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Helen Of Troy: The Face That Launched One Thousand Ships
<view this essay>.... father. Here too Helen is depicted as having strange abilities and powers: she was able to imitate the voices of all the wives of the Greeks while they waited inside the Trojan Horse, she is also in possession of an Egyptian drug which removes all sorrow.
Helen's role in the War is ambiguous. In the Iliad she is critical of herself and of Paris (and of Aphrodite), while the Trojan horse episode seems like an attempt to trick the Greeks and save the Trojans. After Homer the tradition becomes even more complicated. The 6th century poet Stesichoros was said to have been blinded for saying that Helen went to Troy and only recovered his sight when he wrote the foll .....
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Michael Jackson
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were at his concerts. My fourth subtopic goes goes into the interviews of
Michael Jackson. The details going into Interviews are the television
interviews, the magazine interviews, and the newspaper interviews. To find all
of this out, you have to be patient and read this report!
Michael Jackson is the King of Pop music. When Michael Jackson was nine
years old, he started being the lead singer of the Jackson 5. The Jackson 5
also consisted of his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon.
(Jackson: 8) The Jackson 5 had many songs. Michael Jackson's first solo album
is called "Off the Wall," and it first released in 1979. The songs on "O .....
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Bill Clinton And His Many Problems
<view this essay>.... the president, when he was governor in Arkansore, came
to a hotel where she was a waitress or something like that. He should then have
asked her to come to his room later that day. When she arrived he tried to force
her to have sex with him. He should also have showed her his thing. She turned
him down and he gave up and said that she should forget all about this. That is
what she has told, we are still waiting to hear Bill Clinton's statement.
Another big problem to Bill is that he has been unable to fulfil those very big
promises he gave during his election campaign in 1992. That has given his
credibility and the polls a big push down. One of his promises wa .....
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Blaise Pascal
<view this essay>.... son was able to absorb the classical
education thrown at him and "tried to hold the boy down to a reasonable pace to
avoid injuring his health." (P 74,Bell) Blaise was exposed to all subjects, all
except mathematics, which was taboo. His father forbid this from him in the
belief that Blaise was strain his mind. Faced with this opposition, Blaise
demanded to know ‘what was mathematics?' His father told him, "that generally
speaking, it was the way of making precise figures and finding the proportions
among them." (P 39,Cole) This set him going and during his play times in this
room he figured out ways to draw geometric figures such as perfect circles, and .....
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Changing Attitudes Of Ferhat Abbas
<view this essay>.... that we first look at his background. In 1899 Ferhat
Abbas was born. He had, like many others, received entirely French education at
Constantine and at the University of Algiers. After finishing his studies he
had served the French Army for two year after which he founded a pharmacist shop
in Setif. There he also founded a student union which was a start of his
political career. Soon he was accepted into the city Council where he fought
for the emancipation of Algerians from the French. In 1938 Abbas founded the
Union Populaire Algérienne which peacefully fought for the equal rights of
Algerians and French. Believing in the possible co-operation of .....
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Arnold Schönberg
<view this essay>.... was very important for Schönberg's further artistic development. In 1902, he received on Richard Strauss' recommendation the popular Liszt-scholarship as well as a, apprenticeship at the Stern conservatory. Before returning to Vienna in 1903, he composed the symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" op 5, where the limits of tonality were appreciably extended.
Schönberg revolutionized modern music by establishing the 12-tone technique of SERIAL MUSIC as an important organizational device. After the end of the war, Schönberg founded the "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (society for private music performances), a new forum for modern music. The goal wa .....
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Benito Mussolini 2
<view this essay>.... was said to be a bully), but while being all of that he was also smart. Then he went and became a schoolmaster. In 1909, Musolini fell in love with a 16 year old Rachele Guidi. A month later, she went to live with him in a damp, cramped apartment in Forli, soon after they were married. Soon after the marrige, Musolini was imprisioned for the fifth time. After getting out of prision, Mussolini was appointed editor of the Socialist paper "Avanti!". Mussolini was best known for his involvement in World War 2. Before the war even started Mussolini knew that peace was essential to Italy's well-being. To him there was no way to win because if he went along .....
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Biography Of Christopher Columbus
<view this essay>.... in the Aegean Sea. In 1476 he sailed with a convoy bound for
England. Legend has it that the fleet was attacked by pirates off the coast
of Portugal, where Columbus's ship was sunk, but he swam to shore and took
refuge in Lisbon. Settling there, where his brother Bartholomew Columbus
was working as a cartographer, he was married in 1479 to the daughter of
the governor of the island of Porto Santo. Diego Columbus, the only child
of this marriage, was born in 1480.
Based on information acquired during his travels, and by reading
and studying charts and maps, Christopher concluded that the earth was 25
percent smaller than was previously thought, .....
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