.... power. Oedipus acknowledged this fault when his children are told, "Abide in modesty so may you live the happy life your father did not have" (Sophocles 79). He also displays this abuse of power when he accuses Creon of conspiring against him. "I’ve caught him in a plot, against my person" (Sophocles 36). His arrogance caused the people of his land to lose respect for their king. Mandela also had this raise to power and arrogance when she allegedly ordered the murder of young boys believed to be spies. "(I) was ordered to sing loudly to drown out the screams of boys being beaten for allegedly leaking information" (Maclean 55). Her .....

.... a member of the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti who was a sculptor in bronze. 's earliest work was a marble statue of David. The "David" was originally made for the cathedral but was moved in 1416 to the Palazzo Vecchio, a city hall where it long stood as a civic-patriotic symbol. From the sixteenth century on, the gigantic "David" of Michelangelo, which served the same purpose, eclipsed it. More of 's early works which were still partly Gothic are the impressive seated marble figure of St. John the Evangelist for the cathedral and a wooden crucifix in the church of Sta. Croce. The full power of Donatello first a .....

.... can mean. Their house was a sight of luxury in the eyes of the common folk in the parish. Though they lived well, the Smiths had no fortune. Abigail's father often worked with his own hands, planting corn and potatoes, gathering hay, sowing barley, or making sure that his sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship. Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson. Ab .....

.... forbid this from him in the belief that Blaise was strain his mind. Faced with this opposition, Blaise demanded to know ‘what was mathematics?' His father told him, "that generally speaking, it was the way of making precise figures and finding the proportions among them." (P 39,Cole) This set him going and during his play times in this room he figured out ways to draw geometric figures such as perfect circles, and equilateral triangles, all of this he accomplished. Due to the fact that É tienne took such painstaking measures to hide mathematics from Blaise, to the point where he told his friends not to mention math at all around him, .....

.... Rackets' committee. During that time he exposed mofia figureheads such as Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck. He seemed to be obsessed with dismantling the Mofia. Under his brother's administration, he continued his attack on the Mofia. Robert Kennedy had no sympathy for the mob, nor did he care that he was being criticized by the media for his “harsh measures� such as his extensive use of wiretaps . In 1964 he resigned as Attorney General to subsequently gain a Senate seat from New York. While being a Senator, his views on government slightly changed. He was now paying more attention to the needs of the poor minorities, and was critici .....

.... to be known as the "Age of Jackson." Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in a settlement on the border of North and South Carolina. He was orphaned at age 14. After studying law and becoming a member of the Bar in North Carolina later he moved to Nashville Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him due to a legal mistake in her prior divorce in 1794. Jackson served as delegate to Tenn. in the 1796 Constitutional convention and a congressman for a year (from 1796-97). He was elected senator in 1797, bu .....

.... for three and a half years, he left the navy and married Susan Delancey. They had five daughters and two sons. In 1826, he added the Fenimore to his name. But it was by accident that James Fenimore Cooper became a writer. He took a dare from his wife to write a better book than the English one he had been reading to her. Precaution was published in 1820. Though I completely understand why it won't be on anyone's nightstand, it does show us some importance to understanding Cooper's writings. We know that he critically observed the manners and morals of Europe during a seven-year tour of .....

.... Edmond, was born two years later. The family moved once more in 1895 to the farm community of Hafeld, 30 miles southwest of Linz. Another sister, Paula, was born in 1896, the sixth of the union, supplemented by a half brother and half sister from one of his father's two previous marriages. Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery's coat of arms' most salient feature was a swastika. As a youngster, Adolf's dream was to enter the priesthood. While there is anecdotal evidence that Adolf's father regularly beat him during his childhood, it was not unusual for discipline t .....

.... married and teamed up to conduct research on radioactivity and found that uranium ore, or pitchblende, contained much more radioactivity than could be explained solely by the uranium content. She was the most famous woman in physics and was recognised as one of the greatest scientists of the century and won 2 Nobel prizes, one for physics in 1903 and one for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and studying its chemical properties. Even Einstein once said of her, “Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.� As a child she always wanted to be left alone to finish her work. But after she won the No .....

.... his first motion-picture role as a villain in a Western, The Painted Desert (1931). He was immediately in great demand and he made a total of 12 films that year, including Sporting Blood, which was his first leading role, Free Soul and Possessed. During the 1930’s, he was under contract with MGM, where he ended up working for 23 years. Clark Gable tended to play opposite virtually every MGM female star- Greta Carbo, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy; in such films as No Man of Her Own (1932), Red Dust (1932), Strange Interlude (1932), Dancing Lady (1933) and Manhattan Melodrama (1934). He was l .....