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Bill Clinton
<view this essay>.... with that woman, Monica Lewinsky." Several videotapes, sapeanas, and cigar jokes later, the American public found out that he did, indeed, had sex with that woman.
Many were outraged, many thought it was his personal business, and many just didn’t care. The nation became divided on what actions should be taken against a popular president that had just admitted to lying to his public and possibly lying under oath. Every constitutional scholar had an opinion about what constituted high crimes and misdemeanors. The 146th congress had to determine that for themselves, and in early January of 1999, William Jefferson Clinton was impeached.
As the focus .....
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Adolf Hitler
<view this essay>.... by his housemaid as a "very strict but comfortable" man. His mother showered Young Adolf with love and affection. When Adolf was three years old, the family moved to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. A brother, Edmond, was born two years later. The family moved once more in 1895 to the farm community of Hafeld, 30 miles southwest of Linz. Another sister, Paula, was born in 1896, the sixth of the union, supplemented 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 s .....
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Quarter Paper: Antonio Vivaldi And The Music Of His Time
<view this essay>.... it was more towards the North. The people of the North were not as
affectionate towards this type of music. Although, the more time that had
passed in the 1600's, the more popular the baroque music became. It was
greatly adored by the listeners. The beauty that this type of music
contained was extremely astonishing. Also the drama in this type of music
and theatre was what made this time stand out from the rest.
The actual term "baroque" is extracted from "baroco" which is a
name used by medieval philosophers to identify a reasoning that writers of
the 16th century found absurd and pointless. On the contrary, Baroque
music is far from being absurd or .....
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John Dalton
<view this essay>.... wrote about this in his first scientific paper. The condition of color-blindness came to be known as Daltonism in France.
In 1793, Dalton moved to Manchester as tutor at New College founded by the Presbyterians. It was here that he did his greatest work. He immediately joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. In 1793, he published his first book, Meteorological Observations and Essays. In it he said that each gas exists and acts independently and purely physically, rather than chemically. Meaning, that gases act according to mechanical repulsion rather than chemical attraction. As a chemistry tutor, John taught from Lavoisier's Elements of .....
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Joseph Stalin
<view this essay>.... lainched his first Five Year Plan in 1928 by making Russia a command
economy. Stalin motivated the Russian people by using these words,” To slow
down would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind are beaten. But
we do not want to be beaten!” Stalin gives the idea that his way of economy
would be great for Russia. At the beginning of the first Five Year Plan,
Stalin set high goals for the industry, almost doubling the amount of
production.Accordin to Joseph Stalin agricultural production can only be
increased by eliminating the kulaks, the wealthy farmers, and create
collective farms. Collective farms is when the land is split and many
people w .....
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James Watt
<view this essay>.... to become known as a jack-of-all-trades. He sold and mended spectacles, fixed fiddles and constructed fishing rods and tackle. Watt met his first loss in 1753 when his mother unsuspectedly died. It was at this point that Watt decided to pursue his career and try and qualify himself to become a mathematical instrument maker. After James spoke to Professor Muirhead at the Glasgow University, he was introduced to several scientists who at the time encouraged him later to travel to London to further himself in instrument making.
In 1755 he set out on horseback and arrived in London after either twelve days or two weeks. He tried to get a job in the instrumentation .....
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Harry S. Truman
<view this essay>.... born August 12, 1889, in Grandview,
Missouri. Harry grew up on a farms all his life. he was forbidden to play
roughhouse games because of his glasses. He was a bookworm--a sissy, as
he said himself later on, using the dreaded word.
3. Education
When Truman was six years old, his family moved to Independence,
Missouri, where he attended the Presbyterian Church Sunday school. There
he met five-year-old Elizabeth Virginia ("Bess") Wallace, with whom he was
later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight,
and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness.
His poor eyesight did not .....
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George C. Marshall
<view this essay>.... high-level aide to General John J. Pershing. Prior to the outbreak of World War II he progressed steadily from assistant chief-of-staff of the U.S. Army (July, 1938) to deputy chief of staff (October, 1938), to chief of staff the following year. In 1944, Marshall was promoted to General of the Army. He spent a year in China in 1945-46 as President Truman's representative, attempting to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the nationalists and the communists.
As Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949, he developed an economic program, the Marshall Plan, to help bring relief to war torn nations in Europe. The plan stipulated that the United S .....
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