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Thomas Jefferson
Words: 857 - Pages: 4.... go check it out, drive
home, stop at McDonald's, and finally site down and read it. By the time you
get home and have time to read it, you're too tired to read the book, let alone
do a report with it.
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Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia, on
April 13, 1743. His dad, Peter Jefferson and his mom Jane Randolph were members
of the most famous Virginia families. Besides being born rich, Thomas
Jefferson, was well educated. He attended the College of William and Mary and
read law (1762-1767) with George Wythe, the best law teacher of his time in
Virginia. He went into to the bar in 1767 and .....
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Mozart: Portrait Of A Genius
Words: 1285 - Pages: 5.... music, and at five, he began to compose music. On his sixth birthday, his father took him to his first concert tour to Munich. At twelve, he wrote his first opera called La finta semplice. In 1762, Mozart, his father, and his sister, went to Vienna, where they played at the imperial court and other places. He played the piano like an adult, and “performed all the tricks that were asked of him, playing with the keyboard covered or with one finger,” as stated by Elias.
At an early age, Mozart learned to dress in the court manner, including the wig, and also learned the correct way to walk and turn a compliment. The normal social situa .....
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Descartes
Words: 1099 - Pages: 4.... ’ philosophy begins with understanding his method of doubt. Think about it like this. Almost everything you believe to be true comes from the senses or through the senses. However, the senses are sometimes deceptive. Since the senses are not completely trustworthy, it is irrational to place complete trust in them. However it is no small leap of faith to presume that everything our senses tells us is false. In fact, it seems almost preposterous to say such a thing. But as points out, we have dreams regularly and in these dreams everything we experience is a figment of our imagination, or at least not real in the physical s .....
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Autobiography Of Owen Archer
Words: 1145 - Pages: 5.... My wife Lucie had warned me about a terrible dream that she had before we left about Ned and I. Her dreams were usually right in one way or another. The dream was of a burning town, with Ned and I standing in it, and the citizens were accusing us of a crime and they were taking Ned away. I had a bad feeling about the journey mainly because I knew there would be fighting and I had only one eye and a lot of scars but I was afraid because many soldiers come back with lost limbs or sometimes even worse. I love my Lucie and I didn’t want to lose anything.
WE followed a long, windy trail and had troubles finding good places to stay .....
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Andrew Jackson
Words: 1805 - Pages: 7.... known as the "Age of 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, but financial problems force .....
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Pierre Trudeau
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Trudeau would advocate in order to establish a strong and productive
influence in Canadian politics.
Born in 1921, Trudeau entered the world in a bilingual/bicultural home
located in the heart of Montreal, Quebec. His acceptance into the
University of Montreal would mark the beginning of his adventures into the
Canadian political spectrum. Early in his life, Trudeau had become somewhat
anti-clerical and possessed communist ideologies which were considered
radical at the time. Graduating from prestigious institutions such as
Harvard and The School of Economics in England, Turdeau returned to Canada
in 1949 and resumed his socia .....
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Ronald Reagan
Words: 1056 - Pages: 4.... years. He played in more than 50 films, including "Knute Rockne"-All American (1940), "King's Row" (1942), and "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951). Early political career Reagan's first political activities were associated with his responsibilities as a union leader. As union president, Reagan tried to remove suspected Communists from the movie industry. When the U.S. House Committee. Began an investigation in 1947 on the influence of Communists in the film industry, Reagan took a strong anti-Communist stand testifying before the committee. Reagan emerged on the national political scene in 1964 when he made fervent te .....
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Henry Ford Essay
Words: 1004 - Pages: 4.... that Ford and the American consumer were looking for was the Model T.
The Model T, a small, sturdy four-cylinder car with an attractive design and a top speed of 45 mph, hit the market in 1908. It’s success came from it’s attractive price, at $850, and more than 10,000 were sold in the first year alone. It was easy to operate, maintain, handle on rough roads, and immediately became a success. Along with success came expansion, and in 1910 he established another assembly plant in Highland Park, Michigan. Through interchangeable parts, standard manufacturing, and a division labor, the demand greatly increased for the Model T. It .....
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Jfk Alliance
Words: 1257 - Pages: 5.... nations. The U.S. felt that the southern continent was ripe for violent radical political upheaval, which would eventually bring forth the spread of communism. The Alliance for Progress program was initially met with open arms by most Latin Americans leaders and immediately boosted U.S. relations throughout the hemisphere.1
The alliance’s charter was signed by all members of the organization except for Cuba at a special meeting at Punta del Este, Uruguay, on August 17, 1961.2 The drafters of the charter emphasized that the twin goals of economic development and social injustice should be pursued simultaneously and that both should b .....
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Charles Lindbergh 2
Words: 674 - Pages: 3.... Lindbergh started searching for a plane to make the transatlantic journey. Rather then go with a multi-engine plane like many other aviators were going with, he felt that it only increased the chance of an engine failing. He also wanted the plane to weigh as little as possible, thus increasing the flight range. This also meant he would be going alone.
By 1927, Ryan Airlines offered to build him a single-engine plane that met his specifications for only $6,000, excluding an engine. Lindbergh met with them and despite the unimpressive headquarters, he walked away impressed. Lindbergh wanted the plane done in two months, rather then the thr .....
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