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The Life Of Benjamin Franklin
Words: 564 - Pages: 3.... a desire to write. Eventually, he tinkered with poetry, and he achieved a moderate amount of praise from the townsfolk. However, his father said his verse was poor, and urged him to become more educated before composing again.
After much difficulty with his brother James, Franklin ran away to New York. He could find no work for printers in the city, so he struggled on to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, he found work at an old press owned by a gentleman named Keimer. Keimer loved arguing about religion, and discussed many things with Franklin. Franklin approached and answered Keimer’s questions with such tact, Keimer was impressed .....
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Cleopatra - Queen Of Egypt
Words: 158 - Pages: 1.... life in Alexandra with her brother
Ptolemy. Cleopatra married her brother Ptolemy, because they wanted to
rule Egypt together. They did for quite some time. But it all changed
when Ptolemy got sick and died. After the death of Ptolemy she found a
great emperor who she then fell in love with, and then married. She then
became "a woman of great ambition, intelligence, vigor, and fascination."
That's when she gained both the love and the political and military
support of first Julius Caesar and then Mark Antony. Because she was a
Ptolemy, Cleopatra had a negative effect on Egypt as seen in her
relationship with Julius Ceasar and Mark Anto .....
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DOROTHY
Words: 585 - Pages: 3.... in "The Big Broadcast of 1936." The same year she sang at legendary Cotton Club in Harlem, where she first met Harold Nicholas, her future husband. Harold was the younger member of the "Nicholas Brothers". They danced with Gene Kelly in "The Pirate". At 17she was performing in Benny Goodman's musical, "Swinging the Dream". Dandridge had a natural beauty, and an ideal figure to match! Dottie suffered from severe stage fright, but despite this, she played the best hotels in Miami and Las Vegas, although she couldn't stay in them. One, in 1953, drained its swimming pool to keep her out of it. In 1954 Dandridge became the first black woman to a .....
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Edgar De Gas
Words: 495 - Pages: 2.... oil, pastel, lithography, engraving, and sculpture.
From the mid-1850s through the mid-1870s Degas explored many types of subject matter. He copied works by earlier artists and executed his own history paintings, portraits, and scenes of daily life. Degas eventually ended his efforts at history painting and devoted more attention to portraiture, turning images of relatives and friends into complex psychological studies.
His oils and pastels depict the inhabitants of the world of sports, business, ballet, and the cafes in their self-conscious posturing and characteristic gestures. He has numerous paintings of jockeys, dancers, laundresses .....
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Interview With Karl Marx
Words: 597 - Pages: 3.... produces a completely new idea, a synthesis.
So what was your theory and what was human history according to you?
Human history, according to me, was the history of class conflict between competing economic groups in which one exploits the other. The result of that was capitalism, which only led to destruction. The increasing number of workers (thesis) were being exploited by the owners of the means of production (antithesis) who were only allowing the wealth to concentrate amongst few through competition. To increase their own profits, the wages were as low as possible. Economic crises would prevail until the workers would unite and ov .....
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The Life Of William Shakespeare
Words: 644 - Pages: 3.... to London and became an actor. During the plague when theaters were closed, he wrote his poems, “Venus and Adonis” and “The Rape of Lucrece.” In 1597, he acted with the Lord Chamberlain’s company of players. When the company built the Globe Theater, he became a partner. Shakespeare became very popular. In 1597, he purchased on of the largest houses in Stratford, called New Place. It was next door to Thomas Nash’s house. Thomas Nash became William’s granddaughter’s first husband. Her name was Elizabeth Hall. William’s first daughter, Susanna married physician, John Hall in 1607. William established his wife and two .....
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The Henchmen: German Government Officials In WWII
Words: 1522 - Pages: 6.... Though Roehm never
graduated, he joined the Free Corps, a group of soldiers dedicated to
changing injustices in the German government. After a while, Roehm started
to grow tired of the Free Corp's non- violent style, and he was tempted to
be more of an activist in government reform. Hitler, looking to recruit
fellow officers in his plan, then in it's infancy, liked Roehm's strong
presence and personality. Roehm, jobless and nowhere to go, joined
Hitler's office. After Hitler was elected into office some years later, he
split his dictatorship into different divisions. Roehm, being one of the
original officers, was chosen as head of th .....
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Maya Angelou
Words: 951 - Pages: 4.... as you think I am" reflects the same ideas that shares when She says, "Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom" These two parts of their writings are asking a similar question. Why do you choose to seclude me from you’re world am I something you wouldn’t expect from another human? "Don’t scream about don’t think aloud turn your head now baby just spit me out don’t worry about don’t speak of doubt turn your head now baby just spit me out." This is a complex way saying why is you disrespected me because you can’t stand the way that I am. Just walk all over me treat me different ac .....
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Adolf Hitler's A Oratory Genius
Words: 374 - Pages: 2.... rather than a political leader, offering his
countrymen not only economic but political salvation as well as the kind of
cultural magnificence which he truly believed in, i.e. the Aryan race.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the Austrian town of Braunau am
Inn, the son of Alois, a customs official, and Klara Hitler. He was not a
successful student, and his earlier years are said to have been
characterized by melancholy, aimlessness and racial hatred. It was in
Vienna where he developed what is considered to be a life-long obsession
with the danger that the world Jewery posed to the Aryan race. It was after
Hitler relocated t .....
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Ivan Pavlov
Words: 553 - Pages: 3.... reflex,while the sound of the bell was the conditioned stimulus. Only the salivation to stimulus of the bell alone was the conditioned reflex. More than that, Pavlov found that the conditioned reflex was formed easier when the unconditioned stimulus followed the conditioned one;the conditioned reflex was formed easier, if the conditioned stimulus occurred very close in time to the unconditioned stimulus, if the bell louder, or if the dog was trained on larger pieces of meat the amount of salivation would be larger.
This discovery was very important because the conditioned reflex was basic to the understanding of the mechanism of change .....
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