Jedediah Hotchkiss
.... Swoope received word that Sheridans troops were leaving Winchester head for Staunton. Confederate Generals Rosser and Early had to decide what to do. Knowing that there would be a fight on his hands Early withdrew to Waynesboro leaving General Rosser and a handful of men in Staunton. (Bowman, V1 178)
Early made his post on Florence Avenue in Waynesboro on March 2, 1865. Early's men (Whartons Division) stretched out from Florence Avenue to Pine Avenue. This is about where Waynesboro High School stands now. Soon after Sheridan arrived in Waynesboro and established the Union line about a mile of Whartons Division. By estimating t .....
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Langston Hughes
.... writer would prefer to be considered a poet. Hughes argued, “no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself’. He wrote in this essay, “We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren’t, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too...If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn’t matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves(Jackson,2)”.
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Alexander The Great And His Impact On Greek Civilization
.... men could wage war in order that... they may themselves avoid becoming enslaved to others; (second) so they may seek control for the benefit of the subject of people... and thirdly to hold despotic power over those who deserve to be slaves" ( Nardo 79). As well as the other knowledge he had gained from his teachers he used this concept in his ruling.
In 336 BC after Phillip was assassinated, Alexander took his place as the leader of the Greek League of Nations and the Kingdom of Macediona (Roebuck 349). When Alexander became ruler, Phillip with the help of Alexander himself, had defeated the Athenians and the Thebans as wel .....
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Maya Angelou
.... as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance, and. studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for the southern Leadership Conference. She Commission on the Observance of International women's Year.
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Beethoven
.... for fine improvisatory performances. In Vienna young Beethoven soon had a long list of aristocratic patrons who loved music and were eager to help him.
Onset of Deafness
In the late 1700s Beethoven began to suffer from early symptoms of deafness. The cause of his disability is still uncertain. By 1802 Beethoven was convinced that the condition not only was permanent, but was getting progressively worse. He spent that summer in the country and wrote what has become known as the "Heiligenstadt Testament." In the document, apparently intended for his two brothers, Beethoven expressed his humiliation and despair. For the .....
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Frederick Douglass' Life And His Work
.... Warning Brown that an attack on federal property would be equal to an assault on the U.S. government, and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation.
He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential election of 1860, and helped raise two regiments of black soldier, the Massachusetts 54th and 55th. After the Civil War, Douglass, as a recognized leader of and spokesman for the black slaves, fought for enactment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the U.S. He became U.S. marshal for the District Columbia (1877-1881), recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia ( .....
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Machiavelli's View Of Human Nature
.... citizens there are few to be found."5 Machiavelli further goes on to question the loyalty of the citizens and advises the Prince that "...because men a wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need keep your word to them."6 However, Machiavelli did not feel that a Prince should mistreat the citizens. This suggestion once again to serve the Prince's best interests.
If a prince can not be both feared and loved, Machiavelli suggests, it would be better for him to be feared bey the citizens within his own principality. He makes the generalization that men are, "...ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers .....
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The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
.... 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 France. Soon afte .....
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Emily Dickinson
.... attending Amherst Academy with other scrupulous thinkers she began to develop into a free-willed person. Many of Dickinson’s friends had continued with their Christianity and her family put an enormous amount of pressure on her to convert. No longer the submissive youngster, she would not compromise her own will on issues such as religion, literature, and personal friendships.
Though she cast aside the institutional religion of the Church, she never did reject or accept God. Even so, the most significant things in Dickinson’s life were spirituality, love, individuality, and nature. When discussing these themes in poetry, .....
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Howard Stern: The King Of Mass Media Or The Anti Christ?
.... from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), and many activist groups, Stern still manages to stay on the air. However, that air time has come with a hefty price. Stern has gone down in the history books for receiving the largest fine that the FCC has issued to any one radio broadcaster.
Howard Stern has always had a loyal following, but as the years go by he seems to expand the cult of Stern fans by the millions. This is a significant issue to the people of our society. Decade after decade the rules, morals, and ethical standards of this country seem to diminish or .....
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John Brown
.... latter.
John Brown was hanged for his attempt at giving the greatest gift of all, freedom. There are men who walk among us that are thankful for having had the chance to meet Brown. There are others who dreamt about doing as he did. John Brown is a man of honor and courage, guilty of only acting impulsively.
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Kazimir Malevich
.... of what he felt.
Malevich described Suprematism at its moment of birth as a 'purely pictorial art'. From his point of view it represented the highest manifestation of inherent value of art. It may be wrong to approach Suprematism as painting in the ordinary, traditional sense of the word. Despite its geometric simplicity -- the source is of very contemporary appeal, because it reduces what is complex to its elementary form. Suprematism embodies a fundamentally different approach to the entire concept of artistic creativity. To discover what is involved one might start with the "Black Square", the original statement of S .....
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