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Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
791 Words - 3 Pages.... sorry I could not travel both..." It is always difficult to make a decision because it is impossible not to wonder about the opportunity cost, what will be missed out on. There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. In an attempt to make a decision, the traveler "looks down one as far as I could". The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here ....
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The Works Of William Faulkner
634 Words - 3 Pages.... to support her. One of the most powerful devices used in this story is that the narrator is the town as a whole. Faulkner used this abstract view to supply the reader with unsympathetic emotions towards Emily. This unreceptive view is shown after Emily purchases arsenic, ”So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.”(720 Faulkner). The impersonal outlook held by this narration allows readers only to see the town’s point of view. In criticizing Faulkner’s use of third person as narrator James Ferguson stated that Faulkner learned “that he could achieve a variety of different effects through manipulation of aut ....
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Genghis Khan & The Mongol Empire
2295 Words - 9 Pages.... age. His father was killed on the way back from arranging the marriage of Temuchin to Borte. Temuchin was only 8 years old at the time, when his father was poisoned by a group of Tatars, getting revenge for a costly raid against them earlier. Temuchin\'s fathers death, which happened in 1175 or 1176, lead to his family\'s loss of support with relatives isolating Temuchins family. His mother and her four sons, and a few retainers were abandoned to fend for themselves. They lost their herds of animals and
the economic support of their kinsmen, forcing them to fish, eat roots and mice to survive. Temuchin and his brothers grew to early adulthood in extreme poverty. It ....
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Alexander Ghram Bell
914 Words - 4 Pages.... at Edinburgh's Royal High School (from which he graduated at 14), and attended a few lectures at Edinburgh University and at University College in London, but he was largely family-trained and self-taught. He moved to the United States, settling in Boston, before beginning his career as an inventor. With each passing year, Alexander Graham Bell's intellectual horizons broadened. By the time he was 16, he was teaching music and elocution at a boy's boarding school. He and his brothers, Melville and Edward, traveled throughout Scotland impressing audiences with demonstrations of their father's Visible Speech techniques. Visible Speech was invented by their father but he didn ....
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Buffalo Bill
1142 Words - 5 Pages.... friends he met
while on a picnic with his sisters. The Indians were trying to steal the Cody's
lunch, but Bill stopped them and became friends with them. Besides picnics,
young Will also enjoyed riding horses, having pretend Indian fights with Sam,
and hunting in the woods. Sadly, Samuel died when he was thrown from his horse.
Because of this, William not only lost a brother but he lost a very good friend.
In 1854 William, along with his anti-slavery family, moved near the city
of Leavenworth, Kansas. This was not an easy move for the Cody family seeing
how most of that part of Kansas was pro slavery. They were worried about this
because earlier in Iowa a dispute ab ....
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Robert Fulton
446 Words - 2 Pages.... continued with his painting, it was not a successful living for him. He soon became well acquainted with boats and had a liking for them. He worked with inventions for propelling boats. He felt that several revolving paddles and stern would be most effective. After this, Fulton permanently changed his career towards canal engineering. He worked on extending the canal system by his Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation. This dealt with the system of inland water transportation based on a small canals extending throughout the countryside. He thought of things such as aqueducts for valley crossings, boats for specialized cargo, and bridge designs featuring bo ....
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The Life Of Julius Caesar
1364 Words - 5 Pages.... Rome, along with Pompey and Crassus. Pompey desired land and
Crassus, money but Caesar’s ambitions were far more superior than
materialistic gain - he had an unquenchable thirst for power. The
ambitious three formed the First Triumvirate which soon ended due to
Crassus' death. Senate in their desperate attempt to regain control, tried
to influence Pompey to bring about Caesar's fall. The Senate’s plan
backfired, giving Caesar full control of Rome and bringing about the end of
Pompey’s life.
Caesar succeeded in bringing order back to the face of Rome. First
he reformed the existing Roman calender. The existing calender was
corrupt because it did not syn ....
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Important People In History
2790 Words - 11 Pages.... worked with Freud from 1902 to 1911. He developed a system of therapy
called individual psychology. Adler believed that a persons goals and
values is what guided them.Adler later on introduced the concept of the
inferiority complex. He believed that everyone once in their life feels
inferior, espically children.He also said the people who feel inferior
would try to do things to make them feel better like trying to seek out
power or maybe going out and spending a large sum of money. Adler wrote a
book called "Understanding Human Nature". In his book he laid out his basic
theories. Like Freud he too did believe that dreams were really inportant
in understanding one's personalit ....
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