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Bram Stoker
Number of words: 651 - Number of pages: 3.... his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again, this time in the role of Hamlet, 10 years after Stoker's Trinity days. Stoker, still very much the critic (and still holding his civil service position), gave Irving's performance a favorable review. Impressed with Stoker's review, Irving invited Stoker back stage and the resultant friendshi .....
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Kobe Bryant
Number of words: 694 - Number of pages: 3.... with the Los Angeles Lakers. He won the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk and was the lead scorer in the Schick Rookie Game during the NBA All-Star Weekend. Then, in his second season, he was voted a starter for the 1998 All-Star Game, becoming at 19 the youngest All-Star in NBA history.
He was the all time leading scorer in southeastern pennsylvania history with 2,883 breaking the marks of former Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlan and of Carlin Warly. As a senior at Lower Merion High School, Bryant was choosen by USA Today and Parade Magazine as the National High School Player of the Year. He was als .....
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Martin Luther King Jr
Number of words: 2258 - Number of pages: 9.... which is a task set by God. However, gradually this term was expanded to the point where it covered many of man's activities. During the Protestant Reformation, the term "calling" started to take on a new meaning. Fulfilling one's duty in worldly affairs became a task of extreme importance. gradually, fulfilling one's duty was not only important but it became the moral obligation of every individual (the highest form of moral activity). Before the Reformation, the Catholic Church did not believe that everyday world activities had a religious significance. As a result of Luther these wor .....
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David Hume
Number of words: 979 - Number of pages: 4.... that was, despite errors of fact, the standard work for many years.
"Nothing seems more unbounded than a man's thought," quoted Hume. Hume took genuinely hypothetical elements from Locke and Berkeley but, rejected some lingering metaphysics form their thought, and gave empiricism its clearest and most rigorous formulation. (Stumpf) Hume wanted to build a science of a man, to study human nature by using the methods of physical science. But, with conflicting opinions offered on all subjects how can we know the true nature of things?
Hume believed that all knowledge came from ex .....
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
Number of words: 566 - Number of pages: 3.... big problem to Bill is that he has been unable to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises was his health
program, the purpose of this was to give people with not so many money a chance
to get treated at a hospital. In US you are supposed to pay hospital-bills
yourself. It is something like our public health insurance where the government
pays for the ho¬ spitals. In US it is a problem that the poor can not afford the
medicine and therefore they sometimes do not get .....
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John Paul Jones
Number of words: 451 - Number of pages: 2.... who was supposed to keep these things from
happening?
The other event was the Battle off Flambrough Head. A Baltic convoy
escorted by two British ships was sailing past Flamborough Head, and since
Jones had always wanted to break up a Baltic convly, that's exactly what he
planned to do.
Jones had three warships under his command compared to the two British
escorts. He soon realized after chasing the convoy, that he would have to
sink the escorts ot get a crack at the convoy. when the battle started,
bad communication left Jones' ship one-on-one with a superior waship,
anothe .....
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Leonhard Euler
Number of words: 258 - Number of pages: 1.... degree at the age of 16. In 1727, at
the invitation of Catherine I, empress of Russia, Euler became a member of the
faculty of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He was appointed
professor of physics in 1730 and professor of mathematics in 1733. In 1741 he
became professor of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences at the urging
of the Prussian king Frederick the Great. Euler returned to St. Petersburg in
1766, remaining there until his death. Although hampered from his late 20s by
partial loss of vision and in later life by almost total blindness, Euler
produced a number .....
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Saint John Bosco
Number of words: 632 - Number of pages: 3.... and Holy Mass and Communion and confession are the best ways for children to attain a sense of personal responsibility.
In a short time, other priests joined him in his work and by 1852 they were caring for over 600 boys. John dealt with them by using a minimum of restraint and discipline, lots of love, keeping careful watch over their development and encouraging them personally and through religion.
John's preaching and writing, as well as the charitable support of wealthy and powerful patrons allowed for expansion of his work. The need for dependable assistants led to the founding of the .....
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Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 1218 - Number of pages: 5.... led to an uproar of "Heil, Hitler!"
Hitler knew what he wanted, and he wouldn't let anything come between himself and his goal. Unfortunately his aims had no limit in terms of what he would do, and he overestimated the resources and abilities of Germany. Even though there were many experts in many different fields, Hitler wouldn't listen to any of them. He followed in his own thoughts and judgement. His generals gave out a lot of advice but Hitler rarely listened to them. Even when Germany needed it most, during the ending years of the war. As the United States, British and Soviet troops .....
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Booker T. Washington 2
Number of words: 515 - Number of pages: 2.... his ability to educate that he made him the organizer and principal of a black trade school. He named it Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
While at Tuskegee, Booker T. Washington incorporated the idea of integrating blacks into society by teaching them skills needed to work. While at Tuskegee, blacks could learn such skills as carpentry, welding, fabrication, and agricultural qualities. The school was very popular among black, but also whites. Whites did not enroll, but they did not object to blacks learning trades. Money poured into the institution and Washington was consider .....
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