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Emilie Du Chatelet
<view this essay>.... Her study in this area was encouraged be a family friend, M. de
Mezieres, who recognized her talent. Emilie's work in mathematics was rarely
original or as captivating as that of other female mathematicians but it was
substantive.
At the age of nineteen she married Marquis du Chatelet. During the
first two years of their marriage, Emilie gave birth to a boy and a girl, and
later at the age of 27 the birth of another son followed. Neither the children
or her husband deterred her from fully grasping and indulging in the social life
of the court.
Some of Emilie's most significant work came from the period she spent
with Voltaire, one of the most intrigu .....
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Saint John Bosco
<view this essay>.... work was to help poor boys. Bosco also had many other dreams along with many others that directed him to help homeless boys. Bosco when he was young went to fairs and carnivals, and learned and mastered them when he got home and then kept the young people in his village occupied by doing magic tricks and acrobatic moves, and only ask prayers for payment. Also, he would speak to children about God, and even some adults occasionally. The seminary school that Bosco entered was Chieri at the age of 16. Father Cafasso helped John through seminary school because he could not afford it, neither could his mother help him pay for it.
John became a priest in 1841 at th .....
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Henry Kissinger
<view this essay>.... the conflict between the Israeli’s and Arabs in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 through a cease fire; and finally his negotiation of a cease fire in the Vietnam conflict which so many had desired.
When, in 1938, he came to the United States who could have thought what he would become? In another five years he was a United States citizen, and served on the battlefields of World War II. After the war he “studied political science at Harvard University and taught there from 1954 until 1969,” (Kissinger 95). Kissinger, a master at power politics (his critics would often call him Machiavelli. In reply he would respond, “Thank you.”), he helped presidents Kennedy and J .....
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Lester Pearson
<view this essay>.... When he returned he went to Oxford University under the
guidance of the poet Robert Graves. When he graduated he enrolled for the
assignment of the Royal Flying Corps. He then began taking flight training but
as fate would have it he was hit by a London Transport Bus. He remained in the
hospital until he revived in the spring of 1918. In November 1918 he enrolled in
the University of Toronto again. On June 5 1919 he graduated. Like many other
young veterans he was at a loss for something to do. Law was a respectable
profession at the time so he ground away at the ungrateful task of articling for
law. After a week he decided that business was more promi .....
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Modibo Diarra
<view this essay>.... covering, I was amazed to see how much excitement there was when Modibo stepped onto the court. At first, I thought well, everybody in the gym must be here to see this extraordinary 6'9" shot blocker perform. It is true a lot of people did want to see him perform on the court, but there is a different type of fan cheering when Modibo is out there. Friends close to him will tell you that Modibo has a following in and around Boston. People who don't even follow basketball still go to games and watch him play just because they met him and hope he succeeds. Modibo is some one special He has a gift on and off the court.
Modibo is no stranger to basketball. In his .....
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Stonewall Jackson
<view this essay>.... the upper third of his class. His military career had just begun.
As soon as he received his commission as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. There he first met Robert E. Lee. Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year.
In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he marri .....
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George Bush
<view this essay>.... by Americans. Bush seemed to be doing a good job with it all and in the midst of his presidency a second term seemed to be a sure thing for him. However, the 1992 election marked the end of his reign; he lost by a great margin to democrat William J. Clinton who may I add was later impeached!
was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Prescott Bush worked in an investing firm, but ended up moving his family to Connecticut where he later on developed a strong interest in politics which led to his position as Senator of Connecticut. Bush had three brothers and one sister who were all brought .....
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Locke Vs. Locke
<view this essay>.... fair account of property, another may provide a more feasible account of property acquisition and its limits. This essay will attempt to compare and contrast the beliefs of John Locke and Karl Marx on the ideas of labor and property with their connections to the aspects of the human condition, as well as determine who holds the most feasible or fair account of property.
To begin, Locke believes that property is not a "thing", rather, it is a relationship between an individual and an item. Property is a natural condition in John Locke’s state of nature, meaning it was present since the beginning. "Thus labor, in the beginning, gave a right of property .....
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