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Karl Marx
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1206.... time, it had more than 3,400 subscribers from all over Germany. was married to his childhood friend Jenny von Westphalen, in 1843. Later in the fall of that year Marx along with another Left Hegelian, Arnold Ruge, moved to Paris and began publication of a radical journal entitled Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher. However due to the problems in publishing 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 communities. They forme .....
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Nathanial Hawthorne
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 892.... of The House Of The Seven
Gables streches over two centuries. It's the classic scenario of two rival
families, in this case the Pyncheons ( weathly aristocratic puritans) and
the Maules ( humbler paupers). The story of these two families begins with
Matthew Maule, who owned a certain amount of land and built himself a hut
to live in, in this new puritan settlement. Maule was a hard working but
obscure man, who was stubborn and protected what was his. His rival arrived
at the settlement about 30 to 40 years after Maule had been there. Colonel
Pyncheon, an ambicious and deter .....
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Michelangelo
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 731.... most famous sculpture, became the symbol of
Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the
Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall.
With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he
not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by
infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning.
Michelangelo’s David does not make me feel a certain way. It is
simply a magnificent statue. This statue does not have a certain mood.
David is a statue of David in the nude .....
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Biographies: Jackson, Van Buren, And Harrison
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 472.... so much money from material
from the west that money became inflated--which encouraged people to move
west to escape this growing inflation.
Martin Van Buren
Van Buren was the next president who had to face the horrible economic
conditions began during Jackson's presidency. In 1836 Van Buren was
elected president, this time I think voters used their heads and knew Van
Buren was the only candidate really ready to face the economic conditions.
Soon after Van Buren took over there a depression began, This was a
time when virtually every .....
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Bob Dole: A Race To The Top
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1292.... towards low and middle income tax payers. The
result, a plan that while still benefiting the rich more than the middle class,
more evenly distributes between all income groups (Duffy 1996). Under Dole's
tax cut plan, a family of four with an annual income of 31,000 would see their
tax bill drop from $2,000 to $800, a difference of $1,200. "The way the tax
cut was packaged shows that they were still sensitive to the old anti-Reagan
argument that tax cuts just benefit the rich and they tried to show that their
plan would benefit everybody," remarked Rick Grafmeyer, a tax .....
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Henry Ford 2
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1628.... Henry also had three brothers, John, William, and Robert, as well as two sisters, Margaret, and Jane. Henry was the oldest of all the kids. As Henry grew up he was assigned chores to do around the farm just like all his brothers and sisters. Henry came to the conclusion that he didn't like farm life while he was still a young boy. He was more interested in mechanical things. He was always pulling things apart to see how they
worked. In 1879 Henry walked six miles to the Michigan Car Company and took a job. Although it was only for a short time, he now knew what he .....
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John Harlan
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 851.... degree and was admitted to the New York bar. In 1931 John Marshall Harlan II became a partner in the firm he'd begun working in while attending law school, and spent much of his early career working for the firm.
Harlan was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New York in 1925. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General from 1928 to 1930. Prior to working as Special Assistant Attorney General, Harlan married Ethel Andrews, with whom he had one child.
During World War II, Harlan served as a colonel in the United States Army Air Force. Harlan was in charge of .....
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Billie Holiday
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 643.... dead" (W 14). This made her family very mad and lead to their further abandonment of Billie. Aside from the superficial tension between Billie and her mother, they did their best to remain loyal to one another and provide for each other (W 201).
As Billie grew older, life grew harder and reality slowly became more and more real for her. At age 10, Billie was raped, further strengthening Billie's image of reality. As Billie grew older she became carefree and grew to have a strong temper. One musician remembers Billie as "a child, 11 or 12 years old, shouting the worst words she .....
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