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Papers on People and Biographies
Americas Vision Hamilton Or Jefferson
Number of words: 606 | Number of pages: 3.... Hamilton wanted to promote commerce and industry through a strong central government. He also would diversify American economic life by encouraging shipping and creating manufacturing by legislative directive. Hamilton also believed that a republican style of government could only succeed by the direction of a governing class. He believed that to preserve order and the alliance between business and government, the moneyed class and the wealthy aristocracy should hold all the power.
Another matter the two men disagreed on was the establishment of a national bank. Hamilton wanted a national bank so he could forge a relationship betw .....
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of words: 432 | Number of pages: 2.... theory, especially
on prime numbers. He made this his life's passion and is regarded as its modern
founder.
Gauss studied at the University of Gottingen from 1795 to 1798. He soon
decided to write a book on the theory of numbers. It appeared in 1801 under the
title 'Disquisitiones arithmeticae'. This classic work usually is held to be
Gauss's greatest accomplishment. Gauss discovered on March 30, 1796, that circle,
using only compasses and straightedge the first such discovery in Euclidean
construction in more than 2,000 years.
His interest turned to astronomy in April 1799, and that field occupied
his attention for the remaind .....
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William Wallace
Number of words: 269 | Number of pages: 1.... of English soldiers were put to the sword and from surrounding towns and villages men "who were bitter of heart, and weighted down by the burden of bondage flocked to his banner".
During the early summe months of 1297, Wallace and his volunteer army marched throughout Scotland capturing Castles and Towns, driving the invaders south. In their march north, the towns of Glasgow, Scone, Perth, Dundee and all the land north of the Forth and Clyde was Liberated by the Scottish army. Eventually they reached Aberdeen, routed the Garrison troops and "destroyed the fleet of 100 English ships".
On the 11th Sept 1297, William Walla .....
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Neil Simon
Number of words: 2466 | Number of pages: 9.... two types of feminism. The discussion of first wave feminism is problematic as feminists are branded as maternal or equal rights feminists, terms which were not even applicable at the time. Maternal feminists, for example, sought the vote in order to reinforce the influence of women and the family in Canadian society, and to introduce "feminine morality" into Canadian politics. On the other hand, equal rights feminists fought for the vote based on the assumption that men and women are equal, and therefore everyone shares the right to participate in a liberal democracy. As Davis and Hallet point out, "while the arguments used .....
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Samuel Adams - American Patrio
Number of words: 501 | Number of pages: 2.... in Boston town meetings. When his business failed in 1764 Adams entered politics full-time, and was elected to the Massachusetts State legislature.
Adams led the effort to establish a committee of correspondence that published a Declaration of Colonial Rights that he had written. He was a vocal opponent of several laws passed by the British Parliament to raise revenue in the American Colonies, including the Tea Act which gave a British trading company a monopoly on the import of tea into the colonies. This opposition reached its peak on December 16, 1773 when a group of Bostonians dumped a British cargo of tea into Boston Harb .....
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John Cabot
Number of words: 383 | Number of pages: 2.... Henry VII.
John Cabot sailed from Bristol, late in May 1497, with a crew of 18,
on a small ship named "The Matthew." On June 24th, he landed somewhere on
the coast of North America, probably New Foundland or Cape Brenton Island,
in what is now know as Canada. John Cabot was positive that he had reached
the Northeast coast of Asia and excitedly sailed back to England to report
to the King.
Encouraged by the news, Henry VII gave John Cabot a small fleet and
sent him on another voyage in 1498. This voyage is surrouned by mystery.
It is believed that Cabot first sailed back to New Foundland and then went
south as far a .....
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2.... Laboratory, a position once held by his father. He stayed at the Royal Institution until his retirement in 1966.
The work that brought the Braggs fame was based on the phenomenon of X-ray diffraction in crystals, discovered in 1912 by Max Theodor Felix von Laue. Although the wave nature of X rays and the order of magnitude of their wavelength had been established, there were no methods developed to interpret the photographic interference pictures that two of von Laue's colleagues had produced by directing X rays through crystals.
Lawrence Bragg and his father had begun discussing von Laue's findings in 1912, and worked together to .....
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Charles W. Chesnutt
Number of words: 946 | Number of pages: 4.... as assistant principal of the State
Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. “There's time enough, but
none to spare.”(1)
Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City
to find work at Dow, Jones and Company and also writes a financial
news column for the New York Mail and Express. Later that year his
son Edwin J. Chesnutt is born. In November, he leaves New York for
Cleveland where he begins to work in the accounting department of
Nickel Plate Railroad Company. While in Cleveland Chesnutt studied
Law.
While in Cleveland Chesnutt supports his mother and father
while supportin .....
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Dr Daniel J. Boorstin
Number of words: 785 | Number of pages: 3.... He has received more than fifty honorary degrees and has
been honored by the governments of France, Belgium and Portugal. In 1989 he
received the National Book Award for Distinguished Contributions to
American Letters by the NationalBook Foundation.
Dr. Boorstin's many books include the trilogy The Americans: The Colonial
Experience, which won the Bancroft Prize, The Americans: The National
Experience, which won the Parkman Prize, and The Americans: The Democratic
Experience, which won the Pulitzer Prize. His 1983 work, The Discoverers, a
best selling history of man's search to know the world and himself, was
awarded the Watso .....
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Lyndon B Johnson
Number of words: 1457 | Number of pages: 6.... National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he served a brief tour of active duty with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific (1941-42) but returned to Capitol Hill when Roosevelt recalled members of .....
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