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Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
<view this essay>.... to 1815. The European powers accepted 3 guiding principles initiated by Meternich: 1) Compensation for the victors. 2) Restoration of balance of power. 3) Legitimacy: restoring the monarchies of pre-napoleon Europe. Legitimacy threatened Liberals causing revolts. The response was The Troppau Protocol and Carlsbad decrees. These banned revolution and promised military intervention. The first failure of the Troppau protocol was Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire. This sparked two series of revolts. In Eastern and Central Europe the focus was nationalism. In Western Europe the focus was growing industrialization calling for lower class politica .....
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Paul Ehrlich
<view this essay>.... looked up to his cousin Karl Weigert. Paul began primary school at St. Maria Magdalena Humanistic Gymnasium at the age of six. He graduated at in 1872. After his graduation, he attended the University of Breslau for a semester then transferred to the University of Strassburg. With help from his tutor, he was able to discover a new variety of mastcells through his staining experiments. Paul then returned to the University of Breslau in 1874. He continued to experiment with dyes in Leipzig, where his university studies continued. In 1877, published a paper on dyes. A year later, he graduated as a doctor of medicine.
Ehrlich's major contributions to sc .....
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Louise Brooks
<view this essay>.... made her last film. Brooks survives for the public at large as a trademark of rebellion against the Age of Prohibition. Her image adorns postcards, her face stares from the covers of expensive coffee table books on the art of the Holly wood photographer. But her work remains remote or unknown to all.
is embraced as an icon, and ignored as an artist. She is one of the most striking and original film actresses of time. She has something “modern” and timeless about her image and attitude that all attempts to acknowledge her as just another representative of the Roaring 20’s are doomed. The motion picture camera renders her dreamlike; her spirit injects .....
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Mozart
<view this essay>.... last child born to musical author, composer and violinist, Leopold and his wife Anna Maria Pertl. Only Wolfgang and Maria Anna (whose nickname was ‘Nannerl’) survived infancy. He was born in a house in the Hagenauersches Haus in Salzburg, Austria, on the 27th of January, 1756. The paternal ancestry of the family has been traced back with some degree of certainty to Fndris Motzhart, who lived in the Augsburg area in 1486; the name is first recorded, for a Heinrich Motxhart in Fischach, in 1331, and appears in other villages south-west of Augsburg, notably Heimberg, from 14th century. The surname was spelled in variety of forms, including Moxarth, Mozhrd and M .....
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Benito Mussolini
<view this essay>.... nearly 2 years as private in the infantry.
After the war there was much poverty and industrial unrest in Italy. Mussolini’s political views were changing during this time. The desire grew in him to be the strong man of Italy who would vesture order, rule as a dictator, and lead his country to national greatness. To achieve his dream, he formed the Fascist party, known as the Blackshirts, of whom he was the recognized leader. In the beginning it was composed mainly of ex-serviceman, the Fascists restored order in Italy by force, breaking up the Socialist and Communist organizations of the workers. Guided by Mussolini, they aimed to seize power and bri .....
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Chester Wilmot
<view this essay>.... defeat and
Stalin's victory. Fourthly, he endeavors on a mission to explain how the
Soviet Union replaced Germany as the dominant European power.
Beginning with the Battle of Britain, the book takes the reader through the
war up to the surrender of Germany. In this process Wilmot touches on
Hitler's alliance with Mussolini, Hitler's conquest of France, the Lowlands,
and the Balkans, and the Nazi dictator's collapse in the expansion of the
Soviet Union. The author strategically builds the Allied alliance, through
the book's course, and he uses the Normandy invasion to illustrate its full
effectiveness. Also included are discussions on the concessions .....
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Rosa Parks
<view this essay>.... she boarded a bus and sat down. According to Montgomery law, blacks had to sit in the back of the bus, and give up their seats to whites when they came on the bus. When she was asked to give up her seat, she refused. Immediately, the driver stopped the bus and called two policemen. Mrs. Parks was arrested and taken to jail.
Edgar Daniel Nixon, head of the NAACP in Montgomery, posted a $100 bond to get her released. Although Mrs. Parks was not the first black person to get arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, Mr. Nixon decided that she wouldn't be the last. He called a meeting of black leaders to see what action they should take.
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Biography Of Elizabeth Blackwell
<view this essay>.... and her family set sail for America. When Elizabeth was eleven
her family settled in Manhattan, which is known today as New York City.
Then her father raised enough money and they bought a house in New Jersey.
Uncle Charles came to America and married Miss Major.
In 1837 hard times came to America. In 1838, Elizabeth's father
went to see the Ohio River Valley, and when he came back he announced that
they were all moving to Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a long hard trip, but
when they got there they found a house and furniture. They had asked a
friend back home to sell their house and send them the money, but the
friend sold the house and disappeared w .....
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