.... Scholastic Latin. He loved to study the text of many philosophers such as Descartes and Hobbes. After Spinoza had charges of “heretical thought” he was expelled, excommunicated from the synagogue and the Jewish community in Amsterdam in 1656. The reason for his excommunication what he was accused for blasphemy and atheism. He then forgot about his philosophical teachings and studies and changed his name to Benedict Spinoza. He lived quietly, publishing little work, and picked up the skill of lens-crafting. He was offered many opportunities to work at a univeristy of academic careers, but reluctantly declined each and every one of them. After a couple o .....

.... and took a stagecoach from Virginia to New York. At the end of his first year at West Point, he was appointed Staff Sergeant. When he was twenty-two, he took his money that he earned; $103.58 in cash and he started a home. On July 26, 1829, Lee's mother died. Robert was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended ep .....

.... shop three weeks later looking for a computer. Tony gave the impression that he knew everyhing there was to know about computers. Boy, was wrong. It took Tony only four hours until he had to call . He said that he had lost some files off his computer. I asked what he had done to lose everything. Tony assured me that he had done nothing . So off I go again to work on another computer, only to find that he had deleted more than one file and a few more things. He had also changed the ports on the computer as well . I reset everything and headed back for the shop. And of course we have the wild one ,Sam . Now Sam has mice.And as mice go, they love to eat. The mice .....

.... parents, Vernon and Gladys, married on June 17, 1933. Gladys was 21 and Vernon was only 17. His mother worked as a sewing machine operator while his father was farm hand. When Elvis was 3 years old, his father was convicted of forgery, along with two other men, for a hog they had sold. Vernon was sent to Parchman Prison where he served 9 months. Due to family hardships, Elvis and his family had to move to Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten Elvis placed first in .....

.... and composition. Washington later developed a powerful and convincing style of speech and writing. He enjoyed sports and social occasions, and he later became a surveyor for landowners on the Virginia frontier. George Washington was elected president of the United States in 1789, and in New York City on April 30, 1789, he took the oath of office as President of the United States at age 57. He was extremely influential in the initial operation of the new government. After the ballot he wrote, "My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feeling not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution." Washington's task was to .....

.... his ancestors were included in some of his stories. (McGraw Hill, pg.67) Hawthorne’s father was a sea captain. He died of fever when Hawthorne was only four. Shortly after his father’s death, his mother was forced to move her three children into her parent’s home and then into her brother’s home in Maine. Hawthorne’s childhood was not particularly abnormal, as many famous authors have claimed to have. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated after four years. After graduation, he returned to Salem. Contrary to his family’s expectations, Hawthorne did not begin to read law or enter business, rather he moved into his mother’s house to turn himself into a .....

.... was designed for. He says that being good should be the function of man. This means that man's end or purpose is what is good, but it is not the chief good, only a step towards it. A man, by being good achieves happiness, which is the chief good of man. also says that happiness can be another name for good though. He states, "...happiness is the fulfillment of our distinctive function...". So it can be concluded that a lifestyle of good leads to man's ultimate goal of happiness. In other instances, states that the principle of being good is embedded in everyone. It is man's nature to have the knowledge of good and evil. He gives no mention to any bibl .....

.... believed in the genius contained within the common southern black vernacular(Hook http://splavc.spjc.cc.fl.us/hooks/Zora.html). She was a woman who found her place, though unstable, in a typical male profession. Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-incorporated black town in America. She found a special thing in this town, where she said, "& [I] grew like a like a gourd and yelled bass like a gator," (Gale, 1). When Hurston was thirteen she was removed from school and sent to care for her brother's children. She became a member of a traveling theater at the age of sixteen, and then found herself working as a maid .....