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Descartes
Number of words: 1099 - Number of pages: 4.... senses are sometimes deceptive. Since the senses are not completely trustworthy, it is irrational to place complete trust in them. However it is no small leap of faith to presume that everything our senses tells us is false. In fact, it seems almost preposterous to say such a thing. But as points out, we have dreams regularly and in these dreams everything we experience is a figment of our imagination, or at least not real in the physical sense. So, at least according to , it is reasonable to doubt everything our senses tell us, for the time being. Now, using similar logic, we can say .....
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Lyndon B Johnson
Number of words: 1457 - Number of pages: 6.... the White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age 27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas seat in Congress, where he championed public works, reclamation, and public power programs. When war came to Europe he backed Roosevelt's efforts to aid the Allies. During World War II he se .....
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The Political Career Of Richard Nixon
Number of words: 3572 - Number of pages: 13.... discharge. He was working in Baltimore,
Maryland, when he received a telephone call that changed his life. A Republican
citizen's committee in Whittier was considering Nixon as a candidate for
Congress in the 12th Congressional District. In December 1945 Nixon accepted the
candidacy with the promise that he would "wage a fighting, rocking, socking
campaign." Jerry Voorhis, a Democrat who had represented the 12th District
since 1936, was running for reelection. Earlier in his career Voorhis had been
an active Socialist. He had become more conservative over the years and was now
an outspo .....
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The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, And Melville
Number of words: 1687 - Number of pages: 7.... where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his rationalistic views still created some reality and scientific truth within his writing. For example, in The Fall of the House of Usher the main character suffers from a strange mental disorder that was actually a real proven case. No matter how much the critics lash out at Poe’s life his writing will still express the work of a true genius.
Poe’s poetry, in general, was an attempt for him to embody the i .....
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Princess Diana
Number of words: 2991 - Number of pages: 11.... father’s disappointment. Finally, a few years later her mother delivered a boy to carry on the Spencer name. Although Diana had a beautiful christening at Sandringham Church with well-to-do Godparents, her brother Charles’s christening was a major event at Westminster Abbey. The Queen was the principal Godparent. The Spencer children were privileged but not snobbish. They were taught to accept people for what they are and not their position in life. The children never understood their titles until they went to school. Occasionally one of the royals would make a visit to the Spencer hom .....
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Nicholas Ferrar
Number of words: 1267 - Number of pages: 5.... its charter. Nicholas dedicated himself to saving the family fortune and
was successful. He served for a short time as Member of Parliament, where he
tried to promote the cause for the Virginia Company. His efforts were in vain
for the company lost their charter anyway.
Nicholas is given credit for founding a Christian community called the English
Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar
was ordained as a deacon, he retired and started his little community. Ferrar
was given help and support with his semi-religious community by John Collet, as
well as C .....
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Charles Darwin
Number of words: 1122 - Number of pages: 5.... hypothesis be extended to explain the
variety of life forms that exist on earth today? (Question formed by
scholars in an attempt to stump Darwin)
Darwin in his "Origin of Species" published an answer to this
question in 1859. Darwin wrote:
"As many more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there
must be in every case, a struggle for existence, either one individual with
another of the same species, or with individuals of distinct species, or
with physical conditions of life. Can it be thought improbable, seeing
that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, tha .....
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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 562 - Number of pages: 3.... he was strong enough to tame a
wild horse and chop wood like a lumberjack. Most important of all, he was know
to be a superb writer.
Though surprisingly, Thomas Jefferson was not a man of many words. Not
known for his speaking abilities, he was shy and seldom spoke in public. When
delegates at the Congress gave long speeches, Thomas Jefferson oftentimes just
listened. John Adams said of Jefferson, "During the whole time I sat with him
in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together."
Instead, this Virginian contributed his pen rather than his voice to the
patriotic .....
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Benito Mussolini 2
Number of words: 283 - Number of pages: 2.... also smart. Then he went and became a schoolmaster. In 1909, Musolini fell in love with a 16 year old Rachele Guidi. A month later, she went to live with him in a damp, cramped apartment in Forli, soon after they were married. Soon after the marrige, Musolini was imprisioned for the fifth time. After getting out of prision, Mussolini was appointed editor of the Socialist paper "Avanti!". Mussolini was best known for his involvement in World War 2. Before the war even started Mussolini knew that peace was essential to Italy's well-being. To him there was no way to win because if he .....
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Margaret Mead
Number of words: 246 - Number of pages: 1.... she became assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and she subsequently served as associate curator (1942-64) and as curator (1964-69). She was director of research in contemporary cultures at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950 and adjunct professor of anthropology there after 1954. In 1968 she was appointed full professor and head of the social science department in the Liberal Arts College of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York. She also served on various government and international commissions and was a controversial s .....
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