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Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
Number of words: 1950 - Number of pages: 8

.... his airship ideas. Zeppelin now finally found the time to concern himself with his visions to the topic of “Lenkbare Luftschiffe” or “guidable airships”. This idea had always pursued him in the last 20 years. It was particularly the success of the airship LA FRANCE, which had very much impressed Zeppelin. In a letter to his king, Zeppelin referred, particularly, to the possibilities of the military use of this technology. A meeting with the military authorities, following on it, did not bring good results for it. The authorities over-estimated the problem of air r .....

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Similarities Of Bradstreet And Wheatly
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2

.... Woodbridge, who published them without her knowing. Phyllis Wheatly may have lived a very short life, but her accomplishments are still appreciated today. She was a slave brought over from Africa, at a young age. She was purchased by the Wheatley's, who taught her English and Latin. She used this knowledge to read the Bible and other poets works. She had one book of poetry published. In these poems, she used the tools of Latin vocabulary, inversions, and her religious beliefs. After her master died, she became free and married a free man. She was not given as much a .....

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Thomas Jefferson And Patrick Henry As Heads Of Their Countries
Number of words: 517 - Number of pages: 2

.... of the orators received. Thomas Jefferson built his ideas from previous ideas of another person, while Patrick Henry was driven on sheer hatred. Using some ideas from Jonathan Edwards, Jefferson derived ideas and statements based on the Enlightenment and Edwards’ sermon. Edwards frightened people into conversion, as Jefferson frightened the King with the consequences that could be suffered. The King and government were in debt as much as it was, so refusing another political battle in this way was a wise choice. Henry stated in regards to the president, “Sir, we have done everything .....

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John Brown
Number of words: 268 - Number of pages: 1

.... , accompanied by a handful of abolitionists intruded on this governmental land with hopes of steeling the arms. The weapons were then going to be used in the attempted freeing of slaves. It is true that Brown’s actions lasted only a short number of hours, involved only a few other kinsmen, and freed no slaves. However, are his actions wholly unjust and are they actions of a man with little or no sanity. The Northern Chronicle offers you another point of view. Think of the horrid deeds being performed in the slave states of the south. Men, women, and children being beaten and wo .....

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Karl Marx
Number of words: 1206 - Number of pages: 5

.... 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 formed the theory and ideas of revolutionary proletarian socialism, al .....

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Ben Franklin 2
Number of words: 1270 - Number of pages: 5

.... shop. James was the printer for a Boston newspaper, so Ben not only learned how to print but he read everything in the shop. When Ben was seventeen, he left his family and moved to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Ben was on his own and became very accomplished. He did a little bit of everything. Ben Franklin as a scientist and inventor is perhaps the most interesting. "Flying a kite in a lightning storm is dumb. But the first person to try that dangerous experiment was brilliant." Aside from the famous kite experiment, Franklin did more. The direct effect of Franklin's work with l .....

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Boris Yeltsin
Number of words: 2040 - Number of pages: 8

.... unemployed for awhile, then worked in construction, and Boris's mother Klavdiya Vasilyevna Yeltsina was a seamstress. In his youth Boris blew off two fingers trying to disarm a hand grenade (he was most likely playing with it not disarming it). Boris graduated from Pushkin High School in Berezniki where his parents lived from the late 1930's to the early 1970's. After graduation, Boris went to Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk. While in college, Boris played pro volleyball for Sverdlovsk in the USSR first division. In 1955 he graduated with a major in construction. I .....

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Steve Jobs
Number of words: 1731 - Number of pages: 7

.... computers. On this basis the Apple Corporation was founded, the name based on Job's favorite fruit and the logo. Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personel computer led him into revolutionizing the computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a friend, Wozniak, built a personel computer called the Apple. The Apple changed people's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary people. No company has done more to democratize the computer and make it user- friend .....

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Number of words: 686 - Number of pages: 3

.... At this time in his life he wanted to become a painter, like one of his siblings. His plans changed when he, and three of his friends were drawn in to Catholicism. He was received by the Church of Newman in October of 1866. After having taken a first class degree in 1867, he taught at the Oratory School, Birmingham. Two years later he decided to become a Jesuit when he burned all his verses as too worldly. When he entered as a Jesuit he wrote no poems. although the though of crossing the two vocations constantly crossed his mind. Then in 1875 he told his superior how moved he felt .....

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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Number of words: 1115 - Number of pages: 5

.... Hope is something that can lift someone's soul or spirit up. She is also saying that hope or faith is the only thing that can get someone up to heaven because without hope, you have no feathers and therefore you will fall down to hell. It is like someone said, "There is no future without any hope." Hope is what keeps us going and what makes our life worth living. If there was no hope, you will be better if you died and be stuck in hell because there is no point in living. Hope is everywhere and is always there for you even though you do not realize what it is or feel its presenc .....

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