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Communism - From Marx To Zemin
<view this essay>.... influence, he will be the one most often referred to.) It was his belief that private property was the cause of the poverty and degradation of the proletariat. Therefore, he came to settle on the idea that no one person should have control over production of good, ownership of land, and management of funds. In that same token then, no one class should be allowed to have control over these things. He went onto comment that the exploitation of the working class must come to an end. That end would be achieved through revolution. Once this was achieved, everybody would work according to their abilities and then be paid accordingly (Capital, 586-617). Soon after, .....
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Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar
<view this essay>.... of Augustus to take
power. The plan did not work because they did not get along and soon lived
separately. For this reason Tiberius retired to the island of Rhodes where he
devoted himself to study for seven years. When Tiberius returned to Rome in AD
26, Julia had been banished for adultery. The death of both of Augustus'
grandsons within two years led him to adopt Tiberius as his son and heir.
Tiberius then went into active service in northern Germany against the
Marcomanni. Tiberius succeeded in securing the northern border with the
dangerous German tribes. Tiberius made two more marches into the heart of
Germany. On his return to Rome he wa .....
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The Death Of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy - Rebirth By Death
<view this essay>.... though he has been successful and has always done
the proper things, is all false. He understood that his life was meaningless.
As his illness progressed, Ivan Ilyich felt increasingly the need to be loved.
Only in front of death he knew what real feeling is. Ivan Ilyich felt real
empathy and pity from peasant Gerasim and son Vasya. His moral misery was worse
than physical. The result of this was that Ivan Ilyich in dying became the
individual that he never was in his typical life. He understood that his notion
about his decent and helpfulness was just illusion. He felt as if he were
being squeezed down into a black hole and there at the bottom was light. .....
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The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven
<view this essay>.... the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in [his] profession
enjoy," it also served as a motivating force in that it challenged him to
try and conquer the fate that was handed him. He would not surrender to
that "jealous demon, my wretched health" before proving to himself and the
world the extent of his skill. Thus, faced with su!ch great impending loss,
Beethoven, keeping faith in his art and ability, states in his
Heiligenstadt Testament a promise of his greatness yet to be proven in the
development of his heroic style.
By about 1800, Beethoven was mastering the Viennese High-Classic style.
Although the style had been first perfected by Mozart, Be .....
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Joan Of Arc 2
<view this essay>.... believing them to have been sent by God. These voices told her that it was her divine mission to free her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne. They told her to cut her hair, dress in man's uniform and to pick up the arms.
By 1429 the English with the help of their Burgundian allies occupied Paris and all of France north of the Loire. The resistance was minimal due to lack of leadership and a sense of hopelessness. Henry VI of England was claiming the French throne.
Joan convinced the captain of the dauphin's forces, and then the dauphin himself of her calling. After passing an examination by a board of theologians, she was g .....
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Charles Dickens
<view this essay>.... to have written a book.
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812 to John and Elizabeth Dickens. When he was two years old, he and his family moved to London where Charles went to school. When he was twelve, he was taken out of school and sent to work in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish for a mere six shillings per week, paying for part of the debt of the family. This job lasted only a few months, but for Dickens, it felt like an eternity. Until he was fifteen, he attended school off and on, and then dropped out. In 1934, after studying shorthand for 18 months, Dickens got a job as a newspaper reporter for .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
<view this essay>.... this Poe had to finish school and
start working in Mr. Allan's tobaccoshop. After some time Poe moved to Boston
where he started publishing his small poems and short stories in newspapers. In
1827, Poe's first book "Tamberlane and other poems" came under the pseudonym of
"A Bostonian". These poems were very influenced by Byron and showed a youthful
attitude. Later the same year he joined the army. He succeeded there and In 1829
he signed for an officer-training. This was the same year as he published his
second book "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems" but this time under the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the o .....
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Pierre De Fermat
<view this essay>.... no systematic exposition of his methods. He had a habit of scribbling notes in the margins of books or in letters rather than publishing them. He was modest because he thought if he published his theorems the people would not believe them. He did not seem to have the intention to publish his papers. It is probable that he revised his notes as the occasion required. His published works represent the final form of his research, and therefore cannot be dated earlier than 1660. Mr. discovered many things in his lifetime. Some things that he did include: -If p is a prime and a is a prime to p then ap-1-1 is divisible by p, that is, ap-1-1=0 (mod p). The proof of t .....
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