Papers on People and Biographies
James Bryant Conant
Words: 311 - Pages: 2.... who basically takes average
classes. This idea of designating certain classes for students depending on
their academic abilities is good because it allows students to learn at an
appropriate level. A student who can read at a speed of 125 words per minute
should not be in the same English class as a person who only reads 50 words per
minute. On the opposite end, there is a downfall to this idea of separation of
classes. Students are put into certain groups and therefore they become
stereotyped into certain categories. A person at a high intelligent level may
be called a "brain" while a person at a low intelligent level may be called .....
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Julius Caesar And Mussolini: The End Justifies Any Means
Words: 374 - Pages: 2.... had turned against him.
Like Caesar, Mussolini was accused of being too ambitous. In March 1919, Mussolini and other young veterans of World War I founded the Fasci di Combattimento, which was a nationalistic, anti-liberal, and anti-socialist that attractedlower middle class support. The Fasci took its namae from an ancient symbol of Roman discipline. Fascism spread into the countryside, and the Black-Shirt militia won support from landownersand attacked peasant leagues and socialist groups. Fascism shed its republicanism and won sympathy from the army and the king, King Victor Emmanuel III.
Mussolini threatened to march on to Rome, but Ki .....
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Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
Words: 513 - Pages: 2.... to be mallignent. Once the doctors tried to go on and remove the tumor, they were shocked to see that it was the size of a grapefruit. His wife, Joy Piccolo, stood at his side the entire operation and everynight there after. Brian and Joy were what most people would call the "ideal" couple. Brian was the All-American hardworking athlete, while Joy was the loving supportive wife that stood by his side no matter what his successes or failures might bring. Brian lived through the operation, but then the Piccolo's got another piece of disheartening piece of news. What was this piece of news, you might be asking yourself. The answer is in .....
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It Came From Ohio! My Life As A Writer: Biography Of R. L. Stine
Words: 355 - Pages: 2.... Uproarious Utopia, the
last one was named Stories and Gags.
R.L. Stine got a scholarship to Ohio State University -- only two
blocks from his home. He joined the Sundial as a writer, and later applied
to be the editor and got the job. When he made up Jovial Bob (a way to
introduce himself and humor to the readers) to help The Sundial because
people weren't buying the paper; which they did once they met “Bob”.
Jane became his girlfriend after meeting her at a party in Brooklyn
and became his wife on June 22, 1969. They had a son named Matthew on June
7, 1980.
A series of scary books for young adults led to the wildly popular
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Princess Diana
Words: 639 - Pages: 3.... a boarder to West Heath, in Sevenoaks, Kent. While studying there she showed talent as a musician, for playing the piano, dancing and domestic science. She was also once awarded for the girl giving maximum help to the school and her school fellows. In 1977 she left West Heath and went to finishing school at the Institute Alpin Videmanette in Rougemont, Switzerland. After the Easter term in 1978 she left the school when she moved to Coleherne. There she watched after a child for an American couple, while she began her job as a kindergarten teacher at the Young England school in Pimlice, London. Like most teachers she didn't have a lot of sp .....
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Communism - From Marx To Zemin
Words: 2273 - Pages: 9.... of good, ownership of land, and management of funds. In that same token then, no one class should be allowed to have control over these things. He went onto comment that the exploitation of the working class must come to an end. That end would be achieved through revolution. Once this was achieved, everybody would work according to their abilities and then be paid accordingly (Capital, 586-617). Soon after, however, technical innovations would create such abundance of goods that "everyone works according to his abilities and receives according to his needs." Soon thereafter, money would have no place in society. People would be able .....
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Alexander The Great
Words: 1538 - Pages: 6.... also developed new battle formations and new weapons for his armies. These weapons included catapults and battering rams on wheels.
Philip then built an empire with his troops. Soon after coming to rule in 359 BC, he defeated large tribes to the north and west of Macedonia. He then turned south to Greece. The Greek army was no match for the Macedonian army and was defeated at the Battle of Chaeronia. In 338 BC, Philip became ruler of Greece.
Philip could have ended Greece's independence, but he didn't. After he defeated Greece, he ordered that Athens not be destroyed because he admired their culture.
When Philip defeated the Gre .....
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Emily Bronte
Words: 273 - Pages: 1.... (Patrick) Branwell Bronte (1817-1848), were born in Thornton, Yorkshire. The Bronte children's imaginations transmuted a set of wooden soldiers into characters in a series of stories they wrote about the imaginary kingdom of Angria-the property of Charlotte and Branwell-and the kingdom of Gondal-which belonged to Emily and Anne. A hundred tiny handwritten volumes (started in 1829) of the chronicles of Angria survive, but nothing of the Gondal saga (started in 1834), except some of Emily's poems. The relationship of these stories to the sisters' later novels is a matter of much interest to scholars. In the 1840s Charlotte's discovery of .....
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Rasputin
Words: 2818 - Pages: 11.... it had been the family name for years, derived from the word for a fork in the road. Pokrovskoye perched on the banks of the Tura River in Tobolsk Province; Pokrovskoye was a typical Russian peasant village where few if any were educated and town’s people were religious, narrow minded and fearful.
When was eight years old, he suffered his first tragedy. He was playing with his older brother along the banks of the Tura when Dimitri fell and was drowned. Shortly thereafter, began to startle his fellow-villagers by making amazing predictions. In one incident, correctly identified a horse thief. As a teenager, paid a visit to the .....
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Adolf Hitler
Words: 347 - Pages: 2.... would send him to jail. He got out of jail in 1923 when he purchased a villa in Berchtesgaden.
By 1930 the Nazi party was the second largest party in the country. Because of his power in speeches he was appointed chancellor of the Nazis in 1933. Within a year he was made full leader of the Nazi Party. In 1938 Hitler takes over Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1939. World War 2 begins with Hitler and his troops marching in to Poland. By this time Jews were dying by the thousands. Europe was almost completely taken over by the Nazis. In 1941 Germany had taken over the Soviet Union. By 1945 the Holocaust had taken over 6 million Jews a .....
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