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The Life And Death Of Julius C
<view this essay>.... Match (Lindsay Salo). When Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marius's enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. Caesar was not harmed but he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia. Caesar refused that order and left Rome to join the army (Lindsay Salo) (Comptons Encyclopedia). This was the beginning of an astonishing military career. He became second in command of the province Asia (Turkey) (Lindsay Salo). In two years he proved his bravery and superior skills at arms. After these years and Sulla's resignation in 78 BC, Julius decided to return to Rome. There he served as an officer in Crassus's arm .....
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Selena
<view this essay>.... they sang English songs. By the time reached age 10, it became very obvious that was a natural born performer and that she had a great amount of singing talent. Abraham decided to start a band, he was afraid that the same thing would happen to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, only knew how to speak English, so went on with most of her life not even knowing what the words meant that she was singing. Well in order to start the band they would need more then so Abraham made Abraham III (nicknamed A.B.) her older brother, and Suzette, her older sister. A.B. already knowing the drums, Suzette already knowing the drum, an .....
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King Solomon
<view this essay>.... included 700 wives and 300 other mistresses (1). To insure the future peace and security of his kingdom, Solomon yielded to the custom of the times and made many domestic alliances with subject races and tribes by marrying foreign women.
An able administrator, Solomon kept the kingdom of Israel largely intact, strengthened its protection, and made alliances with several surrounding nations. He united his already strong position and even extended his influence by skillful diplomacy rather than war (8). International commerce and a large copper-mining industry aided in Solomon’s wealth. Contact with other nations showed his advanced intelligence. So .....
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Billy Sunday
<view this essay>.... else. In 1886, Billy gave his life to Christ at the Pacific Garden Mission run by Colonel George R. Clarke. Billy went back to the ball park and shared his conversion with the other players and received a positive response. He was telling everyone about Jesus. He took some classes at the local YMCA and shared his witness with the boys.
By 1890, Billy wanted to go into full-time Christian work. He had played for different baseball teams and was sold to play for the Philadelphia Phillies. After being sold to the Phillies for a three year contract he prayed this prayer,
"Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I
will take that as ass .....
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Hitler - A Man Of Too Much Power
<view this essay>.... the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several times and decorated for bravery twice. He was gassed near the end of the war. During this time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi convicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time, he began to write Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), which later became the second Bible in Nazi Ger .....
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Adam Smith 2
<view this essay>.... All three aspects are woven together to create a unified social theory. In France Smith met and associated with many of the leading Continental philosophers of the physiocratic school, which based its political and economic doctrines on the supremacy of natural law, wealth, and order. He was specially influenced by the French philosophers Francois Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, whose theories Smith later adapted in part to form a basis for his own.
The book dealt with the basic problem of how social order and human progress can be possible in a society where individuals follow their own self-interests. Smith argued that this individualism led to .....
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The Life Of Alexander Hamilton
<view this essay>.... however, is that Alexander, his brother James, and their mother, who
had been abandoned by their undependable father in 1765 on St. Croix, lived
on the bottom rung of white society on the mercilessly stratified island.
Having to fend for herself and her two children after James left,
Rachel opened a store, and employed her youngest son as clerk and
bookkeeper. It was in his mother's store that Hamilton got his first taste
of finance; it was also in that high-visibility capacity that he probably
became the target of malicious whispers, or perhaps even outward disdain
from the townspeople he encountered. Rachel's husband, who had had her
imprisoned .....
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Albert Camus
<view this essay>.... the minds and intense thoughts of several generations of readers and philosophers.
Although often considered a French writer, he should be thought of as a European writer, one who referred to himself as coming form a Mediterranean background. Many studies about Camus mention the “Alegiers summer,” on reference to the early portion of his life spent in Africa. On one occasion, when asked what were some of his favorite words, he mentioned the word “summer,” referring to the intense heat and sun of the Mediterranean an Algiers.
His background was working class, with an illiterate mother of Spanish origin and a father of Alsatian descent who was a day laborer. H .....
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