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John Lennon
Number of words: 782 - Number of pages: 3.... was actually a vulnerable romantic. While Paul projected the
sweet image and who was underneath an injured, controlling, perfectionist.
By 1964, The Beatles arrived at JFK Airport. They were greeted with
mass hysteria. Two days later, more than 73 million people watched them perform
live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Four weeks later, The Beatles held the top five
music singles in America at the same time.
John was influenced by many things in 1965-1966 such as psychedelia,
marijuana, and Bob Dylan. Many felt that these years were the best song writing
years of John Lennon's life.
1966- .....
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Archimedes
Number of words: 709 - Number of pages: 3.... creation of the lever and pulley system. proved his theory of the lever and pulley to the king by moving a ship, of the royal fleet, back into the ocean. Then, moved the ship into the sea with only a few movements of his hand, which caused a lever and pulley device to move the ship. This story has become famous because said, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth. Another invention he invented was the Archimedean screw. This machine was built for raising water to highland areas in Egypt that could not receive water directly from the Nile River. This device is still used t .....
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Abigail Adams
Number of words: 763 - Number of pages: 3.... and potatoes, gathering hay, sowing barley, or making sure that his
sheep received proper care. Abigail, with the help of her family grew a
very religious bond between each other and a long lasting friendship.
Abigail never went to a real school because of poor health. So, she
learned at home. Her father's library was not big, but she still went to it
to read books. Abigail's favorite books were novels by Samuel Richardson.
Abigail's father knew John Adams by working with him and she grew rather
close to him starting a wedding. This now made her name Abigail Adams.
Their w .....
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George Meade
Number of words: 644 - Number of pages: 3.... Taylor. To sum up, General accomplished many things during his time at war.
Each of General 's accomplishments had one major effect on how life is today. To start, if Meade had not defeated Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run the war would not have started off positively for the North. This was important because the soldiers gained their confidence when they won this battle. If the North would have lost the entire war the U.S. would be two different countries. Secondly, Meade's defeat of Lee at the accidental Gettysburg. This was a battle that turned the war around and gave the North the .....
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Milton Friedman
Number of words: 772 - Number of pages: 3.... was a direct result of growth in the supply of money into an economy. His views differed however, with those of his contemporaries, in the major point that he believed that economic stability could only be reached through non-intervention on behalf of the government. This policy is often known as laissez-faire (French for 'let things be') economics. The policy at the time was for the government to sharply increase or decrease money supply, to counteract inflation, in an attempt to attain a stable economy. Friedman argued however, that this intervention was destabilising, and that what was .....
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Muhammad Allah
Number of words: 771 - Number of pages: 3.... Muhammad moved again, this time with his Uncle Abu Talib, who succeeded as head of the Hashim clan. At the age of twenty five he went to work for a rich and beautiful widow named Khadijah, who owned a wealthy commercial enterprise. After a brief time the to were married and tried to start a family. They had two sons, both of whom died, but then four daughters were born. At about 610 A.D. while in a cave on mount Hira, Muhammad had a message entrusted in him by God to preach of his messages. Intermediately he received more messages throughout his life. Some of these revelations constitute t .....
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Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Number of words: 349 - Number of pages: 2.... Saturday Courier
pulished five of his stories. Poe his aunt and Virginia moved to Richmond
in 1835 and became editor of the Southern LiteraryMessenger and married
Virginia who was not yet 14 years old. In January 1837 Poe annouced his
withdrawl as editor in the Messenger.
He stayed in New York City then in Philadelphia and again in New
York to establish himself as a force of literary jouranalism. Over the
years he discovered new forms of poetry. He exemplifies a form in Ligeia
(1838), he conidered his best piece of work The Fall Of The House Of Usher
(1839). The Murders In The Rue Mor .....
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Doc Holliday
Number of words: 1383 - Number of pages: 6.... that although Doc was a mans man, he still liked to look as good as possible no matter where he went. This handkerchief in his eyes may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name , they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Doc’s favorite subject
was rhet .....
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James Joyce
Number of words: 1091 - Number of pages: 4.... Ireland and Irish people become the subject of his short stories and novels. The two central preoccupations of his work are a sense of betrayal. Ireland, dominated both political and economically by Britain and religiously by the Catholic Church caused Joyce to regard them as "the two imperialisms" (Attridge P. 34). Roman Catholicism is an integral aspect of the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In 1917, the English novelist H.G. Wells in a review of the novel in the New Republic wrote, "by far the most living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catho .....
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John Locke 2
Number of words: 905 - Number of pages: 4.... again joined Cooper’s service. Four years later, Cooper was forced to flee to Holland, where Locke, shortly after, followed him. They remained there until the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
On his return to England, Locke issued many or works, the chief of these being the Two Treaties of Government, and the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These writings were immediately successful and they both exerted a vast influence. Between the both of these works, they made the dominant view of English thought through the greater part of the eighteenth century. Also on his return, the new .....
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