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Peter The Great
<view this essay>.... of Peter's rule was that the Russians taxes increased and their standard of life had decrease. At all cost and with his perseverance Peter had made Russia a European power. Peter's greatest accomplishment was that he educated many of the would be illiterate Russians. Russians were at the highest point of education that they had ever been. He standardized a simpler Russian alphabet and introduced Arabic numerals. He started Russian academies for higher education. For the Boyards he made the college aged people to go out of the country for five years to study at a school in a Western European school. For the first time in Russian history there were the publi .....
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Madam Walker's Life And Her Cosmetic Products
<view this essay>.... beauty cultures demonstrates skills and products that allowed thousands of black women to find independence and self-esteem.
In 1906, she married Charles Joseph Walker and changed her name to Madam C.J. Walker. In 1908, the Walkers moved to Pittsburgh where Sarah founded Lelia College, a school of cosmetology (now defunct). She traveled extensively to the Caribbean and Central America and moved to Harlem in 1916 after divorcing C.J. Walker. In 1917, she organized the first Madam C.J. Walker Hair Culturists Union in America Convention. After her death in 1919 at age 51, Madam Walker's will qualify that the company must always be headed by women, as it is to .....
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Martin Luther King's Life
<view this essay>.... approach, which lead to triumph and pride.
King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929, the eldest son of Martin Luther King, Sr., a Baptist minister, and Alberta Williams King. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and was ordained a Baptist minister at the age of 17. Graduating from Crozer Theological Seminary as class president in 1951, he then did postgraduate work at Boston University. King's studies at Crozer and Boston led him to explore the works of the Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose ideas became the core of his own philosophy of nonviolent protest. While in Boston, he met Coretta Scott of Marion, Alabama. They were mar .....
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Cultural Anthro - Karl Marx
<view this essay>.... factor in the outgrowth of the middle class. Judith R. Blau argues that her understanding of the middle class has much to do with inclusive cultural values. Blau demonstrates her opinion though her ethnography, Social Contract and Economic Markets. I believe that Karl Marx’s economic factors and Judith Blau’s cultural factors together define the middle class.
Karl Marx believed class was a matter of economics, that is, how the individual fits into the pattern of modern capitalist society. Marx argued that the whole of capitalist society was constructed in order to support this idea including the society’s infrastructure. Marx believed that .....
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Moses
<view this essay>.... creation and development of the first Israelite systems of worship, the anointing of the family line of his brother Aaron as priests, and the creation of a legal system of governance for the community. Ancient Israel had a long oral tradition of laws and legends, and it is likely that some parts of the story of were written long after his lifetime. Modern scholarship recognizes that while the core of the biblical story of contains real history, there is disagreement as to the accuracy of every action and every word attributed to by the biblical writers. Whether one views the Bible as the revealed word of God or as the writing of inspired people, the figur .....
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Richard Joseph Daley
<view this essay>.... 1939 to 1946, county deputy controller from 1946 to 1949, and county clerk from 1950 to 1955. He also served as state revenue director, an appointed position, under Governor Adlai Stevenson. In these positions, Daley gained a keen understanding of government and a mastery of budgets and revenue sources.
Cook County Democratic party chairman Richard J. Daley, 53, wins the Chicago mayoralty race and begins a 21-year career as mayor of the second largest U.S. city. Daley, the archetypal city "boss," served as mayor from 1955 to 1976. He was one of the last big city bosses. As a Democrat, Daley wielded a great deal of power in this largely Democratic city. .....
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Wilson, Woodrow
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College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating in 1879.
Wilson studied (1879-80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly
practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entered The Johns Hopkins University
for graduate study in political science. His widely acclaimed book,
Congressional Government (1885), was published a year before he received
the doctoral degree. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three
daughters.
Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University
in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as
professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer,
Wi .....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
<view this essay>.... center of the Renaissance,
Florence. Catherina was a poor woman, with possible artistic talent, the
genetic basis of Leonardo’s talents. Upon the realization of Leonardo’s
potential, his father took the boy to live with him and his wife in
Florence (Why did). This was the start of the boy’s education and his
quest for knowledge.
Leonardo was recognized by many to be a “Renaissance child”
because of his many talents. As a boy, Leonardo was described as being
handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an
imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him.
At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects su .....
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