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Papers on People and Biographies
Alber Einstein
Number of words: 1029 | Number of pages: 4.... to the United States. When Einstein was older, he invented electric eye. He also was asked to be the president of Israel, but he refused. When Einstein was a teen-ager he was very interested in science. When he wanted to relax he would play the violin which he started playing at the age of six. The kocks, his mother's family, and the Einstein had lived in Southern Germany for more than a century, selling cloth, farming, and clerking in banks. During their free hours they enjoyed boating on the Danube and walking in the woods. Both families were Jewish . In 1880, when Albert was one year old, his father's business failed and the fa .....
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John Alexander Macdonald: A Good Role Model?
Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2.... He left a good impression on the people
of Canada because he cared for not only the English, but also the French and
Natives. One example is when he visited the Council House of the Six Nation
Indians near Brantford. Mr. Macdonald met more than thirty farmers and after
only thirty minutes of chatting with them he knew them all by name# . In another
instance, a guest of John A. Macdonald was so impressed with the hospitality he
received that he described him as "courteous in his social relations--a very
prince". In both cases he made those involved feel noticed and cared for.
The most prominent attribute that makes John .....
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Euclid And His Works
Number of words: 448 | Number of pages: 2.... solid geometry. The book ends with a discussion of the properties
of the five regular polyhedral and a proof that there are precisely five.
More than one thousand editions of The Elements have been published since
it was first printed in 1482.
The Elements Helpfulness
The Elements were obviously helpful because Zeno of Sidon about 250 years
after Euclid wrote The Elements, seems to have been the first to show that
Euclid's propositions were not deduced from the axioms alone, and Euclid
does make other subtle assumptions.
Other Publishing of Euclid
Euclid also wrote Data, On Divisions, Optics and Phenomena which have
surv .....
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Heinrich Schliemann
Number of words: 4640 | Number of pages: 17.... his shady methods pervaded both his life and his archaeology (Burg, 15-31). Schliemann had a habit of rewriting his past in order to paint a more dramatic picture of himself. Among the events he reported that have been found to be grossly untrue are his tales of being entertained by the American president Millard Fillmore and his wife in 1851, and his narrow escape from the San Francisco fire of that same year (Traill 9-13). More disturbing is when he applies these tactics to his archaeology. In December of 1981 Professor David Traill, a Latinist, concluded that the "Treasure of Priam", Schliemann's
most impressive find at Tr .....
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Dennis Rodman
Number of words: 361 | Number of pages: 2.... he had to start living for himself,
people perceived him as being rebellious and as most people say
weird. Dennis Rodman just wants everyone to know who he really
is and to accept him for himself and to let him do his job.
Theme:
I learned that Dennis Rodman is not as crazy as
everyone thinks he is. He is actually a very normal person. I
think the reason this book was released is because Dennis Rodman
has a very interesting life. People want to know what it is like
to be Dennis Rodman.
Opinion:
I think this was a excellent book. The reason why I
say that is because Dennis Rodman was not afraid nor ashamed to
say a .....
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Thomas Edison
Number of words: 1445 | Number of pages: 6.... is still used today in telephone speakers and microphones.
Many of ’s inventions including the carbon transmitter were in response to demands for new products and improvements. In 1877, he achieved his most unique discovery, the phonograph. During the summer of 1877 Edison was attempting to devise for the automatic telegraph a machine that would transcribe a signals as they were received into a form of the human voice so that they could then be delivered as telegraph messages. Some researchers had theorized that each sound, if it could be graphically recorded, would produce a distinct shape resembling short hand, or phonography, .....
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Madonna
Number of words: 1055 | Number of pages: 4.... out of the University of Michigan and decided to pursue a career elsewhere. She knew that she wanted to either continue in the field of dance or somewhere in the music industry. She believed that she had greater opportunities in these careers in a large, diversified metropolitan city like New York City.
Once in New York City, she joined a band and began writing musical notes, lyrics, and songs. This was the start of her music career. However, she still wanted to pursue her dance career. She always had two career objectives in mind and believed she would definitely achieve one or both of them.
She joined Alvin Alley Thea .....
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Symbols In Poe's Writing
Number of words: 1057 | Number of pages: 4.... Allan refused to pay for any of Edgar's debts,
therefore he had to withdrawal from the University.
In May of 1827, Poe enlisted in the army as a common soldier. Poe
enlisted under the name of Edgar A. Perry. He was stationed on Sullivan's
Island in the Charleston Harbor for a little over one year. Poe adapted to
military life and discipline and rose quickly to the rank of sergeant major.
After a while Poe became tired of the same daily routine of military life.
Poe wrote several letters to his foster father, quite regularly. After the
death of Frances Allan, Poe met with John Allan in February of 1829. On
July first of 1830 .....
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The Bill Clinton Story
Number of words: 760 | Number of pages: 3.... and disqualification to hold "any office or honor, trust, or profit under the United States." (Corwin, 3) A person convicted in an impeachment, however, is subject to further "indictment, trial, judgement, and punishment according to Law." Impeachment originated in England, where the House of Commons would present articles of impeachment to the House of Lords, which then tried the case (internet, 2)
Since the adoption of the Constitution, only one president, Andrew Jackson (1868), has been brought to trial in the Senate on charges voted by the House. The Senate failed by one vote to convict Johnson. In 1974 the House Judiciary Com .....
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The Life And Times Of Karl Mar
Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2.... Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher. However due to the difficulty in distributing such a radical paper, only one issue appeared.
Karl met his closest friend in September of 1844, when Frederick Engels arrived in Paris. Together they participated in the activities of many revolutionary societies, and formed the theory and ideas of revolutionary proletarian socialism, also known as communism. Finally in 1845 Marx was banished from Paris as a dangerous revolutionary. He decided to head for Brussels, where he and Engels joined, in 1847, a group called the Communist League. At the leagues request Marx and Engels drew up the Commu .....
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