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Escher
Number of words: 264 - Number of pages: 1.... in Rome for 10 years but went on many tours to such places as Calabria, Sicily, Corsica and spain. In 1934 he moved to Switzaland for 2 years and then he moved to brussles for 5 years. Then finaly in 1941 he stayed in Holland for the rest of his life.
THE WORK...
's art work was usally buildings that confused you, he also did lots of architecture. The work he did was very mind boggaling and quite imposible, an example of this imposibillityis demonstraited in the peice Ascending and Desceding where the solders just keep on walking up or down the stairs.
IMPOSSIBILITIES...
The men keep walki .....
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Lincoln - The Truth
Number of words: 1717 - Number of pages: 7.... claim that a few of his actions were unconstitutional, however, all of his actions were later upheld by the Congress. Lincoln did what needed to be done.
Lincoln was an honest man. Especially when dealing with personal money matters. For example, at one point during his administration, Congress granted him twenty thousand dollars to fix up and refurbish the White House. In doing so, Mrs. Lincoln exceeded the allowed dollar amount by six thousand seven hundred dollars. President Lincoln said that he would not ask for the Congress to give him more money, especially at a time of unres .....
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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy - Rebirth By Death
Number of words: 321 - Number of pages: 2.... that he never was in his typical life. He understood that his notion
about his decent and helpfulness was just illusion. He felt as if he were
being squeezed down into a black hole and there at the bottom was light. This
metaphor serves as image of physical death and spiritual rebirth. His death
gave birth to new consciousness. He suddenly perceived that man's essential
life belongs to the spirit and well-being is achieved through loving of people.
He asked forgiveness of his family for his sins and welcomed death... This moral
transformation makes real end of his unreal life. As a mora .....
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 2
Number of words: 2357 - Number of pages: 9.... schoolboy into a radical to be reckoned with." (Reddaway and Schapiro, pg 40) His brother's death influenced his tactics and thoughts about revolution throughout his lifetime.
Lenin was admitted to the University of Kazan but did not stay long. He was expelled for having his name on a petition of grievances. The school authorities looked up his background, and the connection with his brother was made, he was kicked out of school because of it. Not only did they expel him he was exiled from the city too. His mother tried desperately to get him back into school with no avail. (Wo .....
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Henry Ford 2
Number of words: 1628 - Number of pages: 6.... 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 wanted to do. The following year he took another job where he wa .....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, Reform
Number of words: 1100 - Number of pages: 4.... Hundred Days Congress passed much legislation in order to help in the first short range goal - to give immediate relief. In 1933, Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which provided employment in fresh - air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men. Their work included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage. Also new in 1933 was the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA). It was the first major effort of Congress to deal with the unemployed adults, and its chief purpose was immediate relief rather than long-range recovery. Other l .....
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Vladimir Ilyich
Number of words: 590 - Number of pages: 3.... In August 1893 he moved to St Petersburg. In Autumn 1895 he set up the St Petersburg "Union for the liberation of the working class". At the beginning of December 1895 he was arrested and in February 1897 exiled to Siberia for three years. In 1900 he went abroad, where together with G.V. Plekhanov he began to publish the newspaper "Iskra" ("Spark").
At the 2nd conference of the Russian Social Democratic Working Party (1903) Lenin was instrumental in setting up a new type of Bolshevik Marxist Party. During the revolution of 1905 -1907 Lenin developed the idea of the hegemony of the proletaria .....
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Alexander Hamilton
Number of words: 2887 - Number of pages: 11.... Early on, Hamilton wished to increase his opportunities in life. This is evidenced by a letter written to his friend Edward Stevens at the age of fourteen on Nov. 11, 1769 where he stated, "[m]y ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the groveling condition of a clerk or the like … and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." During adolescence, Hamilton had few opportunities for regular schooling. However, he possessed a commanding knowledge of French, due to the teaching of his late mother. This was a very rare trait in the English continent .....
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Eric Clapton
Number of words: 646 - Number of pages: 3.... popular
to the mainstream, much more so than with The Yardbirds. Cream had several top
40 hits, including "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room", and "Crossroads".
Towards the end of the ‘60s Cream split up. Eric Clapton joined the
band Blind Faith in '69 and did fairly well with it, but the group broke up
quickly after the release of their only album. It was then that Clapton
launched his solo career. For A few years in the early ‘70s Clapton played with
backup band "Delaney and Bonnie and Friends", and made a few pretty successful
albums, but nothing in comparison to the popularity .....
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Daniel Webster
Number of words: 691 - Number of pages: 3.... was returned to
Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected senator from Massachusetts.
New circumstances let Daniel Webster become a champion of American
nationalism. With the Federalist Party dead, he joined the National
Republican party, he joined with Westerner Henry Clay and then endorsing
federal aid for roads in the West. In 1828, since Massachusettses had
shifted the economic interest from shipping to manufacturing, Webster
decided to back the high-tariff bill of that year to help the small new
manufacturing businesses grow. Angry southern leaders condemned the tari .....
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