Hitler
.... Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm. The oldest, Alois Jr., 13, spent much of his time getting beat and listening to his fathers' harsh words. At age 14 he ran away, never seeing his father again. That put Adolf , the next oldest boy, in his shoes. At this time, the family sold the farm and moved to a small town of Lambach, Austria. The family would make many moves after that. This meant less chores and more free time to Adolf. Adolf attended a school in an old Catholic Benediction Monastery. The monastery was decorated with carved stones and woodwork that included severa .....
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Martin Luther King's Life
.... While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Alabama. They were married in June 1953, and the following year an appointment as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was only 26 years when he led his first protest, The Montgomery Bus Boycott. This all started with a young women by the name of Rosa Parks. One afternoon as she walked to the bus stop and waited patiently, for the bus to pull up she, saw that the back half of the bus was full and many people were standing, she decided to tell that bus to go. When the next bus came, she noticed that the black section was .....
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All Good Things
.... masking tape. Without saying a word, I proceeded to Mark's desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X with them over his mouth. I then returned to the front of the room.
As I glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me. That did it!! I started laughing. The class cheered as I walked back to Mark's desk, removed the tape, and shrugged my shoulders. His first words were, "Than you for correcting me, Sister."
At the end of the year, I was asked to teach junior-high math. The years flew by, and before I knew it Mark was in my classroom again. He was more handsome than ever and just as polite. Si .....
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
.... New England in “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” These three poems mentioned above are his most famous long poems.
Longfellow received wide public recognition with his volume of verse “Voices of the Night” (1839), which contained the poem “A Psalm of Life,” which was written in quatrain stanza format.
"Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem."
This poem revolves around the idea of life’s pursuits. It is an optimistic view toward dealing with life’s purpose. Longfellow suggests a major purpose of life is learning .....
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David Hume's An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
.... of the sun rising in the future to demonstrate how as humans, we are unjustified in making predictions of the future based on past occurrences. As humans, we tend to use the principle of induction to predict what will occur in the future. Out of habit, we assume that sun will rise every day, like it has done in the past, but we have no basis of actual truth to make this justification. By claiming that the sun will rise tomorrow according to Hume is not false, nor is it true. Hume illustrates that “the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction and is conceived by the mind w .....
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Marco Polo's Influence
.... died when he was around 70 years old in 1324.
Marco Polo's father and uncle, Nicolò and Maffeo, were very influential to him. They themselves were explorers and they were the ones who had brought him to China and other countries in Asia. They visited and traded a lot, therefore he was more open to other people in the world. His travels especially to China inspired him to write a book in prison.
Kublai Khan was another important person in the life of Marco Polo. He was the Mongol leader in China when Marco Polo visited China. They had a very good friendship. Kublai Khan really liked Marco Polo, he let him be governor of Yangcho .....
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Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius
.... like an adult, and “performed all the tricks that were asked of him, playing with the keyboard covered or with one finger,” as stated by Elias.
At an early age, Mozart learned to dress in the court manner, including the wig, and also learned the correct way to walk and turn a compliment. The normal social situation of a musician in Mozart’s lifetime was that of a servant at court, where he took orders from a powerful individual higher up in the hierarchy. He was also invited to the courts of the mighty to perform,and was allowed to dine in their tables--usually in exchange for a piano performance.
Mozart’s musical socializ .....
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Mikhail Lermontov
.... and south of the Ural Mountains. At this moment we can see two theories emerging in the 19th century. The first one is nationalism provides by the fearsness that Tartar tribes were resisting Russian aggression. The second important characteristic trait is chauvinism portrayed by the fact hat the girl was killed upon being taken to the homeland. This gruesome portrayal is the beginning of the feministic movement, when the women grew form nothing to become equal to the other half of the earth population.
The second part of the story is further acquaintance of the narrator with an old soldier Maxim Maximich. All seems to fo .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
.... were three other paintings that either disappeared or never existed in the first place. They are, a "Nativity" said to have belonged to Emperor Maximilian, a "Madonna" that Ludovico Sforza announced as a gift to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and the portrait of one of Ludovico's mistresses, Lucrezea Crivelli.
Throughout his life he also served various other roles, including civil engineer and architect (designing mechanical structures such as bridges and aqueducts), and military planner and weapons designer (designing rudimentary tanks, catapults, machine guns, and even navel weapons).
Da Vinci, during the 1400's made i .....
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The Reign Of Hitler
.... and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be 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 the nightmare into which this boy was eventually to plunge it.
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Zora Neale Hurston
.... She became a member of a traveling theater at the age of sixteen, and then found herself working as a maid for a white woman. This woman saw a spark that was waiting for fuel, so she arranged for Hurston to attend high school in Baltimore. She also attended Morgan Academy, now called Morgan State University, from which she graduated in June of 1918. She then enrolled in the Howard Prep School followed by later enrollment in Howard University. In 1928 Hurston attended Barnard College where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas. After she graduated, Zora returned to Eatonville to begin work on anthropology. Four years aft .....
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Mohandas Ghandi
.... using their own cotton the Indian people were protesting the British way of doing things. Ghandi, and his followers, rejected Western style clothing because they had strong feelings of nationalism and proclaimed they were not westerners, thus they would not wear their style of clothing.
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