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Robert Maxwell Du Maurier
1,429 wordsRobert Maxwell: The Man and the Mystery by Anita Cheek Moon for The Paper Store, Inc. -- March VISIT web -- Robert Maxwell, the infamous tycoon who is remembered as much for his personality and ethics in his business dealings as he is for his accomplishments, died in 1991. Debates over his life and diversions, however, will loom well into the future. Perhaps fittingly, Maxwell is reported to have died while urinating off the side of his twenty-one million dollar yacht the Lady Ghislaine (Informa...
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Sir Charles Twenty Eight
1,082 words... do not think that to be a Canadian author one must write about all things that are Canadian, as long as the author fells what they are writing and trying to portray. Through reading this, I gained the sense that Carman did this in terms of his writing. Furthermore, this article did not help me to understand Carman's writing more. If anything it somewhat confused me because at one point Ross states that Carman is not patriotic enough, but on the other hand he praises Carman's writing. The art...
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Fairy Tales Degrees Fahrenheit
860 wordsOn my cover page I have chosen to represent Ireland by using the 5 symbols such as: 1. Flag 2. country form 3. Picture of land 4. Puffin bird and 5. Leprechaun and gold. The flag is colored green, white and orange, which the green stripe stands for those of the native Irish descents, the orange stripe represents the descendants of 17 th Century British Colonists and the white stripe is for the hope and peace between the two groups. The brown form is drawn in the shape of the country Ireland and ...
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Declaration Of Independence Thomas Jefferson
377 wordsThomas Jefferson was a great man; he will always be remembered as a great president and for his belief in the natural rights of man, which was expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. Jefferson had six sisters and one brother; he was the third child. After finishing college in 1762, Jefferson studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1767. Jefferson practiced law until public service took up most of his time. He designed and supervised the building of...
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Anti War Movement Point Of View
1,046 wordsAfter reading through newspaper articles for the year 1968, I realized that the year was quite an eventful one. Politically, socially and economically speaking, the country endured a great deal of influential circumstances. Although the studying of vast articles from the New York Times succeeded in painting a clear, factual picture of that turbulent year, I was still eager to discover how incidents affected people growing up in that era. This fueled my motivation to begin the interviewing proces...
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Peter The Great Western Europe
1,053 wordsPeter The Great's Cruelty and It's Effect on His Power Peter the Great's reign over Russia paved the way for Russia's future as a world power. His many reforms and westernization of the country influenced millions and left a lasting legacy. The complexity of Peter is astonishing, his intellectual curiosity, combined with his hasty temper and cruelty caused a tumultuous but successful reign as Tsar. His brilliance as a ruler profoundly effected Russian society but his cruel decisions left an inde...
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Soviet Union Prime Minister
1,793 words... creamy be dismissed and that Khrushchev take his place. The Ukrainians refused. Molotov suggested that the Ukrainians should go to Moscow to discuss the matter with the Soviet Central Committee and they agreed. Once in Moscow they were seen by Stalin, Molotov and Kaganovich. It is not known what went on at the meeting, but soon afterwards Koiser disappeared, and Khrushchev was announced to be his successor as First Secretary of the Ukraine. As well as Koiser, most senior Party officials from...
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Empress Anna Of Russia
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Europe In The Eleventh Surnames Originated Names
921 wordsIn today's society we all want to know who we are and where are names originated from. Our names are what give us our style and individuality. Our ancestors came from all over the world all having names that are a true mystery to us. Surnames or better known as last names are a very interesting topic, they are like our first names but give us identity through our family. Looking back into history our names have changed drastically keeping some from knowing what their surnames really originated. ...
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Speaks To Achilleus Example Of Honor Warrior
712 wordsThe poem The Iliad written by Homer is the story of the tenth year of the Trojan War. It depicts the nobility and honor given to a slayer in warfare and the humanity that warriors show to the slain. It also illustrates the Greek code of ethics, that was in that time honor. Warriors fought for honor to insure a reputation that would outlive them. Honor is given to the great warriors through gifts, rank, and valor. Ultimately, a hero's honor depended not upon how he saw himself but on how the worl...
