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Albert Camus
Words: 496 - Pages: 2.... about Camus mention the “Alegiers summer,” on reference to the early portion of his life spent in Africa. On one occasion, when asked what were some of his favorite words, he mentioned the word “summer,” referring to the intense heat and sun of the Mediterranean an Algiers.
His background was working class, with an illiterate mother of Spanish origin and a father of Alsatian descent who was a day laborer. His mother, left a widow with two small sons when her husband died during the Battle of the Marne, did cleaning in order to her-self and the children. Camus and his brother were left in the care of their grandmother and an .....
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William Wallace
Words: 1794 - Pages: 7.... and the roles Wallace played in battles with the English.
In this paper I am going to show the conflicting views about William Wallace’s life. I will use a wide variety of sources including the movie Braveheart’s script, Internet web pages, and written history in order to support my thesis. I will conclude with the fact that William Wallace was truly a worthy patriot of his native country Scotland. He fearlessly led his fellow patriots into battle, and gained freedom for Scotland from the tyrannical rule of the English King, Edward I.
In May of 1995 the film Braveheart came out in theaters. Braveheart is mainly a biograp .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words: 2483 - Pages: 10.... of the time Herman Melville believed that there was a dark secret in Hawthorne's life that, if known, would explain the mysteries of his literary career. (McGoldrick 82)
Sibling incest was a theme that heavily concerned Hawthorne in two unfinished manuscripts, as well as one of his early literary works which he later retracted. The retracted piece's time set was early Salem, Massachusetts. The story involved a family structure much like that of Hawthorne's own family. The two siblings in the work, brother and sister, lived in deep affection, "lonely and sufficient to each other" since they alone survived an Indian attack. Mother and .....
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Nikola Tesla
Words: 713 - Pages: 3.... invention when he established his own laboratory in 1887. He became a U.S. citizen in 1891. By the turn of the century Tesla’s accomplishments had made his name as world famous as Thomas Edison’s.
Tesla's first and probably greatest achievement was his discovery of the rotating magnetic field. This was a magnetic whirlwind produced in a motor winding by the interaction of two or more alternating currents. He developed this along with his brilliant variation of it to his induction motor and polyphase system for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. The combination of this motor and this system, which wa .....
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Princess Diana 3
Words: 1087 - Pages: 4.... in 1974 went to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent, as a boarder. Diana Had a talent for music as an accomplished pianist, dancing and domestic science. She left West Heath in 1977 and went to finishing school at the Institut Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. She left finishing school after the Easter term of 1978. She then moved to Coleherne Court, London. For a while she looked after the child of an American couple and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico.
On February 24, 1981, it was officially announced that Diana was to marry the Prince of Wales. They were married at St. Paul's Cathed .....
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Herman Melville 2
Words: 564 - Pages: 3.... of human life, so mystery was often a trait of his characters. An example of this would be his character Bartleby. Throughout the story, the reader has no clue what Bartleby is thinking, so Melville creates an air of mystery about this character. Another of Melville’s characters that show this quality is Claggart in the book Billy Budd. Claggart is constantly referred to as being mysterious, “…a nut not to be cracked by the top of a ladies fan (Billy Budd).
Besides being mysterious, Melville is stubborn and this comes out through his characters Captain Veere and Bartleby. Like most writers, Melville’s career h .....
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John Gotti
Words: 2139 - Pages: 8.... his life.
He quit school at sixteen and rose to leadership in a local street gang of thieves called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys, named after two streets in their neighborhood. At an early age he exerted his bad temper, dominance and readiness to engage in fistfights. These were just the right characteristics to develop his potential as a Mafia boss.
In the mid-1960's, Gotti's boss Carmine Fatico moved his headquarters out to Ozone Park near JFK Airport. Gotti, his brothers, Angelo and Willie Boy became relatively successful hijackers. That is, until they got caught in 1968 and landed in prison.
In 1972, when Gotti got out of prison and went .....
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Philophers David Hume And Descartes
Words: 1473 - Pages: 6.... earth could be moved, Descartes sought one immovable truth. Descartes’ immovable truth, a truth on which he would lay down his foundation of knowledge, and define all that which he knows, was the simple line ‘Cogito ergo sume”; I think, therefor I am. This allowed for his existence. Where this line failed, however, was in the proof or disproof of the external world.
Once Descartes established himself as a “thinking thing”, his attention turned to the external world. Descartes reflects upon his dealing with physical objects, and questions the state of corporeal nature, dealing directly with the senses. Re-stating the fact th .....
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Words: 1361 - Pages: 5.... Mexican War, Sherman was posted in San Francisco. He resigned his commission in 1853 to become a partner in a bank there.
Prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South, was Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy at Alexandria, Louisiana. After the war, the school moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and became Louisiana State University (LSU). Talk of the secession from the Union was rampant. On January 18, 1861, Sherman resigned his position stating that he preferred to maintain his allegiance to the Constitution as long as a fragment of it survived. On the 25th of February, Sherman left Lo .....
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Martin Luther King- I Have A D
Words: 698 - Pages: 3.... leadership took place during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Under his guidance, the unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years.
King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with a system that saw his people or people of any color, as second class citizens. He set out to bring equality for people everywhere. So often they had become victims of broken promise (155). As a r .....
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