John Maynard Keynes
.... in a decades time. Within that decade he made
his two million fortune by speculating in international currencies, stocks
and commodities. In addition to his newly made fortune Keynes served as a
trustee of King's College and built it's endowment from 30,000 to 380,000
pounds. Keynes went on to write other books like “Treaties on Probability”
in 1921 and “The Treaties on Money” in 1930. (Lekachman/Miller).
Being that the depression was at hand during the time, people
reviewed Keynes theories, which they discovered did not really explain the
prolonging of the recession. Keynes began to study this problem thorough .....
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David Hume
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the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A man must be very
sagacious who could discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of
heat, and ice and cold, without being previously acquainted with the
operation of these qualities.” Therefore, cause and effect is learned
through experience.
2. The circular reasoning in Section IV, Part II, paragraph 6, is, “we have
said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of
cause and effect; that our knowledge of the relation is derived entirely
from experience; and that all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the
supposition that the futu .....
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Biography Of Thomas Edison
.... and spent his spare time taking apart and putting together telegraphs.
He had many many jobs, but most of his employers became upset with his
habit about forgetting about his job and working on his own experiments.
At twenty one, he repaired a broken down stock ticker machine. A business
named Laws than hired him. Soon after he was recruited, he put together a
perfect stock ticker machine in his spare time. For his work, he was paid
$40,000. With all of this new money Edison bought many books and
scientific equipment to create new inventions. Then, he bought a factory.
Quickly he had three hundred employers, and bu .....
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Vespasian
.... with the ruling emperor, Caligula (Gaius
Caesar); and in the next reign, that of Claudius, he won the favour of the
powerful freedman Narcissus. He became commander of the Legio II Augusta,
which took part in the invasion of Britain in 43. After distinguished
conduct at the crossing of the Medway River, he was given charge of the
left wing of the advance; he proceeded to occupy the Isle of Wight and to
conquer tribes as far west as Devon, capturing more than 20 "towns." For
these achievements he was awarded triumphal honours and appointed to two
priesthoods, and in 51 he became consul. But, on Claudius' death in 54,
Narcissus, w .....
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Jonathan Edwards
.... was a strong willed pastor. His presence and brilliant
sermons helped to bring about the religious revival known as the "Great
Awakening". He drew such graphic pictures of the hell awaiting them that
the people began to frantically prepare for the conversion experience by
which they would be "born again". Edwards first published revival
narrative, Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God, described his
town awakening. Although it was written in 1736 it is still referred to
today. In 1739 these "brushfires of evangelicalism" began to spread.
Separate local revivals and new leaders began to form. It took abou .....
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Life Of William Shakespeare
.... was probably
fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known
to put on pageants and many popular shows. It also held several large
fairs during the year. Stratford was a exciting place to live. Stratford
also had fields and woods surrounding it giving William the opportunity to
hunt and trap small game. The River Avon which ran through the town
allowed him to fish also. Shakespeare's' poems and plays show his love of
nature and rural life which reflects his childhood.
On November 28, 1582, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway of the neighboring
village of Shottery. She was twenty-six, and he was only ei .....
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
.... Catholic
Boarding School between the years 1895 and 1900. After leaving Mount
Vincent Eugene attended Bett's Academy in Stanford Connecticut from 1900 to
1906. In 1906 Eugene was accepted to Princeton University but before
completing one year he got expelled.
After getting expelled from Princeton he spent 5 or 6 years as a
drifter and a sailor traveling on journeys to the Honduras, South America
and Europe. (Strecker,“Eugene O'Neill”,p.1535.)By 1912 O'Neill had been a
gold prospector, a seaman and was a regular at many New York Cities flop
houses. While he was on one of his expeditions as a seaman he developed the
disease T .....
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The Rule Of Julius Caesar And How The Leap Year Was Started
.... to use the power for peace. He wanted
to stop chaos and for his people to be fortunate and feel all equal.
Besides everything else he contributed to the less fortunate, he also gave
grain to the poor.
Many people believed that Julius Caesar was a tyrant who meant to
end the republic and make himself king, although, I believe he was a very
beneficial dictator who should have remained a leader. Under his
leadership, the government gave jobs to the unemployed, public land to the
poor, and citizenship to many people in the provinces. Many Romans
believed that Caesar was a wise ruler who had brought order and peace back
to Rome. O .....
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Bill Gates
.... scheduled classes for
students. "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly
the only guy in a class full of girls"(Gates 12).
In 1972 Intel released their first microprocessor chip: the 8008. Gates
attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic
Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the chip did not contain enough
transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen found a way to use the 8008 and
"started Traf-O-Data, a computer traffic analysis company"(Clayton 452) It
worked well however, marketing their new machine proved to be impossible. "No
one actually wanted to buy the machi .....
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Bram Stoker
.... of Destiny," were themes
that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares
and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of
Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the
critic (and still holding his civil service position), gave Irving's
performance a favorable review. Impressed with Stoker's review, Irving
invited Stoker back stage and the resultant friendship lasted until
Irving's death in 1905. The Stoker/Irving partnership solidified around the
year 1878. During this time Henry Irving had taken over his own theater
company called the London .....
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Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Sixth President 1901-1909
.... for mayor of New York against Congressman Abram S. Hewitt and the
economist Henry George. Hewitt, a Democrat, won easily with Roosevelt
finishing a poor third.
Roosevelt then married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow, in
London. Edith was an intelligent and cultivated, yet private woman. She
bore him four sons; Theodore, Jr.; Kermit; Archibald; and Quentin, and a
daughter, Ethel.
For two and one-half years after his second marriage Roosevelt lived as a
sportsman and scholar in Sagamore Hill, his house at Oyster Bay, on Long
Island. He published biographies of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Hart
Benton and works on the .....
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HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
.... to Wagner's
operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology.
Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he
studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's
death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts
rejected him as untalented. Lacking business training, Hitler eked out a
living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting cheap postcards.
He often slept in parks and ate in free soup kitchens.
These humbling experiences inflamed his discontent. He hated Austria as
"a patchwork nation" and looked longingly across the border at energeti .....
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