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Donald Trump
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 817.... seem ridiculous, but apparently they work. He suggests things such as playing golf, being paranoid, going with your gut instinct, and always having a prenuptial agreement. The first chapter explains briefly his rise to the top and the rest of the book tells how he survived the low period and eventually regained his status. One of the main reasons for Donald’s downfall was the plummeting value of his vast real estate assets. He claims that his investments in Atlantic City are what eventually saved him from really going under between 1989 and 1992. Trump then bought M .....
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Ignatius Of Antioch
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 631.... the teeth of wild beasts to become the pure bread of Christ."
In these words, Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, pleaded with his influential friends in Rome not to interfere with his impending martyrdom. Thus on December 20 in the year 107, Ignatius was escorted from the Roman galley that had taken nine years to deliver its prisoner from Antioch to Rome and was brought to the Flavian Amphitheater, the Coliseum, where at the conclusion of the Roman festival he was fed to the lions.
Ignatius was a Syrian by birth who became attracted to the first generation of Christian .....
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Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, And The Morality
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 753.... time. Consider, for example, how
different the question appears when inverted and framed in more historical
terms: How did a man who was born into a slave holding society, whose
family and admired friends owned slaves, who inherited a fortune that was
dependent on slaves and slave labor, decide at an early age that slavery
was morally wrong and forcefully declare that it ought to be abolished?”
(Wilson 66).
Wilson also argues that Jefferson knew that his slaves would be better off
working for him than freed in a world where they would be treated with
contempt and not given a .....
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John Gotti
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2142.... in their neighborhood. At an early age he exerted his bad temper, dominance and readiness to engage in fistfights. These were just the right characteristics to develop his potential as a Mafia boss.
In the mid-1960's, Gotti's boss Carmine Fatico moved his headquarters out to Ozone Park near JFK Airport. Gotti, his brothers, Angelo and Willie Boy became relatively successful hijackers. That is, until they got caught in 1968 and landed in prison.
In 1972, when Gotti got out of prison and went back to Ozone Park, the headquarters had been imaginatively renamed the Bergin Hu .....
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Jackie Robinson: Breaking The Color Barrier
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1163.... decided he wanted to join the Negro Leagues. In 1944 Jackie officially was on a Negro baseball team. (Shorto, Russell p. 5-10) In 1945 Branch Rickey the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers was looking for a black player to break the serration barrier and rise above it all and join the Major League Baseball Association. Rickey said that whoever the person was to be would have to cope with taunts and insult, with name calling and abuse.
Rickey heard of the success of Jackie on the Negro League and sent his scouts to see Jackie. (Ritter, S. Lawrence p. 43-51). After a long meetin .....
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Becket
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 475.... actions that need to be taken. He devotes his life to religion. He wants to do the right things for the church and the kingdom, but Henry II does not like the fact that becomes a militant defender of the church against royal encroachment and a champion of the papal ideology of ecclesiastical supremacy over the lay world. The disagreement of each other's ideas triggers the collapse of their friendship.
The obliteration of and Henry's friendship happened in many ways. When their ideas clash, they realize how much they actually hate each other. They try to settle out their .....
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Frederick Douglass' Dream For Equality
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1170.... slavery. It would have also ended the North's obligation to enforce
the fugitive slave law, and encourage a greater exodus of fugitive slaves from
the South. (161,162 Perry) Douglass did not support this idea because it would
not result in the complete abolition of slavery. Blacks deserved just as much
freedom as whites. He believed that the South had committed treason, and the
Union must rebel by force if necessary. Astonished by Garrison's thoughts,
Douglass realized that abolition was truly a war between whites. Garrison, and
many others, had failed to see the slaves .....
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 251.... and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the culmination of the Baroque polyphonic style.
Important Works
Sacred music includes o .....
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