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Papers on People and Biographies
Mikhail Gorbachev
Number of words: 1207 | Number of pages: 5.... or spirits" (Gorbachev 37). That is important because if he had liked alcohol, there most likely never would have been any anti-alcohol campaign. "Temperance was the rule in the Gorbachev household on holidays, the men might take one shot glass of vodka or cognac in celebration, no more" (Smith 38). The Gorbachev family is an example of how alcohol should have been used in Russia. They drank in moderation, as opposed to others who drank simply to get drunk and were unable to control themselves while drinking. Gorbachev wanted others to be able to drink as they did, and he tried to set a good example in order to get his point acr .....
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Nelson Mandela
Number of words: 417 | Number of pages: 2.... 1964 at the famous Rivonia Trial. During his twenty-seven years in
prison, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of resistance to the white-dominated
country of South Africa throughout the world. After complex negotiation,
Mandela was finally released from prison by President F.W. deKlerk in February,
1990, after lifting the long ban on the ANC.
Mandela's release from prison marked the beginning of the end of
apartheid in South Africa when he once again became the head of the ANC. He
began the process to from a new constitution in South Africa which would allow
political power to the black majority. Finally in 1991 the Sou .....
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Napoleon 3
Number of words: 1263 | Number of pages: 5.... he decided to get married to Joshephine de Beauharnais from Martinique in the Indies. After many years of marriage, Napoleon realized that his wife was getting older and he had no heirs, so in 1809 he divorced her to look for a younger bride. In 1810 he met and married Archduchess, Marie Louise the eighteen-year-old daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. During their marriage Napoleon and his new wife conceived one child, a boy also named Napoleon.
Napoleon was a man known for his greatest powers and successes as a leader. One of the many successful things Napoleon did early in his life was develop a highly successful mil .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Number of words: 167 | Number of pages: 1.... beleive in his work after they saw his first commision, which was Moore-
Dugal house.
Wright was born in the year 1867 on the date June 8th, in Richland Center,
Wisconsin. His name was to be Frank Lincoln Wright, the name was Franks great
grandfathers name. His mother thought it would be a tradition if the name
stayed in the family, and that it did.
Wright studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin. He thought that the
school was the pits in architecture from 1885-1886. He did not lead the coolest
life there but infact that of a nerd. After school he moved to Chiago in 1887.
Worked and studied with Joesph Lyman Si .....
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Henry David Thoreau
Number of words: 1028 | Number of pages: 4.... it. His knowledge of the woods and fields, of the rivers, the ponds, and swamps, of every plant and animal was outstanding. Emerson even stated, "His power of observation seemed to indicate additional senses." Thoureau wrote a book titled Walden(1854) in which the theme of it was the relationship to the order and beauty of nature in the human mind. This book consists of records of Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond. Thoreau's love and devotion to nature and his writing was a key to his excellence in writing. also felt that individualism was a great necessity to his writing style. In his piece of literature titled "Civil Disobedienc .....
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Nicholas Romanov
Number of words: 1520 | Number of pages: 6.... father Alexander III who didn’t believe that his son could take an intelligent interest in anything and therefore did not educate him in the business of state . The fact that his father who died at age 49 thought that he had many more years ahead of him may also be another factor behind Nicholas’ poor leadership of Russia .
Alexander who died in 1894 had left Russia with a society no longer controlled by tsarist rule and when Nicholas took the throne after his father’s death Russian society was not prepared to turn back . Nicholas II was 26 when his father died and was soon to marry the German princess, Alix of Hess, grandda .....
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The Life Of Gottfried Leibniz
Number of words: 431 | Number of pages: 2.... contribution in mathematics was to discover, in 1675, the fundamental principles of infinitesimal calculus. This discovery was arrived at independently of the discoveries of the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, whose system of calculus was invented in 1666. Leibniz's system was published in 1684, Newton's in 1687, and the method of notation devised by Leibniz was universally adopted (see Mathematical Symbols). In 1672 he also invented a calculating machine capable of multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots, and he is considered a pioneer in the development of mathematical logic.
Philosophy
In the philosophy e .....
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Sophocles
Number of words: 811 | Number of pages: 3.... act that was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens. For some time after that, was the director of the Treasury. This was where controlled the funds of the association of states which were to be known as the Deli .....
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Changing Attitudes Of Ferhat Abbas
Number of words: 1858 | Number of pages: 7.... which peacefully fought for the equal rights of
Algerians and French. Believing in the possible co-operation of French and
Algerians he had, fought alongside the French.
Political Career
During the war Abbas still continues his work towards the equality. In
1943 he wrote the 'Manifesto of the Algerian People' which was than proclaimed
and several times sent to the French authorities. "The French colony only admits
equality with Muslim Algeria on one level; sacrifice on the battlefields." This
manifesto represented some very revolutionary ideas and proposed the equality of
rights and "immediate and effective participation .....
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Critical Biography On J. D. Salinger
Number of words: 1526 | Number of pages: 6.... dwelled in downtown New York. As Salinger began to attend junior high school, his grades began to drop so his parents decided to send him to Valley Forge Military Academy, which is located in Pennsylvania. While enrolled in Valley Forge, Salinger's IQ level was tested at 115, which is slightly above average but far from the "genius" or even "superior" category (French 45). At Valley Forge, however, Salinger's grades rose considerably and he earned a scholarship to New York University. Salinger attended New York University for two years and went on to Ursinus College and then to Columbia University, where he studied with W .....
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