Julius Caesar
.... in the political establishment. The second major theme in scene one had to do with the satisfaction and rapture of the public for Caesar. The public cheered and showered much enthusiasm for Caesar who defeated Pompey. This was an example of how the public got so easily persuaded by top authority. The publics acceptance and compliance to Marullus and Flavius is important also because it foreshadowed an influential and main part. It is the illustration for Antony’s manipulation of the public later on that determined the concluding acts of the play.
The second scene of act 1 begins with Caesar uttering out imperial l .....
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Abraham Lincoln
.... less than one total year of education. Abraham did not have that much education because there were no teachers to teach him and his peers (Stefoff 15). Abraham also read as much as possible and he always found ways to find moments for reading. When he was plowing a field, for example, he carried a book and read a page or two at the end of each row, while the horses rested. “I never saw Abe after he was twelve that he didn’t have a book in his hand or in his pocket,” Dennis Hank later marveled. “It didn’t seem natural to see a feller read like that” (Stefoff 18).
Lincoln entered politics at an exciting time; he ran fo .....
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Comparing Adolf Hitler And Saddam Hussein
.... Hitler was sentenced five years imprisonment and served nine months writing his book Mein Kampf (my struggle). “The failure of the uprising taught Hitler that the Nazi party must use legal means to assume power” (Dorpanlen 2). Released as a result of a general amnesty in December 1924, he rebuilt his party without interference with those whose government he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression, struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot, an explanation accepted by the German. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, and national glory, he attracted millions of voters. Nazi representation in Reichstag (pa .....
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Biography Of Andy Warhol
.... that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns. In addition to painting, Warhol made several 16mm films which have become underground classics such as Chelsea Girls, Empire and Blow Job. In 1968, Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) walked into Warhol's studio, known as the Factory, and shot the artist. The attack was nearly fatal.
At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his focus on painting. Works created in this decade include Maos, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos and Shadows and many commis .....
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The Life Of Benjamin Franklin
.... in the city, so he struggled on to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, he found work at an old press owned by a gentleman named Keimer. Keimer loved arguing about religion, and discussed many things with Franklin. Franklin approached and answered Keimer’s questions with such tact, Keimer was impressed with his natural skills as a disputer. It was during these years that Franklin kept a journal describing various English towns and the characters of their residents. This revealed one of the talents that was to make him famous: the keen, observing eye of a scientist.
As a dutiful citizen, Franklin never stopped thinking about ways .....
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Juliette Low: Founder Of The Girl Scouts
.... school Juliette went to was Edge Hill School, which was also in Virginia. Juliette thought that Edge Hill School was more fun than Stuart Hall. Daisy joined the Theta Taus Club. They held secret meetings, and had special feasts. Daisy always got “Golden Reports” at Edge Hill School, which meant that she always got good grades on her report cards. The last school she went to was Charbonniers School in New York City where she had her “coming out ceremony” which meant that she was no longer called a girl, but a lady.
Juliette Low founded an organization in 1912 and named it Girl Scouts. General Sir Robert Baden-Powel .....
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Bruce Lee
.... Boxing Championships and defeated the reigning three year champion, Gary Elms.”(1-2) Bruce was involved in many street fights because of his experience in boxing. His parents decided to have him move back to San Francisco.
In 1959 Bruce returned to America and lived with an old friend of his fathers. Bruce worked on some odd jobs around the Chinese community. He lived there for two years then decided to move to Seattle with another old friend of his. He enrolled at the University of Washington to study philosophy. Before he enrolled at the University Bruce had already attended Edison Technical School to try and earn his h .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... didn’t have use for this massive piece of land (Boorstin, p.94). Jefferson, however, felt that if the United States owned the land, farmers west of the Appalachian Mountains could use the land strictly for agricultural purposes. If the Treaty of 1795 had not been signed, the United States would have gone to war with France to gain control of the territory.
Initially, Jefferson, through his minister of France, Robert R. Livingston, offered Napoleon $2 million for a small stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River (internet). There, Americans could build their own seaport. Impatient at the lack of news, Jefferson .....
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Winning For Zorich
.... to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his seat with anger inside him. When he got home that night he told his mom what happened and she helped him with the problem. At the end of the school year he wanted to read his essay to the class. When he got in front of the class he read through the poem and mumbled just a bit.
When Zora was told she had severe diabetes and was overweight she had no choice but to turn to public assistance. It was barely enough for rent. He and his mother went to very low extremes. Chris would got to bed at 6 p.m. so he would not be hungry at night time. He knew he would aw .....
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Robert Frost And His Life
.... in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school in that state, entered Dartmouth College, but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts, he taughtschool and worked in a mill and as a newspaper reporter. In 1894 he sold "My Butterfly: An Elegy" to The Independent, a New York literary journal. A year later he married Elinor White, with whom he had shared valedictorian honors at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College as a special student but left without a degree. Over the next ten years he wrote (but rarely published) poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire (purchased fo .....
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Isabella I
.... Catholic sovereigns, and to Queen Isabella fell the honor of appreciating the genius who had not been understood at Genoa, at Venice, or in Portugal. He was presented to the queen by her confessor, Padre Hernando Talavera, and Cardinal Mendoza (el Cardenal de Espańa); and with the means which the king and queen procured for him he fitted out the three famous caravels which placed America in communication with the Old World. Sailing, 3 August, 1492, from the port of Palos, he discovered on 12 October-the day on which the feast of Our Lady of the Pillar is observed in Spain- the first of the Bahama Islands. Not only did Isabella th .....
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Benito Mussolini And His Impact On World War 2
.... the Maritime. On September13, 1937, he opened an offensive into British- garrisoned Egypt from Libya.
On October 4, 1937, while the offensive still seemed to promise success, Benito Mussolini met Adolf Hitler at the Brenner Pass, on their joint frontier. The two of them discussed how the war in the Mediterranean, Britain’s principal foothold outside its island base, might be turned to her decisive disadvantage. Hitler suggested to Mussolini that Spain might be coaxed on the axis side, thus giving Germany free use of the British Rock of Gibraltar, by offering Franco part of French North Africa, and that France might be pe .....
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