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Joseph Stalin
724 Words - 3 Pages.... were no acceptable in today’s standard life. After the death of Vladimir I. Lenin in 1924 Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union where he made many changes to agriculture and industry. He believed that the Soviet Union was one hundred years behind the West and that they had to catch up as quickly as possible. This is where the idea of his "Five Year Plan," came about. The five-year plan basically got the people involved and motivated them into a modern life. From the 5-year plan, 25 million farms were produced which were only big enough to feed the families that were harvesting them. The more successful peasants were called the Kulaks. Along with the five-year ....
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Queen Elizabeth I
1470 Words - 6 Pages.... poems about Elizabeth,
and William Shakesphere (Elizabethan Writers). The Gothic period preceding
the Elizabethan age was based very much on religion. Secular buildings,
sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, and other decorative
arts were produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages.
Since then the term Gothic has been restricted to the last major medieval
period, immediately following the Romanesque (Gothic Period). The
Renaissance, following the Elizabethan age was a rebirth of scholarly
interests. It was based on the classics of art, religion, science and
inventions, philosophy, and humanism (Renaissance).
Queen Elizabeth I was a powerful po ....
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Emily DIckinson
1605 Words - 6 Pages.... finding in her poetry, reading, gardening, and close friendships, a rich and fulfilling life.
Emily grew up with a privileged childhood. She was the eldest daughter of Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, member of congress, and for many years treasurer of Amherst College. Her father gave here the time, and literary education, as well as confidence to try her hand at free verse. Emily’s mother, Emily Norcross Dickinson, was a submissive, timid housewife dedicated to her husband, children, and household chores. The Dickinson’s only son, William Austin, also a lawyer, succeeded his father as treasurer of the college. Their youngest child, Lavina, was the chief hous ....
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Ozzy Osbourne
1649 Words - 6 Pages.... the third one. Another thing helping the situation out was the fact that Ozzy had a little too much to drink that evening as usual. Another thing that Ozzy has done because of the fact that it just made him mad is that one day Ozzy’s wife Sharon came home one day and found Ozzy on the floor underneath the piano with a shotgun in one hand and a bloody knife in the other with seventeen dead cats all around him. What happened is Ozzy had drank and smoked and done all kinds of drugs and he didn’t like the cats to begin with so he shot and stabbed every one of them. He just didn’t care if they died or not. If that’s not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesn’t care ....
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THe Life And Work Of John Keats
900 Words - 4 Pages.... he enjoyed a liberal and enlightened education subsequently reflected
in his poetry. His father died when he was eight and his mother when he
was fourteen; these sad circumstances drew him particularly close to his
two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. (Kipperman 246). As an
orphan, he became a surgeon's apprentice before enrolling, in 1815, as a
student at Guy's Hospital. He registered for a sixth-month course of study
required for him to become a licensed surgeon and apothecary. Soon after
he had came to a conclusion that he was not going to be a doctor as a
profession, his true passion was in poetry (computer). Though some of his
early poetry whic ....
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Anne Boleyn
375 Words - 2 Pages.... is love.
Love is the emotion that plays the most important role in the life
of Anne Boleyn. Anne has many passions for many things in the course of
her life. Her first love was with the court chancellor, it was abruptly
ended when Henry decided that he had other plans for Anne's life. He
carried out these plans by not allowing Anne to marry the man that she
truly loved. Anne was bitter about this decision that she had no say in.
Anne's second love was the love of being queen. Being queen seems to be
one of her childhood dreams, which is understandable, because many girls
dream of being a princess or a queen when they get older. Anne's final and
strongest love was the ....
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Bill Gate's Biography
690 Words - 3 Pages.... as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer -- the MITS Altair.
In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.
Gates' foresight and vision regarding personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates is actively involved in k ....
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The Rule Of Julius Caesar And How The Leap Year Was Started
332 Words - 2 Pages.... the size of Latifundia. Caesar also provided jobs for
the unemployed.
People in provinces did not have citizenship, therefore, Caesar
gave citizenship to them. Obviously, Caesar wanted his people to be happy,
not to take control and power and use it all for him. Caesar also added
representatives from the provinces to the Senate to enable everyone to have
a part in the government.
Caesar wanted order, law, and peace. He believed that of course,
there should be order and laws but to use the power for peace. He wanted
to stop chaos and for his people to be fortunate and feel all equal.
Besides everything else he contributed to the less fortunate, he also gave
grain to ....
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