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Prophet Muhammad
<view this essay>.... During his childhood, he was a Shepard, just as all the Prophets of God once were. He became a merchant in his young adulthood. He was known as the ‘Amin’. The word Amin means honest, reliable, and trustworthy. It signified the highest standard of moral and public life. Abu Daud writes that a merchant promised to meet him at a place to discuss something concerning trade. The merchant forgot to keep his promise and could not reach the place at the time agreed upon. When three days later the merchant passed from the place of their meeting he found the Prophet (s) standing there to fulfill his part of the promise.
When Muhammad (s) was twenty-five years .....
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Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... secondary school, he failed and examination that allow him to follow
studies that would lead to a diploma in electrical engineering at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (the Zurich Polytechnic). He spent the following
year in Aarau where there were excellent teachers and an excellent physics
facility. In 1896 he returned to the Zurich Polytechnic, there he graduated in
1900 as a secondary school teacher of math and physics.
Two years later, he acquired a post at the Swiss patent office in Bern.
While he was employed there from 1902 to 1909, he completed an extraordinary
range of publications in theoretical physics. Most parts of there .....
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David Hume
<view this essay>.... in the mind nothing but a series of sensations, and held that cause-and-effect in the natural world derives solely from the conjunction of two impressions. Hume's skepticism is also evident in his writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), he wrote Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and a History of England (1754-62) that was, despite errors of fact, the standard work for many years.
"Nothing seems more unbounded than a man's thought," quoted Hume. Hume took genuinely hypothetical elements from Locke and Berkeley but, rej .....
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Marco Polo
<view this essay>.... the personal life of . It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice’s influence as a city-state coincided with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia and the Levant. The Mongol hordes also threatened other parts of Europe, particularly Poland and Hungary, inspiring fear everywhere by their bloodthirsty advances. Yet the ruthless methods brought a measure of stability to the lands they controlled, opening up trade routes such as the famous .....
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Joan Of Arc Was A Saint
<view this essay>.... regarded as a French heroine, revered, and admired. Joan of Arc was truly a saint.
Joan of Arc insisted that she saw visions and heard voices of Archangel Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She said these figures gave her orders from God. They first appeared to her in the summer of 1424.
When I was thirteen, I had a voice from God to help me to govern myself. The first time, I was terrified. The voice came to me about noon: it was summer, and I was in my father’s garden. I had not fasted the day before. I heard the voice on my right hand, towards the church. There was a great light all about. (Trask 5)
Because of the fact that she heard these voices, Joa .....
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Jimi Hendrix
<view this essay>.... high school, but then dropped out before his senior year. After working as a laborer for a few months, Jimi decided that he was not destined for that line of work, so in 1959, he enlisted into the 101st Airborne (Murray 36). Jimi’s parents were of mixed descent, with Jimi’s family tree had whites, blacks, and Cherokee Indians. Jimi never denied his ethnic diversity, but rather accepted his diversity and publicly allowed it to show through in his music. Jimi said it best in "If 6 was 9" on Axis: Bold As Love when he said "I’m gonna wave my freak flag high." Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable dis .....
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Robert Johnson
<view this essay>.... and family link us to the mysterious life of . From these accounts the story of is brought to life, and the events which fueled his powerful music are pieced together. was born on May eighth, 1911, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Robert was the eleventh child born to Mrs. Julia Dodds. Robert’s mother described little Robert as a playful little boy, who "Always used to be listenin, listenin to the wind or the chickens cluckin in the backyard or me, when I’d be singin round the house. And he just love church… Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh." (Loma .....
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Henry Ford
<view this essay>.... of its inception and development. Enter . The true answers of what inspired this Michigan farmer to develop a production process that was so simple, effective and efficient it changed the entire course of history.
In this report, we will present a brief history of the era in which lived, the background from which he came, and important management trends he followed.
It is hard to summarize the era in which lived. Chiefly because he changed the entire tone of the era in which he lived, making his career a transitional period. We will begin with the world before Ford.
In the mid-latter part of the eighteen hundreds (c.1860-c.1895), the United .....
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