Niccolo Machiavelli
.... when
Valantino tried to separate the unity of Florence with the help of the
rebellions by Arezzo and Valdi. Machiavelli examined the policy by Caesar
Borgia closely and carefully : Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo,
Signore Pagolo and Duke Gravina's killing which is bound with Duke
Valentino's behavior (1503). This writing was so important in
Machiavelli's history of political thought as well as the two other works
of him written in the same year : the first work he harshly criticizes the
hesitant character of the politics in Florence, in his second work he
criticizes the powerless sides of the seniors and he supports the .....
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The Life Of Claude Monet
.... Havre to spend a large part
of his life traveling throughout Europe, he returned frequently to visit
his old friend. It was truly a life altering friendship. "My eyes were
finally opened and I understood nature; I learned at the same time to love
it. " -Monet
Boudin may have opened Monet's eyes, he may have even persuaded
the young painter to break with tradition and finish his paintings outdoors,
but the young protégé had yet to truly experience the country's capital.
Before long, the limitations of Le Havre on a burgeoning young artist
became all too apparent and, in 1859, Monet left for Paris. However, having
displac .....
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The Writings Of Cicero
.... a
Composite government, clearly his view is possibly only due towards his
belief in the roman structure of government.1 Cicero was limited to roman
borders of experience, and this point was best illustrated by his
disagreement with Aristotle's writings on the decay of states. Cicero was
unable to think on the level of Aristotle's logic. He quite simply used
roman history as a mapping of the paths of the decay of states.
In contrast, Aristotle understood the underlying forces and influences that
transpired when a state degraded. Cicero quite frankly could not understand
the forces which Aristotle so eloquently denoted. For Cicero .....
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Babe Ruth
.... greatest man who ever
lived, Brother Mathias. Brother Mathias was the one who handed Babe his
punishments, and it was Babe who always touted his strong, yet caring hand that
led him to baseball. It was also at St. Mary's that Babe started his life of
giving. He would save up his money from his job in the Tailor shop and often
spend it on large amounts of candy to give away to the little boys at St. Mary
who were poor, or orphans.
Brother Mathias was the one who introduced Babe to baseball, as a
recreational game to play during the spring. It wasn't long until Babe was the
only 13 year old playing on the 16 years and older team. .....
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Napolean
.... feelings broke out. But the French invasions
carried German nationalism beyond the small ranks of writers. In 1807
writers attacked French occupation of Germany. This nationalistic feeling
spread to the Prussians. In 1806 the Prussians were defeated by the French
troops. To drive the French out of Prussia there would have to be a spirit
of cooperation and loyalty. To accomplish this there would have to be
social and political reforms. A reformer said that if social abuses were
eliminated the Prussians could fight with national honor. Military reforms
improved the Prussian army. In the War of Liberation(1813), the soldiers
sho .....
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Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
.... student, and his earlier years are said to have been
characterized by melancholy, aimlessness and racial hatred. It was in
Vienna where he developed what is considered to be a life-long obsession
with the danger that the world Jewery posed to the Aryan race. It was after
Hitler relocated to Munich in 1913 and served in the Bavarian 16th Regiment
that he distinguished himself for bravery and was awarded the Iron Cross
First Class. It was during this time that Hitler had found a home and
glorified the raw majesty of life under fire, the beauty of comradeship and
the nobility of the warrior. His soldierly dreams of victory an .....
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
.... setting
has changed. usualy these shots are longer than normaly it should be. One
of the very important style of Ozu is he did not obey to the 180 degree
rule infact he used all the 360 degree space. Ozu orbitted the camera
around the characters and he broke down the 360 degree space into
multiples of 45 degrees. He shots characters from 90 degree poin of
viewes and in many differnt directions. This is offcourse unusual for the
viewers but they getalong with the story so well and that is tha magic of
Ozu. If you break the 180 degree rule the actors facing each other will
look like they are looking to the same direction, but .....
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Mohandas Gandhi
.... 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 fought was one without weapons, .....
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The Life And Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
.... of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia.
There he studied Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He had an excellent
scholastic record. He got into difficulties almost at once. Mr. Allan
did not provide him with the money to pay for his fees and other
necessities. Poe was confused and homesick. He learned to play cards and
started drinking. Soon he was in debt in excess of two thousand dollars.
Poe discovered that he could not depend upon Allan for financial support.
His foster father refused to pay his debts, and Poe had to withdraw from
the University (Asselineau 410).
In May of 1827, Poe enlisted in t .....
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On Mr. Booker T. Washington's Trickery
.... The first was of course the most clear-cut, that of winning
white advocates that would sponsor his cause (albeit by the use of
trickery). The second was that behind the purpose of the trickery itself,
advancing his fellow brothers. Trying to bypass whites' mindset and
actually making whites help the black cause. And the third and last but
not least important was that of delivering a moral speech on dignity and
pride for both blacks and whites. All these three goals show Booker T.
Washington's aims, by means of trickery. These ideas will be more fully
exposed and dealt with in the coming sections of this paper.
Washington un .....
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The Life Of Ian Fleming
.... Ian's late father's looming wealth, and Ian's lack
of access to it was bound to make the young Fleming feel disinherited. The
unattainable Fleming fortune and high achievements of Valentine and Peter,
Ian's older brother, seem to have put a chip on Ian's shoulder. As Ian
failed to fill their shoes, it appears he became more determined to build
his own empire, create his own identity within the family, and be praised
for his own successes.
Fleming had a short career at a military academy called Sandhurst.
Ian's streak of independence and apparent need to make his own identity did
not fit well with conventional military condu .....
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Marie Curie
.... and one for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and
studying its chemical properties. Even Einstein once said of her, “Marie
Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.”
As a child she always wanted to be left alone to finish her work.
But after she won the Nobel prize she could not concentrate on her work as
much, as she was famous. Her laboratory was a leaky shed with a dirt floor,
but it was in this shed that she discovered radium. She performed
pioneering studies with radium and contributed to understanding of
radioactivity.
During first five years after the discovery of radioactivity, ma .....
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