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Alfred Nobel
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2

.... He wanted something that could absorb the nitroglycerin and not still have the same power. He Found that a substance called Kieselguhr. This substance consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive could be transported easily and detonated from a safe distance. It saved laves and time. He would name it Dynamite and got a patent for it in 1867. Throughout his life he had poor health but was not worried about it because he expected many advances in medicine. He once experimented with his theories on blood transfusions. .....


General George Patton
Number of words: 3667 - Number of pages: 14

.... MODEL 1873. Young George didn't want to be just any soldier; he had his sights fixed on becoming a combat general. He had one major obstacle to overcome, however. Though he was obviously intelligent (his knowledge of classical literature was encyclopaedic and he had learned to read military topographic maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School that he began to catch up on his academic skills; he managed to find plenty of time for athletic .....


Stephen Hawking
Number of words: 1424 - Number of pages: 6

.... three hours, he did not complete the others because he said he did not have enough time. Once, in college, he fell down a flight of stairs. After he fell down, he could not remember anything, gradually he began remembering, until he remembered it all, which took all of two hours. graduated from Oxford University at the age of twenty in 1962. He then took a trip to Prussia with a friend. During the visit, he became ill. Upon returning to England, he had a series of tests to identify his health problem. He moved to Cambridge to attend graduate school, whi .....


Rembrandt
Number of words: 457 - Number of pages: 2

.... modeled for many of his paintings and drawings. In addition to portraits, Rembrandt gained fame for his landscapes, while he is one of the most famous sketchers of all time. When he had no other model, he painted or sketched his own image. Rembrandt painted or sketched over fifty portraits just of himself! During the next few years three of his four children died as babies, and in 1642 his wife died. Rembrandt made most of his etchings during the 1630’s and 1640’s. His landscape paintings are depiction’s of the land around him. One of Rembrandt’s most famous p .....


Stephon Marbury
Number of words: 2095 - Number of pages: 8

.... woofed at opposing coaches: I'm just killing your guards. Get someone out here who can stop me(Wolff, 62). By the time that Mr. Marbury was a Sophomore in high school at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, he had changed his act. He learned to treat everybody with respect and to be a professional person. He had also tattooed a panther onto his right arm. He said: "A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain...That's where I want to see myself" (Wolff, 62). Mr. Marbury had great pressures exerted on hi .....


Francesco Redi
Number of words: 533 - Number of pages: 2

.... and life an conducted many experiments to help prove those scientific theories. From this Aristotlian support, he conducted his spontaneous generation experiments. Unfortunately, Redi died on March 1st in Pisa, Italy at the age in seventy-two. This was a grand age for the period at which he lived. Spontaneous generation "is the ability of living organisms can originate in nonliving matter independently of other living matter.(Webster's)" This was popular belief before the seventeenth century. People saw dead organisms decay but couldn't understand how. They .....


John Gotti: The Man Behind The Mob
Number of words: 1420 - Number of pages: 6

.... classroom. Gotti began running with smalltime gangs at the age of twelve, after noticing a mobster named Albert Anastasia. He soon joined a street gang called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys (Davis 61-63). At the age of 16 Gotti dropped out of school, and began to model his life after Anastasia. John got a job with the gang he had earlier joined, as a debt collector. He was required to bust a lot of heads to complete his job. This got him noticed by Angelo Bruno, who was a soldier under none other than Anastasia. John was required to do many odd jobs for Bruno.(Davis .....


David Hume 2
Number of words: 1039 - Number of pages: 4

.... things they perceive through their senses. Therefore using any type of scientific method was useless in proving certainty of human nature because there would always be enough evidence to prove the opposing view as being the truth. However the truth can be proved when referring to the relations of ideas. When dealing with things like (2+2=4), there is no openness to interpretation and no exceptions. 2+2 must always = 4 because it is based on scientific factual information and there is clearly no argument against it. Hume boldly states that "impressions" and .....



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