessful. For the
next two years he turned again to free-lance writing.
For one of the most well-known and talented writers of our time,
Poe had to struggle for any kind of monetary reconcilement for his gen .....
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Biography Of Edgar Allen Poe
.... of the Junior Morgan Riflemen.
Poe was then reviewed by the famous Marquis De Lafayette. Poe's
grandfather General Poe is where Poe most likely got his military influence
from.
In 1826 Poe enrolled into the University of Virginia. Poe wanted
to become a translator. Poe was considered to be "precisely correct"
(Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University
of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students
threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen
he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was
struck on the head wi .....
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