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Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia
<view this essay>.... he remained isolated and insecure until Phillip's mysterious assassination about June of 336 B.C.
Alexander was at once presented to the army as king. Winning its support he eliminated all other rivals and gained the allegiance of the Macedonian nobles and the Greeks. Then he defeated the neiboring barbarians, after a rebellion that destroyed Thebes. Next he started a campaign through the Anatolian highlands where he met and defeated the Persian army under Darius the third at Issus(near modern day Turkey). He then occupied Syria and after a long siege of Tyre, then Phoenicia and then he marched into Egypt,were he was accepted as pharaoh. From there he visi .....
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Al Gore For President
<view this essay>.... the money to cover the price of their prescriptions and all children will receive affordable, high quality healthcare. He is putting one hundred and forty six dollars toward insuring all children.
Gore has come up with a plan for families in need as well. He has noticed that divorce and other factors have broken up too many family units, therefore causing problems when it comes to raising children. Many single parents are struggling to work and raise their children. Some parents can’t afford childcare and healthcare for their children. In order to reduce these problems, gore has decided that he wants to put care giving, support groups in many small communit .....
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Biography Of Julius Caesar
<view this essay>.... Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies.
Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in the history of the city of Rome. The city was assaulted twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna’s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter’s return from the East. .....
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Aristotle On Tragedy
<view this essay>.... considered this to be the least important element); (6) song.
According to Aristotle, the central character of a tragedy must not be so virtuous that instead of feeling pity or fear at his or her downfall, we are simply outraged. Also the character cannot be so evil that for the sake of justice we desire his or her misfortune. Instead, best is someone"who is neither outstanding in virtue and righteousness; nor is it through badness or villainy of his own that he falls into misfortune, but rather through some flaw [hamartia]". The character should be famous or prosperous, like Oedipus or Medea.
What Aristotle meant by hamartia cannot be established. In eac .....
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Accountants
<view this essay>.... Financial accountants, tax accountants and internal auditors are all accountants in general, but require different training and work methods. A financial accountant records economic data and periodically prepares reports that show profit and other financial information of a company using the generally accepted accounting principles. The reports prepared by the accountant are useful for managers, and also for owners, creditors and the public. Based on information in the reports the public can use the reports to choose a company to invest in. Because a financial accountant is employed by an individual company, she is considered a private accountant. Another .....
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Stalin And The Soviet Union
<view this essay>.... of the world in industry and agriculture, and needed to catch up fast. Stalin also made all economic activity under government control. Under this command economy, he owned all businesses and made all economic decisions.
Even though Stalin had complete control over the Soviet Union, he still felt that people were going against him. In the Great Purge, Stalin went after and killed anyone that proposed any kind of threat to him. In the end, almost 800,000 people were killed.
Stalin used propaganda and nationalism to brainwash the people of the Soviet Union. He censored poems, paintings, statues, newspaper, radio, and text. Everything needed to support him, commu .....
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Jimmy Hoffa, His Life And Disappearance
<view this essay>.... of an unsuccessful coal
prospector in the small town of Brazil, Indiana, who died when Hoffa was
only four."(124) "Hoffa hauled laundry home in a wagon for his mother to
wash, chopped and sold wood, and scraped mussel shells of the bottom of the
Wabash River to sell by the ton to button makers. When his mother moved
the family to Detroit , six years after her husband's death, Jimmy hauled
ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He
quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work
full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his
boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years a .....
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Emperor Hadrian Of Rome
<view this essay>.... Hellenic culture. This earned him his nickname "The Greekling." For example, "Hadrian was an admirer of Greek culture and under different circumstances, might well have devoted his full time to literature and philosophy rather than politics (Eadie 8 )." Hadrian was well-educated, and known throughout Rome as a military man. For instance, " He rose through the ranks as befitting of one of his position in life and became a well-respected general (Internet Hadrian 4)." Soon after, Hadrian was married to a thirteen year old girl named Sabina. Thirteen years of age was very young even in Roman terms of marriage. Hadrian became emperor in 117a.d. This occurred when .....
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