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Robert Maxwell Du Maurier
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Robert 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 words
On 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 words
Thomas 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 words
After 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
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Peter 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
1,377 words
Russia is a nation with a rich past and a history
of royalty that cannot be compared with any other
in the world. There were memorable rulers,
including Catherine and Peter the Great, and
rulers that Russia and the rest of the world would
like to forget, such as Ivan the Terrible. However
short their reign, or how seemingly insignificant
their actions, all have had an effect on Russias
history and have left plenty of colorful images to
be written down into history books. One can argue
about how ...
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Europe In The Eleventh Surnames Originated Names
921 words
In 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 words
The 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 words
Walt 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 words
Titanic 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
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Captain 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 words
Ivan 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 words
Sam 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 words
On 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 words
In 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 words
Dear 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
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... 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 words
Perhaps 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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