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Authur Miller
Number of words: 809 - Number of pages: 3

.... a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more." He did however push the limits when he released his controversial piece Death of a Salesman. And, he gained even more acclaim. Soon he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as .....

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The Life Of Aristotle
Number of words: 2310 - Number of pages: 9

.... from a few fragments in the works of later writers, his dialogues have been wholly lost. Aristotle also wrote some short technical notes, such as a dictionary of philosophic terms and a summary of the doctrines of Pythagoras. Of these, only a few brief excerpts have survived. Still extant, however, are Aristotle's lecture notes for carefully outlined courses treating almost every branch of knowledge and art. The texts on which Aristotle's reputation rests are largely based on these lecture notes, which were collected and arranged by later editors. Among the texts are treatises on logic, .....

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The Quest For Moral Perfection
Number of words: 1006 - Number of pages: 4

.... was attained, it would make achieving the following virtue easier. Franklin found that he had much to improve upon. Another ingredient to Franklin’s recipe for greatness was his daily schedule. Franklin divided his day up by the hour and knew what he was to be doing at all times. This he found difficult at times, and involving the virtue Order, at one time he almost gave up. In one of Franklin's few pessimistic moments, he is quoted as saying, “This article (order) therefore cost me so much painful attention, and my faults in it vexed me so much…that I was almost ready to give up th .....

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Important People In History
Number of words: 2790 - Number of pages: 11

.... try to do things to make them feel better like trying to seek out power or maybe going out and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant in understanding one's personality, however he did not believe that dreams revealed more about a person's sexuality. Pavlov, Ivan (1849- 1936) Pavlov won a nobel prize for medicine in 1904. He was interested in the relationship between stimulus and response. Pavlov tested his theory with dogs. .....

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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Number of words: 793 - Number of pages: 3

.... In 1958, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. In that capacity he served until his appointment by President Kennedy to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1961, when he was designated Chairman of the Commission. His term of office expires in 1968. From 1959 to 1961, he was also a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Dr. Seaborg was given a leave of absence from the University of California from 1942-1946, during which period he headed the plutonium work of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory. He was co-d .....

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Thomas Jefferson
Number of words: 3867 - Number of pages: 15

.... in 1767 and practiced until 1774, when the courts were closed by the American Revolution. He was a successful lawyer, though professional income was only a supplement. He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton However, his father-in-law's estate imposed a burdensome debt on Jefferson. He began building Monticello before his marriage, but his mansion was not completed in its present form until a generation later. Jefferson's lifelong emphasis on local government grew directly from his own e .....

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Gailileo 3
Number of words: 679 - Number of pages: 3

.... personal letter written to Kepler (1571 - 1630) in 1598, Galileo had stated that he was a Copernican (believer in the Theories of Copernicus). No public sign of this belief was to appear until many years later. In the summer of 1609, Galileo heard about a spyglass that a Dutchman had shown -1- in Venice. From these reports, and using his own technical skills as a mathematicians and a workman, Galileo made a series of telescopes whose optical performance was much better than that of the Dutch instrument. The astronomical discoveries he made with his te .....

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Young And Beutiful
Number of words: 908 - Number of pages: 4

.... W/rt Beza Getachew. I’m the new legal adviser for the agency.” She said in a very friendly voice ”you must be the manger”. “Well it says on the door” I said as I introduced myself. I gave here the papers she needed for her work and told my secretary to help her organize her office. The rest of the day I couldn’t do anything but think about this woman. After work I offered to take her to the cafeteria and offered her a cup of coffee. After that we to know each other very well . That’s was two years ago and now I was in love with this woman an wa .....

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Adolf Hitler
Number of words: 2577 - Number of pages: 10

.... by a half brother and half sister from one of his father's two previous marriages. Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery's coat of arms' most salient feature was a swastika. As a youngster, Adolf's dream was to enter the priesthood. While there is anecdotal evidence that Adolf's father regularly beat him during his childhood, it was not unusual for discipline to be enforced in that way during that period. By 1900, Hitler's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either .....

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Andrew Carnegie: "Capt. Of Industry" Or "Robber Baron"?
Number of words: 536 - Number of pages: 2

.... had to work twelve hours a day, 7 days a week. When they started to form a labor union, he tried to stop it. He had to go to Scotland for a couple of days and told his partner to stop the strike by any means. Whether it was a misunderstanding or not, but his partner called for armed forces. The former workers were imprisoned, injured or killed, and definitely fired. Though after the unsuccessful strike, Carnegie rehired many of those people upon his return. Carnegie's biggest contribution was the development of the steel production process; he was the first to produce it on such a large scale .....

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