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Abraham Lincoln 2
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1911.... later he broke off the
engagement because she was seeing other men. Around a year later in
Springfield on November 4, 1842 Abraham and Mary got married. In 1844,
Abraham and his wife were able to purchase their own house in
Springfield. It was a one-and-a-half story frame cottage. In May 1843,
the Lincoln’s had a son and named him Robert, after the addition to the
family they made the house a full two story house. Lincoln had three
more sons Edward Baker, William Wallace, and Thomas. Edward died at
the age of three, the cause of death was either consumption .....
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Talcott Parsons
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2254.... including a structural-functional strategy.
' functionalistic ways, influenced by Bronislaw Malinowski, became the center of debate. His beliefs were questioned and challenged by rival sociologists. His studies became even greater and his theories more significant. Until the time of his death, his principal aim focused on the systematic study of social action and it's components. He looked at the surrounding factors and if and why they influenced the social system. As an award before his death, Parsons received high honors for his accomplishments in sociology. Many peop .....
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Who Was Adolf Hitler?
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 819.... he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society.
The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler was
Convicted of high t .....
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The Life Of Julius Caesar
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1364.... desperate attempt to regain control, tried
to influence Pompey to bring about Caesar's fall. The Senate’s plan
backfired, giving Caesar full control of Rome and bringing about the end of
Pompey’s life.
Caesar succeeded in bringing order back to the face of Rome. First
he reformed the existing Roman calender. The existing calender was
corrupt because it did not synchronize with the solar year. Priests were
allowed to prolong the calender at their will and some used it to their
advantages. Caesar put an end to this by setting a new calender which
consisted of 365 days .....
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Benedict Arnold
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 947.... by declaring that he would never deceive her. Now knowing this Hannah asked if Benedict had been a deserter (knowing that he actually was in the army, and not a farmer). To his own sister he said, “No, Hannah! No, no!” when he had in fact deserted his post.
Arnold did not admit to himself that he was a cruel and selfish man. After his fight with Hannah, he confessed to himself that he was a deserter. . Even so, he did not blame himself, instead he said, “Well, if I am a deserter it isn’t my fault. They hadn’t treated me fairly in the army. They never gave me the chance .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 829.... They included Portraits of Cecilia Gallerani, "The Virgin of the Rocks", "The Last Supper", a ceiling painting of the Sala delle Asse in the Milan Castello Sforzesco. Also there were three other paintings that either disappeared or never existed in the first place. They are, a "Nativity" said to have belonged to Emperor Maximilian, a "Madonna" that Ludovico Sforza announced as a gift to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and the portrait of one of Ludovico's mistresses, Lucrezea Crivelli.
Throughout his life he also served various other roles, including civil engineer and a .....
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George F. Handel
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1881.... his bad talent as a lawyer and good skills as an artist, both characterizing every sudden and proverbial decision taken by him in the future were both proved.
At those times Hamburg, the mercantile capital city of Northern Germany, was well known also for its Gansenmarkt Thater (literally: 'Theatre at the goose market'), which workers were yet trying to create the millenary dream in advance of Goethe by combining Italian creativity with German methodology. And what better even if "oleographic" example can be brought to this aim if not the librettos of the operas .....
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Life Of Fredrick Douglass
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 703.... autobiography he claims he “was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” (73). Throughout the novel Douglass never encounters a slave who is not black. “Why am I a slave,” Douglass asks (Douglass 73). This is surely a question asked by every victim of prejudice. Another piece that illustrates discrimination is Joseph Brant’s, “Indian Civilization Vs. White Civilization.”
Joseph Brant was born in 1742 and died in 1807 (Barnett et al. 938). Brant, or Thayendanega, was educated at Wheelock’s Indian school in Connecticut. .....
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