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Edgar Allan Poe
<view this essay>.... to study in private schools. He attended the
University of Virginia for a year, but in 1827 his foster father, displeased by
the young man's drinking and gambling, refused to pay his debts and forced him
to work as a clerk. Poe, disliking his new duties intensely, quit the job, thus
estranging Allan, and went to Boston. There his first book, Tamerlane and Other
Poems (1827), was published anonymously. Shortly afterward Poe enlisted in the
U.S. Army and served a two-year term. In 1829 his second volume of verse, Al
Aaraaf, was published, and he effected a reconciliation with Allan, who secured
him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. After only a few mon .....
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Robert E Lee
<view this essay>.... 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 episcopal Church where he was raised. .....
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The Unjust Execution Of Socrates
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believed in. Throughout the book, Socrates refers numerous times to the fact
that it is because of the gods that things are as they seem to be. "Do you
suggest that I do not believe that the sun and moon are gods, as is the general
belief of all of mankind?" (57). The fact that Socrates did not publicly speak
about the gods attributed to the fact that the charge was heresy. Socrates
maintains that he is not like other philosohers. He is a free-thinker, and his
beliefs are those of private and intimate thoughts of Gods. Socrates also states
that he is not a teacher, however he was not at all happy with the analogy, but
took it as a compliment and use .....
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Richard Nixon
<view this essay>.... each other in a series of debates. Nixon's
campaign was an example of the vigorous and aggressive style characteristic of
his political career that led him to win the election.
Nixon gained valuable experience in international affairs as a new
member of the United States Congress. He helped establish a program known as the
Marshall Plan, in which the US assisted Europe rebuild itself following the war.
He also served on the House Education and Labor Committee to develop the
National Labor Relations Act.
In 1948, writer and editor Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss, a high
State Department official, of being a Communist. Nixon, a member of the Un-
A .....
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Robert Andrew Millikan
<view this essay>.... his teacher’s habit of spending
the summers using a divining rod to find water. After Millikan graduated from
Maquoketa High he was accepted into Oberlin College. Robert actually began his
physics career when he taught an elementary course at the request of his Greek
professor during his sophomore year. He then transferred to Columbia University
from which he graduated in 1893 as the only student graduate in physics. After
this accomplishment Millikan travelled to Germany to study with such professors
Planck and others. When this period was on his resume Millikan was offered a
position in the Physics department at the University of Chicago and Millikan .....
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
<view this essay>.... people listened to Beethoven's music for its own sake.
About 1800, he discovered that he was slowly becoming deaf. I find it hard to imagine being able to compose music as wonderful as the Choral symphony while being unable to hear the music except in one's head. It wasn't surprising that many people thought that Beethoven and his career were over. Beethoven, too, at times was close to total despair. After short time he withdrew from most of the social contacts. Once he even tried to commit suicide. However, he overcame his feelings and fears and continued to compose music. By 1820, when he was almost totally deaf, Beethoven composed his greatest works. T .....
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Caesar
<view this essay>.... the eldest son. His personal name is Gaius, his second name is the name of his family's clan (Julius), and his third name is the family name (), which means "hairy."
was introduced into politics at a very young age. Almost everyone in s family had a position in the senate or held a political office. When was twelve, he went to the Curia which is the Senate House to listen to speeches and debates and watch the statesmen at work. was also often found at the Regia which is the offices of the High Priest because his uncle, Cuius Cotta held an important position in the College of Priests.
learned a lot from his uncle, Gaius Marius (Grant, pg 34). Marius .....
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Joan Of Arc
<view this essay>.... small peasant farmer, poor but not needy. Joan was the youngest of a family of five. She grew up herding cattle and sheep and helping in the fields during the harvest. Joan often referred to herself as Jeanne la Pucelle (Joan the Maid.) Joan, like most other children, spent much time praying to the statues of saints that stood around the church in her
village.
At the age of 13 in the summer of 1425, she began having religious visions and hearing what she believed were voices of saints. They started occuring once a week and as she got older they happened daily. She said the voices told her to always behave, obey her parents, pray, etc. She claimed they were .....
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