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Brian Piccolo: A Short Season
Number of words: 513 - Number of pages: 2.... and everynight there after. Brian and Joy were what most people would call the "ideal" couple. Brian was the All-American hardworking athlete, while Joy was the loving supportive wife that stood by his side no matter what his successes or failures might bring. Brian lived through the operation, but then the Piccolo's got another piece of disheartening piece of news. What was this piece of news, you might be asking yourself. The answer is in the book, "" by Jeannie Morris. This book traces the life and death of a superstar hwo had a dream. A dream to make his loving fans happy and to be .....
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Hofstadter
Number of words: 2872 - Number of pages: 11.... remains one of the most important books on the subject. After graduating, taught briefly at the University of Maryland but soon returned to Columbia, where he taught for the balance of his career.
There he wrote not only The American Political Tradition but several other provocative and enduring works. Of these perhaps the most notable was his 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Reform, which introduced his idea of "status politics" -- the notion that people act less from pure economic self-interest than from a desire to preserve their social standing -- and controversially portrayed the .....
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John Trumbull
Number of words: 426 - Number of pages: 2.... of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia”. In addition, John was commissioned to execute monumental replicas of some of his Revolutionary War scenes for the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington D.C. These glorious paintings are but a small part of John Trumbull’s contribution to American Society. John has added to our society as an architect, a painter, a writer, and most importantly as a man who wished to share his talent with the world. To better help you understand John Trumbull, the humble American citizen I will provide you with a brief account his past.
John Trumbull was .....
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Martin Luther: A Biography Of Martin Luther (1483- 1546)
Number of words: 771 - Number of pages: 3.... he began to preach the doctrine of
salvation by faith rather than works; and on 31 October 1517 drew up a
list of 95 theses on indulgences denying the pope any right to forgive
sins, and nailed them on the church door at Wittenberg. Tetzel retreated
from Saxony to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, where he published a set of counter-
theses and burnt Luther's. The Wittenberg students retaliated by burning
Tetzel's, and in 1518 Luther was joined in his views by Melanchthon.
The pope, Leo X, at first took little notice of this disturbance,
but in 1518 summoned Luther to Rome to answer for his theses. .....
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The Life Of Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 26653 - Number of pages: 97.... Johann Georg Hiedler. The marriage lasted five years until her death of natural causes, at which time Alois went to live on a small farm with his uncle.
At age thirteen, young Alois had enough of farm life and set out for the city of Vienna to make something of himself. He worked as a shoemaker's apprentice then later enlisted in the Austrian civil service, becoming a junior customs official. He worked hard as a civil servant and eventually became a supervisor. By 1875 he achieved the rank of Senior Assistant Inspector, a big accomplishment for the former poor farm boy with little formal e .....
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George Washington: Summoned By A Country; One Man Stood Strong
Number of words: 2849 - Number of pages: 11.... his first mission
because of his frontiersmanship, hard work, and responsibility. This
mission was to travel through rough terrain in inclimate weather to the
Ohio Valley, to warn the French to stay off the British land. The French
refused and the war began (Meltzer 34-40).
Necessity, a small fort built by Washington's forces 40 miles from
the French Territory was the sight where the first bloodshed of the French
and Indian War occurred. This battle belonged to Washington's forces.
This victory raised George's confidence in himself and captured him a
promotion to Colonel of the Virginia .....
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Adolf HItler
Number of words: 928 - Number of pages: 4.... teacher glorified Germany's role, "we would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears." From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology. Failure plagued him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts rejected him as untalented. Lacking business training, Hitler made a living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting cheap postcards. He often slept in parks and ate in free .....
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Antiheroism In Hamlet
Number of words: 834 - Number of pages: 4.... two, Hamlet is very insolent and rude towards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with such phrases as, That I can keep your counsel and not, mine own. Beside, to be demanded of a sponge, what replication should be made by the son of a king? (IV, ii, 12-14) The reference to the sponge reflects the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are easily ordered by the king and do not have minds of their own. Hamlet does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern since they are servants of the Claudius, Hamlet's mortal enemy. The reader does not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern either which causes the reader .....
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Sir Isaac Newton And Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Number of words: 539 - Number of pages: 2.... square roots. All this made him to be
considered a pioneer in the developement of mathematical logic.
Sir Isaac Newton is the other major figure in the development of Calculus. He
was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the
greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He attended Trinity College, at
the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor's degree in 1665 and
received his master's degree in 1668. However, there he ignored much of the
universities established .....
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Number of words: 583 - Number of pages: 3.... sculpted several marble statuettes.
Michelangelo then went to Rome, where he was able to look at many newly discovered classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, Michelangelo also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before Michelangelo was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed.
The high point of Michelangelo’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David which he made between 1501 and 1504, after returning to Florence. David, Michelangelo’s most .....
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