.... serve for a limited amount of time and leave to go home. Philip’s army however, consisted of full - time, well - paid, highly skilled workers. Philip also developed new battle formations and new weapons for his armies. These weapons included catapults and battering rams on wheels. Philip then built an empire with his troops. Soon after coming to rule in 359 BC, he defeated large tribes to the north and west of Macedonia. He then turned south to Greece. The Greek army was no match for the Macedonian army and was defeated at the Battle of Chaeronia. In 338 BC, Philip became ruler of Greece. Philip could have ended Greece's independence, but he didn't. After he defea ....

.... consisted of serfs, the merchants, nobles, and elite only populated five percent of Russia. The elite, like the serfs, were not very well educated at all. Timmerman, a knowledgeable man from Germany, taught and showed Peter all of the nautical instruments need to navigate a ship. Peter became very interested in nautical things. Peter soon left Russia and plundered Europe for knowledge, inventions, and great minds to bring back to Russia. His voyage ended in the rich and luxurious city of Amsterdam. Peter began to study Holland’s ships and navy, and hired ship builders to go home with him, and help him prepare a sea power. Peter, wanting to really learn how to build a ....

.... an underground newspaper. Camus wrote many novels and his writings, illustrated his view of the absurdity of human existence: Humans are not absurd, and the world is not absurd, but for humans to be in the world is absurd. In his opinion, humans cannot feel at home in the world because they yearn for order, clarity, meaning, and eternal life, while the world is chaotic, obscure, and indifferent and offers only suffering and death. Thus human beings are alienated from the world. Integrity and dignity require them to face and accept the human condition as it is and to find purely human solutions to their plight. He used a simple and clear but elegant form of writing to con ....

.... Max Plank Medal came from the Association of German Physical Societies, as well as the Copley Medal from the Royal Society. The Akademie der Wissenschaften in the German Democratic Republic presented him with the Helmholtz Medal in 1964. In 1969 he received the Oppenheimer Prize from the University of Miami. Lastly in 1973, he received the Order of Merit.[3] Dirac was well known for his almost anti--social behavior, but he was a member of many scientific organizations throughout the world. Naturally, he was a member of the Royal Society, but he was also a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforsher and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member of A ....

.... Vonnegut's next move was resigning from his job to fulfill his dream. He moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts so he could concentrate on his writing. For the next seven years Vonnegut worked on novel titled "Upstairs and Downstairs." He never did finish this novel. He received income by starting a Saab dealership and writing short stories. In 1957, his father died of lung cancer. His sister and her husband soon died which would one day lead him to write the novel Slapstick. Kurt Vonnegut's writing style is exemplified in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five. This novel also shows Vonnegut's view on war. He entered World War II in 1939 and stayed there ....

.... have changed and different ideas and philosophies are being accepted. In our modern world a pantheist theory like this one would not be criticized as it was in the 19th century. Some people might say that it would go against the church but there would be many people that believe in it. Another of Emerson's ideas is that of the oversoul. The oversoul is Emerson's name for God. He sees God as an entity and inside it is the world, as we know it including humans, animals and everything that exists. This leads to further prove that we are divine, seeing as we are part of God and God is divine. Again this thought was very criticized because God was always thought to b ....

.... was insane and Charles the Dauphin, future King, was a coward. Total defeat was not far away. Joan was born a peasant, however, she was to bring the French new inspiration and succeed in driving out the English. Joan was like any other peasant girl in the 15th century. She could not read or write, but she worked hard on her father's farm and acquired her faith and prayers from her mother. In the village she was remembered as a good and simple girl. She had three brothers and a sister who died young. As a peasant, she always remained close to home and didn't even consider leaving the village until she was thirteen and had begun hearing voices. She identified the voice as t ....

.... the plantation cook. He struggled through the hardships not unlike all the other slaves in the country. did not know his own father, which sounds very terrible, but was nothing unusual to young children of enslaved mothers. However Booker’s thoughts and feelings were different from what you’d suspect. Booker states, “ I do not find especial fault with him (his father). He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at the time.”(4) was engulfed in labor throughout his adolescence and young boyhood days, joining his step-father in working in salt furnaces and coal-mines after the ci ....