.... He had an early love for literature and a serious attitude toward study. Lenin had five brothers and sisters, one of whom would shape Lenin's attitudes and actions throughout his life. Sasha, an older brother to Lenin, was executed when Lenin was finishing high-school. Sasha was involved in a plot to kill the Tsar. Lenin changed from, "an apolitical schoolboy into a radical to be reckoned with." (Reddaway and Schapiro, pg 40) His brother's death influenced his tactics and thoughts about revolution throughout his lifetime. Lenin was admitted to the University of Kazan but did not stay long. He was expelled for having his name on a petition of grievances. The school a ....

.... B.F. Skinner was one of the most famous of the American psychologists. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1904. Skinner was the father of modern behaviorism. Skinner did not get into psychology until he was in graduate school at Harvard. He was driven to Psychology after reading about the experiments of Watson and Pavlov. He received his doctoral degree in three years and taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Indiana and finally returned to his alma mater at Harvard. Skinner contributed to psychological behaviorism by performing experiments that linked behaviors with terms commonly used to describe mental states. Skinner was responsible for some famous e ....

.... and it allowed for more opportunities to become rich. At the age of seventeen, George Armstrong Custer entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. At the Academy, Custer learned the meaning of institutional discipline and the importance of selective obedience. He was always on the brink of dismissal, but he was able to control himself when it was necessary. Custer knew what he could get away with without being dismissed from the academy, and he enjoyed going to the edge but not over it. The fellow cadets loved Custer for his fun-loving and joking ways. Though Custer was frequently punished for his behavior, he understood why he was at the Academy, and wan ....

.... a disciple of Psuedo-Dionysius. He held that an affective union with God, in which contemplation culminates, confers a knowledge far more penetrating than what intellect and reason can provide. explains other means of arriving at a truly contemplative prayer. He made much of the usefulness of "anagogic movements" of the soul using short upward movements of mind and heart and fervent aspirations. These movements would then build up and maintain the desire of tending toward God. This type of anagogic prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing, which was also written by , is evident. The works of that teach the way of unitive prayer have inspired many teachings of known people ....

.... of the Standard Oil Company, which grew to dominate the oil industry and became one of the first big trusts in the United States. Rockefeller’s stake in the oil industry increased as the industry itself expanded, spurred by the rapidly spreading use of kerosene for lighting. In 1870 he organized The Standard Oil Company along with his brother William, Andrews,and others. By 1872 Standard Oil had purchased and thus controlled nearly all the refining firms in Cleveland, plus two refineries in the New York City area. Before long the company was refining 29,000 barrels of crude oil a day and had its own cooper shop manufacturing wooden barrels. Standard prospered and, ....

.... speech, only words that will strengthen, and richness of sound to create effective poetry. The poem The Bean Eaters (see the included poems) is a fine example of all three of these key elements. First and foremost is the use of ordinary speech. For instance the lines They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair / Dinner is a casual affair. Each of these words are easily understandable. Though plain speech, each word is used more differently and more intensely than in ordinary discourse. Old yellow pair resounds with more meaning than old couple. "Yellow" implies faded or old; "Pair" is more compassionate than "couple", suggesting more of a co ....

.... the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered by arguments a priori.” Only through experiences with gunpowder and a loadstone would you be able to know the cause, which produced it, or the effects, which will arise for it. Hume writes, “When we reason a priori, and consider merely any object or cause, as it appears to the mind, independent of all observations, it never could suggest to us the notion of any distinct object, such as its effect; mush less, show us the inseparable and inviolable connexion between them. A man must be very sagacious who could discover by reasoning that crystal is the effect of heat, and ice and co ....

.... split as much wood. They were able to used the wood for more useful things than just burning it. Ben wrote, ”Since wood has become so expensive, any new proposal for saving the wood may at least be worth consideration”(Parker 13). They could use wood to build house or any other kinds of building or structures. They could also used the extra wood to build furniture and other things for the inside of their houses. Also there would be a lot of extra wood because less wood was required for burning. It was also was a lot less dangerous because it was a closed flame rather than an open fire. Ben found out that the women in his family that stayed home each day, did not get as ....