Papers on People and Biographies
Mohandas Ghandi
Words: 265 - Pages: 1.... analogous to what Christ did to open the minds of the people around him. With all that can be said about Ghandi, I would like to focus upon his economic impact in Britain and India.
Britain’s self-glorifying empire building was a great hindrance on the Indian economy. Britain employed the “Mother Country” system in Indian. This is where the raw materials of the colony (i.e. India) are harvested and shipped to the Mother country (i.e. Britain.) The raw materials are manufactured into goods that are shipped back to the colony where they can be sold for a great profit. Britain had a firm grasp on the cotton market in India. The In .....
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Cark Gauss
Words: 1515 - Pages: 6.... to read by sounding out the combinations of the letters. Around the time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations.
When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one to one hundred. While his classmates toiled over the addition, Carl sat and pondered the question. He invented the shortcut formula on the spot, and wr .....
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President Gerald Ford
Words: 1417 - Pages: 6.... called Gerald Ford, his original name was Leslie Lynch King Jr. His
parents were Leslie and Dorothy King. When his parents got divorced while
he was two, his mother married a man named Gerald R. Ford from whom he got
his most widely known name. Together, they moved to Grand Rapids Michigan
(1, Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing within 5 sports, his best being
Football. Being good at Football, he got a M.V.P, a scholarship to
Michigan with a Football scholarship and was offered a contract by the
Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. He finally .....
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Emerson
Words: 1104 - Pages: 5.... two, one was mentally retarded and lived most of his life in institutions. The other was insane for a time.
was a serious young boy who was liked by elders more than those of his own age. He never went out to play with the boys because he liked doing things that had to do with literature which was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died on May 12, 1811 and left his mother to take care of the children alone. One of his brothers died of a mental illness in 1834. Another one died of tuberc .....
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Albert Einstein
Words: 503 - Pages: 2.... papers to the University of Zurich to
obtain a Ph.D. degree in 1905. In 1908 he sent a second paper to the University
of Bern and became lecturer there. The next year Einstein received a regular
appointment as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich. By
1909, Einstein was recognized throughout Europe as a leading scientific thinker.
In 1909 the fame that resulted from his theories got Einstein a job at the
University of Prague, and in 1913 he was appointed director of a new research
institution opened in Berlin, the Kaiser Wilhelm Physics Institute.
In 1915, during World War 1, Einstein published a paper that e .....
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Words: 998 - Pages: 4.... in all his glory”(Bentley, p.82).
Later his description of his own mental state was one of Gottergebenheit; “
surrender to God”(Bentley, p.82). At a very early age Nietzsche had already
displayed an aptitude for highly intellectual prowess. At fourteen, Nietzsche
left his home of Naumburg and went to an exclusive boarding school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alumni that
included “Klopstock and Fichte”(Brett-Evans, p.76). “It was here that
Nietzsche received the thorough education in Greek and Latin that set him upon
the road to classical philology.”(Brett-Evans, p. 76) O .....
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Frederick Douglass' Life And His Work
Words: 418 - Pages: 2.... of John's strategy of destroying" the money value of slave property" by training a group of men to help large numbers of slaves escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. When Douglass learned on the eve of the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, that Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal and armory there. He objected. Warning Brown that an attack on federal property would be equal to an assault on the U.S. government, and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation.
He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential election of 1860, and helped raise two regiments of black soldier, th .....
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Marilyn Monroe
Words: 702 - Pages: 3.... Marilyn in charm school and featured her on a number of magazine covers.
In 1946, Marilyn signed with 20th Century Fox. She only made two small films before the studio dropped her, although. Two years later she signed with Columbia pictures, only to be released once again. She did not however, leave without making a few low-budget musicals with the likes of the Marx Brothers in Love Happy, which was made in 1949, and Ladies of the Chorus also made in 1949.
Finally, in 1950, got the break she was waiting for. She once again signed with 20th Century Fox and made several movies including Asphalt Jungle(1950), All About Eve(1950),Love .....
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Cicero: Is Law Possible Without Virtue?
Words: 830 - Pages: 4.... matters should be reserved to the people for decision and judgement."
This composite state expressed in Scipio by Cicero, is an ideal Rome of the past. The Rex, was the royal element; the senate was the aristocratic influence; The plebs and patricians became the deciding people. Cicero addressed the pragmatical problems faced by the universal community, by giving it armies, judges and powers; literally giving the community of mankind the powers it lacked through Rome.
"It is, indeed, my judgement, opinion, and conviction that of all forms of government there is none which for organising, distribution of power, and respect for authority .....
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Frederick Douglass
Words: 1169 - Pages: 5.... other as bad, corrupt, and wicked." Frederick has absolutely no hatred toward the religion itself, all his hatred came from slavery. He goes on to say "I love the pure, peaceful, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. When Frederick was younger he remembers watching from a cupboard one of the women slaves being tied up by their master and then being beaten till there was no flesh left one her body. He rememb .....
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