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Martin Luther Reformation
Words: 2069 - Pages: 8.... Cotta. He really started going into the Church works when he attended the University at Erfurt. He was a very diligent student and quickly rose through the academic ranks. Meanwhile his father upon hearing of his son’s achievements had great hopes for him. Luther was preparing to be a lawyer to some prince or town after he received his degree in philosophy. But halfway through his training he decided to quit and take up life permanently in an Augustine monastery.
Historians speculate on why such a successful young man would want to join the monastery. Historians believe a string of events led Luther to choose the path of the Church. .....
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Chief Seattle
Words: 1582 - Pages: 6.... Seattle was the son of Suquamish leader named Schweabe and a Duwamish woman named Scholitza. He became Chief of the Suquamish, Duwamish, and allied Salish speaking tribes by proving his leadership qualities in a war that pitted his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River and variou .....
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The Life Of Babe Ruth
Words: 1500 - Pages: 6.... He led a rather lawless life, his parents were medium-poor and he
was mainly on his own.
All this changed when Ruth entered St.Mary's Industrial School at the
age of eight. Ruth, even though he didn't realize it, had come in to a good
thing. Brother Matthais took young Ruth under his wing and taught him to read,
write, play baseball, do needle work, and right from wrong. Ruth showed a
startling natural talent with a baseball bat, so Brother Matthais tried to round
young George into a complete baseball player by teaching him to pitch and field.
Ruth says that, ”Brother Matthais was the greatest man I ever knew.” Ruth was
taught to .....
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Author Obsessed Over Love
Words: 437 - Pages: 2.... she began to look for paternal substitutes in her mother’s nine unmarried brothers.
Growing up McCullough attended twelve years in a convent school. She then went on to Holy Cross College and obtained honors in English, chemistry, and botany. Next she began to attend the University of Sydney to become a physician. McCullough eventually dropped out due to her father’s opposition to women having medical careers. The author has had a variety of jobs varying from librarian to bus driver and schoolteacher. McCullough returned to the University of Sydney to become a medical technician specializing in neurophysiology. After acco .....
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ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed
Words: 1375 - Pages: 5.... Doc was not only a very sick man, he was also a very cultured man. Being cultured might have provoked Doc to wear a handkerchief as a fashion accessory, because rumor has it that although Doc was a mans man, he still liked to look as good as possible no matter where he went. This handkerchief in his eyes may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name Doc Holliday, they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc att .....
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Will Rogers
Words: 736 - Pages: 3.... they met the boat." Will stayed true to his Cherokee roots; he went to an Indian school and had many Indian friends. Later he became active in Native-American issues and was a major spokesman for Native-American rights in the U.S. Above all,though, Will was a "regular guy." His shy grin, easy manner, and total absence of sham endeared to Americans of all backgrounds. He had no pretensions, and his pleasures were simple: he liked to ride horses, rope cattle, and read the papers. In fact he often said, "I only know what I read in the papers." In this way, he tried to show that he wasn't a Washington insider; he got his information out .....
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The Life Of Booker T. Washington
Words: 767 - Pages: 3.... should accept that they were inferior to whites, he told them that
we have to prove to them that we are socially capable of taking care of
ourselves. He said the way we do this is make successful businesses we get
educated and get into politics. For these beliefs that Booker believed in
is why he was called "The Great Compromiser." Many white ex-slave owners
began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by
the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being
secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D.
Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening w .....
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Freud And Dreams
Words: 2370 - Pages: 9.... over a period of more than seventy years (Many of Freud's other theories have been disputed in recent years).
Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming is the activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). It was perhaps the use of the term activity that Freud most appreciated in this brief definition for, as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of mental functioning that .....
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Sigmund Freud
Words: 816 - Pages: 3.... Freud was engaged and needed to be able to support a family before he could marry, and so he determined to go into private practice with a specialty in neurology.
During his training he befriended Josef Breuer, another physician and physiologist. They often discussed medical cases together and one of Breuer's would have a lasting effect on Freud. Known as Anna O., this patient was a young woman suffering from what was then called hysteria. She had temporary paralysis, could not speak her native German but could speak French and English, couldn't drink water even when thirsty, and so on. Breuer discovered that if he hypnotized her, s .....
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Albert Camus
Words: 340 - Pages: 2.... of human
life is fully understood.
Camus referred to this meaninglessness as the “absurdity” of life. He
believed that this “absurdity” is the “failure of the world to satisfy the human
demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for
our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be
regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that
suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent
with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is
nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride.” .....
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