Theodore Roosevelt
.... the turn of the century as well as those of today. Theodore Roosevelt led the way for America’s path to greatness and showed us what it means to live life to its fullest.
Theodore Roosevelt was born into a wealthy New York home while the nation was at the brink of civil war. His father was a Northern advocate during the civil war while his mother, whose brother was an admiral in The Confederate Navy, was for obvious reasons a southern sympathizer. This parental diversity gave Roosevelt a firm understanding of the assorted American Cultural beliefs and mindsets. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880 at the age of 22. From .....
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Samuel Colt
.... got interested in guns. He would always take his father's guns apart. One year at the public picnic Samuel filled a beer keg with gun powder and put a long wick on it. Then he put it in the river and lit the fuse, then pushed it down the river. It exploded in the river in front of all the villagers.
Early Years in Business
Samuel's first model was of wood in 1832. In 1835 Samuel Handed in his first patent to the United States Patent Office for his revolving fire arm. Samuel's company had a very good first year. The military adopted his new revolver in 1837. As soon as the soldiers were armed with Samuel's re .....
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The Writings Of Ernest Hemingway
.... driver, and fell in love with Agnes, a nurse who cared for him while he recovered from a wound.
Though Hemingway denied the accusations, the events of his life assembled those of Frederick's. A Farewell to Arms, conveys several major themes, however the one that was emphasized the most was that of a search of order and belonging.
Hemingway conveys this theme through Frederick's own personal search during the chaos of World War I. Catherine has found strength within herself to lead her through life. This is what Frederick must come to realize. Through his involvement with Catherine, Frederick slowly finds his own inn .....
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Adolf Hitler: Pure Evil In The Flesh
.... Devil is the epitome of evil, Hitler could easily be called Satan in human form. The immense torture that Hitler inflicted cannot even begin to be expressed in words. This evil and hatred was the seed of all slaughter, rape, and injustice in the Holocaust.
Adolf Hitler, a man responsible for creating enough tears to form new oceans, and for causing enough bloodshed to turn those oceans dark red, was pure evil in the flesh. A man so wretched I question if even my"all-merciful" God could forgive him. Hitler was not"sort of nice" and did not have any days when he was not evil. He was unethical and immoral, yet he was insane .....
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Adolf Hitler
.... and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be a painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened if.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more talent....or if the Dean had been a little less critical, the world might have been spared of the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plunge it.
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Johannes Brahms
.... towns, such as Hamburg, Baden Baden, and Zurich. In 1868 he was back in Vienna and he spent three years conducting orchestral concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. .
After more travel in Germany, Brahms again made his home in Vienna in 1878. Meanwhile, his fame as a composer was growing and growing. In 1886, he was made a Knight of the Prussian “Orde pour le merite,” and was also elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1889, Brahms was presented with the freedom of his native city, Hamburg, an honor which was the most sacred to him.
While all of this was happening, Brahms continued composing. His .....
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Al Capone
.... he needed a legitimate career. He moved his family to Baltimore and got a new job as a bookkeeper for a construction firm. He resumed his relationship with Torrio, who had moved from Brooklyn to Chicago, expanding himself. In 1921, Torrio asked Al to come and work for him; Al accepted. Al immediately took on as a partner instead of just an employee. He also took over management at the Four Deuces, a gambling joint and a whorehouse combined all in one and running a Hawthorne Race Track.
Torrio was shot, barely surviving, he retired to Italy, turning over his leadership over to his right-hand man, Capone. Capone’s power in .....
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Biography Of Julius Caesar
.... enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s return from the East. On each occasion the massacre of political opponents was followed by the confiscation of their property. The proscriptions of Sulla, which preceded the reactionary political legislation enacted during his dictatorship left a particularly bitter memory that long survived.
Caesar left Rome for the province of Asia on the condition that he divorce his wife because Sulla would only allow him to leave on that condition. When he heard the news that Sulla had been killed he returned to Rome. He studied rhetoric under the distingui .....
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Cyrano De Bergerac And Mother Teresa: Heros?
.... had to be more.
So, Cyrano de Bergerac...hmmm...from my first readings he just sounded like this eccentric fellow with a large schnozzle. Why was he even put on the list of heroes? I decided maybe the techniques learned in class could possibly help me out with my dilemma. I read again. I looked over notes again. I read again. I looked over notes again. I think you catch my drift. And it turns out that this Cyrano guy ain’t half bad. In all actuality he may be a hero.
Mr. de Bergerac was an eccentric man, and yes he did have quite the olfactory organ, but he was much more complex than that. He displayed honor and .....
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King Of Babylonia: Hammurabi
.... Semitic cultures succeeding Hammurabi's rule used some of the same laws that were included in Hammurabi's code. Hammurabi's method of thought is evident in present day societies which are influenced by his code. Modern governments currently create specific laws, which are placed into their appropriate family of similar laws. Hammurabi had his laws recorded upon an eight foot high black stone monument. Hammurabi based his code on principles like, the strong should not injure the weak, and that punishment should fit the crime. As for punishment, "legal actions were initiated under the code by written pleadings; testimony was taken u .....
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Vincent Van Gogh
.... the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a change in scene. Here he became increasingly careless in his work. He was given three months notice, and then six years of training as an art dealer came to an end. He was almost twenty-three, unemployed, and had not the slightest idea what he would do next. Vincent decided to return to England, where he found a job as a teacher in a boarding school. After he gave up that job, he took another teaching job at a school in Isleworth.
As a young man Vincent Van Gogh's strongest compulsion was to love and help mankind. The son of a minister, he chose quite nat .....
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Marquise De Pompadour
.... de Pompadour played an important part in the politics of Louis's reign. She kept her influence long after the king's love for her had cooled. Pompadour served the king with devotion and generally sound advice, especially on cultural matters, and gave Louis political advice and served as his private secretary. Her influence on state policy has been exaggerated, though she did make major decisions at times. She urged the appointment of certain ministers, and was blamed for the alliance between France and Austria and France's disastrous involvement in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). She was also a generous supporter of the ar .....
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