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Norman Schwarzkopf
<view this essay>.... Military School and at Valley Forge Military Academy in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Valley Forge is a historic place known for its forces in the American Revolution.
Almost all of Norman's family joined the military. His dad was in the military all of his life just as Norman was. The Schwarzkopfs are very well known in the military.
made many life choices in his military career. First, he chose to join the military following his father’s footsteps. Second, he chose to go to Valley Forge because the school he was attending, West Point, only taught students up to the tenth grade. One of his most important choices was in Vietnam. One of his fel .....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Good Influence Or Bad Influence
<view this essay>.... the church and therefore by society. Society as it was then and as it is now is very different. Times have changed and different ideas and philosophies are being accepted. In our modern world a pantheist theory like this one would not be criticized as it was in the 19th century. Some people might say that it would go against the church but there would be many people that believe in it.
Another of Emerson's ideas is that of the oversoul. The oversoul is Emerson's name for God. He sees God as an entity and inside it is the world, as we know it including humans, animals and everything that exists. This leads to further prove that we are divine, seeing a .....
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Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... elementary and secondary schools in Munich and in
Aarau, Switzerland, Einstein studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss
Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. He graduated in 1900. From 1902 to 1909,
Einstein worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. This
job as patent examiner allowed him much free time, which he spent in
scientific investigations. Einstein became a Swiss citizen in 1905.
The papers of 1905. During this time, Einstein made three of his
greatest contributions to scientific knowledge. The year 1905 was an
epoch-making one in the history of physical science, because Einstein
contributed three papers to Annalen der Physik (An .....
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Should Eisenhower Be Praised For His Foreign Policies?
<view this essay>.... reduction as a deterrent to communism was praised, as well as his “food for Peace” program and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was always willing to negotiate with the Soviets and was even scared to use nuclear weaponry. Although all of these factors seem to make for a clever and peaceful leader they would have been more effective if Eisenhower had backed them up to the end and not allowed his plans to become corrupted. He claimed to have halted nuclear weapon testing and yet within two years the atomic stockpile had tripled. He also warned against overspending while he was doing just that with defense budgets. At this point his plans were faili .....
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The Life And Work Of Washington Irving
<view this essay>.... sketches to New York newspapers as early as 1802.
And a group of these pieces, written from 1802 to 1803 and collected under
the title "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle", won Irving his earliest literary
recognition. From 1807 to 1808, he was the leading person in a social group
that included his brothers William Irving and Peter Irving and William's
brother-in-law James Kirke Paulding, together they wrote "Salmagundi", or,
the "Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff", and others, a series
of essays and poems on New York society. Irving's contributions to this
thing established his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this
reputation was enhanced by his .....
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Joseph Stalin
<view this essay>.... Stalin’s plan for collectivization resulted in the death of twenty million people. The great five-year plan to turn the peasant farmers into one, huge farming community brought on famine, starvation and eventually death to twenty million peasant farmers. Another atrocity that Stalin was responsible for was the forced labor camps known as Gulags. "...the murderous forced labor camps of the Gulag archipelago - victimized tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children for more than 20 years." Millions of people were sent to the Gulag camps from 1939 through 1953, for the crime of doing absolutely nothing. There were "...eight million .....
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Abraham Lincoln
<view this essay>.... promise, although he had little formal education. In 1831,
after moving with his family to Macon County, Illinois, he struck out on his own,
taking cargo on a flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana. He then returned to
Illinois and settled in New Salem, a short-lived community on the Sangamon River,
where he split rails and clerked in a store. He gained the respect of his fellow
townspeople, including the so-called Clary Grove boys, who had challenged him to
physical combat, and was elected captain of his company in the Black Hawk War
(1832). Returning from the war, he began an unsuccessful venture in shopkeeping
that ended when his partner died. In 1833 .....
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William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
<view this essay>.... William Carlos Williams; born on September seventeenth, 1883, in
Rutherford, New Jersey; was the first of two sons born to the middle class
status of George and Raquel (Helene) Williams. Having an English father
and a Puerto Rican mother, with ancestry from the French, Dutch, Spanish,
and Jewish sides, Williams had an interesting mix of culture from birth
(Bloom 4338). As he grew older in his middle class household, his father
provided him with a fertile background in the arts and literature,
introducing him to Shakespeare, Dante, and the Bible (DISC 1). To further
elevate his level of knowledge, Williams attended the University of
Pennsylvania, whe .....
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