Bill Gates: Biography
.... the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office
desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal
computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to
the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved
in key management and strategic decisions at Microsoft, and plays an important
role in the technical development of new products. A significant portion of his
time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in contact with Microsoft
employees around the world through e-mail.
Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission .....
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The Life Of Franz Liszt
.... a coma by
overdosing on a mixture of schampagne and tranquilizers on March 4.Also,
Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncle's committed
suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of disfuntional
marriages and alcoholism present.During a concert, Kurt would jerk around
as if he was being electrocuted.After his death, the sale of Nirvana
memorabilia increased dramatically. As you can see, both Franz Liszt and
Kurt Cobain have some characteristics in common.They had both been
hospitalized for an illness.However, one was physical while the other was
mental.Both had unusual concert styles.Like many clas .....
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Aristotle Vs. Copernicus
.... died there the following year.
His works on natural science include Physics, which gives a vast amount of
information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and animals. His writings on the
nature, scope, and properties of being, which Aristotle called First Philosophy
( Prote philosophia ), were given the title Metaphysics in the first published
edition of his works (c. 60 bc ), because in that edition they followed Physics.
His treatment of the Prime Mover, or first cause, as pure intellect, perfect in
unity, immutable, and, as he said, "the thought of thought," is given in the
Metaphysics. To his son Nicomachus he dedicated his wo .....
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Karl Marx
.... involved,
presiding over the Tavern Club and joining a club for poets that included
some politically active students. However, he left Bonn after a year and
enrolled at the University of Berlin to study law and philosophy.
Marx's experience in Berlin was crucial to his introduction to Hegel's
philosophy and to his "adherence to the Young Hegelians." Hegel's
philosophy was crucial to the development of his own ideas and theories.
Upon his first introduction to Hegel's beliefs, Marx felt a repugnance and
wrote his father that when he felt sick, it was partially "from intense
vexation at having to make an idol of a view [he] detest .....
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Joseph Stalin
.... that incident Lenin end up dying and Stalin takes over
as the leader of Russia. Because Trotsky was hated by many of the
influential political figures in Russia, Stalin becomes the leader of
Russia even after Lenin's dying last wishes.
1929 was the first of many years in which Stalin stunted Russia's
growth. In that year the "Engineer Trials" were held. During these trials
the Russian elite was brought forth by Stalin on the account of treason.
Confessions by the elite which consisted of engineers, doctors, lawyers,
teachers and clergy were extracted by many means including torture. After
these trials were through thous .....
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Napoleon's Career
.... army, and dictate a settlement. Apparently neither he
nor his soldiers, who cheerfully began crossing the Nieman River, thought
beyond the immediate goal.
Already 300 miles into Russia, Napoleon had not yet found a way to
exploit his advantage. In the Emperor's programming the resources
necessary to achieve his objective, he had anticipated fighting a battle
within a month after crossing the Nieman. Toward the end of that month
Napoleon began to realize that events were disproving the validity of his
estimates. Dying horses littered the roads and the advanced guard found
little forage as Russians everywhere abandoned .....
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The Writings Of Pat Conroy
.... Pat Conroy gained a lot of inspiration for his writing while attending
college. His first book, The Boo, was published in 1970. It is based on a
relationship with Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Nugent Courvoise, Assistant
Commandant of Cadets, nicknamed Boo (Burns 1). It was a kind account of
the Citadel (Disc. Auth. 2). Conroy once said The Boo was his longest
letter to the world. In 1980, Conroy decided to write another book with
influence from his alma mater. The Lords of Discipline was a story about
the Carolina Military Institute, primarily based on The Citadel. It took
the reader behind the doors of the barracks and show .....
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Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Contributing To "Selling The Revolution"
.... a people to military destruction, or leave them
unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and
so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war,
by every decent method which wisdom could
invent.
Here Paine is persuading the people to continue the fight because
it is willed by the power of God and that man in himself should fight for
what is right. He convinces the fearful society of what they should do. By
these writing being circulated, more and more people became supportive of
the facts . Paine continues,
...I dwell .....
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The Life Of Helen Keller
.... and error she
taught Helen the one handed alphabet which gave her a way of communication
with the outside world. Helen learned quickly and with great excitement.
Her tantrums ceased and her manners vastly improved. She was a very bright
child and person. Her generosity never ended and her handicap day by day
was overcome.
Helen Keller's goal in life was, to help others help them selves.
That is what Anne did for her, and that is what she wanted to do for others.
Handicap is just a word. It is a very deceiving word. Helen helped to
educate and prove to people that handicapped people could be taught and
could learn. They should .....
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The Life Of Walt Disney
.... Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small
studio and designed ads for local businesses. They payed the rent of the
studio in artwork.5 In April of 1920, Disney took a better paying job at
the Kansas City Film Ad company. Ub also took a position at the company.6
Later Walt Disney left the company and moved to Hollywood. He wanted to
make longer animated cartoons in stead of short animated ads. Disney's
first character with a personality, was Oswald the Rabbit. But, in a
scandal, he lost the character and several animators. Outraged by the loss
he vowed," Never again will I work for somebody else." .....
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The Ambitions Of Napoleon
.... or three years. Napoleon
was then assigned as a second lieutenant to an artillery regiment.
A year later he returned home for the first time in eight years.
His visit would last two years, leaving him from his regiment in France.
While home in Corsica he wrote a reply to the Corsican aristocrats who had
attacked the Revolution. He organized a local pro-Revolutionary militia.
Then Napoleon got himself elected as second in command of a battalion of
Corsican volunteers. The Revolution changed the status of Corsica, giving
Corsicans all the rights of Frenchman. This change helped Napoleon think
more like a Frenchman.
In 1791, Napole .....
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Frederick Douglass
.... struggle for human rights. He spoke in favor of Irish home rule and
eventually would speak on behalf of the landless European peasantry,
women's suffrage, prison reform, free public school education and universal
peace. In 1846 he wrote to Garrison, "I cannot allow myself to be
insensitive to the wrongs and sufferings of any part of the great family of
man."
Douglass would eventually split with Garrison and the largely white
abolitionist movement to work more closely with the Black leaders of the
time. Many of the leading black figures of the time were critical of
Douglass. They did not believe that justice could ever be .....
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