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Isaac Newton
Words: 679 - Pages: 3.... he investigated the latest developments in mathematics and the new natural philosophy that treated nature as a complicated machine. Almost immediately, still under the age of 25, he made fundamental discoveries that were instrumental in his career science. The Fluxional Method, Newton's first achievement was in mathematics. He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves. He recognized that the two procedures were inverse operations. By joining them in what he called the fluxional method, Newton developed in 1666 a kind of mathematics that is known as calculus. Calculus w .....
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John The Baptist
Words: 450 - Pages: 2.... it records 18 miracles (similar in count to Matthew and Luke) but only 4 parables (Matthew includes 18 parables and Luke 19).
According to the 1999 Grolier Encyclopedia, Saint , a Jewish prophet, was the forerunner of Jesus Christ. He was the son of Zachariah, a priest of the Temple. Little is known of John prior to his public ministry, except that his birth was miraculously foretold (Luke 1:13-20). John achieved recognition as a prophet in the region of the lower Jordan Valley, where he attracted disciples. His public ministry began with the proclamation of a baptism of repentance in preparation for the Messiah. Crowds came to be bapti .....
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John Locke
Words: 1964 - Pages: 8.... who, although lived in a social setting, could not be articulated as a herd or social animal. Locke believed person to stand for,... a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing in different times and places, which it only does by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking. This ability to reflect, think, and reason intelligibly is one of the many gifts from God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and refle .....
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Tom Clancy: His Life, His Style, His Books
Words: 1899 - Pages: 7.... give up. Clancy once said,
"In America, there ain't no excuses. You can go out and do anything you
damn well please if you try hard enough."2 Finally, this author, was the
only one that didn't put me to sleep with a warm cup of milk.
Thomas L. Clancy Jr., son of a mailman and department store credit
employee, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1947. He attended a local
catholic parochial elementary and secondary school. Most of his friends
were interested in sports, and following their favorite teams throughout
the season, but Tom had more important things on his mind like guns, tanks,
and planes. He went to Loyola College, a Jes .....
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Ernest Hemingway 5
Words: 2220 - Pages: 9.... does concern Hemingway and his tyros is the process of learning how to make one’s passive vulnerabilities (to the dangers and unpredictabilities of life) into a strong rather than weak position, and how to exact the maximum amount of reward (honor, dignity) out of these encounters” (Rovit 92). In advance, a character knows what is expected of him in the game of life, although he does not know what combination of challenges will be imposed on him at any one given time (91). Hemingway’s belief in the freedom of the individual to make responsible choices was paid for at the painful expense of having to constantly wage battle .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 989 - Pages: 4.... as the guiding pillars of his administration. He began by affirming "βequal and exact justice to all his men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.β" Next, Jefferson proclaimed, "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." He then went on to affirm his commitment to the rights of the states and the preservation of the central government. Continuing to intermingle general principles and specific policies, that new president declared that he favored reliance for defense on a "militia rather than an army, a small navy" (Cunningham) and prosp .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 2145 - Pages: 8.... graduating from William and Mary in 1762, Jefferson studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first action was an unsuccessful bill allowing owners to free their slaves.
The impending crisis in British-Colonial relations overshadowed routine affairs of legislature. In 1774, the first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until Massa .....
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John Lennon
Words: 782 - Pages: 3.... The two as song
writers were a perfect mix. John had a quick artistic sense and he was easily
excited by new challenges, he projected a sarcastic and rebellious tough-guy
personality, who was actually a vulnerable romantic. While Paul projected the
sweet image and who was underneath an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things .....
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Biography: William Gibson (1914- )
Words: 238 - Pages: 1.... play was later made into a film and a musical called simply
Seesaw (1973).
Early works include I Lay in Zion (1943) and A Cry of Players (1968), a
play about Shakespeare which he rewrote in 1968.
Gibson collaborated on the book of the musical Golden Boy (1964) He also
wrote a book of Shakespeare criticism called Shakespeare's Game (1978).
He returned to the Helen Keller story with his play Monday After the
Miracle (1982).
Plays and musicals
Two For the Seesaw (1958).
Dinny and the Witches (1959).
The Miracle Worker (1959).
Golden Boy (1964): musical, with book by Gibson, based on Clifford .....
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Life Of Hitler
Words: 1112 - Pages: 5.... after all died fighting in his name. We must take Hitler seriously both as an individual and as an effective politician in order to understand how he gained so much power and how he abused that power. Only then will we be able to appreciate the profound evil of Hitler and Nazism. Adolf Hitler: The Man Behind the Mask! Adlof Hitler was born April 20, 1889 to Alois and Klara Hitler and had a little sister Paula and half-brother Alois J.R. and half-sister Angela. Young Adolf was a good student in elementary. Energetic and smart, leader among children his own age. Loved warlike games. Had an outstanding gift as a speaker. It was also dis .....
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