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Day By Day Walt Whitman
1,319 wordsWalt Whitman's poem A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, sets the picture of a solider camp near a battlefield. (This was probably around the time when he served as a volunteer nurse and comforter in the army. ) In line two Whitman wakes up early due to little sleep, perhaps from going to battle. As he goes outside near the hospital tent, he sees three people on stretchers brought outside untended. He describes the blankets covering the soldiers over each stretcher. In the next lines se...
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30 A M P M
1,362 wordsTitanic Titanic was the largest ship in the world, built by a workforce of 17, 000. The ultimate in turn-of-the-century design and technology. First-class suites ran to more than $ 55, 000 in todays dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY, she held among her 2, 227 passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor. Macys founder; U. S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships builder. The ship was bui...
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One Of The Greatest Northwest Passage
853 wordsCaptain James Cook~ World's Greatest Explorer Captain James Cook, an English Navigator and explorer, discovered Austria and the Hawaiian Islands on three famous voyages through the south pacific. Cook became an explorer because of his love of adventure and curiosity about distant lands and their people. Cook was born in Yorkshire, England in the year 1728. Then in the year 1755, Cook joined the British Navy. As a member of the Navy, he became an expert surveyor and astronomer. He was privileged ...
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Death Of His Wife Code Of Law
717 wordsIvan was born on August 25, 1530 to Vasily III, who was the Grand Duke of Moscow, and Yelena Clinskaya, his wife. Vasily III died when Ivan was only three years old, and his mother, Yelena, died five years later. As a result of his fathers death, Ivan became the leader of Moscow at the age of three. Although he held a high position was ignored as a young boy. He was living in unsuitable conditions and as a consequence, suffered from malnutrition. It wasnt until 1547 that he finally got the recog...
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Elvis Presley Radio Station
415 wordsSam Phillips, a very successful man, accomplished so much in just one lifetime that most people could only dream about doing. Sam had worked at a radio station called WREC, but was fired for frequently being absent. While working at the radio station he had met a girl named Marian. Marian was with Sam when he discovered an empty store, which he would turn into a studio. Marian then quit her job at the radio station and single handedly staffed the business. Many people came to Sams tiny studio to...
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Kurt Cobain Courtney Love
1,237 wordsOn April 5, 1994, the lead singer and songwriter of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, silently placed the end barrell of a shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. And so ended the life of so much promise. But why did it have to come to this? Perhaps the reasons will never be known, but there were a few things that haunted Cobain throughout his life that he just couldn't seem to get away from. Cobain's parents were seperated when he was nine years old, and according to friends and family, the divorce ...
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Begins To Feel Worn Path
643 wordsIn the modern short story, Eudora Welty clearly develops Phoenix Jackson as a main character who indirectly manipulates other people. Phoenix, as the speaker in A Worn Path holds the status of an old Negro woman who continues the everyday cycle of life. Although, in reality Phoenix is an average human being, who feels she must be rewarded for living. Phoenix believes that humanity owes her something for the troubles she encounters throughout her lifetime. When Phoenix says to the hunter, thats a...
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Kick My Hundred Goals Kick My Hundred One
595 wordsDear Diary, Today was the most embarrassing day of my life. I hope this will never happen to me again. Heres how my day went. I woke up this morning around 7: 30 am. It was the Grand Final day for my Under 17 s football side. We were undefeated. I was the full forward and so far I have kicked ninety seven goals. I need at least three more goals this game to get my first one hundred goal season. I was going through my normal Sunday morning football routine. Get up, eat breakfast (nine wheat bix a...
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Twenty First Century Space Shuttle
1,078 words... o Lunar Module had a computer in it, as we all know. According to Gene Kranz in Failure is Not an Option, this computer, the most advanced one that they could possibly fit into the diminutive LM, had an amazing capacity of 36, 864 words of fixed storage and 2, 048 words of erasable storage. (A "word" is a variable amount of computer storage; it's the chunk that a computer is most comfortable working with. The LM's words were 16 bits in the hardware, so that equates to 4, 096 bytes of erasabl...
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Christopher Columbus Trade Routes
314 wordsPerhaps the most famous explorer was Christopher Columbus. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451 to a weaver, young Columbus first went to sea at the age of fourteen. As a young man, he settled in Portugal and married a woman of noble background. After his wife's death in 1485, Columbus and his young son, moved to Spain. He theorized that since the earth was a sphere, a ship could eventually reach the Far East from the opposite direction. He thought to establish trade routes to Asia in this manner. The ...
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