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Charles Manson
<view this essay>.... On August 8,1969, director Roman Polaski's housekeeper found five bodies, slashed and bloody. Manson was the metaphor of evil! To many, symbolized the end of civilized society and the dawn of a new age of terror. (Lagarde)
On November 12, 1934, Charles Milles Manson was brought into this world by Kathleen Maddox and Colonal Scott. At the time Kathleen was a 16 year old troublemaker. Charlie never knew his father and never really had a "father figure." His mother was the kind that children are taken away from and put in foster homes. Kathleen had the habit of disappearing for days and weeks at a time, leaving Charlie with his grandmother or aunt. Kathleen Maddo .....
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Interview With Karl Marx
<view this essay>.... the English Industrial Revolution persuaded me that industrialization was the key to the modern world. Lastly, I discovered that history unfolds in a logical sequence. I realized that for each thesis, there is an antithesis and the meeting of the two produces a completely new idea, a synthesis.
So what was your theory and what was human history according to you?
Human history, according to me, was the history of class conflict between competing economic groups in which one exploits the other. The result of that was capitalism, which only led to destruction. The increasing number of workers (thesis) were being exploited by the owners of the means of producti .....
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Ivan The Terrible
<view this essay>.... sons since she knew that Vasili's family wished to seize the throne. After involving Russia in two wars, in both of which it failed miserably, Ivan's mother Elena was poisoned. Now Ivan was an orphan, with both parents dead when he was just eight years old. This is Scar Number One: The Death of Both of His Parents.
The ruling class at this time was known as the Boyars, and these Boyars held the responsibility of "taking care" of Ivan. During his childhood, Ivan would live in constant fear of them.
Ivan's first sign of mental and emotional illness came while he was a teenager. He loved to torture animals, often throwing them into the Moscow city walls, yet he s .....
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Frederick Banting
<view this essay>.... he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the army and served as a medical officer during World War I. He was awarded the Canadian military cross for bravery. After the war, he practiced medicine in London, Ontario, until 1921, when he and Charles Best began their research into the hormone insulin. Banting, along with John J.R. Macleod, head of the physiology department at the University of Toronto, experiment with dogs in the discovery of insulin, finally in 1922 they succeed in discovering insulin. (The extract was then purified further and tested in a human on January 11, 1922.) They were awarded the Nobel Prize in med .....
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Bruce Lee
<view this essay>.... with just one-hundred dollars in his pocket, he began washing dishes in a resteraunt in chinatown, but for unknown reasons, left to begin attending school at the university of Washington as a philosophy major. That's is where he met his future wife, Linda Lee. The only problem was, she was white and he was chinese. Back then interacial marriges were not accepted. So Bruce decided to marry Linda anyway and move back to San Fransisco to open his schools to teach Kung-Fu . The chinese triads, who are similar to the mafia, ordered him to close his schools or he would face the consequences. He refused and had to fight one of their gradmasters in order to co .....
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David Hume 2
<view this essay>.... their life no two people will interpret the same things from what they perceive from their senses. When it comes to things like this that are matters of fact, there will never be a case where everyone is in agreement. Their will always be disagreements over the validity of everything because the "truth" is only how different people comprehend the things they perceive through their senses. Therefore using any type of scientific method was useless in proving certainty of human nature because there would always be enough evidence to prove the opposing view as being the truth. However the truth can be proved when referring to the relations of ideas. When dea .....
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Nostradamus
<view this essay>.... was carried on. The center and
symbol of the room's activity was the great fireplace, majestic, caver-
nous, holding a banked fire that never went out since his mother and
father moved in. Shining pots and pans of brass hung low from the
mantle shelf. At either angle of the fireplace was an oak settle were
his grandfathers liked to laze and talk when they came to visit. On the
walls hung light cabinet shelves holding salt and spices.
Nostradamus had one definite brother, Cèsar who wrote Histoire de
Provence, a book which sustains the myth of the Nostradamus royal line.
Historians think Nostradamus had three other brothers, Bertrand, Hec .....
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Jim Jones
<view this essay>.... at the pavilion and the poison was brought out, the populace was surrounded by armed guards who were trusted lieutenants of Jones. There are reports that some people did not drink voluntarily but had the poison forced down their throats or injected. While there were isolated acts of resistance and suggestions of opposition to the suicides, excerpts from a tape, recorded as the final ritual was being enacted, reveal that such dissent was quickly dismissed or shouted down.
utilized the threat of severe punishment to impose the strict discipline and absolute devotion that he demanded, and he also took measures to eliminate those factors that might encou .....
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