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Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography
<view this essay>.... situation. He left Boston for New York at the age of seventeen. He left New York after a short time because he was told he could find work as a printer apprentice in Philadelphia. He arrives in Philadelphia with little money and no friends. He purchases some bread and eats it out on the street where he gets the first glimpse of his future wife. He goes to work in a printing house and begins a comfortable lifestyle and becomes friends with some supposedly respected people who want him to set up his own business.
After this, Franklin left Philadelphia for London after being persuaded by the Governor. After arriving in London, Franklin discovered the Gover .....
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Napoleon
<view this essay>.... joined the artillery as a
second lieutenant. After the revolution began in France, he became a
lieutenant colonel (1791) in the Corsican National Guard. However, when
Corsica declared independence in 1793, Buonaperte, a Republican, and a French
patriot, fled to France with his family. He was assigned, as captain, to an
army besieging Toulon, a naval base that was aided by a British fleet, while in
revolt against the republic. It was here that Napoleone Buonaperte officially
changed his name to Napoleon Bonaparte, feeling that it looked "more French".
It was here too that Napoleon replaced a wounded artillery general, and seized
ground where his guns could .....
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JFK: Was His Assassination Ine
<view this essay>.... John F. Kennedy dead can be classified into the following groups: Russians, Cubans, Mobsters (Organized Crime/Mafia), Special Agents (CIA), G-men (J. Edgar Hoover's FBI), Rednecks and Oilmen (Right-wing Extremists), and the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). Each group had its own motives for killing John F. Kennedy. Many of these groups that wanted JFK dead are very closely intertwined, so in order to understand each group, they will each be analyzed seperately.
In order to better understand the relationship between JFK, the Cubans and Russians, several important events must be mentioned and discussed. Two of the most important foreign affairs in Kennedy's pr .....
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Warren G. Harding
<view this essay>.... crusade of the Democratic candidates, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Thirty-one distinguished Republicans had signed a manifesto assuring voters that a vote for Harding was a vote for the League. But Harding interpreted his election as a mandate to stay out of the League of Nations.
Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, became the publisher of a newspaper. He married a divorce, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises.
He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available .....
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Isadora Duncan
<view this essay>.... were both well educated, charming, and an altogether happy couple. However, their marriage fell apart soon after Isadora's birth.
After the divorce, Dora was left with little money to support her four children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep living in the same house. The family began moving from one apartment to another, learning to leave each one a day before the bills came around.
Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To Isadora this was .....
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Viete
<view this essay>.... mathematicus, seu ad triangula cum appendicibus in 1571. The first two books on plane and spherical trigonometry were completed by 1579. The last two books on astronomy have never been published.
In 1573 Vičte was appointed to the parliament of Brittany and in 1589 he worked for the French state as a parliamentary councillor.
During the war with Spain (1590), Vičte served Henry IV of France and deciphered the Spanish code in intercepted messages.
Vičte introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in his book In artem analyticam isagoge (1591). He demonstrated the value of symbols by using plus + and minus - signs for operations, and letters to re .....
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Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... ability to understand difficult mathematical concepts. At the age of 12 he taught himself Euclidian Geometry. Einstein hated the dull regimental and unimaginative spirit of school in Munich. ('s Early Life) His parents wisely thought to transfer him out of that environment.
Although Einstein's family was Jewish, he was sent to a Catholic elementary school from 1884 to 1889. He was then enrolled at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. In 1894, Hermann Einstein's business failed and the family moved to Pavia, near Milan, Italy. Einstein was left behind in Munich to allow him to finish school. Such was not to be the case, however, since he left the gymnasium aft .....
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Comparison Of John F Kennedy And Abraham Lincoln's Lives
<view this essay>.... November 6, 1860, at the age of 51, Lincoln became the 16th President of
the United States (O’ Sullivan 10). He led the Union to victory in the
American Civil War and brought an end to slavery. He was assassinated by
John Wilkes Booth in 1865 and was then succeeded by his vice president,
Andrew Johnson. One hundred years later another president by the name of
John F. Kennedy relived almost the same experience.
John F. Kennedy was elected to the United States Congress in 1946.
In November of 1960, when Kennedy was 43 years old, he became the 35th
President of America(O’ Sullivan 10). He established the Peace Corps Of
America which was an agency that promot .....
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