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Dante
Number of words: 953 - Number of pages: 4.... our sins and wrong doings before we end up in Hell, or, existentially speaking, lost in pure, dark evil. It is almost like a small lie that can grow and grow to ultimately consume your life. In its content, the Inferno also shows the reader what a sin is really like by creating a symbolic punishment which mirrors the actual sin. Hell is a place "where penalties are paid by those who, sowing discord, earned Hell’s wages." For example, in canto V lines 31-45, writes, "[Referring to those who lusted] I came to a place where no light shown at all, bellowing like the sea racked by a tem .....
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FDR
Number of words: 3077 - Number of pages: 12.... far and away, the most difficult time in American history. Not only did he accept the challenges at hand, he rose to the occasion and took this country to another level. Roosevelt was born on January 30 near New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1904 and attended Law School. Although he didn't get his law degree, he was admitted to the New York bar in 1907. He was elected to the New York senate in 1910 and was appointed by Woodrow Wilson as assistant secretary of the navy, a post he held during World War I. Roosevelt ran for vice-president in 1920 and lost. In 1921, he was stricken .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of words: 2388 - Number of pages: 9.... cowardly retreat and mother’s sudden death, Poe was left in the capable hand of his godfather, John Allan. John Allan was a wealthy merchant based in Richmond, Virginia with the means, knowledge and affluence to provide a good life for Poe (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” Encyclopedia Britannica 540). In 1815, Poe and his new family moved to England to provide Poe a classical education (which was finished out in Richmond. Upon returning from England in 1826, Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” Encyclopedia Britannica 540). This was a magnificent feat for him, b .....
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Number of words: 1001 - Number of pages: 4.... mathematics student. But it is often pointed out
that at first Gauss was undecided whether he should become a mathematician or a
philologist. The reason for this indecision was probably that humanists at that
time had a better economic future than scientists.
Gauss first became completely certain of his choice of studies when he
discovered the construction of the regular 17-sided polygon with ruler and
compass; that is to say, after his first year at the university.
There are several reasons to support the assertion that Gauss hesitated
in his choice of a career. But his matriculation as .....
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Number of words: 1089 - Number of pages: 4.... assigned to many important political jobs in Toscana. One of the most
important of these jobs was the one he got on 1502, June and November, when
Valantino tried to separate the unity of Florence with the help of the
rebellions by Arezzo and Valdi. Machiavelli examined the policy by Caesar
Borgia closely and carefully : Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo,
Signore Pagolo and Duke Gravina's killing which is bound with Duke
Valentino's behavior (1503). This writing was so important in
Machiavelli's history of political thought as well as the two other works
of him written in the same year .....
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Genghis Khan & The Mongol Empire
Number of words: 2295 - Number of pages: 9.... relatives isolating Temuchins family. His mother and her four sons, and a few retainers were abandoned to fend for themselves. They lost their herds of animals and
the economic support of their kinsmen, forcing them to fish, eat roots and mice to survive. Temuchin and his brothers grew to early adulthood in extreme poverty. It was during this time that Temuchin showed his ruthlessness by killing his half-brother Begter over not sharing a fish that had been caught. When Temuchin claimed his wife-to-be Borte, who had been promised to him years earlier, he gained a wife of great intellige .....
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Biograpghy On Lois Duncan - Author Of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
Number of words: 749 - Number of pages: 3.... the murder of her 18-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, was written in real time as the horror unfolded. When the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the contrary, Duncan began her own investigation. Her search for the answers took her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs and led her to seek the help of the nation's top psychic detectives, who, along with a courageous newspaper reporter, provided information that proved to her that Kait's death was far fromaccidental. Written to motivate informants, the book was featured on suc .....
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Descartes Sixth Meditation
Number of words: 1379 - Number of pages: 6.... external world, he doubts at first that any of these internal experience holds any truth or existence. As he is very sceptical he raises the problem whether any of these given experiences contain truth or objectivity at all. Since we never have the chance to stand outside our own perception, it is impossible to contrast it with the external world.
Descartes is hopeful to prove subsistence of the external world (physical objects located in space), and so he returns to a very basic stage and acknowledges the existence of minds as an immaterial substance and God. He then accepts that matter e .....
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Doris Lessing's Life And Her Writings
Number of words: 1181 - Number of pages: 5.... would not be able to do (Thompson, 1251).
“The story is about a family and their farm hands trying to save a
maize crop from a huge swarm of locusts. Although their crop is ruined,
they are thankful that the swarm of locusts did not settle and lay eggs on
the farm. As a result, Margaret, the wife, who was brought up in the city,
slowly learns to adapt to her harsh yet beautiful surroundings” (Bloom,134).
In the story the main character is Margaret, a city girl is now a
farmer’s wife thrown into a way of life that is all new to her. “Margaret’
s love for her h .....
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The Life Of King David
Number of words: 545 - Number of pages: 2.... because the people of Saul's kingdom really like David. Saul
tried to have David killed but, Jonathan finds out about the plot and saves
David's life. Later on in life David became king of all Israel. One day David
was up on the roof of his palace and he saw Bathsheba bathing on her roof.
Instead of turning away from his sinful thoughts, he had her called to his
chamber where he lay with her, and had sexual intercourse. David didn't think
before he acted and he got Bathsheba pregnant. He had no idea how to get out of
the predicament he was in. David summoned Bathsheba's husband Uriah back .....
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