J. Edgar Hoover
.... sleeve of the book states that he is coproducing a movie based on this book. That is really all I could find on the man. I do not believe the man had any relation to the subject at all before he wrote the book, however, he did do a lot of research to enhance the book with numerous facts.
The book’s organization is something of fascination. The begining of the book has J. Edgar found dead in his bedroom. I found that completely interesting. It then follows throughout the next couple of days and how his files are destroyed and so forth. The first part ends with the burial of the man who greatly influenced American politics .....
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Great Mastermind
.... attended the Ecole Military School in Paris in 1784 after receiving a scholarship. This is were he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. Napoleon finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old. He was appointed to an artillery regiment , and commissioned as a lieutenant. Once again he was not well liked by his fellow officers because he was short, spoke with an Italian accent, and had little money. Napoleon spent little time with his regiment. He was more concerned with trying to free his home land of Corsica, witch had been taken with force by Fra .....
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Aristotle And Kant
.... Kant’s reasoning was that reason is the basis for morality, and it can only be found by starting from reason. Kant’s main point was the categorical imperative. This was his way of describing that humans lack any insight into the moral realm, and that we can only ask ourselves whether what we may be planning on doing has the potential to be reasonful, law abiding and moral on an equal level for everyone. Another idea of Kant’s was that morality is not based on consequence or feeling, but on reasoning alone. He believed that emotions are far to unstable to be the base of anything. If we were to let our lives be affected by fear an .....
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The Life Of Gottfried Leibniz
.... discover, in 1675, the fundamental principles of infinitesimal calculus. This discovery was arrived at independently of the discoveries of the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, whose system of calculus was invented in 1666. Leibniz's system was published in 1684, Newton's in 1687, and the method of notation devised by Leibniz was universally adopted (see Mathematical Symbols). In 1672 he also invented a calculating machine capable of multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots, and he is considered a pioneer in the development of mathematical logic.
Philosophy
In the philosophy expounded by Leibniz, the universe i .....
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Martin Luther: A Biography Of Martin Luther (1483-1546)
.... sins, and nailed them on the church door at Wittenberg. Tetzel retreated from Saxony to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, where he published a set of counter-theses and burnt Luther's. The Wittenberg students retaliated by burning Tetzel's, and in 1518 Luther was joined in his views by Melanchthon.
The pope, Leo X, at first took little notice of this disturbance, but in 1518 summoned Luther to Rome to answer for his theses. His university and the elector interfered, and ineffective negotiations were undertaken by Cardinal Cajetan and by Miltitz, envoy of the pope to the Saxon court. The scholar Johann Eck and Luther held a mem .....
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Billy Sunday
.... this prayer,
"Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I
will take that as assurance you want me to continue to
play ball; if I get it before that date I will accept that
as evidence you want me to quit playing ball and go into
Christian work."
Billy received his release on March 17. His days of playing professional baseball were over. He took a job as an assistant secretary at the YMCA in Chicago. For the next few years Billy Worked at the YMCA as a preacher and teacher.
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman was a well-known evangelist in America during the 1890's. Chapman needed an assistant to work as .....
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Hillary Clinton
.... Defense Fund. A year later she was recruited by the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. Hillary left Washington and "followed her heart to Arkansas," marrying Bill Clinton in 1975. The couple taught together on the law faculty of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980. Hillary Rodham Clinton served as First Lady of Arkansas for twelve years. During that time, she worked as a full-time partner of a law firm, founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, .....
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BF Skinner
.... operant conditioning. Skinner himself says that, “When I am asked what I regard as my most important contribution, I always say the original experimental analysis of operant behavior and its subsequent extension to more complex cases.” (Bigge, Shermis. 95)
According to Skinner operant conditioning, like all psychological processes, is a product of natural selection and deals with stimuli or consequences that act as reinforcers to behavior. Milhollan and Forisha say that, “The stimuli that happen to act as reinforcers fall into two classes, positive and negative reinforces. A positive reinforcer is a stimulus which when presente .....
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Mother Teresa
.... 26, 1928, Mother Teresa set out on her trip to Dublin by train. She arrived at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto. Here she went through two months of intensive English language studies. Then December 1, she set sail on a thirty-seven day trip to India. She stayed in Calcutta for one week and then went to Darjeeling where she began her novitiate. After two years as a novice, she professed temporary vows as a Sister of Our Lady of Loreto where she changed her baptism name to Teresa. She chose the name Teresa of the Little Flower, Therese of Lisieux. After professing her temporary vows, Teresa lived .....
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Mark Twain’s Greatest Downfall
.... him into participating in. Twain lost a lot of money, but managed to continue with his financial dealings. In 1906, Twain wrote about his first deal who suckered him into a patent that would eventually cost him $42,000 in the long run.
After trying to work with patents over several occasions, Twain tried his luck with machinery. Like the other investment, he had to put out a lot of money. Twain discusses what occurred with the machinery:
Meantime, another old friend arrived with a wonderful invention.
It was an engine or a furnace or something of the kind which
would get out 99 per cent of all the stream that w .....
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My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
.... selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which left me to run the empire alone. At the age of 26, I was managing more than 1,000 employees, which included a payroll of more than $300,000 a week. I demanded total loyalty from all of my numerous employees. During this time I became so rich that I gave out free food for Chicago’s unemployed which made me look like I had a heart of gold.
By 1927, I was grossing about $105,000,000 a year from various illegal operations (the average law-abiding US citizen in 1927 was .....
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Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
.... older son Gansevoort who carried the mother's maiden name was distinctly her favorite.” (Edinger 7) This was a sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical Ishamel.
In 1837 he shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy. Upon returning to the U.S. he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18 month voyage he deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the natives, who were cannibals. He escaped aboard an Australian trader, leaving it at Papeete, Tahiti, where he was impri .....
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