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Alexander III
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1406.... mounted the horse and began to ride,
to the amazement of all who watched. When he got off the horse Philip kissed
his son.
Plutarch also tells of Alexander entertaining Persian ambassadors while
his father was not present. When Alexander was 16 Philip left him in charge of
Macedon when Philip went to fight the Byzantines.
When Alexander was 20 his father was murdered at the theatre. Some say
that Alexander had a part in the plot to assasinate his father but almost all
agree that his mother Olympias was a key figure in the death of Philip.
Whatever the case may be Alexan .....
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 834.... of twelve. He then moved with David Beckman and Nicholas Cruger at Saint Croix. They took care of Hamilton as if they were his real folks until the age of 23 which is when he married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of General Philip John Schuyler, a member of an influential New York family.
6. Who inspired of influenced this person?
Hamilton inspired himself. His urge to be heard and recognized gave him the every to keep on voicing his thoughts for the need of a strong central government in order to foster the development of a great and powerful American nation. He first en .....
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Ernesto Che Guevara
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1445.... be stabilized. Che was home schooled until the age of nine because of his illness. Guevara took after his mother in that he was attracted to danger and he ended up with his father’s temper. Guevara did all right in school, but it wasn’t until he got to college that he started to shine.
At first Che wanted to study engineering at the University. After the death of his grandmother Che decided to study medicines instead of engineering. He was accepted to the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. By college, his parents were separated, though still marr .....
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Rembrandt
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 457.... In
addition to portraits, Rembrandt gained fame for his landscapes, while he
is one of the most famous sketchers of all time. When he had no other
model, he painted or sketched his own image. Rembrandt painted or sketched
over fifty portraits just of himself! During the next few years three of
his four children died as babies, and in 1642 his wife died. Rembrandt made
most of his etchings during the 1630’s and 1640’s. His landscape paintings
are depiction’s of the land around him. One of Rembrandt’s most famous
paintings was known as 'The Night Watch', painted in 1642. It depi .....
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Hitler And World War I
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1824.... the war and blamed the loss on cowardly politicians. The treaty restricted the size of the German army and forbid Germany to join together with Austria. Adding to Germany's already vast economic problems, the country had to pay financial reparations for the war. Hence, the Treaty of Versailles fueled nationalist propaganda and played a major role in collapsing the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s.
Besides the Treaty of Versailles, several other factors affected the Weimar Republic. Parties in the Weimar Republic were closely aimed at specific socioeconomic interest gr .....
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 703.... a priest and added himself to two
congregations in Modena (Gillispie,2).
Spallanzani, in hundreds of experiments tested various rituals for
rendering infusions permanently barren and finally found that they
remained free of microorganisms when put into flasks that were sealed and
the contents boiled for one hour (Lazzaro...1).The entrance of air into
the flask through a slight crack in its neck was followed infusoria. He
reported no spontaneous generation in strongly heated infusions protected
from aerial contamination. In 1765, after cutting up thousands of
earthworms an .....
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Tim Leary
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2628.... which caused the disgruntled and unsatisfied Committee to maintain the silence punishment. Leary had to endure nine months of being ignored. When he became a sophomore, some of the cadet officers whom where not on the Honor Committee approached Tim to talk about the situation. They informed him that the whole business was causing morale problems. They wanted to make a deal for Tim's departure. He said that he would leave Westpoint if the honor committee would read a statement in the mess hall proclaiming his innocence. They returned two days later with an approval. .....
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Henry James And William Dean Howells
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1046.... which he would maintain throughout his life and writings, one of a detached observer rather than participant in the American social scene. (Matthiessen 14)
The first phase of James' writing begins when he is twenty-one, in 1864 and continues until 1881. He was extremely popular during this time, especially during after publication of a short story Daisy Miller, which is concerned with the destruction of a naive American girl by European mores. James continues the theme of placing Americans without sufficient social experience into
the complex society and culture of Europe w .....
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