Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, And The Morality
.... owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was
dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery
was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?”
(Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off
working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with
contempt and not given any real freedoms.
Another way that Thomas Jefferson shows his moral character is in his most
famous achievement, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. This
document is probably the most important document in the history of the
United States, a .....
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Marilyn Monroe: Suicide Or Murder
.... this
happy conversation, Marilyn Monroe was dying…” This was one of the
strangest facts about the case. (Brown, and Barham)
Marilyn Monroe did have somewhat of a drug problem, as told by
everyone who knew her including her stepsister. The drugs and anti-
depressants Marilyn took mainly consisted of sleeping pills and anti
depressants prescribed by her psychiatrist, who is believed to have
something to do with Marilyns death.
After Marilyn's funeral studio publicists broke into Marilyns file
cabinets and carried away all papers related to Fox. Marilyn's notebooks
were blazing in the fireplace the next day. Lying .....
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The Life Of Richard Feynman
.... had
written that there were four main questions that needed to be answered
before the work could progress.
1. How big must the bombs be? What is the critical mass and radius for each
material? 2. What material would best serve as a tamper? 3. How pure would
the uranium or plutonium have to be? 4. How much heat, light, and shock
would be created in a nuclear explosion?
This work was very difficult, mainly because the materials (uranium and
plutonium) whose properties they were trying to discover were not available
in sufficient quantities that they could perform experiments on them. So it
was the theorist's job to calculate t .....
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R. L. Stine: It Came From Ohio! My Life As A Writer
.... weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”.
Jane became his girlfriend after meeting her at a party in Brooklyn
and became his wife on June 22, 1969. They had a son named Matthew on June
7, 1980.
A series of scary books for young adults led to the wildly popular
books enjoyed by many kids called Goosebumps. He has written about 250
books in his short life and plans to write many more; he tries to write two
books a month.
As a frequent reader, I think he writes really scary, but sometimes
funny, books with interesting characters, cool titles and neat plots. I
know I can always sit down and enjoy a book b .....
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Pope Paul III: The Sixteenth Century Miracle
.... reform pope. By the
time he was elected pope his reputation as a bishop and as an administrator
raised great hopes for his future decisions of the church. There were many
problems that faced him during his reign. These problems were political as
well as spiritual. The first goal Paul III set forth for himself was
securing peace between the rival political powers; the king of France and
the emperor. He adopted a policy of neutrality in hopes of mediating the
problem between them. He also sent many missions to each of them to
discuss peace, and in 1538 his goal was partially achieved. A ten-year
truce at Nice was negotiated, .....
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Helen Keller
.... disabilities. She did not really understand that words stood for
things in the world. She did not know what words meant. Although she did
not give up easily.(Howell 1)
Up until the age of seven, when her teacher Anne Sullivan put her
hand under water did she know that things in the world had meanings. Anne
being half blind herself had the ways of knowing how to teach Helen.
In about two hours she had mastered over sixty words. Her and Anne
developed a way of communicating through touching of the palm of the hand.
After this experience she later talked about it.
“there was a strange stir within me,-a misty consciousness, .....
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Biography: Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)
.... death in 1936.
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J.P. Morgan
.... his career, Morgan bailed out America's financial system
several times. When Congress adjourned in 1877 without appropriating money
to pay soldiers. Morgan came up with the $550,000-a-month payroll and set
up a disbursement system (Gross 64). In 1895 when the U.S. gold reserves
fell dangerously low, he signed a contract with President Grover Cleveland
to procure $50 million in gold from Europe in a private-bond sale, saving
the Treasury from distress (Gross 65). In the fall of 1907, the future of
America's financial system again looked bleak. Dun's Review noted that
8,090 companies with total liabilities of over .....
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Biography Of Irene Kuhn
.... she found a job with The
Evening Star. There she met her future husband. When they married she
was almost late to her own wedding because she was working on something
for the paper. As I said before she was very determined. At the wedding
she was so poor she wore a four dollar dress and a hat she borrowed off a
friend. She was very poor. But she still tried as hard as she could to
make things work no matter what. They also never went on a honeymoon
because she had an article to finish. Irene had a baby and finally got
out of poverty. She want on to become a brilliant and famous reporter in
her time. She is an example to .....
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John Cabot
.... from Bristol, late in May 1497, with a crew of 18,
on a small ship named "The Matthew." On June 24th, he landed somewhere on
the coast of North America, probably New Foundland or Cape Brenton Island,
in what is now know as Canada. John Cabot was positive that he had reached
the Northeast coast of Asia and excitedly sailed back to England to report
to the King.
Encouraged by the news, Henry VII gave John Cabot a small fleet and
sent him on another voyage in 1498. This voyage is surrouned by mystery.
It is believed that Cabot first sailed back to New Foundland and then went
south as far as Chesapeake Bay before storms wr .....
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Biography Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
.... Barcelona, but without success. His austerities had also undermined his
health. After considerable delay he was finally admitted into the Society
of Jesus as a lay-brother, 31 January, 1571. Distinct novitiates had not as
yet been established in Spain, and Alfonso began his term of probation at
Valencia or Gandia -- this point is a subject of dispute -- and after six
months was sent to the recently-founded college at Majorca, where he
remained in the humble position of porter for forty-six years, exercising a
marvelous influence on the sanctification not only of the members of the
household, but upon a great number of people w .....
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Biography Of Karl Marx
.... His ‘
splendid natural gifts' awakened in his father the hope that they would one
day be used in the service of humanity, whilst his mother declared him to
be a child of fortune in whose hands everything would go well. (The story
of his life, Mehring, page 2)
In High school Karl stood out among the crowd. When asked to write
a report on "How to choose a profession" he took a different approach. He
took the angle in which most interested him, by saying that there was no
way to choose a profession, but because of circumstances one is placed in
an occupation. A person with a aristocratic background is more likely to
have a higher ro .....
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