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Shakespeare
Words: 547 - Pages: 2.... three plays about Henry VI and a play written about Richard III. Also he wrote Othello on the basis of Hecatommithi and Twelfth Night on the basis of His Farewell to Military Profession. More than fifty percent of ’s plays were influenced from various groups of topics.
Other things that influenced ’s plays were his life experiences. As a young boy dramatic events that occurred led to his writing of Hamlet. The drowning of a girl named Katherine he knew was also a source of his playwriting.
History affected his writing as well. One of ’s most heralded plays was based on the life and demise of Julius Caesar. He gathered inf .....
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Katherine Mansfield
Words: 1456 - Pages: 6.... to continue on writing. After attending grammar school, Kathleen went on to attend Miss Swainson's Secondary School. During this time, she is acquainted with Maata Mahupuka, a native Maori. Her interest in Mahupuka later grew into a brief love affair with him (Nathan 1). After graduating from secondary school, Miss Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp left New Zealand. She decided this after thwarting the idea of a career in music. Beauchamp went on to attend London's Queens College and study literature. While in attendance at Queens College, Kathleen made a friend in Ida Baker. Ida Baker, like Beauchamp, was an avid writer. Kathleen gave the .....
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Hammurabis Code
Words: 946 - Pages: 4.... These would be the governing laws of all his people. People then knew all the punishments and consequences for breaking the laws, and they knew what they must due when accusing a criminal. (We know what we must do on Saturday to Woodstock, don’t we?) Hammurabi created a set of moral codes that was to be copied and used by other civilizations.
The Codes of Law were broken into certain categories. These categories are not definitely known, but the majority of historians believe them to be: family, labor, personal property, real estate, trade and business. Many think the codes were too strict and the punishments too harsh. Hammura .....
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Florence Nightingale 2
Words: 2894 - Pages: 11.... she was born in. Parthenope is Greek for Naples. Florence and Parthenope were seldom called by their full names. Florence was called Flo, and Parthenope was called Parthe or just Pop.
Florence and Parthenope’s parents were Fanny and William Nightingale. They were both from England. Her father was a Unitarian and a Whig who was involved in the anti-slavery movement. As a child, Florence was very close to her father, who without a son, treated her as his friend and companion. Florence's mother, Fanny Nightingale, also came from a Unitarian family. Both Florence and Parthenope were born while they were on vacation in Italy.
The Nigh .....
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Marilyn Monroe: Suicide Or Murder
Words: 2608 - Pages: 10.... Phone records, visitors, etc. It's very
hard for me to believe that someone so high on life and talking about her
new marriage to Joe Dimaggio on August 1, just three days before her death,
would commit suicide.
The coroner said “Marilyn was laughing and chatting on the
telephone with Joe's Dimaggio's son and not thirty minutes later after this
happy conversation, Marilyn Monroe was dying…” This was one of the
strangest facts about the case. (Brown, and Barham)
Marilyn Monroe did have somewhat of a drug problem, as told by
everyone who knew her including her stepsister. The drugs and anti-
depressants Marilyn too .....
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George Berkley
Words: 749 - Pages: 3.... separate and distance ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did not exist is George Berkeley. In truth, it is the immaterialist position that seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny.
The initial groundwork for Berkley’s position is the truism that the materialist is the skeptic. His idea is that no one can ever perceive the real essence of anything. In short, the materialist feels that the information received through sense experience gives a repres .....
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Malcolm X
Words: 1021 - Pages: 4.... Earl Little also had three children by a first wife: Ella, Earl, and Mary. Because of the father’s advocacy for Garvey’s movement, the whole family was terrorised by the Ku Klux Klan. To avoid any more harassment by these white racists, Little had to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he committed suicide. Alone and without money, Louise Little got more and more desperate, before the white authorities sent her to a mental hospital.
Malcolm attended school until eighth grade living with different families. When .....
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Cervantes
Words: 548 - Pages: 2.... Rome and became a gentleman-in-waiting for Cardinal Acquaviva. About a year later, he joined s Spanish military regiment in Naples. He fought in the Battle of Lepanto. During that battle, he lost the use of his left hand. In 1575, and one of his brothers were captured by Barbary pirates. During his imprisonment, the pirates sent them to Algeria and sold them as slaves. They were held there for ransom. In 1580, he family and friends paid the ransom to free ’ brother. They did not have enough money to free . After he tried to escape and got caught, they released him because of his bravery for taking all the blame. could not f .....
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Nikita Khrushchevs Rise To Power
Words: 1589 - Pages: 6.... (Modern Enc.. and Kort)
To prevent Malenkov from gaining to much power, he was stripped of his duties as First Secretary. These duties in turn were handed to Nikita Khrushchev, a longtime party boss of the Ukraine and the first secretary of the party’s Moscow organization, who was not seen as a serious candidate for supreme power. (Kort) Khrushchev had two advantages over his associates, the right to appoint his trusted followers to key positions and the right to demote those he distrusted. To succeed Khrushchev had to remove his two principal rivals. He removed Beria quickly with the help of other colleagues who feared Beria. On Apr .....
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Sir Issac Newton
Words: 727 - Pages: 3.... bachelors degree in 1665. After an intermission of nearly two
years to avoid the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, Which
elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master
degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum
of the University to pursue his own interests: mathematics and
natural philosophy.
By joining them in what he called the Fluxional method,
Newton developed in the autumn of 1666 a kind of mathematics that
is now known as calculus. Was a new and powerful method that
carried modern mathematics above the level of Greek geometry.
Although Newton was its inventor, he did not introduce calculus
in .....
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