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Charles Dickens 4
1377 Words - 6 Pages.... to the people of the lower-middle class. His audience was people of the same class as him, so they could understand his feelings and beliefs.
He displays his moral beliefs in every book that he has written. Dickens was a very big advocate in the “plea of Poor versus Rich”(Internet Site #1). Dickens gave plenty of aid to this plea by the works that he wrote, which provided progress to the battle for the poor. All of Dickens’ novels show the battle between upper and lower classes. He portrays the lower class in a respectable way, but he portrays the proletarian people in such a dishonorable way that the reader in some books despises them. One example ....
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Aristotles Life
322 Words - 2 Pages.... called the Lyceum (World Book 663). His school, philosophy, and his followers were called peripatetic, which is Greek for walking. The reason for this name was because Aristotle did most of his teaching while he was walking with his students.
After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, Aristotle was charge with impiety by the Athenians, which was a similar crime that was brought upon another philosopher, Socrates. Worried that he would be set to death for this charge, Aristotle fled to the city of Chalcis. A year after his arrival in Chalcis, Aristotle died (World Book 663).
Aristotle’s Physics
Aristotle work on basically all of the basic known subjects (Ma ....
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Eliot Ness
2921 Words - 11 Pages.... to do so but his life was cut short by a heart attack before he was able.
was born on April 19, 1903 in Chicago. He was a lucky boy born into an almost storybook type of American family. His parents, Peter and Emma Ness, were Norwegian immigrants who had earned a comfortable middle class life for their family by very hard work and practical living. Over the years, Peter had made his wholesale bakery into a thriving business. It is supposed that Ness gained his father’s work-aholic traits that drove him so hard later in life. Eliot was the youngest of the five Ness children. There was a huge age difference between Eliot and his siblings. His brother whom was closest to ....
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Woodrow Wilson
316 Words - 2 Pages.... to hear in public and people from all over came to hear him converse about his essays.
The turning point on Wilson's life was when he made the decision to give up being things he wasn't; a lawyer, a historian, a novelist, and peruse what he was destined to do. Wilson felt his obligation was to humanize "every process of our human life." This dream however was shattered by war.
The greatest achievement Wilson ever made was his cooperation with other nations to form the League of Nations and ultimately form the United Nations. For Wilson's efforts, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Wilson was greatly responsible for increasing US participation in world affai ....
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General George Custer
844 Words - 4 Pages.... him
orders to. It has been urged that Custer disobeyed his orders, broke up
Terry’s plan of campaign, and by insubordination brought about a terrible
disaster and let slip the opportunity for administering a crushing defeat
to the Indians (Brady, 219). George Custer definitely disobeyed Terry’s
orders and put his men in danger. If Custer would’ve just continued on his
path then there would’ve been a better chance of a success at the Little
Big Horn battle.
Not only did George Custer disobey his orders by going off his
ordered path, but he attacked a day early. If Custer had followed Terry’s
orders he would have reached the Indians on the day Gibbons men rescued ....
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Henry VIII
1044 Words - 4 Pages.... at many sports and was also good with the ladies. Henry was the second son and the third child of his father. Henry the VIII died in 1509, the only reason Henry would become king is because of his brothers, Arthur, death in April of 1502. Soon after that, Henry would marry his first wife, his brother (Arthur's) widow, Catherine of Aragon. Many wifes would follow after her.
During most of his early reign, Henry relied on Thomas Cardinal Wosley to do much of the political and religious activities. Henry soon got tired of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon, so he decides that he doesn't want to be married to her anymore, so he tells Thomas Wosley to talk to the pope so ....
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John Rocker
764 Words - 3 Pages.... lines are what people are chatting over. "Should we forgive him, or should we throw him in jail"? Those are only a couple opinions that are swirling around on what Major League Baseball should do. I, in no way agree with what Mr. Rocker is saying, however he is being treated is fair.
In order to fully understand where Mr. Rocker was coming from, we have to go back to the MLB Playoffs. The Cinderella New York Mets take the Braves into extra innings in the 5th game of the National League Playoffs. In comes , bursting with energy to try and shut the Mets down and take the Braves to the World Series. The Mets had other ideas and laced a couple base hits off Rocker, ....
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Josef Stalin
558 Words - 3 Pages.... by the police in 1902, and spent more than a year in prison before
being exiled to Siberia. Stalin escaped in 1904, and married his first wife,
Yekaterina Svanidze. She died six years later, in 1910. After her death,
Stalin was subsequently arrested eight times, six in which he escaped. He
was last arrested in 1913, in which he spent four years in exile and was
released in 1917. He married for the second time in 1919, to Nadezhda
Alliluyeva, who later committed suicide in 1932.
Between 1905 and 1917, Stalin followed and supported the
Bolshevik party, and in 1907 he helped organize a bank holdup in Tbilisi to
expropriate funds for the Bolshevik cause. ....
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